PHOWA RETREAT
with
Zhu-Wang Cai-Kun Rinpoche
An essential Meditation stage of the Bardo cycle
Osho Mokurai Meditation Centre, Italy
Oct 5 - 11, 2025
and
Oct 19 - 25, 2025
Osho defines the Bardo Thodol, known in the West as 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead', the greatest contribution that the Tibetan Buddhism has given to the world
"The only country in the world who has devoted all his genius to the inner exploration is Tibet .... Tibet is the only country in the world who has worked with all his genius and all his intelligence, searching for the inner and its treasures .... Throughout its history it was an inner pilgrimage. Nowhere there has been such concentrated effort to discover the being in the human being ....
There were hundreds of monasteries in Tibet, and these monasteries should not be compared in any way to the Catholic monasteries. These monasteries have no comparison in the world.These monasteries were concerned only about one thing: make you aware of yourself. Over the centuries have been created thousands of ways to make your inner lotus blossom, and find your greatest treasure ....
The whole world will benefit from their experience. And the world will need their experience. "
- Osho (Om Mani Padme Hum)
"In Tibet they practice a technique called the Bardo. It is a process that begins when a person start dying.... In no other country in the world have been done so extensive searches on death as in Tibet. "
- Osho (The Great Path)
"As soon as we die we enter a new world, a world that we do not know. This world can scare us, make us very afraid, because its experiences do not resemble those that are our experiences, but also have no difference: it simply has no relation to life on earth.”
- Osho. (And here and now)
In Tibetan Buddhism the Phowa meditation, one of the six Yoga of the great Master Naropa, is considered to be the most effective and precious practice to prepare for death. Phowa literally means "Transfer of Consciousness" at the moment of death. It's a fundamental practice of the Bardo cycle, the transition experience between this life and the next. This initiation is a special and unique teaching, using Mantra and Tantric methods of breathing and visualization, of how to reach the supreme Path of Liberation of the self from Samsara, the illusory world.
It's a method to transform the experience of death, which is certain, in a door to liberation.
Initiation into Phowa is considered the most direct path to freedom, because, if practiced correctly and with devotion, allows the transfer of consciousness, at the moment of death, to a state of truth, called "Pure Land", from where, moving now without obstacles, enlightenment is possible.
Zhu-Wang Cai-Kun Rinpoche received the Phowa teaching and meditation from His Masters Gaming-Cio' Rinpoche and Musel Rinpoche, of the Drikung Kagyu lineage, and He is an acknowledge Master of this practice. Rinpoche is teaching this meditation in many Eastern countries since years, and hundreds of people have already benefit from this teaching.
Zhu-Wang Cai-Kun Rinpoche was born in 1967, in Kham region, in North Tibet. At the age of 10 years old He choose to join the monastic life in Gar-Gompa, a great and ancient monastery (Gompa) of the Drikung Kagyu school, one of the four main Tibetan Buddhist tradition. There He was recognized as the third reincarnation of a previous Master having the same name.
He received many teachings and initiations from all the four lineages of Tibetan Buddhism (Niygma, Kagyu, Sakya, Gelugpa), and specially the Mahamudra and Dzhogchen teaching, considered the deepest teaching from all the traditions. Rinpoche completed twice the traditional Tibetan meditation retreat of 3 years, 3 months, 3 days. He’s an acknowledged Master of the Phowa. He created many meditation centers of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Fiji.
