starts 1 may 2025
2025 Nepal Pilgrimage & Retreat
With Lama Glenn
and Drupon Chongwol
and Drupon Chongwol
Teachers:
Lama Glenn and Drupon Chongwol
- Lama Glenn MullinBuddhist Author, Lecturer and Teacher
- Drupon ChongwolDrupon of Maitreya Sangha Korea "Tara House"
Please see the details and any question regarding the trip, please send to
Itinerary:
May 1st 2025 Thur, (Lunar 4th )
- Meet the Butsugen Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal.
PART 1:
May 1st, Thur to May 4th Sunday
May 1st, Thur to May 4th Sunday
Visits to the local power places:
- Four nights/three days Baudhanath stupa, Swayambhunath Stupa with monastery behind, Naropa and Tilopa caves, and then Kopan Monastery.
May 5th Mon to May 11th Sun
Chakrasamvara Initiation-
- Then a week in Manjushri Retreat Center for Chakrasamvara and the Six Yogas of Niguma.
PART 2 are Optional!
PART 2:
May 12th Mon to Maratika – May 15th Thursday
May 12th Mon to Maratika – May 15th Thursday
Maybe Guru Rinpoche wang in Maratika, and a Milarepa wang in Yolmo.
- Then drive to Maratika, four nights and three days, for Guru Rinpoche Caves etc.
May 16th Fri to 19th Mon
- Then a resort two hours from Milarepa caves in Yolmo, three nights there with two days, both having visits and practice sessions in the Milarepa Cave.
Finish
May 19th Mon, to 20th Tue
May 19th Mon, to 20th Tue
- Back to Butsugen for two nights, then depart.
Price please inquire to e-mail
Wiring Information
Deposit are non refundable.
Full amount due on Feb 28 - 2025
Up to half refundable by March 31
Full amount due on Feb 28 - 2025
Up to half refundable by March 31
- Wiring Information please inquire to e-mail!
Practical Information:
- For those of you signed up for the retreat, please send us your passport copy and send the flight information asap to our email address.
- If you would like a pick up to the hotel please make arrangements with Lopon-la otherwise see below instructions.
- Those of you with Whatsapp, please log onto into:.
Drupon Chongwol number&contact information
Lopon-la's number&contact information
00977+ 9810168145
No matter what it is please be sure to have this number.
Lopon-la speaks English as well!
bhuchung321@gmail.com
Facebook Bhuchung Shastri
No matter what it is please be sure to have this number.
Lopon-la speaks English as well!
bhuchung321@gmail.com
Facebook Bhuchung Shastri
NEPAL VISA
Great Stupa at Baudhanath
- If you are applying for the visa to Nepal please fill out the form below and you have to bring it to your closest embassy and have them process it. In Korea, it took 3 working days.
- If you would like a visa on arrival, please go to the link below and fill out the form, print it and submit it at the Nepal airport upon arrival and they will take care of everything. Be sure to print the pages before leaving since there is huge back log and many hours to use their computer system.
- Please use the address of the hotel below for contact information:
Hotel Butsugen
977-9841834522 or
9841414803
hotelbutsugen@gmail.com
Boudha-06, Tusal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Taxi from the airport
to Butsugen
to Butsugen
It is 800 NPR (about $6 USD)
Please see the photo attached for prepaid taxi service.
Nepali rupees flat fee to anywhere in the Boudha area where the Hotel is located.
Look for a stall around the baggage claim area.
Please see the photo attached for prepaid taxi service.
Nepali rupees flat fee to anywhere in the Boudha area where the Hotel is located.
Look for a stall around the baggage claim area.
Pre- paid Taxi Service
| Hotel Butsugen |
MEALS
Three meals a day are included when we are in retreat in both Parping and Maratika, but only breakfast and lunch are included during our days in Baudhanath.
Lama Glenn feels that this is the best policy because of the dozens of boutique restaurants and cafes in the Baudha area, many of which do not have seating for large groups.
Three meals a day are included when we are in retreat in both Parping and Maratika, but only breakfast and lunch are included during our days in Baudhanath.
Lama Glenn feels that this is the best policy because of the dozens of boutique restaurants and cafes in the Baudha area, many of which do not have seating for large groups.
Itinerary Details
Our idea is that people organize their own flights to and from Kathmandu, arriving no later than April 30h. We will rendezvous at our hotel in Baudhanath. If you want to come earlier than these dates or stay later, we can help with advice.
May 1st 2025 Thur,
Arrive in Nepal and meet the group in our hotel near the Great Stupa at Baudhanath. Evening khorra at the stupa.
Over the three days May 1st, Thur to May 4th
to follow we will visit sacred Buddhist sites in the Kathmandu Valley, including Swayambhunath, Kopan Monastery, and the Tilopa and Naropa caves near Pashupatinath.
Over the three days May 1st, Thur to May 4th
to follow we will visit sacred Buddhist sites in the Kathmandu Valley, including Swayambhunath, Kopan Monastery, and the Tilopa and Naropa caves near Pashupatinath.
May 5th Mon
Transfer to our retreat center in Parping and begin the seven day Amitayus-Hayagriva drub-chen that evening.
May 12th Mon
May 12th Mon to Maratika – May 15th Thursday
Then drive to Maratika, four nights and three days, for Guru Rinpoche Caves etc.
Then drive to Maratika, four nights and three days, for Guru Rinpoche Caves etc.
May 16th Fri
May 16th Fri to 19th Mon
Then a resort two hours from Milarepa caves in Yolmo, three nights there with two days, both having visits and practice sessions in the Milarepa Cave.
Then a resort two hours from Milarepa caves in Yolmo, three nights there with two days, both having visits and practice sessions in the Milarepa Cave.
May 19th Mon, to 20th Tue
Formal end of the program. Most people will return home. Back to Butsugen for two nights, then depart.
Photos from Nepal trip 2023-2024
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Flag & Smoke offering
For the people who are on the retreat and people at home, you can order the flag to be hung on the Maratika, Manjushri cave area. It is just right across from the cave where we will go up there and do the ceremony and have people hang it while we are there. As displayed on photo below, we print out the bottom portion with your wishes, and while staying in the Boudha area we have them hemmed and put up with the ceremony.
If you just want for us to make offerings wherever we go no set amount but you can designate a place to offer. Please send fees to the Korean account please. If you like you can send it with your retreat fee together with the fee to the Korean account.
If you just want for us to make offerings wherever we go no set amount but you can designate a place to offer. Please send fees to the Korean account please. If you like you can send it with your retreat fee together with the fee to the Korean account.
The Six Yogas of Naropa
The Six Dharmas of Nāropa (Wylie: na ro'i chos drug, Skt. ṣaḍdharma, "Naro's six doctrines" or "six teachings") are a set of advanced Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices compiled by the Indian mahasiddhas Tilopa and Nāropa (1016–1100 CE) and passed on to the Tibetan translator-yogi Marpa Lotsawa (c. 1012).[1]
The Six Yogas of Naropa is a very skillful, effective, and profound highest yoga completion stage practice. Through consistent tantric application, a diligent practitioner will achieve insight into their deepest nature of mind—the fully awakened state. By working with the innate subtle body’s energy system: lung, drops, chakras and channels et cetera a practitioner will become adept at opening to their inherent and primordial bliss emptiness.
Drupon Chongwol
If interested please contact us at this email address and all the details will be sent to you. Due to limited space, THERE WILL BE 45 PEOPLE LIMIT
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