Lama Tsultrim Yeshe of Wisconsin visited our center and led us in a weekend-long Nyungnay Retreat. 

The Nyungnay practice is the long practice of the 1000-Armed Chenrezik, one of the forms of the Bodhisattva of Boundless Compassion. 

Lama Tsultrim Yeshe completed a traditional 3-year retreat at Karme Ling Retreat Center in Delhi, New York under the guidance of the Venerable Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. The Nyung-ne practice or fasting ritual of the 1000-armed Chenrezik involves the engagement and purification of the eight vows. It was introduced into the Kagyu Lineage by the Eighth Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje. The blessings of the original source of this tradition are unimpaired and the continuity of the profound instruction is unbroken.

The practice began very ealy on Saturday Morning.  After a the ritual lunch on the first day, the retreatants fast for the remainder of the retreat until the fast is broken on the morning of the third day (Monday)..

At left you see two photos of Lama Tsultrim Yeshe on Monday morning just before the fast was broken, the lunch served by non-retreatants, the Nyungnay shrine on Saturday afternoon and some of the retreatants on Monday morning just before the fast was broken.