About This Project

Dzokden is committed to supporting Advanced Yogic Practitioners who wish to dedicate their lives entirely to profound spiritual development.  By removing the material barriers to intensive practice, we facilitate the emergence of genuine masters who serve as living embodiments of the Dharma.   We aim to provide advanced practitioners:

• Opportunities to dedicate their lives fully to the Dharma through long-term retreats
• Provide scholarships to Jonang monastics to continue their spiritual development 
• Facilitate the building of modest homes for solitary retreats 
• Create roles and opportunities to work fulltime for Dzokden and receive basic financial support.  

Our Aspirations and Why This is Important

To ensure the authenticity of our spiritual traditions and manifest a Golden Age, it is imperative that the highest realizations are actualized by dedicated practitioners.  This program will support advanced yogic practitioners to realize their highest potential to then inspire and guide Dharma practitioners to their own ultimate potential.

Our Aspiration & Why This Is Important

For the Dharma to remain authentic and alive, it must be realized—not only studied or preserved. The Jonang-Kalachakra lineage contains some of the most profound methods for awakening. But without practitioners who fully actualize these teachings, the lineage risks becoming conceptual rather than experiential. Our aspiration is to support the emergence of genuine yogis—individuals who embody the teachings and become living expressions of the path.

These practitioners:

• Preserve the integrity and depth of the lineage
• Serve as sources of inspiration and guidance for others
• Help create the conditions for a Golden Age of wisdom and compassion

At the same time, we recognize that reaching this level requires immense merit and dedication. For this reason, we aim to create pathways where practitioners can live in alignment with the Dharma full-time. While doing this they can accumulate merit through continuous service. In this process they may have the opportunity to help lead retreats and there fore also experience more retreat time. When the time comes and the guru says it is right and of benefit they can gradually enter deeper stages of months to years of meditative solitary retreats. Through this, we aim to establish conditions where practitioners can move naturally from service to realization, and from realization to benefiting the world. Supporting advanced yogic practitioners is ultimately an investment in the future of the Dharma itself.