Have you ever had an itch-and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to “scratch,” great peace and happiness is available. On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a valuable teaching on what in Tibetan is called shenpa. “An urge comes up, we succumb [...]

His Eminence K.C. Choeje Ayang Rinpoche was born into a nomadic family in eastern Tibet after numerous auspicious signs appeared. He was recognised to be a reincarnate Drikung Kagyu lama by a delegation of high lama including Ayang Drubchen Tenpal Nyinpa. Melong Drubchen, Traleg Kyamgon, Chabdra Rinpoche (the tutor Of H.H. the Drikung Kyabgon), and [...]

In 1970, I met my principal teacher, Kalu Rinpoche, at his monastery outside Darjeeling and began my study and practice of Buddhism. Kalu Rinpoche was a senior meditation teacher in the Karma Kagyu tradition and the lineage holder of the Shangpa tradition. After completing the preliminary practices and learning Tibetan, I translated for Kalu Rinpoche [...]

Have you ever had an itch-and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to “scratch,” great peace and happiness is available. On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a valuable teaching on what in Tibetan is called shenpa. “An urge comes up, we succumb [...]

Click Here From Teachings from Pema Chodron Biography of Pema Chodron Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and [...]

Venue: Vajra Vidia, Sarnath, India Date: June 20-29 2008 Duration: 12 sessions each approximately 2 hours Languages: English, Tibetan The Amulet of Mahamudra is an engaging teaching by Thrangu Rinpoche based on two mahamudra texts on that never have been presented in the West. The Amulet of Mahamudra offers both beginning and advanced students accessible [...]

Click Here for Teachings from Thrangu Rinpoche Find Thrangu Rinpoche’s Books Here Biography of Thrangu Rinpoche THE SEVENTH KARMAPA founded the Thrangu Monastery some 500 years ago and appointed one of his most gifted disciples to be its abbot. This was the First Thrangu Rinpoche. More recent incarnations have spent much of their lives in [...]

  Biography of His Eminence the 8th Rinpoche Precise details of the birth of the present Dorzong Rinpoche were foretold very clearly by the Seventh Kyabje Drukpa Yongdzin Rinpoche, the root teacher of the Seventh Kyabje Dorzong Rinpoche. These details were also given by the Eighth Kyabje Khamtrul Rinpoche and by a well-known realized master, [...]

Biography of Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche The Third Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche was born in 1954 to a prominent Lhasa family. Extraordinary signs accompanied his birth. Even at an early age, his devotion to His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa was unsurpassed. His entire life example manifested the perfection of a great bodhisattva. After the passing of His [...]

  Biography of Mingyur Rinpoche The 7th Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a highly venerated teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in Nepal in 1975, and was recognized as a tulku by both His Holiness the Sixteenthth Karmapa and His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. When Rinpoche was nine, [...]