I flew to Edinburgh, Scotland, on the morning of October 7th and went straight to Kagyu Samye Dzong Edinburgh. I gave refuge vows to a few people and then a public teaching. Afterwards, I left straight for Samye Ling and arrived at 11pm. Karma Lhabu’s diary སུ་ཀོ་ཊི་ལེན་ཌི། སྤྱི་ཚེས་བདུན་གྱི་སྔ་དྲོ་མཁའ་ལམ་རྒྱུད་ནས། སུ་ཀོ་ཊི་ལེན་ཌི་རྒྱལ་ས་ཨེ་དྷན་བྷི་རཱ། བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་རྫོང་དུ་འབྱོར། མི་མགའ་ཞིག་ལ་སྐྱབས་སྡོམ་འབོག་པ་དང་། ཐུན་མོང་ལ་ཆོས་ཐུན་ཞིག་བཤད། གྲུབ་མ་ཐག་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་དུ་འོང་ནས་མཚན་མོ་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡༡སྟེང་དུ་འབྱོར། ཀརྨ་ལྷ་བུའི་ཉིན་ཐོ།

I arrived in England having travelled from Spain on the morning of October 5th. In the evening, I taught about meditation at Kagyu Samye Dzong London. On the 6th, I gave a teaching to those connected to the Dharma Centre who are practising the preliminaries. Karma Lhabu’s diary དབྱིན་ལེན། སྤྱི་ཚེས་ལྔའི་སྔ་དྲོ་སི་ཕན་ནས་འོངས། དགོང་མོ་ལོན་ཏོན་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་རྫོང་དུ་འབྱོར། ཚོགས་པ་ཐུན་མོང་ལ་སྒོམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཆོས་ཐུན་གཅིག་དང་། ཚེས་དྲུག་ཉིན་སྔོན་འགྲོ་གསོག་མཁན་དག་ལ་ཆོས་ཐུན་གཅིག་བྱས་པ་ཡིན། ཀརྨ་ལྷ་བུའི་ཉིན་ཐོ། ༢༠༢༦/༡༠/༧

This year's five-day Monlam was hosted by Samye Dechi Ling and presided over by Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, who gave a teaching on the final day. During it, I taught on the Eight Verses of Mind Training to the best of my ability. Most of those attending listened attentively. People travelled long distances from […]

I taught the Four Dharmas of Gampopa at Bokar Thubten Ling in Ibiza, Spain. I gave six teachings over the two days I was there. Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche named the dharma centre in 2003, and Anna, a lay disciple of Rinpoche, founded it. My arrival in the Centre coincided with the arrival of statues of […]

Geshe Lharampa Tehor Dawa Tsering, the preeminent expounder of the vast textual traditions of Sutra and Mantra, visited the site of the new Drolung Mountain Retreat. While here, he prayed and made aspirations for the flourishing of the Buddhadharma. Thank you! བཞུགས་གདན་ལ་རྩོད་པ་ཤོར། མདོ་སྔགས་གཞུང་ལུགས་རབ་འབྱམས་སྨྲ་བའི་ཁྱུ་མཆོག་ལྷ་རམས་པ་ཏྲེ་ཧོར་ཟླ་བ་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག གྲོ་ལུང་རི་ཁྲོད་གསར་བཞེངས་སར་གཟིགས་སྐོར་གནང་བ་མ་ཟད་བསྟན་པ་རྒྱས་པའི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་དང་སྨོན་ལམ་མཛད། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ།

Geshe Lharampa Tehor Dawa Tsering, the preeminent expounder of the vast textual traditions of Sūtra and Mantra, accepted my invitation to come here to Thrangu Sekhar International Retreat Centre in Nepal. He came in the manner of a plain and ordinary monk, and in many respects—his outlook, etc.—he reminded me of Khenchen Lama Tsultrim Lodrö. […]

Today (9 September 2026), Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu completed teaching The Way to Awakening – An Instruction Manual to the Seven Points of Mahāyāna Mind Training, composed by Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche at Thrangu Sekhar International Meditation Centre. The teachings were given primarily to retreatants taking part in the third cycle of the six-year retreat, […]

Hot on the heels of completing the teachings on ‘The Life and Songs of Milarepa’ Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu began a new text today. Rinpoche started teaching ‘The Jewel Ornament of Liberation’ composed by the master of the Kagyu lineage, Lord Gampopa, to nearly 300 students of all ages from around 30 countries. This […]

At the request of the Kagyu Monlam Committee, I attended the 15th Singapore Kagyu Monlam. Over the three days, I taught the Six Perfections and the importance of study and contemplation. Today, the Monlam concluded auspiciously and excellently. Karma Lhabu 30.08.2026 སྨོན་ལམ་བཀོད་སྒྲིག་ཚོགས་པས་རེ་བསྐུལ་ལྟར། ད་ལམ་སིང་གྷ་ཕོར་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་སྨོན་ལམ་ཐེངས་བཅོ་ལྔ་པ་ཚོགས་སར་ཕྱིན། ཕར་ཕྱིན་དྲུག་དང་། ནང་ཆོས་ལ་ཐོས་བསམ་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་གལ་ཆེ་ཚུལ་སོགས་ཉིན་གསུམ་གྱི་རིང་ལ་བཤད། དེ་རིང་དགེ་ལེགས་ངང་གྲུབ་བྱུང་། ཀརྨ་ལྷ་བུ་ནས། ༢༠༢༦/༨/༣༠

26 August 2026 marked the completion of a precious cycle of teachings on the Songs of Milarepa, which Drupon Khen Rinpoche began giving at Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre in February 2023. For about three and a half years, Rinpoche gave teachings on the life story and songs of Milarepa, the great Tibetan yogi and one […]

At the sacred site of Namo Buddha, at Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, the second week-long retreat of the shedra (monastic college) has now successfully concluded. At this present time, when the precious teachings of the Practice Lineage are in a weakened state, the khenpos, teachers, and spiritual friends of the Vajra Vidya Institute resolved that […]

Today, July 14th 2026 on new moon day, following the Tara Puja, Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu performed the hair-cutting ritual to ordain four new retreatants into monastic life. Subsequently, according to their respective requests, Drupon Khen Rinpoche bestowed the Bodhisattva Vow to Karma Wangchuk, a practitioner from Colombia, and granted refuge vows to the […]

On the fifteenth day of the Tibetan month, in response to a request from Lama Zangpo, I joined his students in a Marpa feast offering, offered some advice and instructions, ordained several nuns, and bestowed the bodhisattva vow upon the gathering as a whole. Lama Zangpo is carrying out his work excellently, just as I […]

Recently, Chöje Lama Wangchuk Topden, Tulku Damcho and several administrators of Thrangu Monastery sought an audience with His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa, the embodiment of the enlightened activity of the victors of the three times, concerning the reincarnation of the late Kyabje Yongzin Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. His Holiness lovingly bestowed guidance and advice regarding the reincarnation. […]

On 14 June 2026, the Loving Protector, Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche, the life-tree of the Practice Lineage doctrine, graciously visited the newly established mountain retreat of Palri Ling. There, he bestowed his blessings, together with the instructions and oral transmission of The Ganges Great Seal. The founder of this mountain retreat centre is my true […]