WISDOM CENTER
OF SANTA CRUZ
Drubpon Pema Rigdzin, Lama Freddie, brings over thirty years of Tibetan Buddhist training to his teaching, including two traditional three-year Vajrayāna retreats under Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. He serves as the Retreat Teacher for the Three-Year Retreat, Drub Nyiy Döjö Gatsal, and has been a lead ritual chanter and mentor with the Dudjom Ngöndro Program. A Spiritual Care Provider with Stanford Health Care, an acupuncturist, physical therapist, and researcher of ancestral healing, he serves communities in the US, Brazil, and Europe through Dharma and integrative healing. He is the co-founder of Lhamen Foundation.
Healing Chö Ceremony
Changbu Gyatsa
Dudjom Lingpa Troma Nagmo Cycle
Saturday, July 18, 2026
10:00 AM - 12:15 PM Pacific time
Led by Drubpon Pema Rigdzin
In Person at the Wisdom Center of SC and Online
The One Hundred Handprints Healing Practice, Changbu Gyatsa, is a Chö healing ceremony drawn from the Troma Nagmo cycle, a profound treasure teaching revealed by the great Terton Dudjom Lingpa.
The ceremony centers on one hundred handprints bearing the living imprints of our karmic obscurations, which are arranged as the five desirable objects. They are released and offered up to the wisdom Ḍākinī Tröma Nagmo, Krodikālī.
Think of her as a loving force that dissolves what no longer serves you. The ceremony gently works to clear what blocks your natural wellbeing, restoring a sense of balance, ease, and joy that is always already there within you. Each handprint represents the weight of unresolved experiences we carry, stress, grief, illness, and the tensions that build up in body and mind over time.
"If you visualize through these key points, the recipient of your offering, the Mamo Dakini, will be pleased. The recipients of your charities, the demons, will all be appeased as well. You will free yourself from inner and outer obstacles and hindrances and produce the ultimate great merit." — Dudjom Lingpa
During the ceremony, you lie down and rest. You will be guided through meditation with traditional melodies and visualizations. No experience is necessary, only a willingness to be present and receive.
This practice is open to all.
The Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz is honored to collaborate with
Lhamen’s pillar of dharma offers authentic teachings and guidance on the gradual path of Vajrayana Buddhism which includes short and long term teaching programs, one-on-one support, meditation instructions, retreats, pilgrimages and more. The spiritual healing pillar provides individual and group healing ceremonies and practices from the wisdom traditions of Central Asia and the Himalayas.
Lhamen Foundation is a nonprofit religious organization that serves as a vehicle for the activities of Drubpon Pema Rigdzin (Lama Freddie) — a Dharma teacher in the lineage of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, a healer, and chaplain — and a group of supporting volunteers.