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Details and Travel Dates for Ripa Monastery Opening with Dalai Lama and Namkha Drime – HIGHLIGHT
The Shambhala community is warmly invited to attend the official opening of the Ripa monastery in Orissa with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche and Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche. Ripa Ladrang recommends attendees review the information and book their travel to India as soon ... continuePosted August 21, 2009 by Editor
The Unrelenting Kindness of His Eminence Namkha Drimed, Experienced Anew in Los Angeles – HIGHLIGHT
by Guy Blume His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche, father of the Sakyong Wangmo Khandro Tseyang and head of the Rigon Thupten Mindrolling monastery in India and the Rigon Tashi Choling monastery in Tibet, made his fourth visit in four years to the Los Angeles Shambhala Center in ... continuePosted August 8, 2009 by Alexandra Milsom
Invitation to India – HIGHLIGHT
The Shambhala community has been warmly invited by Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche and the Ripa Ladrang to attend the inauguration of Rigon Thupten Mindrolling Monastery Inauguration in Orissa, India this January. Planning is already underway, and registration will open in September. The inauguration is scheduled for January ... continuePosted August 6, 2009 by Editor
Healing in the Space Between Languages and Sanghas – HIGHLIGHT
By Timothy Walker A personal account of Jigme Rinpoche’s Medicine Buddha Retreat at Dechen Choling Some time in the middle of our Haligonian Winter, I received an email sent to all international desung reporting that Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche – our Sakyong Wangmo’s brother — would be teaching ... continuePosted July 21, 2009 by
Part 2: Healing in the Space Between Languages and Sanghas
[caption id="attachment_10679" align="alignright" width="225" >continued from Part 1 by Timothy Walker. Then there is the wonderfully quirky way that Tibetans pronounce what we think we know as Sanskrit. The most famous of these quirky pronunciations is of course Benza for what we know as Vajra. There are ... continuePosted July 21, 2009 by
Summer’s Full Moon Song – HIGHLIGHT
A mahamudra song by T.W., a Ripa Ladrang sangha member Oh, oh, oh the moon cried So full and heavy she hung low In the late August night sky So bright from crying for her beloved She painted the black night blue And made the crickets sing to a full heaven A song ... continuePosted July 20, 2009 by Editor
Authentically His Eminence – HIGHLIGHT
The Shambhala Times interviewed photographer Scott Belding, who took portraits of His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche for the Rinpoche Photo Project , which is raising money to support construction of the Rigon Tashi Choeling Monastery in Pharping, Nepal. Scott’s experience encountering Rinpoche for the first ... continuePosted July 19, 2009 by Jennifer Holder
Announcing H.E. Namkha Drimed Rinpoche’s 2009 Tour – HIGHLIGHT
After a successful completion of the Rinchen Terdzo in Orissa, India, at the beginning of March, His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche is now back in Nepal. The teachings were accomplished after a little more than three months of almost daily practice, during which His Eminence gave ... continuePosted April 23, 2009 by Editor











