Marion died suddenly on 29th April. She was a valued member of the Bodhicharya publications team. We wish to share two beautiful poems that Marion wrote whilst on retreat at Bodhicharya Meditation centre in 2010 and also Ringu Tulku’s message:

“I am sad to hear the news of the sudden demise of Marion Knight. She had so much to do but still wanted to help. This is another reminder to us all that life is uncertain and we need to appreciate our life and live each day as well as we can. I pray for her smooth transition and good rebirth. I also pray and wish well for all her family and friends with whom we remember her together.”


The Light of Empowerment

esoteric sky dancer
your subtle trajectory
arching across
the timeless space
of my mind’s eye

oh! rainbow warrior!
your shining orb
showering jewelled
atoms of light
in a glorious display
of transformation…

and your after-image
lingers, illuminating
my mind-stream,
hanging like incense
in the clear night sky

Dakini Sky Dancer
Inspired by a shooting star
Bodhicharya Retreat Centre
31 Oct 2010

Written by Marion during the Sikkim retreat 2010 to read to Ringu Tulku on the last day.

Of Heavenly Skyscapes

landsliding into vibrant verdant
waterfalls of heart-flooding synergy
tear-cleansing eye-running colours
of light dissolving into thunderous
ear-roaring rivers overflowing
onto shallow banks strewn
with monumental boulders
gravestones of abandonment
impermanence washed downstream
on a short history of ideas
flotsam ghosts are we
crossing bridging suspending
the rushing waters of thought
entering into the stillness
of the hidden cave
encountering the void
emptied
empty
as the mind.

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Back in Berlin

by francois on May 9, 2013

in Shrine Room Project,Website

After his US tour, Rinpoche is back in Europe and returned to Berlin on Monday May 6th, 2013. He taught at Rigpa for one night and then spent three days in Bodhicharya.

At his “home” in Berlin, Rinpoche gave teachings on Karma in a fully packed gompa.

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He had lunch with the sangha.

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Meetings were also held to prepare the annual general assembly that took place on May 8th, to organise fundraising and to plan the next winter retreat to be held in Bodhicharya Berlin in February 2014.

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After Berlin, Rinpoche will travel to Hamburg, Vienna and Huttenried before flying back to India. The Summer leg of his European tour will start in Southampton on June 15th 2013. See Rinpoche’s travel schedule for more details.

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Dear friends and Students,

We have now added most of the dates for Rinpoche’s 2013 Travel Schedule. There are some more dates to be added once they are confirmed. If you are interested in attending one of these events please use the contact link shown in the details.

You can see the Travel Schedule here.


Don’t forget, if you use iCal or another digital calendar, you can get these events automatically added to your calendar as they are individually published. Just follow the instructions at the bottom of the Travel Schedule page to subscribe.
 

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Behind the Picture exhibition

by Wangdu on March 6, 2013

in Events

The Directors of Crane Kalman Gallery invite you to the Exhibition ‘BEHIND THE PICTURE’. Paintings and Narrative by Simone Sandelson.

Friday 15th March – Saturday 6th April 2013

Proceeds from sale of giclée prints will be donated to The Rigul Trust and The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

CRANE KALMAN GALLERY LTD
178 Brompton Road, London SW3 1HQ
Tel: 020 7584 7566 Fax: 020 7584 3843
www.cranekalman.com – ckg.ltd@virgin.net

(Image: ‘Prostrations’ by Simone Sandelson).

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A new childrens kindle book, by Tsering Paldron, is now available via the Amazon Store. It contains a foreword by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche and illustrations by Cécile Eyen.

The book, called ‘The adventures of Tashi, the tibetan cricket’, is available in English, French and German. It can also be found in other e-book formats here.

It is also available in iTunes.

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Bodhicharya Summer Camp registration now open.

by Wangdu on February 21, 2013

in News Now

Registration is now open for the 2013 Bodhicharya Summer Camp in Portugal. This year’s camp is from the 15th – 21st July.

Rinpoche will continue his teaching on ‘Mahamudra: The Moonlight – Quintessence of Mind and Meditation’ composed by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (1512-1587), a brilliant scholar and accomplished meditator of the Kagyu tradition.

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Wednesday 19th June – Tuesday 25th June

This retreat is open to all, new and long-term students, interested in spending some time in this beautiful natural setting, receiving teaching on Buddhism and meditation.

Holy Isle is situated off the Scottish coast, a little north of Glasgow. [click to continue…]

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Rigul Trust Newsletter

by Wangdu on February 17, 2013

in Rigul Trust


Dear Friends,

We hope that you are well and joyful.

We are very grateful, appreciative and rejoice at the kindness, generosity and help given to Ringu Tulku’s enlightenend projects through Rigul Trust and bring you news of Rigul, Kham, Tibet with this edition of the Trust 2013 Newsletter.

There are regular updates on Bodhicharya Communities Rigul Trust page, Rigul Trust blog www.rigultrust.wordpress.com and information on www.rigultrust.org.

Wishing you all the very best.

Be happy, be joyful, go well,

Margaret Richardson
Trustee of Rigul Trust

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Daily life in Rigul by Shannon Lui

by Wangdu on February 1, 2013

in Rigul Trust

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Dear Friends,

As many of you will know, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche was born in Rigul, Kham , Tibet, and he is still the Abbot and director of Rigul monastery. Through many difficult years, Rinpoche has had to operate from afar, in a position of exile in India. Students, friends and family worldwide have helped Rinpoche to realise his dream of restoring his monastery, the teaching shedra, providing a health clinic and school for all the people of Rigul and for people coming from many miles around.

Here is a very moving account of daily life in Rigul by Shannon Lui, who visited Rigul last October. [click to continue…]

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Shedra Survey for Bodhicharya Online Shedra Students

19 January 2013 General News

Dear Friends,
It would be extremely helpful if you could take a few moments to fill in our survey, on how you have found the Online Shedra so far, and how it might best continue as we move forward.
Please click here to open the survey:
Shedra Survey
Thank you!
 
Photo: Cesare Saguato, 2013.

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For Jess

6 January 2013 General News

Jess is an amazing young woman.  Since the age of 16 she has been bed-bound and living in one room in her family home.  She suffers from severe ME.  She is now 21.  But, despite her life of pain and isolation and frequent hospital stays, Jess has founded and runs a charity for sick and [...]

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My Heartfelt Prayers for the New Year 2013

31 December 2012 News Now

In this misty morning
Under the Bodhi tree
We all sit close together
And pray for universal well-being.
My mind goes to my loved ones
Who have passed away.
I never cease to miss them.
May they find their way to peace.
My mind also goes to those Tibetans
Who have burnt themselves alive
Without hatred and [...]

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Invitation to a 14 day Retreat with Ringu Tulku

7 December 2012 Events

At the Bodhicharya Meditation Centre
Near Rumtek in Sikkim
1st – 15th March 2013
Medicine Buddha (the Buddha of Outer and Inner Healing) is the theme of this Vajrayana retreat: the manifestation of the healing energies of all enlightened beings.
There will be places for 16 people only, each in single room with meditation box! A unique opportunity for [...]

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Prayers for Sherab Palden Beru

29 November 2012 General News

Ringu Tulku is asking his friends and students to say prayers for Sherab Palden Beru who passed away in Samye Ling on November 29th at 3.30pm local time.
“I am sure he will have a smooth journey onward.” – Ringu Tulku
Read Rinpoche’s poem in memory of Sherab Palden Beru

You can learn more about Sherab Palden Beru [...]

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Seats for the Winter Retreat in Berlin still available

24 November 2012 Events

About 20 seats are still available for the very first Bodhicharya Winter Retreat in Berlin with Ringu Tulku from January 3rd to 7th 2013.

 
This intensive retreat, that we hope to make an annual event, is organised as a fundraiser for the building of the new temple in Bodhicharya Berlin.
You can find further information about the [...]

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Lastest Heart Wisdom Book. Out Now!

27 October 2012 General News

Dealing with Emotions.
Scattering the Clouds
In this book, Ringu Tulku looks at our negative emotions, how more positive counterparts may be brought out and how we can release emotions to reveal our innate wisdom. He provides guidance for this gradual process and uses stories to illustrate points along the way.
We can only put these teachings into [...]

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Rinpoche in Hong Kong

27 October 2012 General News

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is now on teaching tour in Indonesia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In Indonesia he gave Dharma teachings and empowerments in Jakarta and visited Borobudur, the ancient Buddhist monument. Currently Rinpoche is in Hong Kong, where he talked to a full house as seen here in the photos, and is teaching for devotees [...]

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Rigul Trust and the Kagyu Ngagzod Chenmo Kawang (Empowerment) in Sikkim

7 October 2012 Rigul Trust

We wish to share with you the good news of how Rigul Trust and it’s dharma network was able to help and be part of this very auspicious Kagyu Ngagzod Chenmo Kawang (Empowerment) in Sikkim.
On Friday, the fifth of October, Ringu Tulku made an offering in the name of Rigul Trust to provide all the [...]

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Details about the winter retreat available

28 August 2012 Events

All the details about the first Bodhicharya Winter Retreat to be held in Berlin in January 2013 are now available here on the Bodhicharya Communities website.
Registration is now open.

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Winter Retreat in Berlin January 2013

19 August 2012 News Now

We are happy to announce that the 1st Bodhicharya Winter retreat will take place in Bodhicharya Berlin from January 3rd to 7th 2013.

As announced by Rinpoche the retreat is organized as a fundraiser for the building of the new temple in Berlin.

Ringu Tulku will teach from a text taken from the 108 Instructions of Jonang.
The [...]

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Bodhicharya Meditation Centre, Sikkim

11 August 2012 Projects

Retreat Centre Sikkim, a gallery on Flickr.

Here are some images of the Bodhicharya Meditation Centre taken earlier this year by Francois Henrard. The centre is located in Rumtek, Sikkim and is available for individual or group retreats.
For more details, please visit: www.bodhicharya.org/projects/retreat-centre/

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Many Roads: And Here We Are Again. A New Beginning

10 August 2012 General News

Hello Dear Friends,
Hoping you are all well.  It has been nearly ten months since I last wrote anything for Bodhicharya’s emagazine, Many Roads. I have been ill most of this time and now am happy to report that the condition is in remission. So, for now, I enjoy life again.  A number of people have [...]

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Bodhicharya Berlin update

5 August 2012 Website

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‘Confusion Arises as Wisdom’ – Rinpoche’s New Book Is Now Available

31 July 2012 General News

Rinpoche’s new book, CONFUSION ARISES AS WISDOM, is now available. It will be available through Amazon etc. in September, but can be bought directly from Shambhala.com now.
How could confusion arise as wisdom? According to the Mahamudra view, confusion arises as wisdom when we realize that everything we experience is the radiance of the mind’s own nature. And what is [...]

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We now have a Twitter account!

25 July 2012 General News

Please follow us on twitter for all the up to date news about Bodhicharya and Ringu Tulku Rinpoche:  @bodhicharya1

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Images from the Summer Camp 2012

22 July 2012 Events

Please click on the picture to see a slideshow of images from this year’s Summer Camp. Or you can see them here: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjAP6i3E
Photos courtesy of Francois Henrard.
 

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A Travel Journal – Why Not

17 July 2012 Events

A Travel Journal – Why Not

For all of those not currently on Summer Camp in Portugal, here is an online copy of the 60th birthday book given to Rinpoche. To view it at a larger size, just click on the icon with four arrows next to the Blurb logo.
Sometime, in the near future, we hope [...]

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LAZY LAMA – More than a thousand days of meditation

12 June 2012 General News

This is a new film about Ringu Tulku’s three year Bodhicharya retreatants & the retreat centre in Sikkim.
Click on the image or link below to find out more:
https://www.milinda-uitgevers.nl/asoka/dvd/3206/lazy-lama
Director: Niko von Glasow

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Rinpoche’s new book ‘Confusion Arises as Wisdom’, now available to pre-order.

13 May 2012 General News

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s new book, entitled ‘Confusion Arises as Wisdom - Gampopa’s Heart Advice on the Path of Mahamudra’, is now available to pre-order via the publisher Shambhala Publications. It is also available through Wisdom Books or Amazon. The book is planned for release in September 2012.
“The Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the freedom that comes from perceiving [...]

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Remembering Tenga Rinpoche

1 April 2012 General News

Lama Chenno!
Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche entered into Samadhi
We have lost another great master
Who lived amongst us and only for us.
We will always miss him,
His immeasurable kindness,
And his tireless work to help us.
At his 80th birthday he declared,
“I never had an obstacle in my life”
All were totally shocked
As he [...]

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Wisdom in Action – The Six Paramitas by Ringu Tulku

10 March 2012 General News

This is the teaser of a great new series of short video teachings given by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche on the Six Paramitas.
The whole series of six videos is available for viewing on YouTube: Wisdom in Action – The Six Paramitas
Films by tOM Zachmeier

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Rinpoche’s new Travel Schedule now online

28 February 2012 Events

Dear Friends,
The planning for the first half of Ringu Tulku’s Summer Travels have just been completed and the organisers are busy working on the details for their centres. As you can see on the Bodhicharya Travel Schedule, Rinpoche will visit Huttenreid in Germany, Ireland, England and Scotland between 25th May and 1st July ’12. His tour [...]

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Kagyu Monlam Live Webcasts

25 February 2012 Events

 
Dear Friends,
The 29th Kagyu Monlam Chenmo is soon starting in Bodhgaya, India. Before the actual Monlam His Holiness the Karmapa will give a three days teaching on Vajradhara Lineage Prayer and there will be live webcasts starting from February 26. In Europe that’ll be early Sunday morning. You’ll find the local times on the webcast [...]

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‘Like Dreams and Clouds’ now available via the Amazon website.

5 January 2012 General News

You can now purchase your copy of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s new Heart Wisdom book, ‘Like Dreams and Clouds’, through the  Amazon website here.
Note that you need to click on the “2 new” link to purchase the book, as Amazon themselves have not got the book in stock yet.
To order multiple copies, please contact publications@bodhicharya.org
(A discount of 35% is available [...]

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Happy New Year 2012

30 December 2011 General News

The year Two Thousand and Twelve has arrived.
Some say this is the end of the world.
Others predict it will be the beginning of a new awareness.
We have just lived through a challenging and eventful year
And it certainly will be another year with lots happening.
But what is the use worrying about the future?
We need to live [...]

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