Recent lha khang building projects include the construction of an elaborate shrine that will hold texts and statues, among them an exquisite new Tara statue from Nepal—an offering from a Tara practitioner from Switzerland—as well as the installation of the front doors—four of them weighing over 220 kilos each—accompanied by a traditional celebration. We have laid 400 meters of beautiful hardwood flooring, a gift from a Brazilian sangha member. The beams and columns of the shrine room will soon be ornamented with colorful details. Sunlight radiating from the curved cupola on top of the temple can been seen from Igrejihna, a town ten miles away.
In October, the Red Tara 100,000 tsok offering ceremony was held in the temple, and our lama dancers helped bring down the blessings by dancing the jinbep.
Rinpoche closely supervises both the lha khang construction and the work on the Guru Padmasambhava statue. During the Tagsham empowerments, volunteers spent almost all of their breaks trying to complete the statue. Though not yet painted, Padmasambhava, master of phenomena, appears regal on his throne, at home in this exotic borderland.
Many television crews, newspaper and magazine report- ers, as well as tourists, pilgrims, and school buses full of children have made the journey up the hill from Três Coroas to see the new temple. Rinpoche often receives them himself, and his sphere of benefit grows daily. We who live here are watching Khadro Ling become not only a major spiritual and educational center, but also a place where Brazilians on an outing enjoy bringing their friends and families.
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All of the efforts by the Ati Ling fund-raising committee and general sangha culminated in the arrival of our new shrine, which was beautifully hand-carved and painted in Nepal. Just a few days after the shrine was unpacked and assembled, Tulku Jigme Rinpoche returned from the Tagsham empowerments in Brazil. Rinpoche was off for Tibet in just a couple of days, but not before the sangha could gather for a Guru Rinpoche tsok.
Lama Tsering visited Ati Ling and led a Red Tara tsok. She gave a teaching on the meaning of refuge, and several students took refuge with her. We are working on a new water-filtration system and have completed the much-needed work on the septic system.
__________
In midsummer, Lama Tsering gave teachings in Eugene, Corvallis, Cottage Grove, and Williams. Her compassionate presence and the depth of her inspired dedication to dharma made her being here a special blessing for us all.
In the fall, Terton Namkha Drimed gave the Tagsham Three Roots empowerments as well as other empowerments and teachings. It was a very special time.
Our annual Tara Tsok on Thanksgiving weekend offered an excellent opportunity for all who participated to deepen their connection to Tara’s precious blessings. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day, which was also Medicine Buddha day, with a Chenrezi practice followed by a potluck dinner.
During the past several years we have been able to make a number of improvements to the Gonpa, thanks to the kindness of supporters. Our refinancing of the mortgage has left us an outstanding loan balance of $14,500.
__________
Greetings from the foot of the San Francisco peaks. We at Lhundrub Ling are pleased to announce that we have moved into a new shrine room located in downtown Flagstaff. It is our aspiration that this central location will provide an accessible practice and teaching space for the Flagstaff sangha, the local community, and sangha members from other Western states who wish to attend Lama Shenpen Drolma’s monthly weekend teachings. Recent topics have included the long Red Tara sadhana, an introduction to the Bodhisattva Peace Training, Shower of Blessings, and the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro. Upcoming topics include the T’hröma chod feasts and more of the Bodhisattva Peace Training.
A number of our sangha members are working steadily to complete their ngondro practices and attend Rinpoche’s annual Dzogchen retreat this January in Brazil.
__________
Lama Tsering Everest’s visit to Oregon in September 1997 provided the inspiration to establish a new Chagdud Gonpa practice center in Ashland. Lama Tsering took refuge with H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche almost twenty years ago in Ashland. Established this fall in Lama Tsering’s honor, this new center was named Minjur Ling by H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. We do Red Tara practice in the morning and perform monthly Tara tsoks with James Kalfas and the Rigdzin Gatsal sangha.
In August 1998 we welcomed Lama Tsering for five days of teachings, which were very well attended. Lama Tsering was moved by people’s receptivity and was inspired to try to visit Minjur Ling whenever she is in the United States. Our sister center is Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling, Lama Tsering’s center in São Paulo, Brazil.
Our first coordinated effort as a Chagdud Gonpa center was the completion of 100,000 Red Tara tsok offerings in October. The ceremony was led by James Kalfas and was attended by Lama Tenzin, our local sangha, and Rigdzin Ling and Rigdzin Gatsal sangha members. An auspicious result of the practice was the acquisition of two large Red Tara statues from Nepal. One statue will go to Brazil and the other to Minjur Ling.
We are honored to be the first center in the United States to be established by Lama Tsering and look forward to her December visit.
Recent lha khang building projects include the construction of an elaborate shrine that will hold texts and statues, among them an exquisite new Tara statue from Nepal—an offering from a Tara practitioner from Switzerland—as well as the installation of the front doors—four of them weighing over 220 kilos each—accompanied by a traditional celebration. We have laid 400 meters of beautiful hardwood flooring, a gift from a Brazilian sangha member. The beams and columns of the shrine room will soon be ornamented with colorful details. Sunlight radiating from the curved cupola on top of the temple can been seen from Igrejihna, a town ten miles away.
In October, the Red Tara 100,000 tsok offering ceremony was held in the temple, and our lama dancers helped bring down the blessings by dancing the jinbep.
Rinpoche closely supervises both the lha khang construction and the work on the Guru Padmasambhava statue. During the Tagsham empowerments, volunteers spent almost all of their breaks trying to complete the statue. Though not yet painted, Padmasambhava, master of phenomena, appears regal on his throne, at home in this exotic borderland.
Many television crews, newspaper and magazine report- ers, as well as tourists, pilgrims, and school buses full of children have made the journey up the hill from Três Coroas to see the new temple. Rinpoche often receives them himself, and his sphere of benefit grows daily. We who live here are watching Khadro Ling become not only a major spiritual and educational center, but also a place where Brazilians on an outing enjoy bringing their friends and families.
__________
All of the efforts by the Ati Ling fund-raising committee and general sangha culminated in the arrival of our new shrine, which was beautifully hand-carved and painted in Nepal. Just a few days after the shrine was unpacked and assembled, Tulku Jigme Rinpoche returned from the Tagsham empowerments in Brazil. Rinpoche was off for Tibet in just a couple of days, but not before the sangha could gather for a Guru Rinpoche tsok.
Lama Tsering visited Ati Ling and led a Red Tara tsok. She gave a teaching on the meaning of refuge, and several students took refuge with her. We are working on a new water-filtration system and have completed the much-needed work on the septic system.
__________
In midsummer, Lama Tsering gave teachings in Eugene, Corvallis, Cottage Grove, and Williams. Her compassionate presence and the depth of her inspired dedication to dharma made her being here a special blessing for us all.
In the fall, Terton Namkha Drimed gave the Tagsham Three Roots empowerments as well as other empowerments and teachings. It was a very special time.
Our annual Tara Tsok on Thanksgiving weekend offered an excellent opportunity for all who participated to deepen their connection to Tara’s precious blessings. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day, which was also Medicine Buddha day, with a Chenrezi practice followed by a potluck dinner.
During the past several years we have been able to make a number of improvements to the Gonpa, thanks to the kindness of supporters. Our refinancing of the mortgage has left us an outstanding loan balance of $14,500.
__________
Greetings from the foot of the San Francisco peaks. We at Lhundrub Ling are pleased to announce that we have moved into a new shrine room located in downtown Flagstaff. It is our aspiration that this central location will provide an accessible practice and teaching space for the Flagstaff sangha, the local community, and sangha members from other Western states who wish to attend Lama Shenpen Drolma’s monthly weekend teachings. Recent topics have included the long Red Tara sadhana, an introduction to the Bodhisattva Peace Training, Shower of Blessings, and the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro. Upcoming topics include the T’hröma chod feasts and more of the Bodhisattva Peace Training.
A number of our sangha members are working steadily to complete their ngondro practices and attend Rinpoche’s annual Dzogchen retreat this January in Brazil.
__________
Lama Tsering Everest’s visit to Oregon in September 1997 provided the inspiration to establish a new Chagdud Gonpa practice center in Ashland. Lama Tsering took refuge with H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche almost twenty years ago in Ashland. Established this fall in Lama Tsering’s honor, this new center was named Minjur Ling by H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. We do Red Tara practice in the morning and perform monthly Tara tsoks with James Kalfas and the Rigdzin Gatsal sangha.
In August 1998 we welcomed Lama Tsering for five days of teachings, which were very well attended. Lama Tsering was moved by people’s receptivity and was inspired to try to visit Minjur Ling whenever she is in the United States. Our sister center is Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling, Lama Tsering’s center in São Paulo, Brazil.
Our first coordinated effort as a Chagdud Gonpa center was the completion of 100,000 Red Tara tsok offerings in October. The ceremony was led by James Kalfas and was attended by Lama Tenzin, our local sangha, and Rigdzin Ling and Rigdzin Gatsal sangha members. An auspicious result of the practice was the acquisition of two large Red Tara statues from Nepal. One statue will go to Brazil and the other to Minjur Ling.
We are honored to be the first center in the United States to be established by Lama Tsering and look forward to her December visit.
Recent lha khang building projects include the construction of an elaborate shrine that will hold texts and statues, among them an exquisite new Tara statue from Nepal—an offering from a Tara practitioner from Switzerland—as well as the installation of the front doors—four of them weighing over 220 kilos each—accompanied by a traditional celebration. We have laid 400 meters of beautiful hardwood flooring, a gift from a Brazilian sangha member. The beams and columns of the shrine room will soon be ornamented with colorful details. Sunlight radiating from the curved cupola on top of the temple can been seen from Igrejihna, a town ten miles away.
In October, the Red Tara 100,000 tsok offering ceremony was held in the temple, and our lama dancers helped bring down the blessings by dancing the jinbep.
Rinpoche closely supervises both the lha khang construction and the work on the Guru Padmasambhava statue. During the Tagsham empowerments, volunteers spent almost all of their breaks trying to complete the statue. Though not yet painted, Padmasambhava, master of phenomena, appears regal on his throne, at home in this exotic borderland.
Many television crews, newspaper and magazine report- ers, as well as tourists, pilgrims, and school buses full of children have made the journey up the hill from Três Coroas to see the new temple. Rinpoche often receives them himself, and his sphere of benefit grows daily. We who live here are watching Khadro Ling become not only a major spiritual and educational center, but also a place where Brazilians on an outing enjoy bringing their friends and families.
__________
All of the efforts by the Ati Ling fund-raising committee and general sangha culminated in the arrival of our new shrine, which was beautifully hand-carved and painted in Nepal. Just a few days after the shrine was unpacked and assembled, Tulku Jigme Rinpoche returned from the Tagsham empowerments in Brazil. Rinpoche was off for Tibet in just a couple of days, but not before the sangha could gather for a Guru Rinpoche tsok.
Lama Tsering visited Ati Ling and led a Red Tara tsok. She gave a teaching on the meaning of refuge, and several students took refuge with her. We are working on a new water-filtration system and have completed the much-needed work on the septic system.
__________
In midsummer, Lama Tsering gave teachings in Eugene, Corvallis, Cottage Grove, and Williams. Her compassionate presence and the depth of her inspired dedication to dharma made her being here a special blessing for us all.
In the fall, Terton Namkha Drimed gave the Tagsham Three Roots empowerments as well as other empowerments and teachings. It was a very special time.
Our annual Tara Tsok on Thanksgiving weekend offered an excellent opportunity for all who participated to deepen their connection to Tara’s precious blessings. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day, which was also Medicine Buddha day, with a Chenrezi practice followed by a potluck dinner.
During the past several years we have been able to make a number of improvements to the Gonpa, thanks to the kindness of supporters. Our refinancing of the mortgage has left us an outstanding loan balance of $14,500.
__________
Greetings from the foot of the San Francisco peaks. We at Lhundrub Ling are pleased to announce that we have moved into a new shrine room located in downtown Flagstaff. It is our aspiration that this central location will provide an accessible practice and teaching space for the Flagstaff sangha, the local community, and sangha members from other Western states who wish to attend Lama Shenpen Drolma’s monthly weekend teachings. Recent topics have included the long Red Tara sadhana, an introduction to the Bodhisattva Peace Training, Shower of Blessings, and the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro. Upcoming topics include the T’hröma chod feasts and more of the Bodhisattva Peace Training.
A number of our sangha members are working steadily to complete their ngondro practices and attend Rinpoche’s annual Dzogchen retreat this January in Brazil.
__________
Lama Tsering Everest’s visit to Oregon in September 1997 provided the inspiration to establish a new Chagdud Gonpa practice center in Ashland. Lama Tsering took refuge with H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche almost twenty years ago in Ashland. Established this fall in Lama Tsering’s honor, this new center was named Minjur Ling by H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. We do Red Tara practice in the morning and perform monthly Tara tsoks with James Kalfas and the Rigdzin Gatsal sangha.
In August 1998 we welcomed Lama Tsering for five days of teachings, which were very well attended. Lama Tsering was moved by people’s receptivity and was inspired to try to visit Minjur Ling whenever she is in the United States. Our sister center is Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling, Lama Tsering’s center in São Paulo, Brazil.
Our first coordinated effort as a Chagdud Gonpa center was the completion of 100,000 Red Tara tsok offerings in October. The ceremony was led by James Kalfas and was attended by Lama Tenzin, our local sangha, and Rigdzin Ling and Rigdzin Gatsal sangha members. An auspicious result of the practice was the acquisition of two large Red Tara statues from Nepal. One statue will go to Brazil and the other to Minjur Ling.
We are honored to be the first center in the United States to be established by Lama Tsering and look forward to her December visit.
Recent lha khang building projects include the construction of an elaborate shrine that will hold texts and statues, among them an exquisite new Tara statue from Nepal—an offering from a Tara practitioner from Switzerland—as well as the installation of the front doors—four of them weighing over 220 kilos each—accompanied by a traditional celebration. We have laid 400 meters of beautiful hardwood flooring, a gift from a Brazilian sangha member. The beams and columns of the shrine room will soon be ornamented with colorful details. Sunlight radiating from the curved cupola on top of the temple can been seen from Igrejihna, a town ten miles away.
In October, the Red Tara 100,000 tsok offering ceremony was held in the temple, and our lama dancers helped bring down the blessings by dancing the jinbep.
Rinpoche closely supervises both the lha khang construction and the work on the Guru Padmasambhava statue. During the Tagsham empowerments, volunteers spent almost all of their breaks trying to complete the statue. Though not yet painted, Padmasambhava, master of phenomena, appears regal on his throne, at home in this exotic borderland.
Many television crews, newspaper and magazine report- ers, as well as tourists, pilgrims, and school buses full of children have made the journey up the hill from Três Coroas to see the new temple. Rinpoche often receives them himself, and his sphere of benefit grows daily. We who live here are watching Khadro Ling become not only a major spiritual and educational center, but also a place where Brazilians on an outing enjoy bringing their friends and families.
__________
All of the efforts by the Ati Ling fund-raising committee and general sangha culminated in the arrival of our new shrine, which was beautifully hand-carved and painted in Nepal. Just a few days after the shrine was unpacked and assembled, Tulku Jigme Rinpoche returned from the Tagsham empowerments in Brazil. Rinpoche was off for Tibet in just a couple of days, but not before the sangha could gather for a Guru Rinpoche tsok.
Lama Tsering visited Ati Ling and led a Red Tara tsok. She gave a teaching on the meaning of refuge, and several students took refuge with her. We are working on a new water-filtration system and have completed the much-needed work on the septic system.
__________
In midsummer, Lama Tsering gave teachings in Eugene, Corvallis, Cottage Grove, and Williams. Her compassionate presence and the depth of her inspired dedication to dharma made her being here a special blessing for us all.
In the fall, Terton Namkha Drimed gave the Tagsham Three Roots empowerments as well as other empowerments and teachings. It was a very special time.
Our annual Tara Tsok on Thanksgiving weekend offered an excellent opportunity for all who participated to deepen their connection to Tara’s precious blessings. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day, which was also Medicine Buddha day, with a Chenrezi practice followed by a potluck dinner.
During the past several years we have been able to make a number of improvements to the Gonpa, thanks to the kindness of supporters. Our refinancing of the mortgage has left us an outstanding loan balance of $14,500.
__________
Greetings from the foot of the San Francisco peaks. We at Lhundrub Ling are pleased to announce that we have moved into a new shrine room located in downtown Flagstaff. It is our aspiration that this central location will provide an accessible practice and teaching space for the Flagstaff sangha, the local community, and sangha members from other Western states who wish to attend Lama Shenpen Drolma’s monthly weekend teachings. Recent topics have included the long Red Tara sadhana, an introduction to the Bodhisattva Peace Training, Shower of Blessings, and the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro. Upcoming topics include the T’hröma chod feasts and more of the Bodhisattva Peace Training.
A number of our sangha members are working steadily to complete their ngondro practices and attend Rinpoche’s annual Dzogchen retreat this January in Brazil.
__________
Lama Tsering Everest’s visit to Oregon in September 1997 provided the inspiration to establish a new Chagdud Gonpa practice center in Ashland. Lama Tsering took refuge with H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche almost twenty years ago in Ashland. Established this fall in Lama Tsering’s honor, this new center was named Minjur Ling by H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. We do Red Tara practice in the morning and perform monthly Tara tsoks with James Kalfas and the Rigdzin Gatsal sangha.
In August 1998 we welcomed Lama Tsering for five days of teachings, which were very well attended. Lama Tsering was moved by people’s receptivity and was inspired to try to visit Minjur Ling whenever she is in the United States. Our sister center is Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling, Lama Tsering’s center in São Paulo, Brazil.
Our first coordinated effort as a Chagdud Gonpa center was the completion of 100,000 Red Tara tsok offerings in October. The ceremony was led by James Kalfas and was attended by Lama Tenzin, our local sangha, and Rigdzin Ling and Rigdzin Gatsal sangha members. An auspicious result of the practice was the acquisition of two large Red Tara statues from Nepal. One statue will go to Brazil and the other to Minjur Ling.
We are honored to be the first center in the United States to be established by Lama Tsering and look forward to her December visit.
Recent lha khang building projects include the construction of an elaborate shrine that will hold texts and statues, among them an exquisite new Tara statue from Nepal—an offering from a Tara practitioner from Switzerland—as well as the installation of the front doors—four of them weighing over 220 kilos each—accompanied by a traditional celebration. We have laid 400 meters of beautiful hardwood flooring, a gift from a Brazilian sangha member. The beams and columns of the shrine room will soon be ornamented with colorful details. Sunlight radiating from the curved cupola on top of the temple can been seen from Igrejihna, a town ten miles away.
In October, the Red Tara 100,000 tsok offering ceremony was held in the temple, and our lama dancers helped bring down the blessings by dancing the jinbep.
Rinpoche closely supervises both the lha khang construction and the work on the Guru Padmasambhava statue. During the Tagsham empowerments, volunteers spent almost all of their breaks trying to complete the statue. Though not yet painted, Padmasambhava, master of phenomena, appears regal on his throne, at home in this exotic borderland.
Many television crews, newspaper and magazine report- ers, as well as tourists, pilgrims, and school buses full of children have made the journey up the hill from Três Coroas to see the new temple. Rinpoche often receives them himself, and his sphere of benefit grows daily. We who live here are watching Khadro Ling become not only a major spiritual and educational center, but also a place where Brazilians on an outing enjoy bringing their friends and families.
__________
All of the efforts by the Ati Ling fund-raising committee and general sangha culminated in the arrival of our new shrine, which was beautifully hand-carved and painted in Nepal. Just a few days after the shrine was unpacked and assembled, Tulku Jigme Rinpoche returned from the Tagsham empowerments in Brazil. Rinpoche was off for Tibet in just a couple of days, but not before the sangha could gather for a Guru Rinpoche tsok.
Lama Tsering visited Ati Ling and led a Red Tara tsok. She gave a teaching on the meaning of refuge, and several students took refuge with her. We are working on a new water-filtration system and have completed the much-needed work on the septic system.
__________
In midsummer, Lama Tsering gave teachings in Eugene, Corvallis, Cottage Grove, and Williams. Her compassionate presence and the depth of her inspired dedication to dharma made her being here a special blessing for us all.
In the fall, Terton Namkha Drimed gave the Tagsham Three Roots empowerments as well as other empowerments and teachings. It was a very special time.
Our annual Tara Tsok on Thanksgiving weekend offered an excellent opportunity for all who participated to deepen their connection to Tara’s precious blessings. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day, which was also Medicine Buddha day, with a Chenrezi practice followed by a potluck dinner.
During the past several years we have been able to make a number of improvements to the Gonpa, thanks to the kindness of supporters. Our refinancing of the mortgage has left us an outstanding loan balance of $14,500.
__________
Greetings from the foot of the San Francisco peaks. We at Lhundrub Ling are pleased to announce that we have moved into a new shrine room located in downtown Flagstaff. It is our aspiration that this central location will provide an accessible practice and teaching space for the Flagstaff sangha, the local community, and sangha members from other Western states who wish to attend Lama Shenpen Drolma’s monthly weekend teachings. Recent topics have included the long Red Tara sadhana, an introduction to the Bodhisattva Peace Training, Shower of Blessings, and the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro. Upcoming topics include the T’hröma chod feasts and more of the Bodhisattva Peace Training.
A number of our sangha members are working steadily to complete their ngondro practices and attend Rinpoche’s annual Dzogchen retreat this January in Brazil.
__________
Lama Tsering Everest’s visit to Oregon in September 1997 provided the inspiration to establish a new Chagdud Gonpa practice center in Ashland. Lama Tsering took refuge with H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche almost twenty years ago in Ashland. Established this fall in Lama Tsering’s honor, this new center was named Minjur Ling by H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. We do Red Tara practice in the morning and perform monthly Tara tsoks with James Kalfas and the Rigdzin Gatsal sangha.
In August 1998 we welcomed Lama Tsering for five days of teachings, which were very well attended. Lama Tsering was moved by people’s receptivity and was inspired to try to visit Minjur Ling whenever she is in the United States. Our sister center is Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling, Lama Tsering’s center in São Paulo, Brazil.
Our first coordinated effort as a Chagdud Gonpa center was the completion of 100,000 Red Tara tsok offerings in October. The ceremony was led by James Kalfas and was attended by Lama Tenzin, our local sangha, and Rigdzin Ling and Rigdzin Gatsal sangha members. An auspicious result of the practice was the acquisition of two large Red Tara statues from Nepal. One statue will go to Brazil and the other to Minjur Ling.
We are honored to be the first center in the United States to be established by Lama Tsering and look forward to her December visit.
