Arrival in the UK

I arrived in Scotland yesterday afternoon on the 29th. In the evening, I taught in what is known as the second city of Scotland, at Kagyu Samye Dzong Glasgow. That same night, I travelled to Kagyu Samye Ling, arriving at 11.00 p.m. Today is the start of the fifth Kagyu Monlam.

Two days in Norway

I arrived in Norway on the afternoon of May 26th. On May 27th, at Karma Shedrup Ling, I conducted two teaching sessions and three practice sessions. The following day, May 28th, began with a dawn practice session followed by a morning teaching. In the afternoon, I visited Karma Tashi Ling for the launch of a […]

Teachings in Malaysia

Drupon Khen Rinpoche was invited to teach at Palpung Gyalse Ling in Melaka, Malaysia. Over two days Rinpoche taught on the Four Dharmas of Gampopa. Rinpoche emphasised the importance of study and practice, explaining how these bring about our own and others’ benefit in this and future lives. When focusing on Gampopa’s text entitled The […]

Bodhi Heartz 

Drupon Khen Rinpoche was invited to teach at Bodhi Heartz in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 18.10.24. The topic was the Praise to Manjushri commonly known by Tibetans as Ganglo Ma. Rinpoche emphasised the importance of study and practice, of respecting those who teach us the Dharma and gave an explanation to the history of the […]

Thrangu Dharma Society Petaling Jaya

Today Drupon Khen Rinpoche visited and a gave a few words of advice at Thrangu Dharma Society Petaling Jaya. He emphasised the importance of study and practice so that the local people and centres have their own Khenpos and Lamas who are learned and accomplished. Ani Lodro Palkyi (Tee Shu Jun) provided Mandarin translation.

Edinburgh

མདང་དགོང་སུ་ཀོ་ཊི་ལེན་ཌི་རྒྱལ་ས་ཨེ་རྡན་རྦི་ར་བསམ་ཡས་རྫོང་ལ་ཆོས་ཁྲིད་ཞིག། A teaching this evening in Samye Dzong Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

Kagyu Samye Ling

བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་ལ་༧ཆོས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འདས་མཆོད་ཐེངས་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ་དང་འབྲེལ་ནས་༧ཀརྨ་པ་དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཚོགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཁྲིད་དང་ཞི་ལྷག་གི་བདུན་མཚམས་དེ་རིང་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་སོང་། Today saw the conclusion of a one week retreat at Kagyu Samye Ling to commemorate the 11th anniversary of Choje Akong Rinpoche’s passing. It involved teachings on one of Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa’s public teachings, and calm-abiding and insight meditation.

Macau Five-Day Retreat

Drupon Khen Rinpoche has just concluded a five-day retreat at Pou Tai Temple in Macao, which included teaching and practice sessions. The retreat was organised by Ani Sonam of Thrangu Phar Chin Ling and The Buddhist Merit and Wisdom Service. Ani Changchup Drolma of the Marpa Translation Society provided oral interpretation. Rinpoche taught an abbreviated […]

Teaching on Medicine Buddha

This evening, Drupon Khen Rinpoche introduced the history and practice of the Medicine Buddha at Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre་ Hong Kong. The teachings were translated by Khenpo Tengye to a packed house at the Dharma Centre. Rinpoche spoke about the different levels and lineages of the Medicine Buddha practice. He then used the liturgy of […]

Four Day Retreat & Teachings

Drupon Khen Rinpoche led practice sessions and gave teachings based on participants’ questions and his own thoughts about how best to pursue the path. The teachings were translated into Mandarin by Khenpo Tengye and into Cantonese by Neil Tse. Here is an excerpt from the teachings: QUESTION: I experience lots of thoughts when I meditate. […]

The Four Dharmas of Gampopa – Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre Hong Kong

Today Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught at the Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre Hong Kong on the Four Thoughts of Gampopa. Khenpo Tengye provided interpretation. Here are some excerpts of the main points of the teaching: Introduction: The Four Dharmas of Gampopa summarise the entire path of Buddhism. Other such pithy summarisations are Parting from the Four […]

A conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about Khenchen Pema Tsewang

A conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about their lama, Khenchen Pema Tsewang (Khenpo Pentse).

A Conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about the Dharma in Africa.

A Conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s experience and activities of helping the Dharma in Africa.

Foreword to the Torch

In his foreword to The Torch for the Definitive Meaning, Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu explains his reason for founding MTS and how it unfolded. We thought our FB friends who do not have a copy of the book might find it insightful. If you wish to receive a copy of the book simply send […]

DrukTalk Interview

Drukthar of Druktalk Podcast recently interviewed Drupon Khen Rinpoche about his activities in Africa and elsewhere. (Tibetan language only)