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Featured Current Event
Event ID: 1647
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: This special teaching on ‘The Rimé (non-sectarian) view in Tibetan Culture’ was kindly recorded by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche at his residence in India, especially for webcast on Gompa. The teaching is given in English.
Event details: Ri means ‘one-sided’, ‘partisan’ or ‘sectarian’. Mé means ‘no’ or ‘non’. Rimé therefore means ‘no sides’, ‘non-partisan’ or ‘non-sectarian’. It does not mean ‘non-conformist’ or ‘non-committal’; nor does it mean forming a new school or system that is different from the existing ones. Further, Rimé is not a way of uniting different schools and lineages by emphasizing their similarities. At its essence, the Rimé view is an appreciation of the differences between the various lineage traditions and an acknowledgement of the importance of this rich variety and the resulting benefits to practitioners with differing dispositions.
The Rimé movement’s perspective has advanced considerably in the past century, a time during which receiving teachings and transmissions from different schools and lineages has become far more usual amongst many monastic students, lamas, yogis, as well as lay practitioners. This has been due to the proactive support of many lineage holders and senior lamas of all the major lineage traditions, including the 13th and 14th Dalai Lamas, the 15th and 16th Karmapas, the 41st Sakya Trizin (Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche) and Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist master of the Kagyu lineage tradition. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters including H.H. the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa and H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim, and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India. Rinpoche is the founder of Bodhicharya International, a worldwide network of people, projects, centres, and organisations. Rinpoche is also the founder of the Rigul Trust, which supports welfare projects and poverty relief in Tibetan communities in Rigul, Tibet, and other Himalayan regions. Since 1990, Rinpoche has been travelling and teaching Buddhism and meditation in Europe, America, Canada, Australia, and Asia. He participates in various interfaith and ‘Science and Buddhism’ dialogues and is the author of a number of books on Buddhist topics.
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Featured Current Event
Event ID: 1656
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: His Holiness’s teaching on Je Tsongkhapa’s ‘Destiny Fulfilled’ is given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation. Recorded at H.H. the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, HP, India.
Event details: ‘Destiny Fulfilled’ (Tokjoe Dunlekma) was written by Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Geluk tradition, at the ‘Triumph of Virtue Monastery’ on the great Nomad Mountain. ‘Destiny Fulfilled’ is a song of realization written in verse, and it describes how Je Tsongkhapa studied, practiced and dedicated the resultant merit.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. Donations made related to this event are strictly voluntary and any donations that are made will go to the Tibetan International Digital Library, a project supported by His Holiness.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
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Event ID: 1657
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Khenpo David Karma Choephel teaches on the last four chapters of Vasubandhu’s ‘Treasury of Abhidharma’, namely on: the primary and secondary dissonant emotions (klesha); paths and individuals; the attainment of the result; and the sequence of meditative concentrations. Teachings recorded by Thrangu Monastery, Vancouver, Canada.
Event details: In this special teaching, Khenpo David Karma Choephel reviews the last four chapters of the ‘Treasury of Abhidharma’, in detail according to the commentary by the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorjee.
Khenpo David Karma Choephel studied Buddhist philosophy at the Vajra Vidya Institute in Namo Buddha, Nepal, and Sarnath, India. He currently serves as Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche’s main English-language translator, and he also translates for the H.H. the Gyalwang Karmapa and the Kagyu Monlam. His published translations include ‘Ngondro for Our Current Day’ by the Gyalwang Karmapa, ‘Heart of the Dharma’ by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, ‘Jewels from the Treasury, Vasubandhu’s Verses on the Treasury of Abhidharma, with Commentary by the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje’, and ‘Vivid Awareness: The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar’ by Thrangu Rinpoche.
The first session of the teaching will be available to view on Tuesday, June 15th, 2021, with consequent sessions every day except Mondays (and possibly on other days when there are other important events at the monastery) until August 3rd, 2021.
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Event ID: 1658
Event type: Non-webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This practice is said to bestow great benefit and blessing to all participants – including the clearing away of obstacles to our lives and practice, the overcoming of illness, and the alleviation of negative mental states and depression. You are cordially invited to participate.
Event details: This special event is held annually for five consecutive days, and includes the preparation of an elaborate sand mandala, together with extensive offerings.
There is no webcast for this event. Gompa member-supporters are invited to register for the event and to send offerings, together with dedications, at any time up until June 18th, 2021.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1656
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: His Holiness’s teaching on Je Tsongkhapa’s ‘Destiny Fulfilled’ is given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation. Recorded at H.H. the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, HP, India.
Event details: ‘Destiny Fulfilled’ (Tokjoe Dunlekma) was written by Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Geluk tradition, at the ‘Triumph of Virtue Monastery’ on the great Nomad Mountain. ‘Destiny Fulfilled’ is a song of realization written in verse, and it describes how Je Tsongkhapa studied, practiced and dedicated the resultant merit.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. Donations made related to this event are strictly voluntary and any donations that are made will go to the Tibetan International Digital Library, a project supported by His Holiness.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
The Gompa webcast platform has been built specifically as an advertising-free environment for the webcasting of Dharma teachings and other Dharma activities and events. Gompa’s member-supporters enable us to keep the Gompa site free of advertising. The privacy of your personal data is fully respected on Gompa – we do not market or sell your personal data.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1647
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: This special teaching on ‘The Rimé (non-sectarian) view in Tibetan Culture’ was kindly recorded by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche at his residence in India, especially for webcast on Gompa. The teaching is given in English.
Event details: Ri means ‘one-sided’, ‘partisan’ or ‘sectarian’. Mé means ‘no’ or ‘non’. Rimé therefore means ‘no sides’, ‘non-partisan’ or ‘non-sectarian’. It does not mean ‘non-conformist’ or ‘non-committal’; nor does it mean forming a new school or system that is different from the existing ones. Further, Rimé is not a way of uniting different schools and lineages by emphasizing their similarities. At its essence, the Rimé view is an appreciation of the differences between the various lineage traditions and an acknowledgement of the importance of this rich variety and the resulting benefits to practitioners with differing dispositions.
The Rimé movement’s perspective has advanced considerably in the past century, a time during which receiving teachings and transmissions from different schools and lineages has become far more usual amongst many monastic students, lamas, yogis, as well as lay practitioners. This has been due to the proactive support of many lineage holders and senior lamas of all the major lineage traditions, including the 13th and 14th Dalai Lamas, the 15th and 16th Karmapas, the 41st Sakya Trizin (Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche) and Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist master of the Kagyu lineage tradition. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters including H.H. the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa and H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim, and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India. Rinpoche is the founder of Bodhicharya International, a worldwide network of people, projects, centres, and organisations. Rinpoche is also the founder of the Rigul Trust, which supports welfare projects and poverty relief in Tibetan communities in Rigul, Tibet, and other Himalayan regions. Since 1990, Rinpoche has been travelling and teaching Buddhism and meditation in Europe, America, Canada, Australia, and Asia. He participates in various interfaith and ‘Science and Buddhism’ dialogues and is the author of a number of books on Buddhist topics.
The Gompa webcast platform has been built specifically as an advertising-free environment for the webcasting of Dharma teachings and other Dharma activities and events. Gompa’s member-supporters enable us to keep the Gompa site free of advertising. The privacy of your personal data is fully respected on Gompa – we do not market or sell your personal data.
We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1646
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: His Holiness’s teaching on these essential methods for training the mind is given in Tibetan, with English and Chinese translation. Recorded at H.H. the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, HP, India.
Event details: The three principal aspects of the path are: renunciation, bodhicitta and the correct view of emptiness. The tradition of categorising all of the aspects of the path within these three principal topics of meditative practice was promulgated by the great Tibetan master Je Tsongkhapa. This succinct approach, and also the term ‘the three principal aspects of the path’, developed from a concise letter written in verse by Tsongkhapa to one of his disciples outlining the essential methods for training the mind. This letter was entitled ‘Lamgyi tsowo nampa sum’, ‘The Three Principal Aspects of the Path’. The practice of these three essential aspects embraces the entire process of mental training and advancement towards fulfilling the ultimate aim of a bodhisattva: the attainment of buddhahood for the sake of all beings.
This teaching is given during the auspicious month of Saka Dawa, commemorating the anniversary of Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and mahaparinirvana.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. Donations made related to this event are strictly voluntary and any donations that are made will go to the Tibetan International Digital Library, a project supported by His Holiness.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
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We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1639
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: ‘The Jewel Ornament of Liberation’ is considered a masterwork of Tibetan Buddhism. This highly esteemed text sets out a complete foundation for study and practice. These special teachings are recorded by Thrangu Tara Abbey Nunnery and organized by Thrangu Dharma Society, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Event details: ‘The Jewel Ornament of Liberation’ includes teachings on Buddha-nature, finding the spiritual master, impermanence, karma, the cultivation of bodhicitta, the development of the six perfections, the ten bodhisattva bhumis, Buddhahood, and the activities of a Buddha.
Venerable Khenpo Chonyi Rangdrol will begin this teaching session from Chapter 16: The Perfection of Meditative Concentration. The teachings are given in English and will be available to view every Saturday and Sunday.
Khenpo Chonyi Rangdrol became a monk at Thrangu Monastery, Nepal, at the age of six. In 1998 he became the youngest khenpo in the monastery’s history. Khenpo-la was appointed as a teacher at the monastic college for two years and from 2003 to 2010 served as the principal of Shree Mangal Dvip School. Since 2011, Khenpo-la has served as abbot of Thrangu Tara Abbey Nunnery.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
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We apologise for the cancellation /postponement of this event. All paid registrations will be refunded, all pre-registrations have been cancelled.
Event ID: 1610
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: His Holiness the Dalai Lama gives a concise teaching on ‘The Heart Sutra’, one of the most cited and widely known Buddhist texts. The teaching is given in Tibetan with English and Chinese translation.
Event details: The central topic of ‘The Heart Sutra’ is the Buddhist understanding of the ultimate nature of mind and phenomena. The sutra, written in the form of a dialogue between the monk Shariputra (one of the two principal disciples of the Buddha Shakyamuni) and the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, explains how a bodhisattva should meditate in order to realize the ultimate nature of reality, often referred to as ‘emptiness’.
The teaching was recorded at H.H. the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala, HP, India, as part of a two-day prayer ceremony organized by the Taiwanese Tibetan Buddhist Prayer Committee. (Please select the ‘News and Updates’ link on the Gompa homepage to know more about His Holiness’s webcasts on Gompa.)
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. Donations made related to this event are strictly voluntary and any donations that are made will go to the Tibetan International Digital Library, a project supported by His Holiness.
Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
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Event ID: 1592
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: This teaching offers a powerful means for effecting deep purification and transformation, at every level of one’s being, in preparation for entering the profound path of Vajrayana and beginning a journey toward full enlightenment.
Event details: ‘The Torch of Certainty’ by the great master and scholar Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye gives clear and concise instructions on the preliminary and main practices of Mahamudra meditation. Venerable Choje Lama Wangchuk Topden will primarily teach on Ngondro, the preliminary or foundational practices of Vajrayana Buddhism.
The first two sessions of the teaching will be available to view on Saturday and Sunday, April 10th and 11th, 2021, respectively, and consequent sessions on each following Saturday and Sunday until May 8th, 2021. Teachings recorded at Thrangu Tashi Choling Monastery, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal, and organized by Thrangu Dharma Society, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Lama Wangchuk Topden was born in 1983. In 1987, he began his education at Shree Mangal Dvip School for Himalayan Children (SMD) in Boudha, Kathmandu. In the 6th grade, Lama Wangchuk Topden became a monk and studied basic Buddhist education from Khenpo Ngedhon. Later, he was appointed as the Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche’s secretary and attendant. He completed his retreat in 2011, and in 2015, he was appointed as the chairman of Namo Buddha Buddhist Meditation and Educational Center, which oversees all of the Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche’s projects in Nepal. On June 26th, 2018, H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa bestowed on Lama Wangchuk Topden the title of “Choje Lama”.
Gompa member-supporters are cordially invited to register for this special event. Monks and nuns at the partner monasteries and nunneries are also cordially invited to view the webcast using the free member login of your partner monastery or nunnery.
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Event ID: 1587
Event type: Webcast Event (for member-supporters)
Brief description: Engaging in the Bodhisattva’s Deeds (Bodhisattvacaryavatara), composed by the great 8th century Indian master and poet Shantideva, is one of the most celebrated expositions in classical Indian literature of the bodhisattva path of Mahayana Buddhism. Teachings recorded by Sravasti Abbey, Newport, Washington, USA.
Event details: This acclaimed text is written in verse and has ten chapters. It deals extensively with the stages of training one’s mind in the generation of bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, and with the essential practices of a bodhisattva’s conduct and way of life, pervaded by the qualities of love, compassion, generosity and patience.
The first two sessions of the teaching on Chapter 4 will be available to view on Friday and Saturday, April 2nd and 3rd, 2021, respectively, and consequent sessions on each following Friday and Saturday until May 1st, 2021. The concluding day of the webcast will also include a review of the teaching on Chapter 4 by the Venerable Sangye Khadro. The teaching on all ten chapters will then continue throughout 2021, with the dates for the webcast of the teaching on each chapter to be announced as they become available to view.
Venerable Thubten Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in Newport, Washington, USA. Ordained since 1977, she is a student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tsenzhap Serkong Rinpoche, and several other Tibetan lamas. She is currently assisting His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the writing and publication of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, a multi-volume series on the Buddhist Path. Visit thubtenchodron.org for a media library of her teachings, and sravasti.org to learn more about the Abbey.
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Event ID: 173
Event type: Free Webcast
Brief description: H.E. Minling Khenchen Rinpoche teaching on the fundamental importance of the cultivation of Bodhicitta (the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings) in our practice of Dharma (the process of spiritual transformation). English translation available.
[This event was originally webcast on 14 April 2018 as Event ID 152.]
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