Following the recent International Gakyil Annual Planning Meeting, Rinpoche has approved the change to a 6-person International Gakyil. Ricardo Kogel has stepped down from the International Yellow Gakyil. Many thanks to him for his ongoing commitment to Rinpoche, for all his work for the IDC over the last year, and very best wishes for…
Best wishes for 2014! You may have already heard that from Jan 1st 2014, responsibility for the Dzogchen Community webcast has passed from the Shang Shung Institute to the International Dzogchen Community. Many thanks for your generous donations to support the webcast, using the donate button on the webcast site! The service will continue exactly…
Dear Vajra brothers and sisters! Following a recent crash of this website, it seems it has only been possible to restore to a much earlier version. Please accept our apologies for this. We’ll do our best to restore the missing posts as soon as possible. Meantime, thank you for your patience! Enjoy the up coming…
In the past week many of you who are Gakyil members would have seen the notice from the International Gakyil (IG) providing information on guidelines for membership in 2014. As the planned start date for “global membership” is still January 2015, what we are hoping to achieve in 2014 is simply greater convergence of…
As part of the reorganisation of the Dzogchen Community and of Shang Shung Institute, it has been the intention to pass over responsibility for services relating to the IDC so that Shang Shung Institute is free to focus on its core purpose of working for the continuation of Tibetan Culture in all its aspects. The…
The IDC Organisational Project Outputs that the International Yellow Gakyil (Yellow IG) are responsible for are divided into three categories; Fund Raising, Membership, Finance & Accounting Systems. We have a number of individual task objectives within each of these three categories that, if achieved, should result in our overall Output goals being achieved. At the…
Dear Vajra Sisters and Brothers, worldwide: We are currently in the process of building the International Dzogchen Community (IDC) organization according to Rinpoche’s vision of a Global Mandala. For this reason, the International Gakyil is seeking six highly-qualified individuals to serve as members of the IDC’s new Management Systems Committee (MSC). The MSC’s mission is to…
Welcome to the Yellow section of the International Gakyil activities. We are happy to finally have a web presence and an opportunity to begin collaborating more deeply with our fellow Yellow Gakyil members around the world, as well as the broad IDC membership in general. Hopefully, our initial IG announcements would have effectively communicated the…
Welcome to the new website of the International Dzogchen Community Gakyil! Here you will find progress reports on the reorganisation of the Community as an International Organisation – not every day, but as important steps unfold. If you have any questions, you can ask them here and we will add our responses to the FAQs…
Dear Vajra sisters and brothers. You have probably already heard there is a new Gakyil in place of the International Dzogchen Community. International Dzogchen Community is relatively newly established global organization with Chögyal Namkhai Norbu as a president. New Gakyil has one main objective to fulfill – to reorganize the growing community of Dzogchen practitioners…