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19 August 2010 Events

Dear Friends,
Hoping you are all well.
As many of you will know we are working towards launching a new on-line magazine ‘Many Roads’ on the Bodhicharya website. We have received some wonderful articles that we will share with you all sometime in September. But we need some help!!
We have received a great article from a very [...]

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Ladakh Flood Emergency

19 August 2010 Rigul Trust

A MESSAGE OF URGENCY FROM KHENPO RANGDOL
Principal of Kagyu College, Dehradun, India.
(Received by Margaret Richardson of Rigul Trust.)
Dear Margaret,
I hope you are doing well. I am not very happy to share this news there was flood disaster happened in Ladakh everywhere. I hope you are aware that hundreds of people lost their [...]

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Developments to the website

11 August 2010 Uncategorized

We have simplified our Members and News subscription services. Now all you need to do is register as a member (in the sidebar on the left) to receive news updates from the website. Becoming a member also allows you to leave comments on all the news that is posted.
It also allows you to join in [...]

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Monks of Rigul Shedra

9 August 2010 Rigul Shedra

Francois is currently visiting Rigul and the different projects Rinpoche has there. Today he visited the brand new shedra that was built thanks to the generosity of Chinese sponsors.
Khenpo Zopa from Kirti monastry in Amdo is teaching 49 monks coming from Rigul monastery but also other monasteries from the area.

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Bodhicharya Summer Camp 2010

5 August 2010 Events

To view more images from the Bodhicharya Summer Camp 2010, just click the image above or visit our Bodhicharya Flickr Group
If you attended the Summer Camp and would like to add your images to this set, just visit http://www.flickr.com/groups/bodhicharya/ and click on “Join this Group”. Then just follow the Flickr instructions and notes on the [...]

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Bodhicharya Online Shedra

4 August 2010 Events

Dear Friends,
We will soon launch a wonderful new feature on the Bodhicharya website: the Shedra. The Bodhicharya online Shedra will have two different sections, Study and Debate.
In the Study section, we will study the Bodhicharyavatara by Shantideva. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has kindly promised to give us explanations on this great Mahayana classic regularly on the [...]

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Retreat with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche in Sikkim

31 July 2010 Events

RETREAT WITH RINGU TULKU in SEDUCTIVE SIKKIM
at the Bodhicharya Retreat Centre, near Rumtek, Sikkim, India
Retreat: 29 October to 12 November 2010

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Prayers for Rinpoche as he travels

25 July 2010 Events

 Dear Friends,
Rinpoche has now started to travel again and we would be grateful if all his students and friends could please think of him at this time.  If you wish, please include his long life prayer in your practice. The following link will take you to his long life prayer http://www.bodhicharya.org/ringu-tulku/rinpoches-poems/long-life-prayer-for-ringu-tulku/
You may also wish to recite [...]

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Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche’s Public Talk 18 July

7 July 2010 Events

Rigpa at Lerab Ling is offering FREE video-streaming of Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche’s public talk on July 18
this means that anyone with internet can watch LIVE for free by clicking on this website http://videostreaming.rigpa.org/

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Natural Faults of Impermanence

23 June 2010 Karmapa

Prayer made on the occasion of the destruction caused by the earthquake in Jyekundo.
by Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje
May 1, 2010.

From the loftiest abode high above where Brahma dwells,
to the lowest of low buildings made of metal in the hells:
in outward appearance, their differences are great,
yet the faults of all are exposed alike, when disaster strikes.

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Many Roads Bodhicharya Blog

12 June 2010 Events

Dear Friends,
Hope you are all well.
We are intending to put together a blog style e-magazine on our new Bodhicharya site at www.bodhicharya.org. The blog will include articles; interviews; poems; reviews of books and films and music and regular features about  health and food.  It will be called  ‘Many Roads‘. But, [...]

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Karmapa’s Live Webcast re-scheduled

27 May 2010 Events

Due to vastly more people than anticipated logging in to watch the teaching, the servers were unable to broadcast the webcast to so many. His Holiness has decided that we will postpone this live webcast until tomorrow, when we will have re-configured a larger group of servers to take the load. According Tsurphu calendar, Saga [...]

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Long Life Prayer for Ringu Tulku

24 May 2010 Poetry & Prayers

Osel shintu shiwai rangshinley
phogyur dralwa juma tabu ku
namyang dregu tsenma mishey par
chime tse-lhay ngowor tsoshe sol
Unchanging illusion-like appearance
Manifesting from the luminosity of perfect natural harmony
Always unmarked by the signs of ageing and decline
May you remain in the essence of the deity of immortality

by Karmapa Ogyen Trinley
2009.1.17
Translated by Ngodup Burkhar
Long Life Prayer for Ringu Tulku (PDF)

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Live webcast teaching with His Holiness Karmapa

20 May 2010 Events

His Holiness Karmapa will address a teaching to the Kagyu sanghas and his students in Europe on Thursday, May 27th 2010 via a Live Webcast.
The site Living The Dharma ( www.livingthedharma.eu ) will host the Live Webcast of His Holiness. That means this is the site on which you can follow the teaching of The [...]

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Rigul Trust Financial Resume April 2009 to April 2010

16 May 2010 Gesar Ling

Dear Friends,
So very many people are helping with Ringu Tulku’s projects through Rigul Trust. People are helping in so many ways – ideas, donations, graphic design, translating, spreading the news of Rigul Trust on email lists, websites, blogs, hand crafted goods for sale, fund raising events and many other ways. For all of this Ringu [...]

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Rinpoche in Lerab Ling with live video streaming in Rigpa centres

15 May 2010 Events

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is now in France and teaching on The Two Truths by Patrul Rinpoche in Lerab Ling.
From May 14th until the 16th there will be a live streaming video webcast of Rinpoche’s teachings which you can watch in several Rigpa centres all over the world. You can contact your local Rigpa centre for [...]

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Burying Peace Vase in Oxford

6 May 2010 Events

The peace vase made and blessed by His Holiness Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche was buried in the compound of Oxford Union on 30th April. The vase was buried by The Very Revd. Robert A Wilkes, representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury,  Laura Winwood, President, Oxford Union and Ven. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, representative of HH the Karmapa.

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Tibet China Earthquake Update – Rigul Trust Emergency Appeal for Yushu

2 May 2010 Rigul Trust

On 14th April 2010, an earthquake reaching 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Yushu County, Kham, an impoverished area of Tibet and largely populated by Tibetans. Official reports now put the death toll at 2,064, with more than 12,000 injured and 175 missing. Homes, schools, monasteries and health facilities have all collapsed to rubble.
Since [...]

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Rinpoche teaching at the Dublin Writers Museum

21 April 2010 Events

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Yushu Earthquake Appeal

19 April 2010 Rigul Trust

In Tibet, over a thousand people have died and many more are injured as a result of the devastating earthquake which struck Yushu county on 14th April. Yushu is in Qinghai province, high on the Tibetan plateau, an impoverished area largely populated by Tibetans.

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Additional dates added to Rinpoche’s Travel Schedule in Germany

17 April 2010 Events

Rinpoche will be giving a talk at Tibet House in Frankfurt on the 10th May and in Freiburg on the 11th and 12th May. He will also be returning to Bodhicharya Berlin between Monday 17th – Saturday 22nd May.
You can find out more details about each event in the Travel Schedule.

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