Benchen News Letter
PDF Pages 10-14
Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche at the Benchen center in Verona, Italy
been very kind and generous in sharing
his precious time to give teachings and
initiations in the monastery as well as
in the retreat center, the shedra and
Buddha dharma centers all over the
world. In 2006 Rinpoche traveled Belgium and Germany.
At his main center, Benchen Phuntsok Ling
in Almuthen, Belgium, he gave initiations, and continued and
completed a brief teaching on ‘The Jewel Ornament of Liberation’.
Our Rinpoches at BPL in Belgium
The Children’s Corner
Ground breaking ceremony puja with students
extensive dharma tour. He was invited by one of our Benchen
centers in Malayasia, Benchen Karma Kamsang Ling (BKKL), in
Johorbaru, to perform the ground-breaking ceremony of the center.
The committee members put a lot of effort into arranging the piece
of land and obtaining the necessary permission from the
government, and very much appreciated the great honor of having
the head of the Benchen community perform this auspicious ceremony. At the moment,
construction on the first floor is ongoing, and the
committee members are hoping that that this will be
completed soon. The BKKL group was established by
Tenga Rinpoche during one of his visits to Malaysia, and
since then the group members have been
meeting and performing dharma activities together.
Since returning to his monastery in Kathmandu,
Rinpoche has been engaged in many dharma
activities. At the wish of H.H.
Rinpoche bestowing Guru Rinpoche empowerment
Performing Pujas
transmissions of different texts. Meanwhile, he was requested to
by the organizers of the Karmay Günchö (a gathering of monks from Kagyu shedras in India and
Nepal) to give teachings and oral transmissions to the participants.
After the Karmay Günchö Rinpoche made a short pilgrimage to
Bodhgaya before traveling to Delhi at the request of His Eminence Tai
Situ Rinpoche to continue the oral transmission of the Sheja Dzod.
Rinpoche has been supervising the completion of the shedra. At the
same time, he is preparing and consecrating the mantras that will go into the main Shakyamuni
statue in the main shrine hall, and he is also giving teachings in
the shedra. Between the sessions, Rinpoche goes over to the
retreat center to give the required instructions to the retreatants.
Rinpoche giving a teaching
Taking refuge
Rinpoche at the Singapore Kagyu Center
Rinpoche with H.H. Karmapa in Saranath
Rinpoche will go to Benchen monastery in Tibet to give the cycle
of empowerments, Gyachen Kadzöd, one of the five treasures of
the great Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye.
Benchen Monastery in Tibet