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Dear Dharma brothers and sisters, As this is the very first letter of the session 2008-09, we hope this mail of ours will find you all in the best of your health and achievements. As usual we have started our new academic session for 2008-09, afte...
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Summer vacation began on May 16, 2008 and many nuns returned to their homes or fled the heat of Dehra Dun to cooler regions. About thirty nuns stayed back at the Nunnery this year and thirteen nuns stayed in retreat at Samtenling. Class 2 nuns, ...
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On June 16, 2008, His Holiness Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche arrived at the airport of Leh, Ladakh. He was warmly received and heartily welcome by officials and ministers and the people of Ladakh. From the airport he was driven to the Jokhang Temple at Le...
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Watch a short video of the monks of Phyang Monastery, Ladakh, performing the Vajra Dances here.SWEDEN Date City Location 6 September Stockholm Stockholm Concert House ...
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The new Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center in Kyoto, Japan, was formally inaugurated on May 29th by His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche. This center is located in Kyoto, one of the most important places of traditional culture in Japan, with more th...
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In this year the annual Memorial Prayer for Lord Jigten Sumgön was arranged by Bhumang Rinpoche’s Bhumang Nyihudling Center. It was supported by all other Drikung Kagyu centers in Taiwan. On May 31, the Memorial Prayer was organized at Chien-Tan Overse...
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Right after the Conference of the religious heads in Dharamsala, His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche arrived in Taiwan, on May 6th 2008. He was welcomed at the airport by a group of 700 disciples, including 625 from Glorious Jewel Buddhi...
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In Dharamsala on May 2nd and 3rd His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche attended a two-day conference of the spiritual leaders of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism and the traditional Bon religion, headed by His Holiness the Dala...
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The World Tour of the Drikung Tradition Meditation Vajra Dances will start on September 1, 2008. At the request of His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, Phyang Monastery of Ladakh and the Swedish Tibetan Society for School and Culture are a...
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Samtenling Nunnery in Dehra Dun is in urgent need for an English teacher. The teacher should be able to start giving classes from the end of July or beginning of August. The teacher is needed for a period of a minimum of six months, if available for a l...
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On January 25, 2008 in the afternoon His Holiness arrived in Riga, the capital of Latvia. After being met by the members of Latvia Sangha, he was driven to the Meditation Center of Drikung Kagyu Jamzee Ling at Baltezers, half an hour’s drive outside...
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In the afternoon of February 28, 2008 around 3:00 pm the Gyalwang Karmapa visited the Songtsen Library. He was welcomed by the monks and nuns of Drikung Kagyu Institute, Kagyu College, Samtenling Nunnery and Songtsen Library staff. Besides that many devot...
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The Drikung Kagyu Institute’s annual winter teachings will begin this year, as usual, on November 11, 2008. On the first day, monks and nuns from local monasteries and nunneries around Dehra Dun will gather for the World Peace Prayer ceremony. For t...
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On January 14, 2008 over 200 monks and nuns and many foreign disciples from all over the world especially from Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia gathered in the monastery Drikung Rinchen Ling in Nayapati, Nepal, to perform the cremation of Most Venerable Dr...
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In July 2007 Samtenling Nunnery was divided into School/College and Monastery. Some older nuns and as well as some new nuns, who find it difficult to study along with the college curriculum, may remain in the Monastery having their own educational program...
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On December 2, 2007 Venerable Tsele Khandro Rinpoche perished at an age of 117 years.Venerable Khacho Wangmo was born in 1890 as the daughter of Bangri Dadul in Kham. At the age of 13 she died, but a lama ordered that she may be left untouched f...
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The Most Venerable Drubwang Rinpoche, Konchog Norbu (1921-2007) dissolved his body-mandala into the great expanse of the Dharmakaya in Singapore around 10 pm on December 25. Some days ago close disciples from Drikung Kagyu Religious Society in K...
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On November 10, Drikung Jangchubling Monastery hosted the second prayer festival for world peace and harmony. Over 600 sangha members from many Buddhist monasteries in the area of Dehra Dun joined for the prayers to reverse the countless negative circumst...
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The demolition of a large statue of Guru Rinpoche at Darchen close to Mt Kalash, in Ngari prefecture, on September 28, 2007 became known in the west by tourist who happened to witness this act of violence. What has remained largely unknown to the outside ...
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His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang will grant teachings on the Manjushri-nama-samgiti (Reciting the Names of Manjushri, Tib. 'jam dpal mtshan brjod), one of the most revered tantric texts in Tibetan Buddhism. Naropa’s commentary on the Hevajr...
The wheel of blessing and power, the symbol HUNG. 
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