Cha Kengtse – Retreat on the Enlightened Wisdom Deity

With Geshe Yungdrung Gyatso

In person and online

Date: October 30 - November 1, 2026

Organized by Ligmincha Magyarország

About the Teaching

Cha Kengtse is an enlightened Wisdom Deity and the external manifestation of Sherab Mawe Senge (known in Sanskrit as Manjushri), the embodiment of awakened wisdom. This profound practice has been treasured for centuries within the Yungdrung Bön tradition as a powerful method for cultivating intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom while removing the inner and outer obstacles that prevent us from realizing our full potential.

Practicing Cha Kengtse strengthens memory, sharpens the mind, enhances creativity and artistic expression, increases confidence, and supports prosperity and abundance. It also brings greater harmony to body, speech, and mind, helping practitioners develop stability, clarity, and insight in both meditation and everyday life. As our wisdom grows, we become more capable of learning, making skillful decisions, and responding to life’s challenges with openness, compassion, and confidence.

What You Will Learn

During this retreat, Geshe Yungdrung Gyatso will transmit teachings from the extensive Cha Kengtse sadhana and provide clear, practical instructions for integrating this sacred practice into daily life.

Participants will learn:

Each participant will receive a practice text to support continued practice after the retreat.

The Many Manifestations of Enlightened Wisdom

In the Yungdrung Bön tradition, enlightened deities manifest in different forms expressing enlightened body, speech, qualities, and activities. Each manifestation of Cha Kengtse embodies a particular enlightened function.

Some manifestations are practiced to increase prosperity and abundance. Others inspire creativity, learning, eloquence, music, and the arts. Some strengthen health, vitality, and confidence, while others remove obstacles, including those arising from harmful spiritual influences.

Each manifestation has its own mantra and method, allowing practitioners to engage the aspect that best supports their present circumstances and aspirations.

A Living Lineage Practice

Cha Kengtse is known as the external manifestation of Sherab Mawe Senge because his enlightened activity is especially direct, practical, and immediately beneficial. Throughout history, many accomplished Bön masters have attained remarkable realization through this practice. It is said that Nyame Sherab Gyaltsen, the great reformer of the Yungdrung Bön tradition, himself perfected this practice and received many auspicious signs and accomplishments.

Today, this precious lineage continues uninterrupted. At great monasteries such as Menri Monastery in India, Triten Norbutse Monastery in Nepal, and many other Bön monasteries, Cha Kengtse practice forms an essential part of the annual training of monks.

Before the beginning of each academic year, the monks undertake a seven-day retreat dedicated to Sherab Mawe Senge. On the penultimate night, following the empowerment, they remain in uninterrupted practice throughout the entire night, focusing specifically on the practice of Cha Kengtse.

Oral Transmission and Practical Guidance

This retreat offers a rare opportunity to receive authentic oral transmission and practical guidance directly from Geshe Yungdrung Gyatso.

For the first time, he will present this profound cycle of Cha Kengtse teachings in the Western world, opening the door to one of the Bön tradition’s most treasured methods for awakening wisdom and transforming everyday life.

Whether you seek deeper meditation, greater clarity, creative inspiration, academic success, increased prosperity, or the removal of obstacles on your spiritual path, this retreat offers timeless methods to awaken the innate wisdom that already exists within you.

About the Teacher

Geshe Yungdrung Gyatso is the resident lama of Ligmincha Poland. He lives in the Chamma Ling Poland center in Wilga, near Warsaw. He also teaches throughout Europe. Geshe Gyatso was born in 1980 in Bicher village, in the Dolpo region of Nepal. This is also the home of the Samling Monastery, the oldest and most important Bön monastery in the region. Geshe Gyatso spent his childhood summers taking care of sheep and yaks. The winters he spent mostly with his father in a monastery, where he learned Tibetan reading and writing, recited mantras and sometimes helped his father prepare tsok offerings.

Venue

• Dharma Gate Buddhist College
• Address: Börzsöny u. 11, 1098 Budapest

Schedule (CET)

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October 30, Friday

• 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Introduction to the weekend retreat

October 31, Saturday

• 09:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Teaching / Practice
• 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Break
• 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Teaching / Practice
• 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lunch Break
• 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Teaching / Practice
• 4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Break
• 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Teaching / Practice

November 1, Sunday

• 09:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Teaching / Practice
• 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Break
• 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Teaching / Practice
• 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lunch Break
• 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Teaching / Practice & Closing

Suggested Offerings

Suggested Offering – In-Person Participation:

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