Join Your Nearest Gar or Ling
Dear Global Vajra Family,
Membership in the Dzogchen Community is the way we demonstrate our individual commitment to the Teachings, the Master, and our Sangha and is a fundamental way to support the worldwide network of Gars and Lings that Rinpoche created with infinite generosity and for the benefit of all.
Our Gars and Lings rely on our memberships to cover their operating costs, while providing us with retreats, programs, and webcasts, among other benefits in collaboration with the International Dzogchen Community.
Please join our collective community effort and renew your 2026 IDC membership. Through this annual commitment, each of us ensures the continued health of the Dzogchen Community, supports the Teachings, and makes the development of our practice a continued reality.
We would like to thank those of you who have already renewed their membership for 2025, and encourage you to renew it, if you have not done so yet. We would also like to invite you to retroactively make payments for any previous membership years you may have missed – specifically 2022, 2023, and 2024 – as needed.
Renewing your membership is easy. Visit dzogchen.net to view and choose the payment methods for the Gar or Ling closest to your geographical area of residence. Many of them offer the opportunity to renew membership directly online through your personal profile at https://dzogchen.net/profile/membership/.
Alternatively, you can contact the Gakyil and/or the Membership Coordinator of your local Gar or Ling directly for assistance.
Best wishes,
Your International Gakyil Team,
Miranda, Fabrizio, Gabriella, Oni, Piotr, Richard, Fabio and Marija.
New Webcast Website
The International Dzogchen Community, with the generous help of Luigi Ottaviani, has created a new webcast website. This new site can be found at webcastportal.dzogchen.net.
The main goal of the new website is to improve the layout, and it has the added bonus of a search function. Content is grouped into either Open content or Restricted content. Restricted content is reserved for current members of the Dzogchen Community and can be viewed using your dzogchen.net membership database login.
The three main sections of the restricted content are:
• Rinpoche Retreat Replay: selected recordings of teaching retreats given by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
• Replay: explanations and retreats given by Santi Maha Sangha teachers.
• Retreat Resources: texts, video, and audio recordings of different Dzogchen Teachings.
The live webcasts and replayed content on this new site will be the same as on the existing webcast site, and both will operate in parallel until we are fully satisfied with the running of the new site.
We hope you make use of the abundance of teachings and resources found at webcastportal.dzogchen.net.
Best wishes,
Your International Gakyil Team,
Miranda, Fabrizio, Gabriella, Oni, Piotr, Richard, Fabio and Marija.
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