DEEPENING WISDOM

Voices of Awakening

Language: English
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About the Course

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Vajrayana is known as the most direct path to awakening. Its powerful principles and creative methods were designed for uncertain times like these — and for messy beings like us! Voices of Awakening offers live webinars with prominent Buddhist teachers who embody the Vajrayana: Mingyur Rinpoche, Lama Drupgyu, Lama Shenpen Hookham, and Robert Thurman. Tergar guides Tim Olmsted and Antonia Sumbundu will further support your journey with live sessions, guided meditations, and discussion forums. Together as a community, we’ll explore how to apply these teachings in our daily lives, making them a lived experience.
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Meet Your Teacher and Guides

In this course, you will receive teachings from Mingyur Rinpoche, Lama Drupgyu, Lama Shenpen Hookham, and Robert Thurman, with additional guidance from Tim Olmsted and Antonia Sumbundu.

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Teacher

Lama Shenpen Hookham

Guest Teacher

Robert Thurman

Guest Teacher

Lama Drupgyu

Guest Teacher

Cortland Dahl

Vajrayana Online Guide

Tim Olmsted

Vajrayana Online Guide

Antonia Sumbundu

Vajrayana Online Guide

Your Course Includes

Live Webinars with Mingyur Rinpoche and Guest Teachers

A series of live webinars with Mingyur Rinpoche and guest teachers highlighting key points of Vajrayana Buddhism

Opening and Wrap-up Session with Tergar Guides

Enjoy a concluding Q&A session with Tim Olmsted and Antonia Sumbundu

Talk with a Tergar Guide

Ask questions and explore your practice in a one-on-one conversation

Practice Sessions

Live weekly guided meditations throughout the course

Course Outline & Schedule

This course consists of an opening webinar to introduce the year-long transmission to the Vajrayana Online community, followed by live teachings with Mingyur Rinpoche and guest teachers, and a concluding webinar with Tergar guides, each clarifying different practices within the Vajrayana tradition.

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Welcome to Tergar’s Year-Long Transmission: Blueprints of Awakening

with Tim Olmsted and Antonia Sumbundu
August 1, 11 AM US ET (New York)
Is it possible that our faults, afflictions, and deepest struggles are not obstacles, but doorways to wisdom? How can we work with the guru principle and other powerful methods that are so commonly misunderstood? In this webinar, we will learn about Tergar’s 2025–26 transmission, Blueprints of Awakening: a series of courses and retreats in which, for the first time, Mingyur Rinpoche will personally guide us through the transformative system of the five wisdom energies. This powerful and inspiring Buddhist framework reveals how the very traits we often wish to eliminate are, in fact, expressions of our enlightened nature.
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Voices of Awakening: Robert Thurman

Interviewed by Cortland Dahl
August 6, 11 AM US ET (New York)
Robert Thurman is a renowned scholar and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1965, he became the first American ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk by the 14th Dalai Lama. After returning to lay life, he earned a PhD from Harvard and taught at Amherst and Columbia, where he held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West. He cofounded Tibet House US and has authored numerous influential works, including his latest book Wisdom Is Bliss.

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Blueprints of Awakening: Vajrayana for
Modern Life

with Mingyur Rinpoche
August 9, 10 AM US ET (New York)
If we are inherently awake and possess innate basic goodness, why do we often feel lost and incomplete? Mingyur Rinpoche and Tergar invite you to embark on a year-long exploration of this fundamental question, delving into the transformative wisdom of the Vajrayana. This special webinar begins the Blueprints of Awakening transmission.

Mingyur Rinpoche was born in 1975 in the border region between Tibet and Nepal. He was attracted to a life of contemplation from an early age and spent many years of his childhood in retreat. Mingyur Rinpoche studied with some of the greatest meditation masters in living memory. Nowadays, he heads the Tergar Meditation Community and takes care of the monasteries under his responsibility. He supports students in more than thirty countries.
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Voices of Awakening: Lama Shenpen Hookham

Interviewed by Antonia Sumbundu
August 13, 11 AM US ET (New York)
Lama Shenpen Hookham has trained for over fifty years in the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions. Ordained by the 16th Karmapa in the 1970s, she studied under masters including Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. She earned a doctorate from Oxford University for her work on buddha nature and is the author of The Guru Principle. She is the founder of the Awakened Heart Sangha, guiding students worldwide from her retreat center in Wales.
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Voices of Awakening: Lama Drupgyu

Interviewed by Tim Olmsted
August 20, 11 AM US ET (New York)
Lama Drupgyu Tenzin (Anthony Chapman) began studying with Kalu Rinpoche in 1972 and completed the first traditional three-year retreat for Westerners in France. He later served as lama of Kalu Rinpoche’s Paris center and became the first Westerner appointed as Drupön (Retreat Master) in Canada. He translated Jamgön Kongtrul’s Treasury of Knowledge and now serves as Vice President of the Tsadra Foundation.
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Closing Webinar & Launch of the Essence of Vajrayana Course

with Tim Olmsted and Antonia Sumbundu
August 27, 11 AM US ET (New York)
Tim Olmsted began Buddhist studies in 1977 with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He lived in Nepal for twelve years, studying with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and many renowned teachers while working as a psychotherapist. A founding instructor of Tergar International, Tim shares meditation with warmth and humor. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Glenna, leading a community following Mingyur Rinpoche's teachings.

Antonia Dorthea Sumbundu is a dharma teacher, clinical psychologist, and mental health specialist. She has been practicing meditation for over thirty-five years and has studied with the 3rd Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Chokling Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and Mingyur Rinpoche. She holds an MA from the University of Copenhagen and an MSt in MBCT from Oxford.

PRACTICE TOGETHER

Live Sessions

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Kunsang Palmo  leading a practice session 

Practice Sessions with Lucas Henriksson, Kasumi Kato, and Kunsang Palmo
Every Tuesday, 10 AM US ET (New York)
Live weekly 30-minute guided meditations throughout the entire year.
Everything is a display of clarity, love, and wisdom. This is related to the main view of Vajrayana Buddhism: that we all are buddha. This enlightened nature is not just within you. It’s everywhere.
— Mingyur Rinpoche

Study and Practice for a Year 
with Mingyur Rinpoche!

A joyful moment from the recording days with Rinpoche

If you wish to go deeper with the topics introduced in this course and turn them into a lived experience, we recommend joining the full Blueprints of Awakening transmission.
Vajrayana Online members receive access to all three courses in Tergar’s 2025–26 transmission with Mingyur Rinpoche:
  • Voices of Awakening (August 1–27)

  • Essence of Vajrayana Buddhism: From Pure Perception to Self-Liberation (Sep 1–Oct 31)
  • Blueprints of Awakening Immersion (Nov 2025–July 2026)
    The heart of the transmission: a nine-month course on pure perception, the five buddha families, the guru principle, and self-liberation. New content will be released monthly, and you can move at your own pace.
To learn more, please visit the transmission page.
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