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Our Mission

What Do We Do?
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The Tantric Revolutionary Center (TRC) is a Rime Vajrayana Buddhist sangha that aims to bring the Buddhadharma to all beings with no exceptions. A Buddha leaves no one behind after all. With compassion and bodhicitta as our compass, we transmit tantric teachings systematically through modern means to benefit beings across the world.

What Makes Us Different?

Samaya is the lifeblood of our lineage and kula. We strictly follow the historical instructions given by Padmasambhava: Every Vajrayana empowerment given must include all three elements of abhishek, agama and upadesha. Detailed explanations of the origin of a practice and how to practice the sadhana as well as a copy of the sadhana are always given along with the empowerment. If you put in the work you will be able to receive further instructions for the four activities after completing the required mantra accumulation. No student will come away from an empowerment feeling lost as to how to proceed, support and guidance will always be available.

Our Sorcerous Approach

While the buddhas teach wisdom and compassion, they also teach skillful means to improve the lives of beings – and one such method is sorcery. Buddhism is full of sorcerous and mystical practices that help us overturn samsara. We believe that sorcerous activities are not ancillary to the pursuit of liberation, but co-emergent. Both arise at one, as a single attainment, with different methods reflected within them.

Why Do We Practice?

We practice to lead all beings to liberation and overturn worldly suffering through the compassionate and skillful practice of sorcery. We want to see any many Vidyadharas/Mahasiddhas arise in this lifetime as possible. Beings all over the world live in poverty, illness, discrimination and violence – and it is our mission as buddhas-in-training to bring healing and peace. We see social injustice, suffering and oppression as sites of struggle that we transform through our practice.

Our Community

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Our founding lamas are Lama Dorje Sherab and Lama Federico Andino. You may read more about them and our origin here, and about our newly ordained lamas here. We are an international sangha with members all over the world, from Canada to Argentina, from Europe to Asia to Australia, thanks to online connectivity.


The TRC is radically inclusive. We are proud to welcome people of all nationalities, ethnicities, socioeconomic classes, sexual orientations and gender identifications. We view our members’ identities, histories and social positions as sources of strength and pride.

How May I Participate?

We offer a path system to suit different needs, you can check it out here.


We also offer monthly workshops on a variety of topics such as sutric teachings and tantric deity yoga. Subscribe to our monthly newsletters to learn more about the workshops we have offered.


Finally, we also have events that are free and completely open to the public, you can check find out more here.
 

Financial status is never an obstacle to receiving teachings. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any inquiries.

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Burn, Mara Burn

Yes, the time has come again.

The time when we gather to roast Mara and practice to liberate Samsara.

We liked the Portland experience so much last year that this year it's the official Mara Roast Location!

We'll be there from September 29 through October 4, doing teachings, yogas and sorceries together!

Ok, so where in Portland, OR?

Guru Prajwal's temple, near Hawthorne and Chavez.

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1405 SE 40th Avenue Portland OR 97214-4406

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What is going to be taught?

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Ok, there is a cost, right? And what does it cover?

Yes, sadly there is a cost.

It takes money and effort to travel, translate and host, so we need to ask for your collaboration. This will cover the cost of the teachings; they're five days full of teachings you will literally not find anywhere else. 

You have to provide your food and lodgins; we will give the teachings, plus all the files and documents you need to practice.

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As an aside, we will define one session to be streamed, but most of it won't. This is an encounter; we want to meet and practice together. There's plenty of teachings every month online, but this is different.

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The cost is going to be on a sliding window; why? Because there's a limit to the space that we have and we need to set everything up beforehand. 

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For March, the Early Bird ticket is $650 for everything.

April to July, the ticket is $750.

August and September is going to be $900. So get in early!

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You can get your ticket right here.

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Oh, I want to participate, but I can't afford it.

We understand. We also wanted to practice and it took time and effort. 

There's a scholarship option.

This covers two things:

1-The lodging: There's a chance to crash in the temple. The space is limited and you should bring a sleeping bag, but it's doable.

2-The teachings: There's limited teaching space, but if you want to come, we'll try to make you room.

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The only thing we need to emphasize is that everything is limited. We will need to make a decision, and it will be nothing personal if we cannot grant you either or both of them. But we need to make sure that the event is viable. Please do not sign up via paypal if you selected a scholarship option until we get back to you. 

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The scholarship form is here:

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Mara Roast 2025 - Scholarship form

This is the form to participate of the Mara Roast via Scholarship. Please do not sign up on the Paypal link if you request scholarship until you hear from us; there's a limited space to participate and to teach, so we will have to make a divination on how many scholarship spaces there are.

Scholarship Requested

Last year, there were some cool guides and playlists...

We got you:

See you there!

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