Today saw the completion of the 3rd UK Kagyu Monlam. I travelled to Kagyu Samye Ling in the UK for seven days of prayers, teaching and other activities. May the world know peace and well-being. Today also marked the 80th birthday of the master of the teachings in Kagyu Samye Ling, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche. […]
The fifth day of Saga Dawa (24th of May), saw the completion of several retreat rooms built by myself and a few dharma friends at the sacred practice site of Jetsun Milarepa at the Tiger Cave Lion Fortress in Yolmo. On this day, I travelled to Yolmo with my true dharma friend, Khen Rinpoche Tsulnam, […]
I had the honour and pleasure of meeting and being offered a farewell from Lesotho by the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety of Lesotho, Archibald Lesao Lehohla. Heartfelt thanks to you right honourable Sir, and to everyone I met in Lesotho. Bye for now.
On May 9th, I was invited to the National University of Lesotho, where I gave an introduction to Buddhism and some meditation instructions to between six and seven hundred students and staff. Following this, at the request of the Senior Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Mrs Moleboheng Sefali, I gave a talk […]
Drupon Khen Rinpoche was recently interviewed by Buddhistdoor Global about his observations of Buddhism in Africa among other topics :
On May 7th I arrived in Lesotho from Malawi via South Africa. I was greeted at the airport by Master Hui Li, whose activities in Africa are vast in scale, together with the director of the centre here. We then headed for the Amitofo Care Centre of Lesotho. On the morning of the 8th, I […]
In the African country of Malawi on May 6th, I gave meditation classes to the high school students of the Amitofu Care Centre. I taught and took questions from the grade 1 students from 08.00 to 09.30 and from the grade 3 students from 09.30 to 11.00. At 14.00 I was interviewed by Buddhistdoor Global […]
On May 5th in Malawi, I spent the day visiting prisoners in the country of Malawi. In the morning, I went to a young offenders institute, offering a few words of advice and answering questions as best I could. In the afternoon, I went to another prison and also spoke a few words and responded […]
On the morning of May 4th, I arrived in Malawi. After a warm welcome by all at the Amitofu Care Centre, I offered a few words of advice to the children. In the evening the children gave a welcoming ceremony with songs, dancing and other activities, all excellently performed. A big thank you to all […]
I recently visited the UAE, having been encouraged to do so by a few friends there. In Dubai, on April 30th and May 1st, these friends and I were graciously hosted by the Mittal family of India and Zambia. I gave talks as per the wishes of those in attendance and also spoke a few […]
The 7th annual one-week retreat for the Thrangu Gompa Lamas has just concluded. The retreat took place between the 24th and 30th of the month in which the Buddha descended from the heavenly realms (November 17th – 23rd 2022). It was held at the supreme site of Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, Namo Buddha, and was […]
The events at Kagyu Samye Ling to commemorate the ninth anniversary of Kyabje Akong Rinpoche’s parinirvana commenced yesterday. First of all, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche imparted some words of advice, then I gave the opening teaching of a five day retreat as a way to mark this occasion. ཁར་རྩང་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་དུ། སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཨ་དཀོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གི་རྗེས་དྲན་འདས་མཆོད་ཐེངས་དགུ་པ་དབུ་བཙུགས་གནང་ཞིང་། ཐོག་མ་བླ་མ་ཡེ་ཤེས་བློ་གསལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་བཀའ་སློབ་གནང་བ་དང་། དེའི་རྗེས་སུ་ཕྲན་ནས་ཀྱང་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྗེས་དྲན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཉིན་ལྔའི་མཚམས་ཀྱི་འགོ་བཟུང་སྟེ་ཆོས་ཁྲིད་བྱས།
If one day you decided to lay aside all mundane activities in order to dedicate yourself to the full-time pursuit of studying and imbibing the most important instructions of your lineage, do you know where you would go? For Kagyupas, the heart of our Dharma is the path of method (the six yogas of Naropa), […]
I have arrived from London in Kagyu Samye Ling, Scotland, and have met Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, Lama Katen and many other friends. On the way I had a stop to meet with the family and friends of my long-standing companion, Gelong Kunga. Joyous meetings indeed. ལོན་ཊོན་ནས་སུ་ཀོ་ཊི་ལེན་ཌི་ན་ཡོད་པའི་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་ལ་འོང་། བླ་མ་ཡེ་ཤེས་བློ་གསལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་བླ་མ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་དཔལ་འབར་སོགས་མཇལ། ལམ་བར་ནས་ཕྲན་དང་ཡུན་རིང་འགྲོགས་པའི་དགེ་སློང་ཀུན་དགའི་ཕ་མ་གཉེན་ཉེ་སོགས་དང་ཐུག་འཕྲད་བྱས། ཐམས་ཅད་དགའ་བོ་བྱུང་སོང་།
