What we’re about
Pristine Mind meditation is a simple and powerful style of meditation that helps people live life more fully and find unconditional happiness.
Founded by Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche, our warm and welcoming organization, Pristine Mind Foundation, has a vibrant community in the Bay Area. We encourage people of all levels of meditation experience – from beginners to advanced – to join us. You will benefit from becoming more mindful and creating new connections with like-minded people.
Rinpoche teaches programs to help start or strengthen your meditation practice, including:
· Regularly held meditation programs in San Rafael.
· Weekend long programs and retreats in the Bay Area and throughout the world.
· Online workshops and live streaming events.
A highly-trained meditation master, Rinpoche is also the author of Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness (2016). This book has helped thousands of people attain peace and inner happiness and is a great way to learn about Pristine Mind meditation more deeply.
If you would like to join us or learn more about our organization, programs and events, please visit www.pristinemind.org.
Upcoming events
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•Online100 Day Meditation Challenges to Start 2026
OnlineStart 2026 with 100 Days of Meditation!
100 Day Meditation Challenge
To learn more and to register, click here.
Kick off your new year with Pristine Mind Foundation's 100 Day Meditation Challenge! Our goal is to support you with guidance, community, encouragement, and resources so that you can develop and deepen your meditation through daily practice in the first 100 days of 2026 and beyond.
This challenge is suitable for beginners to meditation as well as experienced meditators. Whether it is your first time joining us or you have participated in the challenge in the past, we invite you to start 2026 with 100 days of meditation!
Join us as we draw from meditation teachings by the founder of Pristine Mind Foundation, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche, and insights from his book, Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness. This challenge is suitable for beginners to meditation as well as experienced meditators.
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100 Day Ngondro Meditation Challenge
To learn more and to register, click here.
Since an increasing number of Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche’s students are focusing on Ngondro meditation to form the foundation for receiving Dzogchen teachings, we are happy to provide a loose framework to support and encourage people who want to focus on their Ngondro meditation for the first 100 days of the year. We will be sending weekly emails and sharing ideas and encouragement to help you set your own goals and structure your personalized approach to the 100 Day Ngondro Meditation Challenge.
In addition, the 100 Day Ngondro Meditation Challenge will include reference to Rinpoche’s book From Foundation to Summit: A Guide to Ngöndro and the Dzogchen Path.2 attendees
•OnlineNew Year Online Daylong Meditation Retreat
OnlineSaturday, January 3rd, 2026
Online | 10:00am – 4:00pm Pacific Time
Live Streaming and Available On-Demand
Registration Link:
https://pristinemind.org/programs/1933/online-new-year-daylong-meditation-retreat/
The new year provides an opportunity to dedicate the positive energy from the past year and to remove obstacles and prepare to engage in the most positive way in the coming year.
In this special daylong meditation retreat on January 3rd, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche will provide meditation instruction and guided meditation to help us start 2026 with a powerful foundation to live harmoniously and with deep connection to our meditation practice and the principles of the teachings in the year to come.
We encourage you to join us to start the year together with this wonderful opportunity to deepen our meditation and prepare mentally, emotionally, and spiritually for 2026.
This New Year Daylong Retreat will be held Online on January 3rd and will include live streamed video and access to on-demand video recordings.1 attendee- $50.00
•OnlineOnline Annual Phowa Daylong Meditation Retreat
OnlineSaturday, January 24th, 2026
Online from 10:00am – 4:00pm Pacific Time
This retreat will be held online only.
Learn more and register:
https://pristinemind.org/programs/1934/online-annual-phowa-daylong-meditation-retreat/
In order to live comfortably and enjoy life, you need to feel comfort with the inevitability of death. Phowa, the meditation practice for transferring consciousness to the enlightened state at the time of death, is the key to living joyfully and dying fearlessly.
In this Annual Phowa Daylong Online Meditation Retreat, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche will teach on these practices for transferring consciousness to the enlightened state at the time of death and will provide guidance in this meditation practice based on a practice manual from the Longchen Nyingtik tradition that Rinpoche has translated into English.
The Annual Phowa Daylong Meditation Retreat will be held Online on January 24th and will include live streamed video and access to on-demand recordings.1 attendee
Past events
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