Lama Lekshe

Lama Lekshe (Julia King Tamang) has been praticing Tibetan Buddhism since 1994 in Portland, Oregon, Nepal and India. Her teachers are Bokar Rinpoche, Khenpo Lodro Donyo Rinpoche, and Lama Michael Conklin. In 2018, she completed a traditional 3-year meditation retreat in the Shangpa Kagyu tradition. Before retreat, was a university teacher and a consultant to colleges. Lekshe is the founder of Dekeling

Events with Lama Lekshe

Dissolving the Barriers: a Thousand Year Old Remedy for Modern Suffering
May 2, 2024

In 1042, the Indian yogi-scholar, Atisha Dipankara, travelled to Tibet and transmitted teachings on accomplishing the cessation of suffering, using both meditation and the circumstances of everyday life. In the twelfth century, a monk named Chekawa Yeshe Dorje put the instructions in writing and organized all 59 into a seven-point system of practice. In the second of the seven points, two mysterious sentences are devoted to a profound practice called Tonglen, usually translated as ‘sending and receiving’. Those instructions are the foundation of this retreat, in which we’ll use Tonglen practice to heal the fundamental confusion that is the foundation of loneliness, anxiety,…