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In a letter to his disciples from 1998 Tenga Rinpoche describes his vision of Benchen Phuntsok Ling:
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After two years of a complete shutdown due to COVID 19, last year Benchen Phuntsok Ling started to opening again step-by-step for onsite courses. Yet the summer coure 2022 was still online.
Fortunately, this year's summer course will once again take place on-site!
These are the dates for the Summer Seminar 2023 in Benchen Phuntsok Ling in Allmuthen, Belgium.
We are very happy to continue the series of summer courses in Allmuthen!
Like every year the week before the actual teaching period a three-days Drölkar (White Tara) ritual will happen and after the teaching period a three-days Gönkar (White Protector) retreat will take place.
Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche has, therefore, chosen Khenpo Karma Yonten Gyatso and Lama Ngawang Tsultrim to perform the summer course onsite in Allmuthen.
Please note that this year no Zoom meeting will be offered.
Read more: Benchen Phuntsok Ling Summer Course 2023 -- Allmuthen
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Even in summer, it can be cool in the evening and at night. Things to bring: warm sleeping bag and warm clothes, rain gear, rubber boots, comfortable seat cushions, blankets, and flashlights.
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Accommodation in BPL in your own tent. It is also possible to bring a recreational vehicle or caravan to be set up in the designated fields. It is required to inform us in advance. Information on private accommodations:
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Due to hygienic and legal reasons, pets are not allowed in the entire property.
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Vegetarian Meals will be provided from Tuesday evening, 18 July until Saturday noon, 5 August.
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Child Care: Only if there are enough registrations by 1 July. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. latest until July 1 and mention the name and age of your children and the exact duration of your stay. We will check if it is possible to organize childcare.
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Assistance: At the registration, you will be assigned to a job according to your personal capacity. It is much easier for everyone if all the work is assisted by many people. Our low cost heavily depends on this. Furthermore, we are looking for people who are willing to take responsibilities as coordinators during the summer course.
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Video recordings are only allowed with prior written permission of the Benchen Phuntsok Ling Trust. All publications (text, visual, audio, internet etc.) require the explicit written permission of the Benchen Phuntsok Ling Trust.
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Parking: Only in the designated parking areas, so that the local farmers have their ways free.
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Sewage Plant: At Benchen Phuntsok Ling, a modern biological sewage plant is installed. Its bio-organisms are very fragile. There must be no chemicals, camping toilet waste or any similar objects discharged into the waste water system. The resulting damage is approx. 30,000 €.
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Drug consumption of any kind in the entire property is strictly prohibited.
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Respect the bedtime from 22:30. No music and no noise, particularly.
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Don’t forget: Benchen Phuntsok Ling is a meditation center.
All four retreats in 2022 have been very positive and have taken place in a nice and harmonious way.
Important: General Information about the Retreats in Allmuthen by Lama Ngawang Tsultrim
2023 the following retreats will be offered in Europe Benchen Phuntsok Ling:
For this life and also for future lives it is very important to practise mindfulness. A lot of things go wrong in our lives. This comes from a lack of mindfulness. The distracted mind is an unhappy mind.
Mindfulness can be trained. If we want good health, success at work and just a happy life in general, it is very important to train one's mindfulness.
Advice by Lama Ngawang Tsultrim as given in his letter from 2022.
"Dear Sangha,

By practicing Dharma there, it will be a place of extraordinary benefit to oneself and others.
These were his words, which he shared with all his students in a letter before he left for Nepal.
And at the beginning of the 2020 Summer Course, in the advice that H.E. Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche gave us via WhatsApp, he said very clearly that we were very fortunate to have been in the Dharma for many years and to have received many precious teachings and initiations from high teachers. We had read so many Dharma books - but without practice we cannot attain liberation and so now was really the time to practice, do retreat and gain experience as much as possible.
Thus, both of our Rinpoches have given the advice and instruction that we should do retreat as much as possible.
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