ས་གནས་འདིའི་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཞིག་གི་སློབ་མ་འགའ་ཤས་ལ་བྱམས་དང་སྙིང་རྗེའི་སྐོར་ཆོས་བཤད་བྱས་པས་དགེ་སློབ་ཡོངས་ཤིན་ཏུ་ནས་དགའ་བོ་བྱུང་སོང་།
Today (April 28th, 2026), I was very happy to host a group of students from the York School. This is the 4th year in a row in which students visited the Manjushri Dharma Center. In accordance with the request of the teachers and students, I gave a teaching on cultivating a mind of compassion and loving-kindness for all, even in the face of great tyranny and adversity, some of which can be found here (https://drive.google.com/…/1XQive5PbsBURHOoiKDe…/view…). The students seemed very pleased, and I myself am always very happy to teach the younger generation.

Written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche with help from Karma Tensung, originally posted to Facebook and Instagram.  

Background:  This was a group of 15 junior and senior high school students taking a world religions class with Professor Dan Gurska.  He explained his approach in a 2024 email: “What I am aiming for with these experiential learning opportunities is to help students really grasp how people practice their respective traditions, rather than simply inundating them with academic approaches. Many of my students haven’t stepped foot in a synagogue, church, mosque, or temple before. I sincerely believe that it can be a really meaningful and transformative experience to visit sacred spaces and meet ambassadors to the respective faith. My goal is to cultivate compassion and understanding in our community. “