Drubpon Pema Rigdzin, Lama Freddie, has trained in Tibetan Buddhism for thirty years and completed extensive Vajrayana retreats under Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. He is a lead ritual chanter (umdze) at the Vajrayna Foundation, and teacher for Drub Nyiy Döjö Gatsal Three-Year Retreat Center. Lama Freddie is also a Chaplain with Stanford Health Care and the Hospice of Santa Cruz County, an acupuncturist with a BA in Physical Therapy and a keen researcher of ancestral forms of healing.
Two Session Teaching and Practice
The Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones
with Drubpon Pema Rigdzin
January 24, 2026
10 am- 12 pm; 2 - 4:15 pm pacific
Online Only Program | Recording available
Tashi Gyepa, or the Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones is profound prayer composed by the great Nyingma scholar, Jamgön Mipham.
The prayer is based on the Mangalashtaka Sūtra. It pays homage to—and invokes—multiple sets of eight sacred figures and symbols, including the Eight Healing Tathāgatas, Eight Bodhisattvas, Eight Goddesses, Eight Worldly Guardians, and their respective implements.
It is traditionally recited to invite auspiciousness and success in ritual practice and worldly endeavors; to prepare our minds for possible conflict or disagreement; to increase good fortune; to purify negative circumstances; and to fulfill all wishes and aspirations.
In this two session daylong-teaching and practice, Drubpon Pema Rigdzin (Lama Freddie), will offer the oral transmission of the prayer, provide a line-by-line explanation, and lead an accumulation of the recitation dedicated to the fulfillment of participants’ wishes and aspirations.
Recording will become available to all those who register.
If recited through once before commencing any activity; whatever the project, it will work out exactly as you wish. —Jamgön Mipham
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The Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz is honored to collaborate with
The Lhamen Foundation
Upholding the wisdom traditions of Central Asia & the Himalayas through Dharma, healing, chaplaincy, translation of sacred texts, & education.
We are delighted to welcome the Lhamen Foundation, the new home for Drubpon Pema Rigdzin’s (Lama Freddie) dharma activities. 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 combines two Tibetan words: lha — deity or divine, and men — medicine. It is also an abbreviation of men gyi lhamo, the Medicine Goddesses who manifest alongside the Rishis to bridge healing, knowledge, and wisdom to all those with aspiration, connection, and respect for seen and unseen forces.
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.