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Spring Newsletter
The Abbey community has recently emerged from another Yarne retreat. This monastic retreat, which dates back to the time of the Buddha, is one of the essential elements of a monastic community. “Yarne” means the rains retreat…generally observed in the summer months in Asia. In the early days of Gampo Abbey the new community tried this…but summer is the time when visitors often come wandering down the driveway and it just wasn’t practical. So with the blessing of our Abbot, V. Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, the timing was switched to the winter.
It is a special time in this part of the world. The storms can be fierce and the buildings shake, but then there is the amazing sight of the ice on the ocean that generally appears in February. Sadly in recent years, the warming trends have significantly reduced the amount of sea ice.
As the weather improves we’ll be starting to tackle more renovation jobs at Shedra House, the workshop/storage barn and the Sopa Chöling building to prepare it for the upcoming cycle of the three-year retreat.
– Trinkar Ötso, Director, and the team at Gampo Abbey
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