24 – 26 January, 2023 Each year at the Kagyu Gunchoe there is a three-day conference. This year the topic was establishing correctly the anniversaries of the Kagyu forefathers Marpa, Milarepa and Gampopa. A mix of monks and scholars joined together to discuss this. Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche Yangsi and Khenchen... read more →
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Jan
18
Bokar Shedra Öbar Chime Ling 17/18 January 2023 At the request of H.H. Gyalwang Karmapa, Bokar Rinpoche Yangsi, Kyabje Khenchen Rinpoche, faculty members of participating Shedras, tulkus, khenpos and all the monks at the Kagyu Gunchoe joined to offer the two-day ritual of Hayagriva. In recent years, one of the... read more →
Jan
16
Kagyu Gunchoe Winter Teachings 2023 • Day 2 16 January, 2023 Today we have easy access to copious Buddhist texts that have been translated into our own native languages. However, this fortunate situation could not have arisen without the hard work of translators, both modern and ancient. His Holiness began... read more →
Jan
14
Kagyu Gunchoe Winter Teachings 2023 • Day 1 14 January 2023 Before the first session of the 2023 Kagyu Gunchoe Winter Teachings began, His Eminence Kyabje Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche Yangsi, and Khenchen Lodro Donyo Rinpoche made a mandala offering to His Holiness the Karmapa. Sweet dresil rice... read more →
Dec
22
Bokar Shedra Öbar Chime Ling 22 December 2022 After a Covid-19 enforced hiatus, the Kagyu Gunchoe – the Winter Dharma Gathering for Monks – is able to unfold once again with renewed exuberance. Located in West Bengal’s verdant countryside of forests and tea gardens teeming with birds, the stunning Bokar... read more →
Sep
15
The Mar Ngok summer teachings concluded with the Gyalwang Karmapa leading the monastic communities in a Shakyamuni puja. The recitations included the Karmapa’s newly composed “Praise of Shakyamuni Buddha,” based on Mātṛceṭa’s “Hymn to the Buddha in 150 Verses” (Śatapañcāśatka), an extensive and complex work. The sadhana for the main... read more →
Sep
12
My voice is locked. I’m not sure if I’ve got much to say, I’m losing my voice. I’ve been spending a month teaching, and so I really don’t feel like I have much to say. In general, in the current situation, it is not easy for me to go to... read more →
