Blueprints of Awakening:

Vajrayana for Modern Life

Free webinar with Mingyur Rinpoche
Blueprints of Awakening:

Vajrayana for Modern Life

Free webinar with Mingyur Rinpoche

August 9

Saturday

10:00–11:30

AM EDT

Online

This program is free and open to everyone.

Translations

Translation from English will be offered in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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 Buddhism. This special free webinar begins the Blueprints of Awakening transmission.
We all become entangled in thoughts and emotions that obscure our true nature, creating the illusion of lack and separation. Vajrayana provides powerful tools to dismantle these false narratives, revealing the radiant, awakened nature that resides within each of us.  Join Mingyur Rinpoche as he gives an overview of the Vajrayana, including the five wisdom energies — a beautiful framework for understanding ourselves, our emotions, and the world around us.

Why Should I Attend?

Mingyur Rinpoche's teachings offer practical wisdom applicable to the challenges of modern life, providing tools to use difficult emotions and life obstacles as our most direct path to wisdom. This webinar offers a rare opportunity to learn directly from a world-renowned teacher and gain insights into the profound practices of Vajrayana. Marking the beginning of Tergar's 2025–26 transmission of teachings, this is a unique opportunity to connect with a vibrant community and embark on a year-long journey of self-discovery through the Blueprints of Awakening.

Watch this two-minute overview of Tergar's 2025–26 transmission with Mingyur Rinpoche

Watch this two-minute overview of Tergar's 2025–26 transmission with Mingyur Rinpoche

What Will I Learn?

In this program, you will:
  • be introduced to the view and practices of the Vajrayana
  • learn methods to recognize our negativity and confusion as expressions of the five wisdom energies
  • learn about Tergar’s upcoming transmission: Blueprints of Awakening

What Is Included in This Program?

Live teaching and practice session with Mingyur Rinpoche.
What makes our birth so precious is our potential for awakening. We are born buddhas, and all dharma practices help us recognize and nurture this truth. Because we do not actually believe in our own capacity for awakening, these teachings work to reverse the tendency to see ourselves as insufficient.
— Mingyur Rinpoche

Register for Free

Saturday, August 9, 2025
10–11 a.m. EDT (New York)
4–5 p.m. CEST (Berlin)
10–11 p.m. HKT (Hong Kong)
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About Mingyur Rinpoche

In his approach to teaching meditation, Mingyur Rinpoche integrates traditional Buddhist practice and philosophy with the current scientific understanding of the mind and mental health – making the practice of meditation relevant and accessible to students around the world.
Mingyur Rinpoche is a world-renowned meditation teacher with personal experience of anxiety and panic attacks, which he suffered from throughout his childhood and into his teenage years, when he learned to transform his panic through meditation. Born in Nepal in 1975, Mingyur Rinpoche began to study meditation as a young boy with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, himself a well-respected Buddhist teacher. As a child he became interested in contemporary science through conversations with scientists who were visiting his father, and as he grew older he began to collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, including Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz at the University of Wisconsin, on research projects that study the effects of meditation on the brain and the mind.
Mingyur Rinpoche’s first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. His second book, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, explores how difficult emotions and challenging life situations can be used as stepping stones to discover joy and freedom. In his most recent book, In Love with the World, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how his meditation practice sustained him when he left his monastery to wander through India and the powerfully transformative insights he gained from the near-death experience he had at the beginning of his journey. Mingyur Rinpoche recently appeared in the Netflix series The Mind, Explained, in an episode about the benefits of mindfulness.
As the head of the Tergar Meditation Community, Mingyur Rinpoche supports groups of students in more than thirty countries, leading workshops around the world for new and returning students every year.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Vajrayana, and what do you mean by Blueprints of Awakening?

Vajrayana is known as the most direct path to awakening — profound and powerful, yet often misunderstood. In this transmission, we will explore the underlying principles, or blueprints, of Vajrayana practice, revealing how even the most challenging emotions and obstacles can become fuel for awakening when seen clearly.

Through courses and retreats with Mingyur Rinpoche, guest teachers, Tergar lamas, and Vajrayana Online guides, we will explore the principles of the five wisdom energies, guru yoga, self-liberation, and pure perception.

For the first time, Mingyur Rinpoche will personally guide us through the transformative system of the five wisdom energies — a profound Buddhist framework for recognizing your true nature and transforming even the most afflicted states into wisdom qualities.

What does it mean to receive a transmission?

“Transmission” is a traditional term that refers to a set of meditation teachings that is passed down from a teacher to a student or group of students. In the Tergar context, “transmission” means that Mingyur Rinpoche passes on important lineage teachings to students so that we can recognize the buddha within and stabilize this recognition. In addition to teachings and meditation instructions, a transmission may include other elements that can help make the teachings more experiential for us such as reading transmissions (lung) for important texts, empowerments (wang), and opportunities to receive vows.

Do I have to be a Buddhist to join?

No. Mingyur Rinpoche teaches in a highly relatable way, so much of this transmission (including this free webinar) is based on exploring our lived experience. These teachings and practices have the power to benefit anyone who wishes to transform negativity into compassion and wisdom.