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།
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 […]
A couple of days ago on 1st May 2022, I visited Tiger Cave Lion Fortress, the practice site of Milarepa in Yolmo. This came about due to my good dharma friend Khenpo Rinpoche Tsultrim Namdak. He said, “If you have the time, would you come to Tiger Cave Lion Fortress for a retreat? If that’s […]
Today, 27th April 2022, sees the conclusion of the first year of Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre’s 21 and 26 year study and practice programmes based on Marpa’s tradition of the tantras. To view the programmes click the following link: https://www.druponrinpoche.org/en/the-21-or-26-year-curriculum-of-thrangu-sekhar-retreat-centre/ What follows is taken from several talks that Drupon Khen Rinpoche gave in the Spring […]
The retreat lamas of the eight cycle of retreat at Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre concluded their three-year three-fortnight retreat on 13th March 2022 with an auspicious closing ceremony. I pray that they go on to benefit the buddha dharma and sentient beings. སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༢ ཟླ་བ་༣ ཚེས་༡༣ ཉིན། ཁྲ་འགུ་སྲས་མཁར་སྒྲུབ་ཁང་ནས་སྒྲུབ་ཐེངས་བརྒྱད་པའི་སྒྲུབ་བླ་རྣམས་ལོ་གསུམ་ཕྱོགས་གསུམ་སྐུ་མཚམས་བཅད་རྒྱ་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་བའི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་མཛད་སྒོ་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་སོང་། བསྟན་འགྲོ་ལ་སྨན་པའི་སྨོན་འདུན་ཡོད།
On 27th Nov 2021 the Thrangu Gompa lamas who have completed long retreat – with Tulku Damcho, Choje Lama Wangchuk Tobden and senior Khenpo Karma Tashi chief among them – came together for a one week retreat at the sacred site of Taklung Thrangu Yangstse Monastery. Over the course of the retreat teachings were given on The Precious Ornament of Liberation and four practice session were kept on the practices of
