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A special Drikung Kagyu Chakrasamvara Conference was convened by His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang Rinpoche at Phyang Monastery, Ladakh, from May 25th to June 7th, 2009. The main goal of the conference was to promote the standardization of rites ...
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Nine nuns from the Drikung Kagyu Samtenling Nunnery from Dehra Dun, India sat in cross leg position in front of images of 24 Buddhas from Sri Lanka in the Raphael Room of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The nuns were from Ladakh India, Nepal an...
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His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang arrived in the capital of Vietnam at Hanoi International Airport on the 6th April 2009. More than one hundred monks and nuns and a big crowd of local Buddhist followers warmly welcomed him by offering flowers and...
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The Second International Conference on the Gongchig will be held for three days from June 9th to the 11th, 2009 at the Jokhang Temple in Leh, Ladakh. The conference is organized by the Drikung Kagyu Institute. His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsa...
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The pujas for the anniversaries of Marpa Chökyi Lodrö (1012–1097) and Milarepa (1040–1123) lasted for 2 days (March 10 and 11), the 14th and 16th of the Tibetan 1st month (no 15th day this year in the Tibetan Calendar). March 10 marked the anniversa...
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On January 23, 2009, His Holiness was invited to give a lecture at Tibethaus in Frankfurt, Germany, as a sort of preview of his forthcoming book on the early Tibetan empire. Tibethaus is an institution in the tradition of the Tibet Houses in New Del...
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During his stay in Munich, on January 20, 2009, His Holiness paid a visit to the Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) to examine some precious old and very rare manuscripts relating to Himalayan and Buddhist studies. The Bavarian State L...
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On January 7, 2009 His Holiness Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang Rinpoche arrived in Munich to bestow the Hevajra Dagmema empowerment. He was accompanied by Khempo Tamphel and three monks from Jangchubling Monastery . With this empowerment His Holiness is star...
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His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche comments on the precious Jigten Sumgön Kabum:The entire collected works of the founder of the Drikung Lineage, Jigten Sumgön, the Dharma King of the Triple World (1134-1217), is now available in Tibetan...
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At a ceremonial gathering in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, on 10 December 2008, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 2008 Faith in Human Rights Statement has been introduced and signed. In the presence...
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On November 13, 2008 during the annual Winter Teachings Kagyu College had their graduation ceremony at the Jangchubling temple in the presence of His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche, Mr. Gyaltsen, a Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama...
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Last Spring one three year retreat at Drikung Samtenling Nunnery finished and the nuns together with their retreat master Drupon Sonam Kunga Rinpoche made offerings to H. H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche in the presence of the sangha. Then just this...
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Motivated by the wish to restore the former level of instructions and to preserve profound Buddhist teachings in general and of the Kagyu lineage in particular, His Holiness continues the age old tradition of the Drikungpa to give special transmission...
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More than 700 sangha members from monasteries in the Dehra Dun area of Tibet’s four great Buddhist schools and the Yungdrung Bön gathered together on November 11 at Jangchubling Monastery for the annual World Peace Prayer Festival. At the o...
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In January 2009 His Holiness Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang will visit Germany to give the very precious empowerment and teachings of Hevajra Dagmema. Hevajra (kye rdo rje), also known as the ‘King of Tantras’, ranks among the most importan...
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Since four years a training course in the translation of ancient Tibetan Buddhist texts is underway at Drikung Kagyu Institute at Dehra Dun, India. The goal is to educate students to attain skills and greater perfection in translation. Guided and superv...
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The monsoon has come to an end and the summer retreat for the monks and nuns were over too.On the morning of September 29, the monks, nuns, teachers and staff of Jangchubling Monastery, Samtenling Nunnery, Kagyu College and Songtsen Library gathered in th...
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As requested by the Dharma followers and practitioners, His Holiness the Glorious Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang Rinpoche has kindly accepted to offer teaching and transmission on Tilopa's Mahamudra instructions to Naropa, the Chagchen Gangam...
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Download Tibetan version here [Translation from the Tibetan version:]As everybody knows well, His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang has blessed us several times with the Winter Teachings. This year on November 11, 2008, His Holiness is going to conv...
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Following the celebrations of his 63rd birthday at Phyang Monastery in Ladakh, His Holiness flew to New Delhi on August 6, 2008. The next day he journeyed onwards to Kathmandu. On August 8, 2008 Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang and his entoura...
The wheel of blessing and power, the symbol HUNG. 
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