Tergar Madison

08/31/2025

08/26/2025

This photo brings back so many memories. It’s from one of the very first retreats we ever held with Mingyur Rinpoche at St. John’s in Minnesota—back when Tergar was just getting off the ground.

In the photo are my dear friends and colleagues Edwin and Myoshin Kelley and Tim Olmsted. The four of us were Tergar’s first instructors, helping to bring Rinpoche’s vision to life.

Looking back, those early days were filled with so much energy, joy, and a sense of possibility. And through it all, the friendships we built became something even more precious than the work itself.
Edwin, Myoshin, and Tim feel closer than family to me. It’s hard to put into words how much love and admiration I have for them.

I’ll be forever grateful to walk this path alongside such extraordinary human beings.

08/26/2025

Welcome to a day in the life of Tergar Schools’ students. In this video, we explore the beauty of mindfulness; a practice woven into the rhythm of their days...

08/25/2025

What an inspiring day! We celebrated with the Tergar community at Welcome Celebration (Festa de Boas-vindas) in Podentes, Portugal, on August 16. Our Executive Director, Justin Kelley, shared a special presentation on Tergar Schools, highlighting our mission to cultivate wisdom and compassion through education. With a community so dedicated to this vision, we feel more hopeful than ever. 🌿💛

08/24/2025

08/20/2025

Community, our blessing.

“We could follow the path of awakening by ourselves, but without community, we would miss so many opportunities to learn and grow, and to support others in doing the same … community brings us back to what is truly meaningful.” - Mingyur Rinpoche

(excerpted from an article on https://hubs.ly/Q03Djmmy0)

📍 Portugal

08/14/2025

08/13/2025

08/13/2025

Click The Five Wisdom Energies link in bio to learn more and register!

In this online retreat, Rinpoche will personally guide you through the transformative system of the five wisdom energies — a powerful Buddhist framework for understanding your true nature and illuminating the most direct path to wisdom.

Discover how even the most difficult emotions and life’s obstacles, when seen clearly, can become the very fuel for your awakening.

The five wisdom energies offer practical methods to transform anxiety into opportunity, challenge into growth, and confusion into profound clarity.

Experience yourself and the world with a renewed sense of openness, clarity, and understanding.

Begin your journey with Mingyur Rinpoche and uncover the blueprints for a more awakened and fulfilling life.

Click The Five Wisdom Energies link in bio to learn more and register!

08/12/2025

“This is the great paradox of the Buddhist path: that we practice in order to know what we already are, therefore attaining nothing, getting nothing, going nowhere. We seek to uncover what has always been there.”

– Mingyur Rinpoche