Starting on January 18, 2024, Drupon Khen Rinpoche has been giving teachings of calm abiding (shamatha) meditation in Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre to those in the outer retreat. Calm abiding meditation is the practice for the fourth year of the six-year retreat programme devised by Rinpoche for international students. Rinpoche reduced the ritual aspects of […]

FAITH & INTELLIGENCE IN BUDDHISM Last night (16th October), Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught in Kagyu Samye Dzong London on the topic of Faith & Intelligence in Buddhism. Rinpoche first said that while all religions see faith to be important, how they each identify faith will be different. In Buddhism, for example, there are three types […]

This evening Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught in Edinburgh at the local Kagyu Samye Dzong. Rinpoche taught about the need for attending teachings with a motivation that is in line with the dharma. He explained this as meaning to attend dharma teachings with the motivation of coming to learn one's own shortcomings and how to correct […]

Today was the final day of a one week retreat to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Choje Akong Rinpoche’s passing, presided over by Drupon Khen Rinpoche. Many of Akong Rinpoche’s senior students attended the retreat, together with newer Buddhists just starting out on the path. Drupon Rinpoche taught the chapter from Milarepa’s life which tells […]

Today Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught at the Kagyu Monlam in Macau. He taught about the importance of upholding and maintaining the precious teachings of the Buddha in general, and those of the Kagyu Practice Lineage in particular. The teaching was translated into Cantonese by Lobsang Pawo.

A five-day retreat hosted by Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Centre and Thrangu Dharmakara at the Kadoorie Institute, Hong University, has just concluded. It involved five full days of meditation, Guru Yoga and Q&A. Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught about finding a lama, receiving true meditation instructions, Guru Yoga, how to relate to the common difficulties people face […]

Last night on 6th October, Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught at the Thrangu Dharma Centre in Hong Kong. He taught a little bit about the Vajrayana and how students can misunderstand it and go astray, about how suffering can become the path and our teacher, and finally how we should approach our study of the dharma. […]

1st October – Evening This evening Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught at the Utpala Dharma Centre in Hong Kong. Rinpoche spoke about the need to be intelligent in how we approach our path in the Dharma. He emphasised how essential it is to analyse carefully whether we are actually improving by what we are doing or […]

This afternoon Drupon Khen Rinpoche taught at the Amitofo Care Centre in Hong Kong. Rinpoche spoke about the importance of study and knowledge preceding meditation, to ensure that any practice we do takes us in the right direction and does not pursue a mistaken. He also took several questions from those who attended, which inspired […]

  On the anniversary of Buddha Shakyamuni’s enlightenment and parinirvana, June 4th 2023, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche concluded his vast activity for the benefit of beings and the Buddhadharma in this incarnation when he passed into the ultimate expanse of reality at Namo Buddha, in Nepal. Rinpoche’s faithful attendant for many years, Lobsang Dorje, Requested Drupon […]

Primary school teacher: What are the most important things to teach children? Drupon Khen Rinpoche: Based on my observations over the past thirty years in guiding people in the dharma, I have noticed that while adults may appear to be better learners, it is often more challenging for them to change their character and ways […]

Question – May I ask about your visit to the prisons in Malawi, please? Answer – I expected the conditions to be very poor, verging on unbearable. I surveyed the place while trying to appreciate how it would be if I myself were imprisoned there. I went into the dormitory cells, and they weren’t so […]

We must do our best to fulfil the Lama’s intentions, and this is especially true when the Lama has passed away. It is not difficult to understand what we need to do. When Kyabje Thrangu Rinpoche obtained the land at Namo Buddha the first thing he did was to build a retreat centre and establish […]

I arrived in the Congo yesterday. Today I return to Nepal. ཧྥེ་གླིང། ཀམ་མགོ་ལ་ཁ་སང་བསླེབས་སོང་། དེ་རིང་བལ་ཡུལ་ལ་ལོག་འགྲོ་གི་ཡོད།