Qualla: Dzogchen Beara https://qualla.com/dzogchen-beara en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dzogchen-beara-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dzogchen Beara https://qualla.com/dzogchen-beara Dzogchen Beara: Introduction https://qualla.com/dzogchen-beara/ Photo credit kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0. From the meditation hall you look straight out at the Atlantic, which is doing what the Atlantic does - hammering at the cliffs three hundred feet below or, on a still morning, lying flat as glass to the horizon. Dzogchen Beara sits on a windswept headland near Allihies on the Beara Peninsula, and it is one of the most westerly places on earth where you can sit with Tibetan teachers in a room and try, for an hour or a week or a year, to settle the mind. The geography is not incidental. People come here because the Atlantic does what it does.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dzogchen-beara-wp/gc0v-dzogchen-beara-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dzogchen Beara: Peter and Harriet https://qualla.com/dzogchen-beara/ Photo credit kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0. The land was bought in 1973 by Peter and Harriet Cornish, an English couple looking for somewhere remote to live a contemplative life. They built up the buildings slowly over the next two decades, working with what the headland offered: stone, weather, view. In 1992, they offered...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dzogchen-beara-wp/gc0v-dzogchen-beara-peter-and-harriet.mp3 0:06 2 full Dzogchen Beara: The Retreats https://qualla.com/dzogchen-beara/ Photo credit kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0. The first closed one-year retreat began in 1994. The schedule follows the traditional Tibetan pattern of practice and study, with long hours of meditation, periods of teaching, and the silence that holds them together. Over the decades, Dzogchen Beara has hosted senior lamas incl...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dzogchen-beara-wp/gc0v-dzogchen-beara-the-retreats.mp3 0:06 3 full Dzogchen Beara: The Care Centre https://qualla.com/dzogchen-beara/ Photo credit kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Spiritual Care Centre opened in 2007, formally inaugurated by Mary McAleese, then President of Ireland, on 12 September. Its purpose, in the words of one of its early directors, is to support people leading up to death, at the time of death, and after death. It grew directly ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dzogchen-beara-wp/gc0v-dzogchen-beara-the-care-centre.mp3 0:06 4 full Dzogchen Beara: Difficult Years https://qualla.com/dzogchen-beara/ Photo credit kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 2017, Sogyal Rinpoche retired from his position as spiritual director of Rigpa following allegations from current and former students of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse over a period of decades. The allegations, made public in an open letter, were credible and serious; t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dzogchen-beara-wp/gc0v-dzogchen-beara-difficult-years.mp3 0:06 5 full Dzogchen Beara: The View from the Hall https://qualla.com/dzogchen-beara/ Photo credit kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0. On a clear day, the view from the meditation hall takes in Bantry Bay to the south, the long blue shape of Whiddy Island, and the open sea past the Mizen and the Fastnet Rock. Westerly weather rolls in off the Atlantic - sometimes mist, sometimes the sharp clean light that follow...

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