In accord with the wishes and vision of Choje Akong Rinpoche, on the 15th day of Saga Dawa, Lama Katen Tsultrim Palbar...
The second UK Kagyu Monlam was held at Kagyu Samye Ling led by Abbot Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, from the 7th to the 15th day of the holy lunar month...
To begin with, Drupon Rinpoche reminded us of the importance of not getting annoyed or emotional, if we hear people criticising our lama, since this only harms ourselves. The best thing we can do is to either ignore the criticism or, if possible, calm the situation down. In any case, Rinpoche urged us not to […]
The key point, Rinpoche stressed, is to not waste our present life, but to pay attention to, and seize, the opportunities of each and every day. Nothing is achieved by a mind that is trying to go in two directions at once: nor is it useful to just focus on external activities without an inner […]
At the request of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught the ten-day Namo Buddha Seminar (14th - 23rd April) on his behalf. The teaching topic was...
Drupon Khen Rinpoche returned to Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Center, Nepal, on the evening of December 21st 2018 and resumed his normal daily teaching schedule the following day...
It is amazing, how much you can learn and live in just three and a half days! The visit of Lama Drupon Rinpoche and the Mutota, with ...
First stop was Tokyo, where the students of Ewam Yeshe Dharma Centre eagerly welcomed Rinpoche back for the third year in a row ...
04.12.18 – Today Drupon Khen Rinpoche concluded a one week retreat with Hwayue Foundation. The focus of the teachings were the methods for settling and investigating the mind. Here is an excerpt from a teaching: "Before we can have authentic meditation we must first understand the truth about mind and thoughts. For this we use […]
The third annual retreat at the sacred site of Namo Buddha’s Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Gompa, with Choje Lama foremost among the participants of khenpo’s, tulkus, spiritual friends and retreat lamas has just concluded. Each day there were four practice sessions on calm abiding and insight meditation combined with guru yoga, and two teaching sessions on […]
Rinpoche gave his first teachings of this visit at Kagyu Samye Dzong London on the 3rd to more than 190 people. These were focused on mind training and ...
In response to one of this morning’s questions, Rinpoche reinforced the key point that the purpose of Dharma practice is to help us to become more easy-going and better able to forbear whatever arises. Practising Dharma he likened to exercising, insofar as we need to keep doing it when we are strong enough and able […]
Today we were privileged to receive further teachings from Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu on ‘The Precious Ornament of Liberation’ by Gampopa Sonam Rinchen. Having begun to teach from this text last year, Rinpoche took the time to remind us of the importance and relevance of it to the Kagyu lineage and of the need […]
This last morning of the retreat Drupon Rinpoche returned to some of the major themes of his teaching during the course of the week, making sure that the key points had been absorbed by everyone attending. Regarding lamas he emphasised that a good lama should take care of their students by pointing out their faults, […]
Drupon Rinpoche continued to respond to the questions appearing on Kunga’s desk during the first and second teaching session today. The questions included how and whether it would be possible to heal post traumatic stress syndrome, the challenges of maintaining silence in retreat, the meaning of devotion, how to practise at home for a layperson, […]
