Every time we sit down to meditate, we intend to practice calm abiding and insight, only to end up either lost in random thoughts or constantly dozing off. Little daily chores, work deadlines, or even the image of our partner always seem to linger in the mind… What on earth is blocking our meditation? During […]
The Third One-Week Retreat, held from 1st to 8th June 2026, concluded very successfully and under auspicious circumstances. In conjunction with this event, the Chinese Translation Department of the Marpa Translation Society launched the Chinese translation of the Garland of Nectar-like Advice. For this occasion, Jetsunma Ngödrup Pelzom, the sister of His Holiness the Gyalwang […]
‘My child has been diagnosed with a mental illness. I truly believe that listening to the Buddhadharma would be deeply beneficial, but he always dismisses it as just superstition. As a mother who believes in the Dharma and is on the path of practice, what should I do?’ asked a deeply concerned and perplexed mother. […]
‘Without rules, nothing can be accomplished!’ When listening to the Dharma, we must follow the appropriate conduct – to truly benefit from it. On June 2nd, day two of the Sekhar One-Week Retreat, Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu began the first session by explaining the motivation and behaviour to maintain whilst listening to teachings, integrating […]
During the week 20-26 May 2026, I participated in the 6th UK Kagyu Monlam at Kagyu Samye Ling in Scotland, UK. Throughout the monlam, I gave two teachings each day. I will return to Nepal shortly. Farewell to those of you departing; stay well to those of you remaining. See you again. 2026/05/20-26ཉིན་བདུན་རིང་། སི་ཀོ་ཊ་ལན་ཌི། བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་དུ། […]
On May 18th, I gave teachings at Kagyu Samye Dzong Glasgow, in Scotland. On the morning of the 19th, we made a ‘sang’ smoke offering. I pray and hope that Lama Zangpo takes good care of things in the Centre. 2026/05/18ཉིན། སི་ཀོ་ཊ་ལན་ཌི། རྒེ་ལ་སུ་རྒོར། བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་རྫོང་ལ་ཆོས་ཁྲིད་བཤད། ཚེས་༡༩སྔ་དྲོ་ལ་བསང་བཏང་། བླ་མ་བཟང་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ཡག་པོ་གནང་འོང་བའི་རེ་བ་དང་སྨོན་ལམ་ཡོད།
On May 16th & 17th, I gave teachings on bodhichitta at Les Jardins de Méditation de Samyé, Beaumont, Belgium. I spent the night in France. Farewell everyone. 2026/05/16.17 ཉིན། བྷེལ་ཇམ། བྷོ་མོ་རུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་བསྐོར་ནས་ཆོས་ཁྲིད་བཤད། མཚན་མོ་ཧྥ་རན་སི་ལ་སྡད། ད་ཀུན་ཀྱང་བདེ་མོར་བཞུགས།
On May 15th, I taught in Yeunten Ling, Belgium, which was founded by my late uncle, Lama Ogyen, from Tsabtsa Monastery. I could only stay one night due to my workload, but I was nonetheless delighted I could visit. Stay well, all. 2026/05/.15ཉིན། བྷེལ་ཇམ། ཡོན་ཏན་གླིང་ལ་འབྱོར་ནས་ཆོས་ཁྲིད་བྱས། ཆོས་ཚོགས་འདི་ཁོ་བོའི་ཨ་ཞང་ཐེ་བའི་ཞི་བ་གཤེགས་པ་ཚབ་ཚ་དགོན་ནས་ཡིན་པའི་བླ་མ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཞུ་བ་དེས་དབུ་བཙུགས་གནང་བ་ཞིག་རེད། བྲེལ་བའི་དབང་གིས་ཞག་གཅིག་མ་གཏོགས་སྡོད་ཁོམ་མ་བྱུང་། ཡིན་ན་ཡང་ང་རང་འདིར་བསླེབས་ཐུབ་པ་ཧ་ཅང་དགའ་བོ་བྱུང་སོང་། ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་མོ་བཞུགས།
On May 14th, I taught at Kagyu Samye Dzong Brussels, in the capital of Belgium. The Centre had invited me for many years, but I was too busy to accept. So I am happy that, after many years, I could eventually visit again. Stay well, all. 2026/05/14ཉིན། ཕྲན་རྦེ་རྒྱམ་རྒྱལ་ས་རྦི་སུལ་ཧོ་སུལ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་རྫོང་ལ་འབྱོར་ནས་ཆོས་ཁྲིད་བྱས། ཁོང་རྣམས་པས་ལོ་མང་རིང་རེ་བསྐུལ་བྱས་སོང་ཡང་ལས་བྲེལ་གྱིས་འོང་མ་ཐུབ། ཡང་བསྐྱར་སླེབ་ཐུབ་པ་དགའ་བོ་བྱུང་སོང་། ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་མོ་བཞུགས།
I just spent three days in Kagyu Samye Dzong, Dublin, Ireland, teaching and so forth. The Centre had invited me for many years, but I was too busy to accept. So I am happy that, after many years, I could eventually visit again. I wish you all well. Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s time in Samye Dzong […]
Today I visited the home of some students who did a traditional long-retreat with me in the Samye Ling retreat centres on Arran and Holy Isle.
Drupon Khen Rinpoche presided over a five-day retreat in Macao at the invitation of Ani Sonam from the 6th to the 10th of May. On this, his fourth time teaching in Macau, he gave instructions on The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, based on Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche’s commentary. He bestowed refuge vows on 13 people, […]
A few days of retreat in Hong Kong. 🙏 ཧོང་ཀོང་དུ་ཉིན་ཁ་ཤས་རིང་མཚམས།
Today saw the conclusion of a four-day retreat hosted by Thrangu Dharmakara at Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre, Hong Kong. During the retreat, Drupon Khen Rinpoche gave a course of instruction entitled “Mind Kung Fu”. His teachings combined general topics drawn from his many years of experience guiding students from all walks of life from around […]
Drupon Khen Rinpoche recently presided over two retreats for enthusiastic practitioners in Taiwan. Hwayue and Thrangu Dharmakara had each invited Rinpoche to Taiwan but, being unable to travel there in person on this occasion, they subsequently requested him to teach via the internet. Rinpoche offered frank and heartfelt advice for people doing their best to […]
