Benchen Monastery Community

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The Benchen Monastery Community is under the spiritual guidance of both His Eminence Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche and the late Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche.

It provides information about the Dharma centers in the East and West which are connected to the Rinpoches. And it provides information about various social welfare projects especially targeted at poor and needy people living in the East.

 
News from the Stupa in Pharping

On June 6, 2013 during the special month Saga Dawa, Chagzö Tashi Özer managed to arrange to transport and place Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche's relic pills, relic bones, Tsatsas, the life force wood, the Drime Namnyi Mandalas and the Kangyur and Tangyur texts in Rinpoche's stupa in Pharping. Sangter Rinpoche together with all khenpos, the drubpön, the dorje lopön and all senior monks have nicely arranged a ceremony, placing all these substances in the vase section of the stupa.
The stupa is 70% completed now.
Here are some nice pictures:

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Summer Course 2013

sc2013We are overjoyed that we can receive Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche for the summer course 2013.

Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche will stay at Benchen Phuntsok Ling throughout the whole summer course from July 27 until August 10.

For all of us it is a very special event. Not only is Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche one of our precious and important teachers but he is also the spiritual leader of all the monasteries and Dharma centres of Benchen Community.

Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche will give teachings based on the "Holy Scriptures of the Kadampas".

Furthermore both of our resident lamas Lama Yönten Palsang and Lama Ngawang Tsültrim will give instructions for various meditation practices.

The teachings will be translated into German and where necessary into English.

Again there will be various workshops.

 

 

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Visit of Kalu Rinpoche 24.-25. August 2013

krWe are very happy that Kalu Rinpoche will visit Benchen Phuntsok Ling from August 24 -25, 2013. The detailed program for this weekend is not fixed yet and we will update you as soon as possible.

Please note this special event!

 
Building a Stupa

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To enshrine Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche's relics we will be building a stupa at Benchen Phuntsok Ling, Allmuthen. It will have the form and the structure of the "Enlightenment Stupa". 
H.H. Karmapa sent a personally signed construction drawing to Benchen Monastery in Nepal indicating that this type of stupa should be constructed for Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche's relics. This particular drawing of the Enlightenment Stupa is based on instructions by the 15th Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje, contained in his collected works, the 'Khakyab Dorje Khabum'.
The location for the stupa in Benchen Phuntsok Ling has been decided and Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche will perform all the necessary rituals preceding the actual building process during this year's summer course. (Dimensions of the stupa will follow).
The costs are estimated to be some 35.000 Euro. We aim to begin with the construction this year and ask all of you to support this project financially.

For any contribution please use the bank account here.
Please mention the purpose: Stupa
Thank you!

See also: The Buddhist Stupa

 
Damngag Dzo Transmissions in 2014

Officially announcing the Damngag Dzo Transmissions in 2014

With the conclusion of the Kagyu Ngagdzo transmissions by H.E. Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche just about a month ago, we already announced some tentative dates for the Damngag Dzo transmissions next year. For technical reasons these have to be adjusted a little. The transmissions will begin ten days later than originally announced, on 8 October 2014. They will continue until 18 November after which there has to be a three week break for our bi-annual Vajrakila Drubchen of Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa's Sabdun Phurpa to be conducted.

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100 Million Tara Mantras

w._taraIn July of 2011 the Lord of refuge Dorje Chang Tenga Rinpoche asked his disciples to participate in the accumulation of 100,000,000 Tara Mantras to free beings from all fear and obstacles for the years of 2011 and 2012. By now there are 50,000,000 Mantras accumulated.
Even though 2012 has ended to fulfill Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche's wishes we invite everybody to join in the recitation of 100,000,000 Mantras with the aspiration to protect all beings from fear and suffering and also for the quick return of Dorje Chang Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche and the fulfillment of all his vast aspirations for beings and the Dharma.

You can send your amount of recited Tara Mantras directly to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

We will regularly publish the number of already accumulated Mantras.

57,070,968 Mantras are already collected until April 24, 2013. Thank you for joining!