Teachings with Erik Pema Kunsang

Open Sky Dharma - The Four Dharmas of Gampopa

This retreat offers a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the Four Dharmas of Gampopa, as taught by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche - not as theory, but as a direct path to awakening. Tulku Urgyen used these four verses as the living structure of his teachings, leading practitioners from aspiration to realization.

Erik Pema Kunsang, his close disciple and translator, conveys this approach with simplicity, precision and sincere clarity, through direct contemplation, meditation and integration with everyday life. The practice here is neither elaborate nor distant - it is intimate, direct and profoundly effective.

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Erik Pema Kunsang was born in Denmark and has been studying and practicing the teachings of the Buddha, especially the teachings of Padmasambhava, since 1972.

He has been trained by many masters, including the Dzogchen master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, with whom he lived for 16 years as an assistant and interpreter.

Since 1975, he has been guided by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. With Rinpoche's encouragement, Erik created a study center and a translation program in 1981, both under the name Rangjung Yeshe.

Erik has translated and published more than 60 books, and his Tibetan-English dictionary is freely available on the internet. In recent years, Erik has created the Bodhi Training program and led the practice of hundreds of people from various countries, including Brazil.

He is active in disseminating the Buddha's teachings in the West and gives teachings in Danish and English at the Rangjung Yeshe Gomde retreat center in Helgenæs, Denmark.