Schedule 2018 – Drupon Rinpoche

In Nepal

Drupon Khen Rinpoche spends at least nine months a year at Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Center in Nepal. Since 2015 he has reduced the amount of time he spends abroad and now travels for no more than three months each year. Rinpoche feels he is better able to serve the buddhadharma and sentient beings by dedicating most of his time to the development of a single group of dedicated students, with the hope that they come to fully embody the teachings and maintain the lineage.

Date	Location	Details
Usual residence	Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Bhaktapur	Daily Teachings
9th, 14th, 24th and 29th of the Tibetan calendar	Thrangu Shedra, Namobuddha	Teachings on Heart-Nectar Advice by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, to the Shedra students and Khenpos.
9-11 August	Thrangu Chopel Ling Temple, Nar	Drupon Khen Rinpoche has been requested to preside over the consecration and opening ceremony of the new Narsam Drubcho Ling Temple (སྣར་བསམ་གྲུབ་ཆོས་གླིང་དགོན་པ།). The temple was originally established in 1604 by the Lama of Nar, Karma Wangchug, after receiving the sacred command to do so from Karma Lobzang, a student of The 10th Karmapa Choying Dorje and The 6th Shamarpa Chokyi Wangchug. The temple has been rebuilt with help from the people of Nar and the ceremony of consecration and reopening will take place on the 10th of the sixth month of the Tibetan calendar (10th August 2019.) As part of the ceremonies to mark this auspicious event, Khen Rinpoche will give public teachings to Temple’s local community. Also during his visit to the Nar region, he will visit and teach at Thrangu Chopel Ling Temple. The timetable for the three day visit, from 9th-11th August will be as follows: 9th August pm: Public Dharma teachings for the local community 10th August am: The consecration and opening ceremony of the new Temple 10th August pm: Public Dharma teachings for the general public 11th August: visit to Thrangu Chopel Ling Temple(སྣར་ས་སྟེག་ཁྲ་འགུ་ཆོས་འཕེལ་གླིང་དགོན་པ།) with public Dharma teachings t in the afternoon. More
20-26 November	Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery, Namo Buddha, Nepal	Annual One-Week Retreat for Thrangu Monastery Lamas with teachings on The Precious Ornament of Liberation by Gampopa

In Europe and Asia

Date	Location	Details
22 May - 29 May	Samye Ling Monastery, UK	The First UK Kagyu Monlam (click here for more details from Samye Ling's website)
6 October - 7 October	Samye Ling Monastery, UK	Dharma teaching (topic to be confirmed)
8 October - 15 October	Samye Ling Monastery, UK	Meditation Practice Retreat (click here for more details from Samye Ling's website)
16 October - 24 October	Samye Ling Monastery, UK	Teachings on 'The Precious Ornament of Liberation' by Gampopa (click here for more details from Samye Ling's website)
24 October	Hwayue Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan	Dharma Teaching
31 October - 7 November	Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Center, Hong Kong	Calm Abiding Meditation Retreat with Teaching on 'The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment' by Atisha
24 - 25 November	Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery Namo Buddha, Nepal	Annual One-Week Retreat for Thrangu Monastery Lamas: Teaching on 'The Precious Ornament of Liberation' by Gampopa, and the Practice of Guru Yoga
26 November	Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery Namo Buddha, Nepal	One-Week Teaching on 'The Precious Garland of the Supreme Path' by Gampopa for the Khenpos and students of the Shedra (Buddhist college) of Thrangu Monastery
27 November	Hwayue Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan	Dharma Teaching (afternoon)
27 November	Thrangu Vajra Vidya Buddhist Center , Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Dharma Teaching (evening)
November 28 - December 4	Hwayue Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan	One-Week Retreat with Teachings
5 December	Thrangu Damakara , Taipei, Taiwan	Dharma Teaching
6 December	Thrangu Vajra Vidya Buddhist Center, Taipei, Taiwan	Dharma Teaching
7 - 9 December	Thrangu Vajrayana Buddhist Center, Hong Kong	Calm Abiding Meditation Retreat with Teaching on 'The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment' by Atisha
11 - 13 December	Lubumbashi Kagyu Samye Dzong, Congo	11th December afternoon : Welcome and introduction 12th December all day : Dharma Advice 13th December Morning : Refuge Ceremony and Mila Puja 13th December Afternoon : Social Gathering
15 - 17 December	Chikukwa, Zimbabwe	15th and 16th December : Cultural dialogue and exchange with the people of Chikukwa 17th December : Sang offering and Social Gathering
18 - 20 December	Harare Kagyu Samye Ling, Zimbabwe	18th afternoon Teaching on Calm Abiding Meditation and Mind Training 19th December 8.30 -16.00 Meditation and Teachings on Calm abiding meditation and Mind training. 17.30 - 18.30 Teachings on the Significance of the Guru Rinpoche Statue 20th December 8.30 - 12.00 Meditation and Teachings on Calm abiding meditation and Mind training.