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The Course with Venerable Khenchen Trinley Paljor Rinpoche

Empowerments in New York

June 16-17, 2006

“If you plant corn, corn is what you will get. If you plant weeds, weed wills grow and there is no way around that!” said Venerable Khenchen Trinley Paljor  Rinpoche, explaining simply the principle of cause and effect, during the empowerments he gave recently in New York City.

 

Khenchen Trinley Paljor Rinpoche is one of the chief lineage holders of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhist traditions.  He became a monk at an early age, underwent the traditional three year-three month-and three day retreat three times by the age of thirty, and became a Druponla (retreat master) during his second full retreat.

The 16th Karmapa chose him as the personal tutor of theTrungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche and

Rinpoche has also recently transmitted the highest teachings of the Kagyu ineage to the 17th Karmapa.

 

During the two-day course that our center organized in The Village Quill in mid June,

Khenchen Rinpoche gave four empowerments - Diamond Mind, Marpa, Milarepa, and Green Tara, to more than a hundred practitioners coming from different U.S. cities and abroad.

 

Although the official program ended late in afternoons, many friends had an opportunity to spend more time with Khenchen Rinpoche. On Saturday evening a dinner with Rinpoche was organized to raise funds for building retreat facilities. On Sunday after the empowerments, we were  delighted to host Khenchen Rinpoche as he blessed our new Diamond Way Center in New York.

 

For more about Khenchen Rinpoche visit: http://www.utbf.org/en/teachers /khenchen/.

 

The Today Show "Heaven"

Novemeber 15, 2006

While most main religions preach that there's a heaven, only Buddhism teaches methods to achieve enlightenment during our lifetime. "The only religion that shows the mirror behind the pictures, or the ocean beneath the waves is Buddhism," says Lama Ole Nydahl on NBC's Today show explaining that "heaven on earth is actually a state of mind."

 

For more see Campbell Brown's report: "How Do You Get in Heaven?"

 

To view the segment click http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15624647/.

 

Time Out New York "Wild Westerner"

June 2-8, 2005

As a child in German-occupied Denmark during the Second World War, Lama Ole Nydahl dreamed of fighting for his people - not of battling Nazis in the streets of Copehagen, but of a struggle in the mountains to protect men clad in red skirts. It would stand to reason, then, that the founder of more than 450 Diamond Way Karma Kagyu Buddhist centers throughout the world, and one of the few Western lamas, is not experiencing his first pass on earth. Since meeting his first...

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BBC News "An Act of GOD?"

January 3, 2005

The sweeping devastation and intense horror wrought by the south Asia Tsunami will shake the faith of many "believers". How could a God, or some other force for good, have orchestrated a natural disaster with such dreadful consequences?...

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The Canberra Times "Death can be..."

May 2, 2003

Lots of us agree with Woody Allen when he says, "I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens," but Lama Ole Nydahl thinks we should not only take pains to be there but to be alert enough to enjoy the ride into a "pure realm"...

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The Sunday Times of London "A Life in the Day of Ole Nydahl"

When I wake up, I try to recollect whatever dreams I've had, 'The last third of a night can be really important for signs.' Then I focus on the Buddha, my friends and my helpers. I think: "Today I will benefit beings." Or "Today I will be really useful to people." There's a meditation I like to do every morning, so that the water in the shower takes away the suffering of all beings. I'm never grumpy, even in the morning. I won't say I'm highly enlightened all the time, but I am deep-down happy. It's part of the job...

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