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 for orders of 10 or more books)
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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 today the best we can
And create causes for a better tomorrow.
Let us celebrate the freedom of choice that we have.
Who says I cannot make a difference?
I can make a difference to myself and around me.
Isn’t that making enough difference to my world?
My mind goes to those brave men and women
Who offered their lives as lamps for the freedom of others.
My heart is moved by those who came forward to help
People in distress through natural or man-made calamities.
Human spirit of compassion, courage and longing for freedom,
Neither can be crushed by power nor bought with gold.
Let us celebrate that undying human spirit!
Happy New Year.
Ringu Tulku
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We are happy to announce that our 1000th member just joined the Bodhicharya website!Lots has happened since we launched the website just over two years ago. It has become a central hub where everyone can find out all about the Bodhicharya organisation, its projects, activities and latest news. A place where you can read about Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s latest teaching schedule, publications and announcements.
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Bodhicharya Summer Camp 2012 in Portugal
Start: 14 / 07 / 2012 at 18:00
End: 20 / 07 / 2012 at 14:00
Location:
Casa da Torre – Centro de Retiros
Soutelo – Vila Verde – Braga | PORTUGAL
The Bodhicharya Summer Camp 2012 with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche will be organised by Bodhicharya Portugal in Braga, near Porto, in next July. The venue is a Christian retreat house with beautiful surroundings and excellent facilities. Rinpoche will continue his teaching on “Mahamudra the Moonlight: The Quintessence of Mind and Meditation” by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (1512-1587), which was started at the previous summer camp in France. Everybody is warmly welcome, even if you didn’t attend last year or don’t have a deep knowledge of the Buddhist path.
The registration for the summer camp is now open on the following pages, where you will find all the details and information:
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On the occasion of the 900 anniversary celebration year of the First Karmapa Düsum Khyenpa (1110-1193) Rinpoche taught from the two remaining volumes of teachings by Düsum Khyenpa. Among those is a collection of dohas. Doha is a song of realization, a poem of experience of the ultimate: the Mahamudra, the Dzogchen; the emptiness.
In the Bodhicharya Online Shedra we can watch or listen to Rinpoche’s teachings on some of these dohas by the First Karmapa.
The first of these teachings to be shared with the Online Shedra was originally given by Rinpoche at Kagyu Samye Dzong Edinburgh in April, 2011.
The teaching from Edinburgh will be posted as three videos. First, there is a lifestory of Düsum Khyenpa. The next two will be the explanation of the doha.
More of Düsum Khyenpa teachings from Rinpoche’s spring tour 2011 will also follow during December.
We hope you will find these wonderful teachings full of joy and blessing.
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Ani Karma Tsultrim invites the Bodhicharya Community and connected Sangha members to join a practice for Rinpoche’s health and long life:
Our beloved Root-Guru and Teacher Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is now in his 60th year of this life. He offered all his strength and effort for the Dharma, for the benefit of sentient beings, for the wellbeing of his students, and for guiding his practitioners on the path to liberation.
It is most important and the deep heartfelt wish of all of us, that Rinpoche’s health will be stable and that he will be able to continue these tasks also in the future for a long, long time.
Therefore, when I was in Sikkim with Rinpoche just end of October and begin of November, I offered him to do practice for his health, his long life, and to prevent obstacles. I also promised to ask the Bodhicharya Community and the connected Sangha members to join this practice.
So it is my wish to start this practice for Rinpoche today on fullmoon in November, an auspicious day for meditation, purification, and offering.
I invite all of you to do this together by contributing a regular daily or, if your time is limited, at least weekly practice and offer the merit and benefit to Rinpoche’s life and good health. You can count the Mantras, if you like. But most important is a wholehearted and devotional mental attitude during the practice.
Written by Ani Karma Tsultrim, 10th November 2011, on Fullmoon
The recommended practices are Amitayus for long life and balancing the 5 elements, White Tara for long life and deathlessness, Medicine Buddha for health and strength, Vajrakilaya for removing obstacles and Green Tara for protecting Rinpoche’s travels.
To read more about the invitation and the practices, please join the practice community “Long Life for Ringu Tulku Rinpoche” on the Bodhicharya Communities website, http://bodhicharya.intouch.net
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A devastating EARTHQUAKE of 6.9 in Sikkim and parts of northern India last week has been followed by 50 further after-shocks of up to 3.9 and has caused terrible destruction to buildings, loss of life and injuries, and closed roads challenge rescue efforts. The death toll is now 130 people but many more bodies are trapped in the rubble of buildings.
The remoteness of much of this underdeveloped mountainous region and road closures from land slips has made it a very difficult task to get any help to the region and 9 villages are still completely cut off. With rescue teams facing difficulties to reach some far-flung quake-hit areas in Sikkim, hundreds of survivors are trekking out of their cut-off villages, crawling sometimes to negotiate dangerous stretches where landslides and heavy rain have loosened huge boulders which have come down the mountainsides. Entire areas are cut off because of landslides – and more often than not people are without clean water, adequate food supplies, medicine and telephone contact with the outside world. Sikkim’s hospitals have seldom been so full.
We, at Rigul Trust, have offered Rinpoche help with setting up an appeal for the earthquake in Sikkim. Rinpoche wishes this to be called the Sikkim Earthquake Relief Work Appeal.
In the last two years we have set up two emergency appeals, one for the survivors of the Yushu earthquake 2010 and one for the Ladakh flood disaster last year where we supported the relief work that Khenpo Rangdol, Principal of Kagyu College, Dehradun was in charge of. 100% of all donations went to these projects. We also helped fund emergency relief work in Yushu province of Tibet and now we have an ongoing sponsorship programme for 14 little children who were orphaned as a result of Yushu earthquake. We sent money for the buying and distribution of barley.
And in Ladakh we sent money for emergency relief and the reforestation of trees. Khenpo Rangdol went to Ladakh, oversaw the projects and distributed the money.
This is background information for you to know that all of what we do is overseen by Rinpoche, 100% of your donations gets to the targeted projects. We are extremely careful with whom we deal with and Rinpoche always has the last say.
100% of all donations sent through this secure PayPal site will go to the Sikkim Earthquake Relief Work. PayPal accepts all currencies.
An email from Rinpoche this evening 23rd September from Kathmandu:
Dear Margaret,
Maybe this is the time to help. There are lots of destruction. Even Rumtek Shedra’s new building is badly cracked. There was one earthquake last night and one today afternoon and destroyed at least one building in Gangtok. Lots of schools are destroyed fully. Many monasteries are also badly damaged. We do not get any news from tv and radio any more. Rain is still pouring.
Ringu Tulku
For more news on the Sikkim Earthquake see:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/sikkim-quake-victims-building-collapses-heavy-rain/1/152491.html
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We would like to invite all Bodhicharya students and friends to join our new Bodhicharya community website.
This project has been developed over the past weeks with the support, and sponsorship, of the Dutch IT company InTouch. It was then put to the test at this years Summer Camp in France. As a result of that experiment, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche wished us to make it widely available to all Bodhicharya groups, students and friends.
To become a member and start your own community, just visit http://bodhicharya.intouch.net and click on the Sign Up Now text in the top right corner of the page.
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