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TWENTY YEARS OF RULING AND TEACHING: Part Five – Evolution – HIGHLIGHT
By Shastri Benoît Côté When the Sakyong’s second book, Ruling Your World, came out in 2005, few people realized that it signaled a major cultural evolution the Sakyong was finally able to implement in the Shambhala centres all over the world. During this period, a curriculum committee ... continuePosted March 4, 2011 by BenoitCote
TWENTY YEARS OF RULING AND TEACHING: Part Four – Blossoming – HIGHLIGHT
By Shastri Benoît Côté The year 1976 was pivotal in the manifestation of the Vidyadhara in the west. He started receiving a whole cycle of terma, which lasted until 1981. These are root teachings which, according to the Tibetan tradition, have been planted in the unconditional realm ... continuePosted March 3, 2011 by BenoitCote
TWENTY YEARS OF RULING AND TEACHING: Part Three – Consecration – HIGHLIGHT
By Shastri Benoît Côté At some point during those years, Rinpoche started talking about a general public book on shamatha. The concept was something like an “airport book,” a book that somebody could be attracted to pick up while waiting for the next flight. A ... continuePosted March 2, 2011 by BenoitCote
TWENTY YEARS OF RULING AND TEACHING: Part Two – Empowerment – HIGHLIGHT
By Shastri Benoît Côté The Sakyong has told the story of H. H. Penor Rinpoche making the long journey from Namdroling, his main monastery in South India, to visit H. H. Khyentse Rinpoche in Nepal. It was “about him.” They agreed that when Khyentse Rinpoche would pass ... continuePosted February 28, 2011 by BenoitCote
TWENTY YEARS OF RULING AND TEACHING: Part One – Succession – HIGHLIGHT
By Shastri Benoît Côté On August 26, 1990, a young man of 28 years old was brought back from Nepal, where he was studying with his teacher H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, to Karmê Chöling, Vermont, where at the request of the Vajra Regent Ösel Tendzin, head of ... continuePosted February 26, 2011 by BenoitCote