Drupon Khen Rinpoche resumed the community teachings he had been regularly offering in Thrangu Monastery in Namo Buddha before the pandemic. This was initiated at the behest of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche in 2017, who thought the monks in the shedra (Buddhist college) would benefit from Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s advice and teachings. Besides the monks in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 their lama, Khenchen Pema Tsewang (Khenpo Pentse).
A Conversation with Dza Tsering Tashi about Drupon Khen Rinpoche’s experience and activities of helping the Dharma in Africa.
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 […]
Drukthar of Druktalk Podcast recently interviewed Drupon Khen Rinpoche about his activities in Africa and elsewhere. (Tibetan language only)
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 […]
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 […]