2nd One-Week Retreat

ཉིན་ཤས་སྔོན་འདི་གར་ཁྲ་འགུ་སྲས་མཁར་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ཁང་དང་ཁྲ་འགུ་དྷརྨ་ཀ་ར་ཟུང་འབྲེལ་གྱིས། ༧ཞི་བར་གཤེགས་པ་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འདས་མཆོད་དང་འབྲེལ། ཐེངས་གཉིས་པའི་བདུན་མཚམས་བཞུགས། མཚམས་པ་བ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་ཕྱེད་གཉིས་ཙམ་གོ་སྒྲིག་བྱས་པ་བཞིན་ཤར་ནུབ་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་༢༢ཙམ་ནས་ཕེབས་ཏེ་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་། ཉིན་རེ་བཞིན་སྒོམ་ཐུན་གསུམ་རེ་དང་། ཕྲན་ནས་ཆོས་ཐུན་གསུམ་རེ་བཤད། ཉིན་མཐའ་མར་རྒྱུན་བཞུགས་དང་ལྷན་མཉམ་ཞུགས་བྱས་ནས་མི་བཞི་བརྒྱ་མ་ཟིན་ཙམ་གྱིས་རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལའི་བླ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་སྒོ་ནས་ཚོགས་མཆོད་ཕུལ། མཚམས་སྐབས་སུ་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་བློ་གྲོས་ཉི་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་། གདན་ས་རུམ་བཏེག་བཤད་གྲྭའི་སློབ་སྤྱི་མཁན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྐལ་བཟང་ཉི་མ་དང་། ༧དཔལ་རྒྱལ་བའི་དབང་པོ་ཀརྨ་པའི་སྐུའི་ལྕམ་སྲིང་དངོས་གྲུབ་དཔལ་མཛོམས་དང་བཅས་གཟིགས་སྐོར་ཕེབས་པར་མ་ཟད་ཟོལ་མེད་མཛའ་བརྩེ་དང་བཅས་སྤྱི་སྒེར་གཉིས་ལ་བསྔགས་བརྗོད་དང་བཀའ་སློབ་ལམ་སྟོན་རིན་ཐང་ཅན་མང་པོ་གནང་བར་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་ཞུ་བ་དང་། བདུན་མཚམས་བཞུགས་མཁན་ཚོས་ཀྱང་སོ་སོའི་ངོས་ནས་གང་ལེགས་བྱས་སོང་བས་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཞུ་བ་དང་ལྷན་ཆོས་མཐུན་གྱི་བསམ་པ་ཡིད་བཞིན་དུ་འགྲུབ་པའི་སྨོན་མདུན་ཞུའོ། ། A few days ago, the Thrangu Sekhar International Meditation Centre and Thrangu Dharmakara jointly held the second one-week retreat in conjunction with the anniversary of the late Yongdzin Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche’s parinirvana. Approximately 150 participants were catered for, with attendees coming from 22 […]

Drupon Khen Rinpoche has Returned

Drupon Khen Rinpoche has returned to Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre in Nepal from the UK. His flight landed midmorning today (June 7th). He arrived at the Retreat in time for lunch, participated in the 15.30 meditation session, and then taught for an hour and thirty minutes. All the retreatants are delighted to have him home, […]

Arrival in the UK

I arrived in Scotland yesterday afternoon on the 29th. In the evening, I taught in what is known as the second city of Scotland, at Kagyu Samye Dzong Glasgow. That same night, I travelled to Kagyu Samye Ling, arriving at 11.00 p.m. Today is the start of the fifth Kagyu Monlam.

Two days in Norway

I arrived in Norway on the afternoon of May 26th. On May 27th, at Karma Shedrup Ling, I conducted two teaching sessions and three practice sessions. The following day, May 28th, began with a dawn practice session followed by a morning teaching. In the afternoon, I visited Karma Tashi Ling for the launch of a […]

A Young Seeker’s Journey – A Loving Mother’s Blessing

In late 2023, a young man from Germany named Jason arrived at our retreat centre for a one-month retreat. He found the experience meaningful and felt it was a good use of his time. At the end of the month, he asked to stay longer. We didn’t really have room. But his sincerity and quiet […]

Turning Your Mind To the Dharma – New E-Book Launched

Today sees the launch of a new e-book by Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu called Turning Your Mind to the Dharma. This is the first time Drupon Khen Rinpoche has given permission for a teaching of his to be transcribed into English and made available to the public. These teachings were given by Rinpoche during […]

Meeting Tai Situ Rinpoche

Recently, I had the excellent fortune to meet the joyful countenance of Tai Situ Rinpoche, the lifeline of the Kagyu Dharma, together with my close Dharma friend Khenchen Tsultrim Namdag, with whom I always share my joys and woes. With tremendous affection, Tai Situ Rinpoche looked upon us lovingly as he bestowed more than an […]

Stepping Onto the Path of Mind Training

On 8 April 2025, Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu began a teaching series on The Seven Points of Mind Training of the Greater Vehicle (Mahayana) for students of the third cycle of the Six-Year Retreat Programme at Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Nepal. Below is an excerpt from the opening session, where Rinpoche emphasised the importance […]

Choje Lama Wangchuk Topden

Choje Lama Wangchuk Topden was conferred the title of Choje Lama (Dharma Lord Lama) by His Holiness Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Additionally, the late Kyabje Yongzin Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche personally appointed him as the head of the Thrangu Monastery Dharma seat in exile. During a one-week retreat here at Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Choje Lama […]

Geshe Lharampa Tehor Dawa Tsering at Thrangu Sekhar

The great spiritual friend Geshe Lharampa Tehor Dawa Tsering was invited to Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre in Nepal on 31st January 2025. During his visit, he extolled the system of training at the centre and offered an abundance of precious advice for enhancing our studies and learning and much more based on his own experience. […]

A Sacred Mission – Lama Tenzin in the Congo

A Sacred Mission – Lama Tenzin in the Congo I am delighted to announce that I have sent Lama Tenzin to the Dharma centre in Lubumbashi, DRCongo, Drolung Fondation Bouddhiste Internationale. Lama Tenzin has an abundance of knowledge and talents that make him an ideal candidate for the role of teaching and guiding the young […]

From Dawn To Dusk: A Lama’s Devotion

Drupon Khen Rinpoche is doing his utmost to continue teaching and guiding the retreatants at Thrangu Sekhar while receiving the reading transmission of the Kangyur (the translated words of the Buddha) from Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche in Benchen Monastery, Swayambh, Nepal. As soon as Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche concludes each day’s reading transmission at 17.00, Drupon Khen […]

A Cause To Rejoice

As the authentic Dharma spreads in Africa, the disciples study Buddhist metaphysics (abhidharma). རྗེས་སུ་ཡིད་རང་ཞུ་འོས་པ་ཞིག་ནི། ཨ་ཧྥི་རི་ཀ་ལ་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དར་ནས། ད་ལྟ་ཆོས་མངོན་པ་ལ་སློབ་སྦྱོང་བྱེད་བཞིན་པའོ། །

Teachings in Malaysia

Drupon Khen Rinpoche was invited to teach at Palpung Gyalse Ling in Melaka, Malaysia. Over two days Rinpoche taught on the Four Dharmas of Gampopa. Rinpoche emphasised the importance of study and practice, explaining how these bring about our own and others’ benefit in this and future lives. When focusing on Gampopa’s text entitled The […]

Bodhi Heartz 

Drupon Khen Rinpoche was invited to teach at Bodhi Heartz in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 18.10.24. The topic was the Praise to Manjushri commonly known by Tibetans as Ganglo Ma. Rinpoche emphasised the importance of study and practice, of respecting those who teach us the Dharma and gave an explanation to the history of the […]