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Welcome to Olmo Ling
Olmo Ling is a religious educational non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the ancient teachings of the Bon tradition of Tibet and making them available and accessible to lay practitioners.
Olmo Ling offers weekly meditation practice and teachings, prayers, meditation instruction and private interviews, and a study program that includes regular retreats with Tempa Dukte Lama and visiting lamas of the Bon tradition.
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Visit the Olmo Ling Teaching and Retreat Schedule for 2026 to view upcoming programs and please visit Olmo Ling online Bookstore!
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Medicine Buddha Empowerment
With His Holiness 34th Gyalwa Menri Trizin Dawa Dargyal Rinpoche
In-Person Only at Olmo Ling Bon Center & Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET
All Registration Fees & Donations Offered to Menri Monastery, India
$55 (ages 16 and up) · Children under 16 attend free · Scholarships available
Special Announcement: The official US teaching tour of His Holiness 34th Menri Trizin Dawa Dargyal Rinpoche planned for 2026 has been cancelled. However, His Holiness will informally visit Olmo Ling from June 15–22. Given this special opportunity, Tempa Lama requested him to bestow the Medicine Buddha Empowerment in person for our community.
Please join us for the rare opportunity to receive the Medicine Buddha Empowerment from His Holiness 34th Menri Trizin Dawa Dargyal Rinpoche, worldwide spiritual head of the Tibetan Bon tradition. Through the empowerment, His Holiness will bestow the blessing and lineage connection with the Medicine Buddha, who is the healing essence of the Awakened One.
Many thousands of years ago, the Awakened One Tonpa Shenrab taught the Medicine Buddha practice as a powerful skillful means for healing of body, mind, and soul. He offered this teaching and empowerment to restore healing and wellbeing during a widespread pandemic in the ancient kingdom of Dawa Ruteng. The Medicine Buddha empowerment carries profound blessings for our time when many beings face illness, disease, and emotional distress. The empowerment helps us connect to the innate, pure essence of healing in ourselves. It is a powerful means to clear karmic conditions resulting in illness, misfortune, and emotional challenges, and to strengthen and restore our physical and mental health, joy, and inner peace. Receiving this empowerment from His Holiness 34th Menri Trizin is a profound blessing and a precious opportunity.
Help us Support Menri Monastery, India in 2026!
2022 Geshe graduation at Ratna Menling Nunnery · Geshe-ma (female Geshes) at Ratna Menling Nunnery
This June, Olmo Ling will be presenting an offering to Menri Monastery, the mother monastery of Bon in India, during this time of great need.
Menri Monastery supports several hundred monks, nuns, and children, including Tibetan refugees and orphans who receive education, shelter, and a loving home at Menri.
Our offering will be particularly dedicated to the nuns at Menri’s Tsongon Ratna Menling nunnery. Ratna Menling is the only Bonpo nunnery outside Tibet. It houses about 80 nuns.
Support Our Offering to Menri Monastery
Free Weekly Evening Talk Tuesday June 2nd, 7pm ET: The Four Immeasurables
With Iris Grossmann, via Zoom and in person at Olmo Ling Center
Join us this Tuesday for a free evening talk with Iris Grossmann, PhD. Iris will continue talking about the Four Immeasurable Qualities of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. The Four Immeasurables are at the heart of the Bon spiritual path. Iris will draw on the description of the Four Immeasurables in the daily Bon recitation text of generating the heart and mind of awakening to explore the meaning of these four qualities in our lives.
Iris has studied with Tempa Lama since 2004, co-founded Olmo Ling with him in 2007, and serves as Lama la’s long-term assistant.
The weekly program at Olmo Ling is offered free of charge. All are welcome! You can join us via Zoom or in person at 1101 Greenfield Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.
Donations to Olmo Ling or to Tempa Lama are deeply appreciated.
A one-time registration is now needed for our weekly Tuesday talk. Once you are registered, you can continue using the same link. REGISTER HERE FOR FREE TUESDAY TALK
Wednesday Ngondro (6:00 PM) & Silent Meditation (6:30 PM)
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM EST
Offered In-Person with Senior Student Gary Terner
Participants are welcome to join both the Ngondro / Preliminary teachings of Bon Buddhism (6:00 PM EST) and Silent Meditation (6:30 PM EST) or either of the two sessions. You do not need to practice Bon Buddhism to attend Silent Meditation starting at 6:30 PM EST.
The Wednesday evening practice at Olmo Ling Temple is free and open to all. This practice will offer the experience of meditating in a group. Group meditation is helpful in establishing a regular, stable meditation practice.
Silence will be observed throughout (from the second ringing of the bell following the opening chant). There will be two 20-minute sitting sessions separated by a 10 minute walking meditation. We will attempt to start on time so that we will not finish too late.
Ngondro practice is offered at 6:00 PM ET for those who have previously received Ngondro instructions and would like to practice in a group.
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Introduction to Meditation and the 9 stages of Calm Abiding
Saturdays at 8:30 AM EST | Offered via Zoom with Senior Student, Andrew Kaiser
This group resumes meeting from January 24
Registration is Required | Donation recommended to Olmo Ling
In this ongoing group, we explore the Nine Stages of Calm Abiding meditation, a progressive path that helps cultivate stability, clarity, and peace of mind. Each stage supports you in gently refining your focus and releasing mental agitation.
Andrew Kaiser is a senior student with Tempa Lama at Olmo Ling. Please contact Andrew Kaiser.
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Sunday Dzogchen Practice Group
Sundays at 4:00 PM EST
Offered via Zoom & In-Person with Senior Student Bob Marin
- Meditation Practice Group (IN-PERSON & ZOOM): 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month
- Reading and Discussion Group (IN-PERSON & ZOOM): 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month
Dzogchen Olmo Ling holds a Meditation Practice sitting and a Reading and Discussion group on alternate weeks. Weekly announcements provide brief readings and indicate whether the meeting will be online or in-person. In-person meetings permit online participation as well.
If you wish to participate or if you have questions about Dzogchen Olmo Ling, please contact Bob Marin
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Family Sangha
One Friday a month
from 7:00 – 8:00 PM EST
Offered In-Person with Olmo Ling Community Members
The program is designed for children to experience personal familiarity with Bon teachings and for families to deepen their connections with Bon and with each other. Each Family Sangha meeting will include a snack (families are welcome to contribute to the snack table), meditation, a story/lesson, and a related craft/activity.
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Olmo Ling Daily Prayers
We recite the prayers below at the start of each weekly community practice on Tuesdays. Feel free to download for your own daily practice!
Tempa Dukte Lama’s Books
- Jang Chok Ancient Tibetan Bon Ritual The Jang Chok ritual from the Du Tri Su cycle is a powerful skillful means to guide the consciousness of the deceased and protect it from the terror of the Bardo experiences. This book offers the first complete English translation and transliteration of the Du Tri Su Jang Chok liturgy (with the original Tibetan included). In the first part of the book, Tempa Dukte Lama explains the different sections of the ritual and their meaning and purpose as well as how to make the required torma offerings and prepare for the ritual. The liturgy in the second part of the book is annotated throughout and images of ritual arrangements and torma offerings are included to assist practitioners in performing the ritual.
- Origin of the Medicine Buddha Tempa Dukte Lama illuminates the history of how the Medicine Buddha was first taught. He offers a translation of the short Medicine Buddha practice composed by 14th century Bön master Nyamed Sherab Gyaltsen along with a detailed explanation of the liturgy, visualization, and altar preparation.
- Thrul Khor: Ancient Tibetan Bon Yoga Step-by-step instructions for 85 practices according to the A Khrid, Ma Gyud (Mother Tantra), and Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyud cycles of Bon Thrul Khor, supported by 499 photographs.
- Heart Drop of the Loving Mother Tempa Lama offers detailed instructions on the Heart Drop of the Loving Mother practice and on how we can become a Loving Mother in our lives.
- Journey into Buddhahood: The Five Paths and the Ten Stages of Compassionate Beings Tempa Lama offers a profound guide to attaining full liberation according to the Bon Sutra path, the path of compassionate beings.
- Inexhaustible Miracles: The Ten Perfections on the Path of Compassionate Beings The Ten Perfections are the heart practices of compassionate beings through which we bring the Bon teachings into our lived experience: generosity, wholesome conduct, patience, effort, concentration, power, aspirational prayers, skillful means, and discriminating awareness. Tempa Lama explains how we can cultivate each Perfection and use these practices to transform every moment of our lives.
- The Intimate Mind: Illuminating Emotion and Transformation Tempa Lama explores how we can use the Bon teachings to better understand our mind, be intimate with it, and ultimately transform it.
Sidpa Gyalmo practice resources
- Recording of Tempa Lama chanting the Sidpa Gyalmo Healing Practice liturgy
- Recording of Tempa Lama chanting the Sidpa Gyalmo Healing Waters Practice liturgy
- Recording of Tempa Lama chanting the Sidpa Gyalmo Longevity & Prosperity practice
- A booklet by Tempa Lama with an explanation of the symbolic meaning of the Sidpa Gyalmo and Yeshe Walmo visualization, detailed instructions of the healing practice, an explanation of the Bon approach to healing, color pictures of Sidpa Gyalmo and Yeshe Walmo, and the practice liturgy of both the Healing Practice and the Healing Waters Practice is available from our store here. We are able to ship quickly and now offer lower First Class shipping rates for domestic and international orders.