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January 4th, 2010
ANNOUNCING the inauguration of the new monastic college at Osel Ling Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal!
Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche recently announced that Mingyur Rinpoche will be taking responsibility for Osel Ling Monastery beginning in early 2010. Osel Ling was originally given to both brothers by their late father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. In recent years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has overseen the activities of the monastery and guided its community of monks, in addition to creating space for his non-Tibetan students to stay and practice. Under Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s guidance, the monastic community has thrived and grown into a mature sangha of dedicated practitioners.
In planning for the future development of the monastery, both Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinoche agreed that it would be beneficial to the monastery’s monastic population to have a fully ordained monk as abbot. Therefore, they agreed that it would be appropriate for Mingyur Rinpoche to take responsibility for the monastery’s operations. While Mingyur Rinpoche will oversee the activities of the monastery from this point on, Tsoknyi Rinpoche will remain intimately involved and retain his spiritual link to the community.
Mingyur Rinpoche plans to establish a monastic college at Osel Ling and make its programs the focal point of the monastery’s activities. In addition, he also plans to have courses available for Westerners to study Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy. The monastic college will be inaugurated on February 17th, 2010. All are invited to attend. To celebrate the opening of the college, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche will also offer a two-day seminar entitled Cultivating Joyful Wisdom & Compassion on February 18th-20th.
On behalf of the Pundarika and Tergar communities, we would like to express our support for the community of Osel Ling Monastery and the vision of Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche. May the monastery continue to grow and thrive, bringing benefit to countless beings!
Tashi Delek!
Esteban Hollander (Director/Pundarika Foundation)
Cortland Dahl & Edwin Kelley (Directors/Tergar International)
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October 24th, 2009
 Tsoknyi Rinpoche held the first initial retreat considering the matter of devotion this summer in Crestone, Colorado. Krishna Das attended with musicians from his band–tabla player Arjuna and bass player Patrick Hammond–supplementing the retreat with juicy devotional kirtan (call and response) chants throughout the week.
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October 23rd, 2009
In August 2009, just prior to the beginning of the Devotion Retreat, Crestone received an exquisite new Rupa for its retreat shrine.
After installation, the new Rupa presided over the two Crestone retreats and Month-long.
Here is Brady Hogan transporting the statue en route to his new home.
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October 13th, 2009
ADVANCED DZOGCHEN RETREAT
(as reported by Ilya Natanzon)
Shuny Hollander presents the mandala offering to Tsoknyi Rinpoche during the concluding ceremony, requesting the teacher to remain as the Vajra Body, Speech, and Mind.
The Advanced Dzogchen Retreat took place in Kibbutz Kadarim, where Rinpoche taught two open retreats in previous years. Rinpoche does not teach every year in Israel, so this year the participants were especially motivated to study and practice what they had already learned, knowing that Rinpoche Read the rest of this entry »
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September 27th, 2009
Rinpoche began his South American teachings with a lovely, informal talk on Sunday, April 26th at a regular weekly evening meeting at Dongyuling Center in the Abboud home in Buenos Aires. Gerardo, Juani, and their daughter Sofia were generous hosts to Tsoknyi Rinpoche during his stay. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 21st, 2009
 Kungo Kalsang Choten On the mahasamadhi of beloved Kungo* Kalsang Choten, who passed away at 7:00 a.m. on September 16, 2009, at Osel Ling Monastery, Nepal, at the age of 84:
Kungo Kalsang Choten was the half-brother of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and enjoyed a father-son relationship with Tsoknyi Rinpoche and his three brothers. He tutored Tsoknyi Rinpoche in grammar and Tibetan calligraphy (for which Kungo-la was well known), and in later years he became an important advisor and consultant to Tsoknyi Rinpoche during his early days of teaching. Kungo-la was renowned for his kindness, humility, and generosity, and he is dearly loved and treasured by all the lamas at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling. He was a supreme example of a great spiritual dharma practitioner for all, and he considered himself very lucky and fortunate to live in these celestial circumstances. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 8th, 2009
October 10, 2009 ~ Washington, D.C.
Announcing HEART OF CHANGE: Finding Wisdom in the Modern World with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, including an afternoon symposium with Tsoknyi Rinpoche III, HE Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche, Robert Thurman, Thupten Jinpa and others! Read the rest of this entry »
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July 22nd, 2009
 The Dorje Yudronma Shrine nears completion. This photo was taken at the beginning of July 2009. The Rupa was shipped, and we are hoping it arrives in time for the summer retreat season in August and September 2009.
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July 2nd, 2009
(Watercolor by Choegyal Rinpoche)
Dharma lineages in Tibet often have specific dharma protectors associated with them. Dorje Yudronma is a wisdom deity that manifests out of her compassion in the form of a protectress. Tsoknyi Rinpoche has a special connection with her and asked her to reside on Yeshe Rangsal and help his students clear obstacles and progress on the path. There is a beautiful shrine to honor her, close to the Stupa of Enlightenment on the Yeshe Rangsal Retreat Land.
Dorje Yudronma Statue (She will be gold leafed and painted soon!)
Tsoknyi Rinpoche commissioned a statue of Dorje Yudronma to be made by highly skilled artists in Nepal in 2008. This statue will grace the new Dorje Yudronma shrine scheduled for completion in July, 2009. Rinpoche will perform a consecration ceremony when he is teaching in Crestone this September.
Here is the story behind the making of this statue, written by Brady Hogan in Kathmandu: Read the rest of this entry »
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June 5th, 2009
In a very spacious and lovely retreat center overlooking Monterey Bay near Watsonville, California, Rinpoche taught in part from a beautiful letter called A Letter in Praise of Emptiness, which his teacher Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche wrote to his mother on the nature of emptiness.
Mt. Madonna Retreatants
The profound Dzogchen teachings help us to directly discover our primordially pure nature, allowing our confused concepts and emotions to be naturally liberated. Read the rest of this entry »
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