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IN COLLABORATION WITH TANADUK GARDEN

Ngakmang Gathering & Olive Harvest at Yuthok Ling Arce

October 13–17, 2025

Yuthok Ling Arce, Italy

We warmly invite you to Yuthok Ling Arce for our very first Ngakmang Gathering & Olive Harvest, a unique 5-day event weaving together spiritual practice, community, and connecting with nature in collaboration with Tanaduk Garden.

Nestled in the emerald hills of Arce, Italy,

Dr. Nida’s new retreat land Yuthok Ling Arce is home to over 300 ancient olive trees, cultivated on blessed land dedicated to the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage and Sowa Rigpa healing.

As the leaves turn with autumn’s arrival and we move into the last quarter of the year, this is a ripe time to reflect and refresh your practice within nature and community.

THE PROGRAM

This gathering is open to all

ngakpas, ngakmas, and practitioners seeking a meaningful pause in daily life.

The program will include:

Morning group practice

Morning group practice of Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro and Guru Yoga

Evening Shanglon practice

Evening Shanglon practice for protection and auspiciousness

Daily yoga & movement

Daily yoga & movement to stretch, open, and strengthen the body

Olive harvesting & gardening

where we’ll gather fruit from Yuthok Ling Arce’s olive grove and garden, plant lavender, and process the harvest

Tanaduk Garden: Sowa Rigpa for Autumn program

— the third installment of Tanaduk Garden’s seasonal series focused on Sowa Rigpa self care, herbalism, and yoga for the autumn season.

Community time with sangha

*And you’ll take home some of our freshly pressed, organic olive oil—infused with blessings from Medicine Buddha, Yuthok, and countless healing mantras recited by our Tibetan Medicine Mantra Healer group

*Please keep in mind that the possibility and abundance of olive harvesting depends on the unpredictable climate and growth conditions of the season.

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Whether you’re seeking rejuvenation, sangha companionship, or time in nature, this gathering offers meaningful opportunity for community, spiritual practice, and connecting with the earth.

REGISTRATION

Registration is by donation
with a minimum of €. 380
( 345 for members)

From this donation, €200 covers food and daily expenses for the week, and s €180 goes toward the program and an annual membership for Sorig Khang Italia no profit association

You are welcome to offer separate dana for the teacher and the Tanaduk Garden projects.

Provided Meals:

Breakfast

(eggs, yogurt, fruit, cereal – offerings alternating by day)

*Daily healthy
light lunch

Tea break time

Fruit, snacks, coffee and tea

Pizza party
on the final evening

If you have any allergies or food intolerances, please email italia@sorig.net

For guests staying at Yuthok Ling, dinner is available as an optional add-on for €15 per day.

Accommodations:

Accommodations are available on-site at Yuthok Ling Arce with limited availability—early booking is highly recommended. To reserve your space, please contact italia@sorig.net
Alternatively, there are B&b Airbnbs and hotels available in the area which you can arrange personally.

if you need help and assistance the association can help you with logistics. All directions on how and where to get there will be sent to all participants.

Whether you’re seeking rejuvenation, sangha companionship, or time in nature, this gathering offers meaningful opportunity for community, spiritual practice, and connecting with the earth.

RACCOLTA FONDI INTERNAZIONALE

IN COLLABORAZIONE CON TANADUK

Ngakmang Gathering & Olive Harvest at Yuthok Ling Arce

DAL 13 AL 17 OTTOBRE 2025
Yuthok Ling Arce, FROSINONE

Vi invitiamo calorosamente a Yuthok Ling Arce per il nostro primo Ngakmang Gathering & Olive Harvest, un evento unico di 5 giorni che intreccia la pratica spirituale, la comunità e la connessione con la natura in collaborazione con il Tanaduk Garden".

Nestled in the emerald hills of Arce, Italy,

il programma

Questo incontro è aperto a tutti

ngakpa, ngakma e praticanti che cercano un'autentica pausa dalla vita quotidiana.

Il programma comprende:

Pratica di gruppo mattutina

Pratica di gruppo mattutina di Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro e Guru Yoga

Pratica Shanglon serale

Pratica Shanglon serale per la protezione e il buon auspicio

Yoga e movimento quotidiano

Yoga e movimento quotidiani per rendere flessibile, sciogliere e tonificareil corpo

Raccolta delle olive e manutenzione del giardino

dove raccoglieremo le olive nel giardino di Yuthok Ling Arce, pianteremo la lavanda

Giardino Tanaduk: Sowa Rigpa l'agenda autunnale

- la terza puntata della serie stagionale del Giardino Tanaduk che si focalizza sulla cura di sé, i rimedi naturali e lo yoga per la stagione autunnale.

Momento di condivisione con il sangha

*E porterete a casa un po' del nostro olio d'oliva biologico appena spremuto, infuso con le benedizioni del Buddha della Medicina, Yuthok, e con innumerevoli mantra di guarigione recitati dal nostro gruppo di Tibetan Medicine Mantra Healer

*Si tenga presente che la possibilità e il raccolto delle olive dipendono dalle imprevedibili condizioni climatiche e di crescita della stagione.

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Che siate alla ricerca di rigenerazione interiore, fisica, emotiva, spirituale, di compagnia del sangha o di un po' di tempo da passare immersi nella natura, questo incontro offre un'opportunità significativa per la comunità, la pratica spirituale e la connessione con la terra.

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Trisong Detsen ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་

Trisong Detsen ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ is the 38th King of Tibet. He ruled Tibet from 755 AD to 797 AD, and he retired after passing the throne to his second son. Trisong Detsen is one of the three Dharma Kings of Tibet, playing a significant role in Introducing Buddhism in Tibet.Trisong Detsen invites Great Indian master Sāntarakṣita and Guru Rinpoche from India to help establish Buddhism in Tibet. Thus subsequently founding the first and oldest sect of Tibetan Buddhism called Nyingmapa Sect with the Samye monastery as the first Buddhist Monastery in Tibet. Guru Rinpoche also help to initiate the first monkhood in Tibet with first seven sons from Noble birth.During the reign of Trisong Detsen, he organizes the first international medical conference of Medicine to introduce the Current Tibetan medicine system. The doctors from all over the known world came to participate including from Greece, China, Arab, India, and Nepal.Trisong Detsen also gathers many spiritual master and translator from India to train many translators to Translate all the Buddhist scripture from Indian to the Tibetan Language.Though facing much opposition from Bönpo follower to resist the change and introduction of Buddhism in Tibet. Besides all the hardship he was successful in establishing Buddhism as the official religion for his royal court and his empire.For Us, Tibetan Buddhist. We consider him as a very great king, and we are always grateful for him to inducing Buddhism in Tibet, which is now the core of Our Tibetan culture and tradition. Therefore during your travel to Tibet, you will find Trisong Detsen statue along with either Guru Rinpoche and śāntarakṣita or along with our other two kings of Songtsen Gampo.

Songtsen Gampo, སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ་

Songtsen Gampo is the forefather of Buddhism in Tibet. Two generations before King Trisong Detsen invited Shantarakshita and Padmasambhava to Tibet, King Songtsen Gampo cultivated the nation for its transformation, clearing pathways for the dharma to enter and ultimately permeate Tibetan culture. Without Songsten Gampo there would be no Tibetan alphabet, Lhasa would have no Jokang, and the supreme demoness of Central Tibet might still be roaming the earth unfettered.

Songtsen Gampo reigned from 617 to 650. His Yarlung dynasty was based in Central Tibet during an imperialist period in Tibetan history. Bön was the dominant religion, and Buddhism was only seminally present. No Tibetan translations of the Buddhist scriptures existed, partially because there was no written form of Tibetan, so Songsten Gampo instructed his minister Thonmi Sambota to travel to India, study Sanskrit, and develop a Tibetan script. He then commissioned the translation of several thousand texts.

His celebrated successes in battle expanded the Tibetan empire deep into Nepal and China, and it was during these battles that he gained an appreciation of the neighbouring cultures. As a reminder of the great empire that Songtsen Gampo ruled, a large pillar still stands before the Potala palace in Lhasa, erected during his reign, on which is inscribed the agreement between the Tibetan and Chinese rulers to respect each other’s borders. He studied Chinese, became skilled in the art of leadership, and most importantly, he adopted sacred codes of conduct from Buddhist scripture. Under his rule, sacred practices began to replace the shamanistic practices of the Bönpos.

Songtsen Gampo’s two queens can be credited for a great part of his cultural awareness. Bhirkuti, from Kathmandu, brought the traditions of Himalayan Buddhism. Princess Wengchin, daughter of the Tang emperor, brought a treasure trove of ancient Chinese wisdom. She travelled across the steppes to her husband with a collection of Chinese classic literature and texts on sacred astrology, geomancy, and medicine.

Many obstacles lay in Princess Wengchin’s path as she headed to Yarlung. She had a vision of a gargantuan demoness who lay sprawled across the Himalayas, so large that one limb lay in Paro, Bhutan and another lay in Western Tibet. When she arrived in Yarlung, she shared her vision with her new husband. Recognizing the value of the treasures that his bride brought to him, as well as the importance of her vision, King Songsten Gampo commissioned thirteen demoness-subjugating temples across the land, built over the demoness’s vital organs, ankles, wrists, and torso, forever binding her from wreaking havoc. The Lhasa Jokang was built over her heart centre, and Wengchin’s Buddha statue was placed inside, where it still resides. Other such temples are Trenduk Lhakhang in Tsetang and Paro Kyichu in Bhutan.

King Songtsen Gampo is considered a human emanation of Avalokiteshvara, and he was the grandfather of King Trisong Detsen. Songtsen Gampo meditated for several years in a cave that is now at the core of Potala palace, and is revered for his great patronage of Buddhism.

Through his enlightened leadership, the path was cleared for the dharma to be propagated throughout the provinces, and for Buddhism to flourish.

Ju Mipham Rinpoche ( འཇུ་མི་ཕམ་,

Ju Mipham Rinpoche (Tib. འཇུ་མི་ཕམ་, Wyl. 'ju mi pham) or Jamgön Mipham Gyatso (Tib. འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. 'jam mgon mi pham rgya mtsho) (1846-1912) — a great Nyingma master and writer of the last century, student of Jamgön Kongtrul, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Patrul Rinpoche. Blessed by Manjushri, he became one of the greatest scholars of his time. His collected works fill more than thirty volumes. His chief disciple was Shechen Gyaltsab Pema Namgyal.

Terma (གཏེར་མ་, Wyl. gter ma)

Terma (Tibetan: གཏེར་མ་, Wylie: gter ma; "hidden treasure") are various forms of hidden teachings that are key to Vajrayana or Tibetan Buddhist and Bon religious traditions. The belief is that these teachings were originally esoterically hidden by various adepts such as Padmasambhava and dakini such as Yeshe Tsogyal (consorts) during the 8th century, for future discovery at auspicious times by other adepts, who are known as tertöns. As such, terma represent a tradition of continuous revelation in Vajrayana or Tibetan Buddhism. Termas are a part of tantric literature.
1. Terma Tradition

Tradition holds that terma may be a physical object such as a text or ritual implement that is buried in the ground (or earth), hidden in a rock or crystal, secreted in a herb, or a tree, hidden in a lake (or water), or hidden in the sky (space). Though a literal understanding of terma is "hidden treasure", and sometimes refers to objects that are hidden away, the teachings associated should be understood as being 'concealed within the mind of the guru', that is, the true place of concealment is in the tertön's nature or essence of mind. If the concealed or encoded teaching or object is a text, it is often written in dakini script, a non-human type of code or writing that only a tertön can decipher.
In this way, one may see the tradition of terma and tertön as analogous to that of inspiration and providing a legitimate cultural forum to ensure continuation of tantric tradition, and ensuring Tibetan Buddhism's and Bön's continued relevancy in an evolving world.

The terma tradition is particularly prevalent in, and significant to, the Nyingma lineage. Two of the most famous tertön in the 20th century, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (2nd Dudjom Rinpoche) and Dilgo Khyentse, were Nyingmapa. Tertön are also prevalent in Bön traditions and a few tertön have been Kagyupa.

Padmasambhava and his principal consorts and disciples secreted away and hid religious texts, ritual objects and relics etc., to secure and protect Buddhism during the time of decline under Langdarma. Some of these terma have been rediscovered and special terma lineages established throughout Tibet as a result. Out of this activity developed, especially within the Nyingma tradition, two ways of dharma transmission: the so-called "long oral transmission" from teacher to student in unbroken disciplic lineages, and the "short transmission" of terma. The foremost revealers of these terma were the Five Terton Kings and the Eight Lingpas. In the 19th century, some of the most famous were the Khenkong Choksum referring to Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Jamgon Kongtrul and Orgyen Chokgyur Lingpa.

Terma have been relayed by nāga and the dakini - of the underworld and the heavens, respectively - and have also been hidden by teachers such as the great translator Longchenpa. Sometimes terma are discovered by a master and reconcealed for a later tertön to find. (Encyclopedia: From Scholars for Scholars)

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Ngakmang Gathering & Olive Harvest at Yuthok Ling Arce

Nestled in the emerald hills of Arce, Italy,

This gathering is open to all

Morning group practice

Evening Shanglon practice

Daily yoga & movement

Olive harvesting & gardening

Tanaduk Garden: Sowa Rigpa for Autumn program

Community time with sangha

Registration is by donation with a minimum of €. 380( 345 for members)

Provided Meals:

*Breakfast *

*Daily healthy light lunch

*Tea break time*

*Pizza party*on the final evening

Accommodations:

Ngakmang Gathering & Olive Harvest at Yuthok Ling Arce

Nestled in the emerald hills of Arce, Italy,

Questo incontro è aperto a tutti

Pratica di gruppo mattutina

Pratica Shanglon serale

Yoga e movimento quotidiano

Raccolta delle olive e manutenzione del giardino

Giardino Tanaduk: Sowa Rigpa l'agenda autunnale

Momento di condivisione con il sangha

upcoming courses

Now the website is in two languages

FREE CLASS

Registration is by donation
with a minimum of €. 380
( 345 for members)

Breakfast

*Daily healthy
light lunch

Tea break time

Pizza party
on the final evening