A few pictures from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s teaching last night in Taiwan Kagyu Buddhist Institute, Taipei. The first of two day’s teaching that Rinpoche will give there.
The three-day teaching on the Precious Garland of the Supreme Path at HwaYue Foundation (Taiwan) has been brought to an excellent conclusion today (22 October.) ཉིན་གསུམ་གྱི་རིང་གི་ཆོས་ཁྲིད་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་།
A few pics from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s teaching in Thrangu Vajra Vidya, Taipei, on Thursday 19th of October.
The 5th one-week retreat in Kagyu Samye Ling was brought to an excellent conclusion, during which time the teaching and study of calm-abiding meditation and Letter to a Friend went smoothly. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་དུ་ཐེངས་ལྔ་པའི་བདུན་མཚམས་དེ་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་སོང་། དེའི་རིང་ལ་ཞི་གནས་དང་བཤེས་སྤྲིང་སོགས་ཆོས་འཆད་ཉན་གང་ལེགས་བྱུང་།
I have just spent two weeks in southern Africa with faith-inspired groups of people, teaching and practicing the Dharma. The events were organised by ...
The future plans for the buildings of Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre. We wish to complete construction in 2018. ཁྲ་འགུ་སྲས་མཁར་སྒྲུབ་སྡེ་ཆེན་མོའི་ཕྱིའི་འཆར་བཀོད་༢༠༡༨ལོ་གྲུབ་པའི་རེ་སྨོན།།
Dear Friends,Tashi Deleg and Happy New Year, I wish you all the best of health and success for 2017.
A week retreat for lamas who have completed long retreat, including khenpos and tulkus, has been brought to an auspicious conclusion at Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery in Namo Buddha. The stages of shamata and vipashana were practiced in combination with guru yoga for four sessions each day; Gampopa's Ornament of Precious Liberation was taught in […]
In the Heart Sutra, it says ‘No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind.’ But thinking that these things don’t exist and make that the object of your meditation won’t help at all. What should you do instead? Feel your nose with your hand and think ‘Yes, here is my nose. […]
"We need to think about how these texts we are holding in our hands came about. At the time of Atisha and Marpa, people were prepared to give up everything for the Dharma and the lama, including their lives. The Dharma and lamas were that precious to them. This we need to be aware of […]
Drupon Rinpoche presiding over the first of what will be an annual one week retreat for the Thrangu Gompa Lamas. Namo Buddha – 22.11.2016.
Go back to where you started. Try to remember the time when you took refuge. Taking refuge means you made commitments. What are they? Why did you do that? Do you still have the beginner’s mind you had then? Do you still have the faith and inspiration you had then? Compare your attitudes towards the […]
Many people go about their study of Dharma in this way: they start by saying ‘I am doing this practice, that practice.’ Then they start examining and criticising their lamas. Then they start treating their lamas in a disrespectful manner, even using them as their own servant, wondering why the lamas are not doing as […]
You want to learn meditation. So where should you start? Not ‘mind’. But those things which make your mind unable to come to rest when you try to meditate, what your thoughts go to, that is, what you are attached to. We need to think about these things first, come to understand them correctly, and […]
In answer to a question from a student: "You say you love your lama very much, however, you worry that something bad may happen to him. This shows that you don't know what a 'lama' is and their qualities. If you do see the lama as a buddha as taught in the texts, then worrying […]
