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Wisdom of the Mahamudra Masters – Module 3

This 6-day course combines profound Buddhist wisdom teachings with meditations, a lively community exchange, and an Introduction into the Tibetan language.

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Acharya Lama Kelzang Wangdi

Arne Schelling

Rebecca Hufen · October 17, 2025

Livestream of the study Course of Lama Kelzang

Tilopa’s Mahamudra Chant on the Ganges
Nagarjuna’s Praise of the Dharmadhatu
Basic Course on Tibet

This six-day course combines profound Buddhist wisdom teachings with meditation, lively community interaction, and a basic course in the Tibetan language.

In addition to Lama Kelzang, Arne Schelling and Rebecca Hufen will also be teaching—two experienced teachers and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism who possess special qualities as translators of the Dharma teachings into German.

In the mornings, Lama Kelzang will teach from the famous text by the great Indian Mahasiddha Tilopa, known as “Mahamudra Song on the Ganges,” which is available in Sanskrit and Tibetan as a root text and in commentaries. He introduces the profound view of the essence of mind, on which the entire Mahamudra tradition is based, which developed from Tilopa’s teachings. This enables practitioners of the Buddhist path and meditation practice to experience a special inner atmosphere that corresponds to the taste of the nature of mind.

For example, the fourth verse of Tilopa’s song says:
“Mists rise from the earth and disappear into space.
They go nowhere, nor do they remain.
And likewise, although waves of thoughts arise,
they dissolve again as soon as the mind sees itself.”

Every afternoon, Arne Schelling will teach Nagarjuna’s rarely taught text on the true nature of mind. This text deals primarily with Buddha nature—referred to in this context as Dharmadhatu. Nagarjuna shows how Buddha nature is present in all beings, temporarily obscured, and can be revealed in its full bloom. The focus is on the actual experience of the living awareness of the mind. Arne will explain this wonderful text to reveal the essence of all essential aspects—view, meditation, action, and fruit.

In the late afternoon, Rebecca Hufen will introduce the Tibetan language. We ask all participants to let us know in advance their level of knowledge of Tibetan so that Rebecca can prepare accordingly.

Friday, September 18. 2026
08:00-09:30pm Welcome and introduction of the topic

Saturday, September 19. to Wednesday 23. 2026
07:30 – 08:30am Meditation
10:00 – 11:15am Teaching Lama Kelzang
11:45 – 01:00pm Teaching Lama Kelzang
03:30 – 05:00pm Teaching Arne Schelling
05:30 – 07:00pm Tibetan language with Rebecca Hufen
08:00 – 09:00pm Q&A

Thursday, September 24. 2026
07:30 – 08:30am Meditation
10:00 – 11:15am Teaching Lama Kelzang
11:45 – 01:00pm Conclusion

Englisch with German translation.

To prepare for this seminar, video recordings of Module 1 and Module 2 can be booked.

Additional Texts used for daily practrice: PDF Download

If you would like to be present at Kamalashila, please register here.

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Acharya Lama Kelzang Wangdi

Acharya Lama Kelzang Wangdi is one of the resident lamas at Kamalashila Institute. He was born in Bhutan and studied and taught for 13 years at the Karma Shri Nalanda Monastic University in Rumtek, Sikkim. He received many teachings from H.E. Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. In 2004, Acharya Lama Kelzang Wangdi first went to the USA, where he still teaches today for Nitartha Institute, and then came to Germany. Since then, he has been living and teaching at Kamalashila Institute, and is visiting Buddhist centers throughout Europe and supervising Kamalashila city groups. He is a competent teacher of Buddhist philosophy and the meditation practices of sutra, tantra and Mahamudra, and an expert of the Abhidharma.

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Arne Schelling

Arne Schelling has been a practising Buddhist since his youth, then worked as a doctor and is now mainly active as a Dharma teacher, lecturer and translator in various sanghas of all Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He was involved in the founding of several Buddhist centres in Germany and is also active as an archivist, videographer and doctor of Western and Chinese medicine. He also plays the piano. Arne works for the Khyentse Vision Project, 84000, the Nithartha Institute, the Longchen Shedra and the Mipham Project. He is also responsible for the Berlin centre, www.berlin-buddhism.org.

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Rebecca Hufen

Rebecca has been involved with Buddhism since childhood, particularly in the Tibetan tradition. She studied Tibetology, Indology, and comparative religious studies at the University of Hamburg and at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah (Northern India). After completing her master's degree, she worked for several years as a Tibetan lecturer and coordination assistant at the Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship at the University of Hamburg. This path also led her to workshops and study and research trips to India, Nepal, and Bhutan. She taught both classical and modern Tibetan at the University of Hamburg and at the Institut Tibétain Yeunten Ling in Belgium. Rebecca has worked and continues to work as a translator of Buddhist texts, including for the 84,000 Project and various book publications. She is co-founder of the Buddhist center and seminar house Tārāvana in Windeck-Halscheid (www.taravana.de). She is also a yoga teacher, passionate chocolate eater, slow walker, cloud watcher, involuntary rabbit owner, and above all, mother of two wonderful daughters—certainly the most exciting and instructive task of her life.

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Wisdom of the Mahamudra Masters – Module 3

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Acharya Lama Kelzang Wangdi

Arne Schelling

Rebecca Hufen

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