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About this event
In this ever-changing world, we invite you to go on an inner journey. The 2025 Tergar Asia Annual Retreat, personally guided by Mingyur Rinpoche, will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Over the course of seven nights and eight days, this meditation retreat offers a chance to settle the mind and learn to connect with your own awareness.
We offer two concurrent programs in this retreat: Joy of Living Levels 1&2, and Path of Liberation Levels 1&2. Participants can choose one of the two programs to attend, not both.
This is the event page for the Joy of Living retreat. For the Path of Liberation retreat,please click here.
Joy of Living Levels 1&2
The Joy of Living is a meditation program developed by Mingyur Rinpoche for people of all backgrounds, whether or not they follow a religion. It offers practical, secular training in awareness, while also serving as a foundation for those interested in Buddhist practice. The program aims to help us discover and nurture our innate qualities of awareness, love and compassion and wisdom, through simple techniques that can be easily integrated into a modern lifestyle.
In Joy of Living Level 1: Calming the Mind, we learn how awareness itself is a source of lasting contentment and how we can use any experience, even painful feelings and difficult thoughts, as a gateway to inner peace.
In Joy of Living Level 2: Opening the Heart, we see how the simple desires to be happy and free from suffering are rooted in loving-kindness and compassion, and how we can nurture these qualities and extend them to others.
What is included in this retreat?
- Instruction by and Q&A sessions with Mingyur Rinpoche
- Review of teachings and practice guidance by Tzunma Miao Rong
- Multiple daily teachings and practice sessions
- Sitting and movement-based awareness practices
- Natural and quiet environment to support your practice
- Gathering of practitioners from all over Asia
- Nutritious vegetarian meals and comfortable accommodation all-inclusive
About the retreat venue
Hanwha Resort in located in Korea's Pyeongchang county. It is about 3 hours' drive from Incheon Airport. Shuttle bus service to get there will be provided.
The resort is located in a quiet and serene location by the mountains and forests, and in the past has hosted a Tergar retreat. Photos of the resort's general overview and surroundings are available here.
The resort offers apartment-style accommodation. There are two main types of apartments: one with two bedrooms, and one with three bedrooms. All apartments include a living room, a balcony and two bathrooms one of which is attached to the master bedroom. Some rooms have beds, while others have Korean-style heated floors. Photos of the rooms are available here.
About Mingyur Rinpoche
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is one of the most respected Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters of our time, and is loved by students around the world for his innovative teachings based on personal experience and science. His style of teaching is approachable, clear, and humorous, and is suitable for deep practice by modern people.
About Tzunma Miao Rong
Tzunma Miao Rong trained at the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist College in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and was ordained in 1993. The following year, she went first to Lhasa, Tibet then to Kathmandu, Nepal to study Tibetan and learn from Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and other teachers. She has translated for the 17th Karmapa, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche, among other teachers. She has been an instructor at Tergar Asia since 2011, and holds many other responsibilities.
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