Programs

Private Retreat

August Practice Retreat: A Flexible Summer Session

With Tulku Migmar Tsering and Matthew Zalichin

This August, Samye Hermitage New York offers a self-directed summer retreat period for practitioners seeking spaciousness and guidance in deepening their path.

From August 3 to September 6, participants may stay for any length of time, choosing their own schedule of practice and study within a supportive retreat environment.

On August 4 at 8 A.M. Tulku Migmar Tsering will be live streaming the annual tsok bum of Tukdrup Sampa Lhündrup from Samye Hermitage New York. If you would like to come just for the tsok bum, please email us at [email protected].

Whether you’re working with Mahamudra meditation, ngöndro, or sadhana practices from the Chokling Tersar tradition, this flexible retreat allows you to engage with the path of Dharma in a way that fits your time, rhythm, and aspirations.

Guiding Teachers:

  • Tulku Migmar Tsering will be on-site for the first week (Aug 3–10) to lead group practice and offer personal guidance.

  • Matthew Zalichin will remain available throughout the retreat period to provide support and instruction as needed.

This open format is ideal for practitioners focusing on the paths of Dignity, Transformation, and Realization who benefit from a contemplative setting while maintaining autonomy in their retreat design. We’ll also be gathering feedback during this season as we look toward offering a full 35-Day Group Retreat in Summer 2026.

Teachers

Tulku Migmar Tsering

Tulku Migmar Tsering is a master of the Chokling New Treasures lineage of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in Nubri, Nepal in 1975 and began his training at an early age after having been recognized as a reincarnate lama. Tulku Migmar began his formal education in 1983 at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Kathmandu. Through the years, Tulku Migmar proved to be an outstanding practitioner, mastering all of the elaborate vajrayana rituals and sacred arts so essential to the Chokling New Treasures tradition. Tulku-la completed a 3-year retreat under the close guidance of his root guru,…
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Matthew Zalichin

Matthew Zalichin began studying Buddhism as an undergraduate in 1971. His teachers include many of the past and current century’s most eminent Tibetan lamas of all main lineages, but principally the Kagyu and Nyingma through his two root gurus Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, whom he met in 1977. He has, for the most part, practiced as a householder in North America, and from roughly 1981-2000 focused on ngondros, various yidam practices, and dharma center administration while working full time, raising a family, paying mortgages, and so on. Authorized as a meditation instructor in 1981, he taught meditation,…
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