Pristine Awareness: Decorating Your Experience with Dzogchen Master Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche
With Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche
March 28 - 29, 2026
Join Dzogchen meditation master Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche for a 2-Day Meditation Retreat at The Mirror in Pioneertown, California. Through Rinpoche’s profound teachings and step-by-step guided meditation instructions, we will learn powerful techniques to uncover the spacious, expansive vibrancy of our natural state of mind. These methods support the cultivation of unconditional happiness and help us blend meditation practice into daily life. Rinpoche will illuminate our pristine awareness and demonstrate how we may decorate our mind, transforming our everyday reality into an extraordinary experience.
Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche is a meditation master in the Dzogchen lineage of the Buddhist tradition. He studied for nine years at Larung Gar in Serta, Eastern Tibet, with his teacher, Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche. A long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche has been a lecturer at Stanford University, is the founder and spiritual director of Pristine Mind Foundation, and is the author of Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness.
The Venue
The Mirror is an off-grid quiet sanctuary designed for heart-opening experiences amidst the breathtaking boulders and neon sunsets of the high desert.
Teacher
Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche is a meditation master and teacher residing in the San Francisco bay area of California. Rinpoche began his studies in Tibet with the great Jigmed Phuntsok Rinpoche, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of the twentieth century.
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