A Special Birthday Message from Rinpoche

18 July 2011 Poetry & Prayers

Your loving messages on my birthday
Moved me and encouraged me.
Although a host of great masters taught me
And showered their blessings on me
I remained an idiot just because of my laziness.
If I can bring a slight smell of genuine dharma
In the mind stream of a single individual
I will feel that the efforts of those great teachers
Have [...]

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A Message from Rinpoche

17 July 2011 Rinpoche's News

Dear Friends,
Thank you so very much for the good wishes I have received from all of you. I am impressed and feel grateful for the good wishes that you all have sent me. I spent the day with my family listening to the rhythmic music of the rain on my roof [...]

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Happy Birthday Rinpoche

15 July 2011 Events

Tomorrow, Saturday 16 July, will be Rinpoche’s 59th birthday.  We know that all his students and friends will want to join us in sending him our love and wishing him:
A VERY HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many happy returns.
Feel free to add your birthday wishes to the comments below.
Just click on the Happy Birthday Rinpoche title to [...]

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Bodhicharya Summer camp: Teaching book

9 July 2011 Events

The title of the book that Rinpoche will use to teach during the Bodhicharya summer camp, 30 July until 5 August, is:
Mahamudra: The Moonlight — Quintessence of Mind and Meditation.

It can be bought at the following address:
http://www.amazon.com/Mahamudra-Moonlight-Quintessence-Mind-Meditation/dp/0861712994
All information about the summer camp is available at:
http://www.bodhicharya-france.fr/en/summercamp2011

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The 3rd Chapter of Bodhicharyavatara started in the Online Shedra

26 June 2011 Events

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has just sent a new video teaching on the first four stanzas of the Third Chapter of the Bodhicharyavatara, which you will find here.
The Bodhicharya Online Shedra was started in October 2010 and, since then, Rinpoche has recorded new video teachings on the Bodhicharyavatara and answered the students’ questions on weekly basis.
Bodhicharyavatara, [...]

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Rinpoche travels home to India

13 June 2011 Rinpoche's News

Rinpoche finishes his Spring teaching tour in Moscow today, 13 June, and travels home to India.  From Moscow, Rinpoche wrote: ‘About 100 people took refuge and they are all very excited’. 
In Russia they have also published Rinpoche’s Mind Training book and plan to publish Daring Steps towards Fearlessness by the end of this year.  They [...]

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Celebration of Rigul Trust’s 3rd Anniversary.

15 May 2011 Rigul Trust

Offerings on Buddhist Festivals.
We are joyfully celebrating three years of Rigul Trust with suggestions for beautiful offerings that will accumulate merit in order to bring great benefit to the welfare of all beings.
By way of expressing heart felt gratitude to Ringu Tulku, Ani Sherab is dedicating her practice to Rigul Trust on each of the [...]

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A Personal Message from Rinpoche

12 May 2011 Events

I would like to personally invite all my students all over the world to the Bodhicharya Summer Camp in France (July 30 to August 5). I encourage all to come and join us if possible. I will try to present the essentials of Dharma that I understand and also make a support system through deeper [...]

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A Personal Message from Ringu Tulku

12 May 2011 Rinpoche's News

I would like to personally invite all my students all over the world to the Bodhicharya Summer Camp in France (July 30 to August 5). I encourage all to come and join us if possible. I will try to present the essentials of Dharma that I understand and also make a support system through deeper [...]

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Ringu Tulku Rinpoche in Dzogchen Beara 2011.

29 April 2011 Events

Here are some images taken from Rinpoche’s recent Easter weekend visit to Dzogchen Beara, Ireland. Just click on any of the images to see a slideshow of them all.
To see more images from our collection, visit our Bodhicharya Flickr Group. If you have images of Rinpoche on his travels that you would like to share, [...]

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Book signing at Samye Ling.

29 April 2011 Events

Jet Mort captured these happy images to share with us showing Rinpoche signing the Chenrezig book in the shop with a queue of those waiting to get their book signed, those engrossed in reading the book and Bernie Hartley doing a sterling job as Rigul Trust ambassador for distributing the books.
We, have received so [...]

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Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche teaching in Berlin.

17 April 2011 Events

Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche will teach in English on the topics MOTIVATION and DEVOTION, GENEROSITY and PROSPERITY
Date: 10th-11th May 2011
Location:
Bodhicharya Buddhist Centre for Peace and Understanding,
Kinzigstr. 25-29, 10247
All on donation basis.
Please arrive early to make sure you get a seat.
Please note Khandro Rinpoche will also teach 8th and 9th of May in Berlin at the Rigpa [...]

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Chenrezig – The Practice of Compassion

12 March 2011 Publications

A Commentary by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche.
This new book, available from 31st of March 2011, presents a wonderful introduction to both new comers and old timers – it’s so nourishing and warms the cockles of our hearts! An inspiring and beautiful book by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, it presents a complete approach for generating and working with [...]

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Feeling better.

9 March 2011 Rinpoche's News

Dear Friends,
I was a little sick on 8th March due to high blood pressure on my way to Varanasi to see and translate for HH the Karmapa. I am now going through all the check ups at the Medica North Bengal Clinic, Siliguri. I am already feeling better and my b.p. is under control. Hopefully [...]

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Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s Dublin Teachings.

6 March 2011 Events

The Bodhicharya Ireland Weekend Teachings, on 9th and 10th April 2011, will be on ‘Turning Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment’ by Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima (1865 – 1926), who was the third incarnation of the Dodrupchen Lineage. The talk takes place at the Hilton Hotel Kilmainham, Dublin. These teachings raise funds for Rinpoche’s charity projects. [...]

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Bodhicharya Summer Camp – France 2011

25 February 2011 Events

The registration for the next Bodhicharya summer camp with Rinpoche is now open.
All the information about the summer camp is available on the following page:
http://www.bodhicharya-france.fr/en/summercamp2011

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Many Roads is changing!

12 February 2011 Events

Dear Friends
Many Roads is changing!  Following discussions about how best we can present all the great articles etc that we have received for sharing in Many Roads, we have decided to take forward the idea of our e-magazine in a slightly different form.  Instead of posting two or three issues a year, we will, from now on, [...]

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Many Roads Magazine: Contributions and help needed

29 January 2011 Events

Dear Friends
I’ve decided to extend the deadline for contributions to the second issue of Many Roads magazine until the end of March.   A few people have promised articles for the magazine but they need more time.  I also need more contributions and I’ll be contacting others whom I know will be able to write interesting and helpful [...]

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Rinpoche’s teaching tour in Thailand 2011

3 January 2011 Rinpoche's News

Full details of Rinpoche’s forthcoming teaching tour of Thailand in February 2011 can now be found in his travel schedule at http://www.bodhicharya.org/ringu-tulku/schedule/

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A new debate and the re-launch of the general discussion forum

3 January 2011 Events

Dear Friends,
Please have a look at the latest discussion “Going Beyond
Mind in Meditation” on the debate blog of the Online Shedra:
http://www.bodhicharya.org/bodhicharya-online-shedra/debate/
We’ve also re-launched  the general  discussion forum for all kinds of interaction
and discussion:
http://www.bodhicharya.org/bodhicharya-online-shedra/discussion-area/
Your comments and involvement would be appreciated and we look forward to hearing from you.

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New Year’s Greetings for 2011 from Ringu Tulku

31 December 2010 Poetry & Prayers

Another year has passed like a dream.
We observed calamity after calamity.
Are we about to make our world unliveable
With our greed, short sightedness and ignorance?

Watching the Dalai Lama and a host of great beings
I find courage to look at the brighter side.
There is no use lamenting and losing heart.
We all have the fortune to choose [...]

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