H.E. SANGYE NYENPA RINPOCHE’S
VISIT TO INDIA

After visiting the retreatants, Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche left for New Delhi and then Dharamsala. Nyenpa Rinpoche had been asked by H.H. Karmapa to give the Rinchen Terdzod oral transmission, which consists of 63 volumes. Before the transmission started, he had a private audience with H.H. Karmapa and received blessings. The next day the oral transmission began and was carried out in two sessions a day, and was completed within a month. Besides H.H. Karmapa, there were H.E. Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Bogangkar Rinpoche, and others. During his stay there, Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche’s 41.^th birthday (according to western calendar) was celebrated. After completion of the transmission, His Holiness wanted him to stay a couple more days, but his schedule for Situ Rinpoche’s monastery was fixed and he only managed to stay one more day with His Holiness. They had a wonderful visit together.

Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche celebrating his birthday with H.H. Karmapa

The next day, Rinpoche left for Situ Rinpoche’s monastery, Sherab Ling, to continue the oral transmission of the Rinchen Terdzod, which had started last year at the request of Situ Rinpoche. After completion of his dharma activities in India, he returned to Benchen Monastery, Kathmandu for the 2006 celebration.

Offering lung to H.H. Karmapa

Until the dharma tour of 2006, Rinpoche will remain at Benchen Monastery in Kathmandu, where he continues to help his monks in their studies and practice. At the same time, he is taking the Tengyur oral transmission from Tenga Rinpoche.