10/10 Atsara Retreat Oct 1 pm

PLESE NOTE, As this is the last session, it is starting earlier (1pm) and will probably run long than ending at 6pm.
In a previous life, Atsara was the custodian of Nalanda Monastery, and as a result he is a protector of both Nalanda and Vajrasana, or Bodh Gaya. In that life he was the Raven-Headed Protector who is an emanation of the Four-Armed Mahakala who is an emanation of the heruka Chakrasamvara, and he became a very close friend of the maha-pandit Naropa. When Naropa was reborn in Tibet as Terchen Barway Dorje and traveled to the part of Tibet where Atsara had taken up habitation, they met one another and resumed their friendship. They actually became really very, very close and intimate friends in spite of the fact that one of them was reincarnated as a human being and the other was nonhuman. Atsara remains a very devoted friend of Barway Dorje, and so he’s equally friendly with the present incarnation.