Jamgon Lodroe Thaye's Treasury of Knowledge

Benchen Monastery, April 19, 2022

Benchen Monastery announce that his Eminence Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche agreed to teach on Jamgon Lodro Thaye's Treasury of Knowledge. On the condition that the pandamic subsides in the coming months, the teaching is tentatively schedules to take place from 6-15th December 2022 at Benchen Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal

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Buddha Maitreya Project, 18.02.2023 -- online

We are very happy to inform you that on 18 February at 19:30 CET ven. Benchen Khenpo Karma Woesung will be speaking to us on Zoom.

Khenpo La is the teacher of Yangsi Tenga Rinpoche.
He is a monk of Benchen Monastery, obtained his Khenpo degree at the Shedra in Rumtek and completed a traditional three-year retreat at the Benchen Retreat Centre in Pharping. He thus combines the qualities of a scholar and practitioner in one person.
At the monastery he is also - together with Chadzo Tashi Öser, Lopön Dendup Taschi and Lama Zopa Gyatso - responsible for the Buddha Maitreya Project.
He will give a first-hand account of Benchen Monastery in Kathmandu, which will be particularly interesting after the long period of not being able to visit Nepal.

In mid-March there will also be the precious opportunity to practise Shine (Shamatha) with him, the teacher Yangsi Tenga Rinpoches, here in Europe Benchen Phuntsok Ling, Allmuthen.
This will be possible on two weekends in March, 17-19 March and 24-26 March.
We will give details in another newsletter in a few days.
We are very happy that we can make our annual programme richer with these wonderful events.

The session will be conducted as a Zoom meeting (about 60 minutes).

Further details will be published in the BPL Newsletter. 

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Benchen Monastery, August 4, 2022

Inauguration of the newly built monk's dinning hall by H.E Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche

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Losar Mönlam, 17.-21.2.2023 -- Allmuthen

After three years the Losar Mönlam 2023 will finally happen again on-site in Allmuthen, Belgium.

No Zoom Meeting.

Following the advice of our venerable teacher Tenga Rinpoche, we will again celebrate the prayer festival Mönlam (tib.: "smon lam") this year for the Tibetan New Year (Losar). Losar this year falls on February 21 and ushers in the year 2150, the female Water Rabbit Year.

"Mönlam" means aspiration prayer. Tibetan Buddhists - monks, nuns and lay people - from around the world will gather at Losar to perform wishing prayers for the benefit of all living beings. Aspiration prayers have a very important meaning as they lay the foundation for our future. All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have said countless wishful prayers.