Samye Ling 2018: Questions and Answers on Choosing a Lama

Since there was a large pile of questions on translator Kunga’s table this morning, Drupon Rinpoche decided to spend the day’s first teaching session giving answers to them. The questions ranged from science and the primary status of mind in relation to phenomena, to how to encourage keen 5-year old would-be Dharma practitioners, and from […]

A Typical Day for Drupon Rinpoche

Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Center, Nepal, is where Drupon Khen Rinpoche resides and where he has been devoting most of his time and efforts over the last few years...

The First UK Kagyu Monlam

Message from Drupon Khen Rinpoche: For the first time the Kagyu Monlam is held in the United Kingdom, to promote world peace, health and mental well-being. We gather for four sessions each day: two prayer sessions – presided over by the abbot of Samye Ling, Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche – and two teaching sessions […]

The Excellent Beginning for Those Chosen for Trial from Africa

Today (31st March 2018) Those Chosen for Trial from Africa went into the holy presence of the lord of refuge...

Start of the 8th cycle retreat in Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Center

On January 27th the eighth group entered retreat here at Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre ...

The Five Chosen for Trial from Africa

During the time of Dharma King Trisong Detsen, seven Tibetans were given the opportunity to go forth as monastics ...

Completion of the 6th cycle retreat in Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Center

On the 11th January 2018, a group of lamas of Thrangu Monastery concluded four years of retreat at Thrangu Sekhar ...

Second Annual One-Week Retreat at Namo Buddha

We have just concluded the second annual one week retreat and teachings at Thrangu Yangtsi Monastery of Namo Buddha for the lamas who have completed long retreat. ༼ཐེངས་གཉིས་པ༽སྟག་མོ་ལུས་སྦྱིན་ཁྲ་འགུ་ཡང་རྩེ་དགོན་དུ་སྒྲུབ་གྲྭ་ལས་གྲོལ་ཟིན་པའི་སྒྲུབ་བླ་རྣམས་དང་ལྷན་དུ་ཆོས་འཆད་ཉན་དང་བཅས་བདུན་གཅིག་རིང་མཚམས་ལ་བསྡད་པས་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་སོང་།

A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment in Hong Kong

A few pictures from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s teaching on A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment in Thrangu Hong Kong Centre. ཧོང་ཀོང་ཁྲ་འགུ་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ནངཉིན་གསུམ་རིང་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལས་སྒྲོན་ཁྲིད།

Two-Day Teaching in Japan

A few pics from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s recent two day teaching in Japan.

Teaching at Kagyu Shedra, Kaohsiung

A few pics from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s teaching in Kagyu Shedra, Kaishong, Taiwan, on October 26th.

Africa has been “Druponed”!

Tara Rokpa Center hosted Drupon Rinpoche, Buddhist Meditation and Mindtraining Master, on his first ever visit to Africa. I was privileged to attend ...

In Zimbabwe with Drupon Rinpoche

Over the last nine or so years I have travelled with Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu to various countries but ...

Rinpoche’s First Visit to Africa

Drupon Khen Rinpoche flew into Johannesburg on the morning of August 30th and headed straight to the Tara Rokpa Center in Groot Marico to lead a one week ...

Teaching at Thrangu Tara Abbey, Taichung

A few pics from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s teaching last night in Thrangu Tara Abbey, Taichung.