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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.

 

 

Benchen Monastery, March 15, 2023

 Benchen Monastery send this letter of Condolence remembering late Hanne Pohlmann. Please click to enlarge

dok picH.E. Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche will give a 9 day teaching and instruction on Samatha-Vipasyana Meditation  from Jamgön Lodrö Thayé's Treasury of Knowledge. Click here for more information and time table.

If you need any further information please feel free to contact us by phone or Whatsapp:

Thinly Ozer: +977 9869049529
Lopon Dakpa Namgyal: +977 9868822874

Hanne

After a long illness, Hanne Pohlmann passed away on February 20, 2023.

She was a close disciple of venerable Tenga Rinpoche since the late 1970s.
As chairperson of Lotus Direkthilfe e.V. she actively supported the Benchen Phuntsok Dargyeling Monastery in Kathmandu until her last days.

Most of you know Hanne from many years of summer course in Allmuthen.

We will miss you!

Benchen Library, February 18, 2023

༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སངས་རྒྱས་མཉན་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡང་སྲིད་བསྟན་དགའ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་རྣམ་གཉིས་དབུ་བཞུགས་ཀྱིས། རྒྱལ་མཆོག་ཀརྨ་པ་མཐོང་བ་དོན་ལྡན་གྱི་དག་སྣང་ལས་བྱོན་པའི་མགོན་པོ་བེར་ནག་ཅན་གྱི་ཞྭ་ནག་རྔ་འཆམ་དང་གཏོར་རྒྱག་བཅས་ལེགས་པར་གྲུབ།

Presided over by His Eminence Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche and His Eminence Yangsi Tenga Rinpoche, Black Hat Drum Dance (Shanag Ngacham) and Great Torma Offering (Torgyak) were performed on this penultimate day of Gutor (Annual Mahakala Puja). This sacred dance is based on a pure vision of Mahakala experienced by the Sixth Karmapa Thongwa Dönden (1416–1453).

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ལོ་མཇུག་བསྟན་རིམ་མགོན་སྒྲུབ་དགུ་གཏོར་ཆེན་མོའི་སྟོད་ལམ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སྒྲུབ་པ་དང་སྨད་ལས་དགྲ་བགེགས་སྒྲོལ་བའི་གར་འཆམ་གཏོར་རྒྱག་ཧོམ་སྲེག་དང་བཅས་པ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལོ་ལེགས་ངང་ལེགས་པར་གྲུབ།
The annual Mahakala Puja, dedicated for the world and buddha-dharma, was successfully concluded with ritual dances (nirtyam), ritual incineration (torgyak), and ritual fire puja (hom). 

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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 Karma Woesung

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.

We are very happy to inform you that ven. Benchen Khenpo Karma Woesung will be visiting Europe Benchen Phuntsok Ling, Allmuthen.
Khenpo Karma Woesung

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.

On two weekends in March Khenpa La offered to practice Shine (Shamatha) together with him.

The practice of Shine (Sanskrit Shamatha) is the supreme method to achieve true peace and happiness. The quality of our human life not only depends on external development or material progress but also on the inner development of peace and happiness.

For that Shine is the foundation. "Shi" means peace or peaceful, "ne" means abiding. If we practice Shine gradually with diligence and patience our distracting thoughts will eventually subside and we will experience a sense of inner peace and relaxation which in turn will enable us to gain penetrative insight (Lhagtong, Sanskrit Vipashyana). This will benefit ourselves and others.

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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.

 

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:

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14 days of individual retreat
During the sessions everyone does their own practice, everything else is done in the group as in the other retreats.
 
14 days of White Tara practice
The short text of Tenga Rinpoche will be used. We will focus mainly on the creation and completion phases.
Prerequisite: Tara empowerment.
 
14 days "Four Objects of Mindfulness"
Anyone can participate, including people who have not taken refuge.
Meditation on the four objects of mindfulness means focusing mindfulness on the body, on feelings, on the mind and on mental objects.
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.

Benchen Monastery, February 1, 2023

Benchen Sangha joins the Special Kagyu Monlam 2023

Click link for a nice video from Facebook

Benchen Monastery, August 4, 2022

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Benchen Buddha Maitreya Project, March 31, 2019

We invite you to kindly support and make donation to “Benchen Buddha Maitreya Project”

By being a part of the “Benchen Buddha Maitreya Project” through funding or contributing to it, in cash or in kind, one continuously generates and accumulates good merits as long as the temple remains for the benefits of all.

The Buddha taught that one of the supreme means of accumulating merit and wisdom through the body, speech, and mind is by building monasteries and teaching centers.

A Monastery is not just
a place that shelters sacred statues, scriptures, and sangha, but also
a place where the sacred teachings of the Buddha are being taught to benefit so many.

A place where actual healing of the mind begins.
It is not a place where only one person comes but thousands will gather.
It is not where only one person teaches but many great teachers will teach.

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 These are some recent short videos from Benchen primery school. Please click the pictures to watch the videos

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Benchen Library, May 11, 2014

Teachings on" Tendrel" interdependent - arising by H.E. Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche on th 11 May 2014

Click for Session 1 of 2 on Youtube

Click for Session 2 of 2 on YouTube

 

Text Factory, November 2021

Tibetan-German Compilation from Text Factory To download just click this link and save it to your device: Tibetisch von A - Z