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HE Luding Khenchen Rinpoche and HE Luding Khen Rinpoche send their warm Happy Lunar New Year greetings for a prosperous Tiger year in all aspects of our lives and with equanimity. Please find below key news and updates from January and February 2022. Gaya Pilgrimage – Vultures Peak and Nalanda University On 18 February, HE…

On 4 December 2021, HE Luding Khenchen Rinpoche, HE Luding Khen Rinpoche, Luding Shabdrung and HE Luding Khen Rinpoche’s niece, Sonam Palden, together with the Luding sangha, made pilgrimage to the Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya to pay homage to the Tathagata Shakyamuni Buddha. HE Luding Khenchen Rinpoche, HE Luding Khen Rinpoche, Luding Shabrung and the Luding…

On 19 October 2021, the year of the Iron Ox, our Precious Guru His Eminence Sharchen Luding Khen Chen Dorje Chang (HE Khen Chen Rinpoche) will turn 91 years of age. This year, HE Luding Khen Chen Rinpoche’s birthday coincides with the anniversary of the Great Five Sakya Masters Lineage Holders anniversaries dates: Khon Konchok…

On 7 September 2021, we celebrated the 77th birthday of our precious Guru, Kyabgon Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche (His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trichen). This year, His Holiness’ Western and Tibetan birthdays miraculously fell on the same day: something that has happened for the first time since he was born. The monks of Sakya Centre…

On the 2nd day of Losar, to pay respects to His Holiness Sakya Trichen Gongma Rinpoche, Sakya Trizin Gongma Rinpoche and the Holy Family of the Sakya Lineage, HE Luding Khenchen, HE Asangha Vajra Rinpoche, HE Thartse Khenpo, HE Khangsar Shabdrung, Luding Shabdrung Rinpoche, and sister Luding Sonam Paldon visited Dolma Phrodang. We pray that…

His Eminence Luding Khenchen Rinpoche and His Eminence Luding Khen Rinpoche wish you a Happy Losar! His Eminence Luding Khen Rinpoche would like to give you this message: ༄། །དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་སྐུ་ཚེ་མཛད་ཕྲིན་རྒྱས། ། སྤྱི་བྱེའི་བསྟན་པ་འཕེལ་ཞིང་རྒྱས་པ་དང་། འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁམས་ཀྱི་ནད་མུག་འཁྲུག་རྩོད་ཞི། རྫོགས་ལྡན་གསར་པའི་དཔལ་ལ་སྤྱོད་པར་ཤོག ། In the year of the Iron Ox of 2148 Losar, We pray may all the Gurus enjoy excellent health with…

Yamantaka Ritual Vajra Master Loppon Sonam Gyatso From 4 to 10 February, the Great Sixty Torma Offering Ritual of Yamantaka (Yamantaka Ritual) was performed at Ngor Monastery. The Yamantaka Ritual is traditionally performed prior to the celebration of Tibetan Losar. This year, Losar falls on 12 February, which in the Tibetan calendar is the first…

The Omniscient Ngorchen Khonchok Lhundup On 16 January at the Sakya Insitute of Vajrayana (SIV), Venerable Abbot Khenpo Konchok Gyaltsen imparted a series of sacred teachings, beginning with a text composed by the Omnicient Ngorchen Konchok Lhundup. Ngorchen Konchok Lhundup was born in Sakya in the year of 1497 and entered the monastic order at…

His Eminence Thartse Khen Rinpoche presiding over The Great Sakya Monlam at Ngor Monastery The Great Sakya Monlam was performed from 28 December 2020 to 1 January 2021. Due to COVID-19, the Sakya Monlam was not principally performed at one of the four principle Buddhist holy locations, but was performed remotely by monks and nuns…

The Great Choeje Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen The anniversary of the Great Choeje Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (Sakya Pandita) occurred on the 14th day of the 11th month in the Year of the Rat (28 December 2020). To commemorate this holy day, the monks at Ngor Monastery beautifully decorated the main shrine hall with a…

On 25 November 2020, the Sakya Institute of Vajrayana (SIV) held its major exams for all scholar monks of 2020. HE Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen and HE Khenpo Kalzang Gonpo presided over the exams. We pray that the SIV’s monks excel in their studies, follow in the footsteps of the great Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and bring…

HE Khenpo Kalzang Gonpo On 30 October 2020, His Eminence Khen Rinpoche Kalzang Gonpo was enthroned as the principle Khenpo (abbot) of the Sakya Institute of Vajrayana (SIV). The date of the enthronement ceremony was especially auspicious because it coincided with the birthday of His Eminence Luding Khenchen Rinpoche as well as the anniversaries of…