This year’s teaching in Kagyu Samye Ling started on September the 21st. In the mornings A Torch for the Definitive Meaning is being taught to those who will practise the preliminaries; in the afternoons Vajrasattva is being taught to some retreatants; and in the evenings is a general teaching on The Precious Ornament of Liberation. […]

Today, together with a group of faith-filled individuals, a week’s retreat on the study and practice of Gampopa’s Precious Garland of the Supreme Path and calm abiding meditation was brought to an excellent conclusion in South Africa. The retreat was organised by Tara Rokpa Centre, which sprung forth from the wisdom mind of Choje Akong […]

དེ་རིང་ནས་དབུ་བརྩམས་ཏེ་སྒྲ་སྒྱུར་མར་པ་གླིང་གི་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་སྐྱ་སེར་བཅོ་ལྔ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ལོ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་རིང་དུ་ལོ་ཙཱ་ཆེད་སྦྱོང་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པས་ལེགས་འགྲུབ་ཡོང་བའི་རེ་བ་དང་ཡིད་ཆེས་ཡོད། Today is the first day of the 2-year translator training programme of the Marpa Translation Society, and there are both monastics and lay practitioners amongst the sixteen people taking part. It’s my wish and I have confidence, that they will take this to completion. Karma Lhabu

Yesterday (10th May 2017) was Vesak, the anniversary of the birth of our kind Teacher, the Buddha; celebrated internationally and recognised by the United Nations. On this auspicious day, to commemorate the Buddha’s kindness, I received the vows of a full Bhikshu from the lord of refuge and spiritual instructor Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche in the […]