Ngawang Lodrö Drolma
N. L. Drolma is a longtime dharma practitioner / teacher ordained in the Nyingma (ancient, esoteric) school of Tibetan Buddhism; her way of teaching is simple, playful and direct. She’s received precious teachings, training, and guidance from preeminent masters of meditation and has engaged in extensive solitary retreat. N. L. Drolma established the Khachod Dechenling Foundation to temper digital addiction and impart skillful means for undoing the busy mind. For her full bio, please visit the foundation’s website.
If you are “dharma curious” (or intuit that your life would be sweeter with less screen time), check out “The No-Phone Hour,” a teaching (interlaced with meditation) offered weekly, in-person at Khachod Dechen Ling.
For tales of spirited travel,
adventure &
solitary retreat…
Beyond Meeting or Parting
The blog offers excerpts from the memoir that a wily rinpoche tricked me into writing.
The wily Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche and Dudjom Yangsi, Pharping, Nepal '97 Photo © N. L. Drolma
In 1996, I cast off the moorings of friends, art career and home in Manhattan for teachings and training with a legendary, reclusive Dzogchen master in the mountains of Nepal. Definitely a spiritual trajectory out of the box for a native New Yorker. I became a social misfit—heh-heh! And now I’m on the web forfeiting a long-kept low profile.
Drumroll, please. Strike those Tibetan cymbals! Blowwwww the conch.
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Join me for landslides and an overnight in a taxi on a Bhutanese mountain pass. Face seduction in India. Retreat for three months in the south of France. Tango with death in hospital. Trek to a monastery in the foothills of Mt. Everest. Go sleepless in Hong Kong. Relocate to a mountain village in Nepal… and hole up in a summer cottage on Cape Cod for a winter of solitary retreat.
I write of inspirational encounters with revered Buddhist masters, their mind-bending teachings and unorthodox ways. (Several masters were among the last generation of yogis and scholars to undergo rigorous training in Tibet.) I also speak frankly about obstacles that arose for me in solitary retreat as well as on the road, and how such adversity can accelerate one’s spiritual maturity. May these anecdotes of my footloose travels not only smash misconceptions about spiritual practice (and renunciation), but illustrate the challenge, grace—and wild humor—of abiding by the dharma in daily life. Never give up, no matter what!
Om Ah Hung,
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