Thrangu Dharma Society Petaling Jaya

Today Drupon Khen Rinpoche visited and a gave a few words of advice at Thrangu Dharma Society Petaling Jaya. He emphasised the importance of study and practice so that the local people and centres have their own Khenpos and Lamas who are learned and accomplished. Ani Lodro Palkyi (Tee Shu Jun) provided Mandarin translation.

Edinburgh

མདང་དགོང་སུ་ཀོ་ཊི་ལེན་ཌི་རྒྱལ་ས་ཨེ་རྡན་རྦི་ར་བསམ་ཡས་རྫོང་ལ་ཆོས་ཁྲིད་ཞིག། A teaching this evening in Samye Dzong Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

Kagyu Samye Ling

བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་ལ་༧ཆོས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འདས་མཆོད་ཐེངས་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ་དང་འབྲེལ་ནས་༧ཀརྨ་པ་དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཚོགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཁྲིད་དང་ཞི་ལྷག་གི་བདུན་མཚམས་དེ་རིང་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་སོང་། Today saw the conclusion of a one week retreat at Kagyu Samye Ling to commemorate the 11th anniversary of Choje Akong Rinpoche’s passing. It involved teachings on one of Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa’s public teachings, and calm-abiding and insight meditation.

Macau Five-Day Retreat

Drupon Khen Rinpoche has just concluded a five-day retreat at Pou Tai Temple in Macao, which included teaching and practice sessions. The retreat was organised by Ani Sonam of Thrangu Phar Chin Ling and The Buddhist Merit and Wisdom Service. Ani Changchup Drolma of the Marpa Translation Society provided oral interpretation. Rinpoche taught an abbreviated […]

Teaching on Medicine Buddha

This evening, Drupon Khen Rinpoche introduced the history and practice of the Medicine Buddha at Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre་ Hong Kong. The teachings were translated by Khenpo Tengye to a packed house at the Dharma Centre. Rinpoche spoke about the different levels and lineages of the Medicine Buddha practice. He then used the liturgy of […]

Four Day Retreat & Teachings

Drupon Khen Rinpoche led practice sessions and gave teachings based on participants’ questions and his own thoughts about how best to pursue the path. The teachings were translated into Mandarin by Khenpo Tengye and into Cantonese by Neil Tse. Here is an excerpt from the teachings: QUESTION: I experience lots of thoughts when I meditate. […]

The Four Dharmas of Gampopa – Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre Hong Kong

Today Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught at the Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre Hong Kong on the Four Thoughts of Gampopa. Khenpo Tengye provided interpretation. Here are some excerpts of the main points of the teaching: Introduction: The Four Dharmas of Gampopa summarise the entire path of Buddhism. Other such pithy summarisations are Parting from the Four […]

A conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about Khenchen Pema Tsewang

A conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about their lama, Khenchen Pema Tsewang (Khenpo Pentse).

A Conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about the Dharma in Africa.

A Conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s experience and activities of helping the Dharma in Africa.

Foreword to the Torch

In his foreword to The Torch for the Definitive Meaning, Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu explains his reason for founding MTS and how it unfolded. We thought our FB friends who do not have a copy of the book might find it insightful. If you wish to receive a copy of the book simply send […]

DrukTalk Interview

Drukthar of Druktalk Podcast recently interviewed Drupon Khen Rinpoche about his activities in Africa and elsewhere. (Tibetan language only)

Taichung, Taiwan

Today and yesterday (10th & 11th June) Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught all day in the Zangcho Dharma Centre Taichung, Taiwan, at the invitation of Thrangu Dharmakara, with Khenpo Tengye translating. Rinpoche gave an introduction to calm abiding and insight meditation, the need to have a clear plan for our path in the dharma, and many […]

Thrangu Dharmakara – Taipei

Today (09.06.2024), at the invitation of Thrangu Dharmakara, Drupon Khen Rinpoche gave a day of teachings in Taipei, Taiwan. He taught how to approach receiving teachings and relying on a lama in a sensible and sound manner; the importance of studying and our practise being grounded in knowledge; the different way of relating to the […]

Honouring the Memory of the Lama

Today in Taiwan, just over a year since the display of the form body of the peace-gone Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, the lord of refuge and the glorious and sublime lama, merged into the expanse of reality, we gathered to honour and preserve his memory. Karma Lhabu 08.06.2024 ཐེ་ཝན་དུ། ༧ དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཞི་བར་གཤེགས་པ་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གཟུགས་སྐུའི་བཀོད་པ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་སུ་བསྡུས་ནས་བགྲང་བྱ་ཧྲིལ་པོ་གཅིག་ལྷག་ཙམ་འཁོར་བའི་དུས་དྲན་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས། ། ཀརྨ་ལྷ་བུས་༢༠༢༤/༠༦/༠༨ཉིན་ལའོ།

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche Memorial Retreat

To coincide with Vesak – the day we celebrate the Compassionate Teacher, the universal refuge of all us living beings – and to mark the one-year anniversary since the dissolution into the expanse of reality of the display of the form body of the peace-gone Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, the glorious and true lama, Thrangu Dharmakara […]