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Happy Losar! Tibetan New Year 2152!
2025-02-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Friday, February 28th, 2025, marks the first day after the new moon in the first month of the Tibetan lunar new year, called Losar. “Lo” means year and “Sar” means new. 2152 is the “Year of the Wood Snake.”
Happy Losar!

Image: Monk dancing during Tibetan New Year (Losar) on Wikimedia
More info on Losar on Wikipedia

Online Losar Event hosted by the Buddhist Studies Institute
2025-03-05 18:00 - 19:30 | online event, CA, United States
Rinpoche recently posted this event, which is hosted by the Buddhist Studies Institute, on his Facebook page. It is open to all, hosted online via Zoom. Details are below–must register to receive the Zoom link.

Happy Losar!

Tibetan New Year Celebration

Register for Zoom Link Here

All are welcome to join Pema Khandro for our annual Tibetan Lunar New Year Celebration This is a free online program; open to the public.

Losar Address with Pema Khandro
Vajrakilaya Phurba Dance
Celebration of 21-Day Meditation Marathoners
Dedications of Merit
Year of the Wood Snake Begins!

Tibetan Uprising Day 2025
2025-03-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Windows on the Bay, Corner of Del Monte and Camino El Estero, Monterey, 93940, United States
Join us on Monday, March 10th, 2025 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm PST in-person at Windows on the Bay, the corner of Del Monte and El Estero (703 Del Monte Ave, Monterey, CA 93940) as we join a day of international protests known as Tibetan Uprising Day.
Please note: Protesters cannot step into the street or hand out leaflets to cars, as per a city safety mandate. Signs will be provided, or you may bring your own. We will be there rain or shine.
The annual protest on Tibetan Uprising Day is very special to Rinpoche, an event that he has organized with the MDC annually for many years. 2024 marks 66 years of oppression and resistance. Rinpoche will be traveling on that day, but his students and supporters in Monterey will continue to make our community aware of the ongoing human rights abuses in Tibet, in solidarity with such protests around the world.

Since the Chinese occupation in 1959, more than one million Tibetans have been killed. To fly a Tibetan flag, even mention His Holiness the Dalai Lama, send an email abroad, or say the phrase “human rights,” is cause for imprisonment and torture. 99% of all Tibetan monasteries have been closed. These horrors and atrocities continue today throughout Tibet. The situation is desperate and worsening; the Tibetan people and their culture are being systematically attacked.
Around one million Tibetan children are forced to attend government boarding schools. Children as young as four are educated with CCP-approved lesson plans and taught almost entirely in Chinese. In some parts of Tibet, parents must attend language classes to make sure that Chinese is spoken at home. Buddhist monasteries are told to shut down their free language classes. Tibetan educators are threatened or detained for offering language instruction to children. Even the name “Tibet” is under threat.
Xizang Tibet
In an act of colonial violence, the CCP is pushing for English-language references around Tibet to be changed to “Xizang”, the Chinese name for Tibet imposed by the Chinese government.
Yet, Tibetans continue to stand up against this repression in a non-violent way, as they have each year for over 66 years. We cannot let the world forget. Please lend your voice to peace, justice, and freedom: Support Tibet!
Tibet is the least free country on earth. Tibet must be free
Learn the latest and how you can help at the UK-based Free-Tibet website or the US-based Students For A Free Tibet.

PBS Frontline: Battle for Tibet

PBS Frontline: Battle for Tibet Aired on Tuesday, February 18, 20257:00pm Pacific/9:00pm Central/10:00 pm Eastern
Can be viewed on PBS app for free

Opinion | Dalai Lama:
My hope for the Tibetan people –
The Washington Post

Tibetans have spent nearly 75 years fighting for freedom. Their struggle should continue beyond my lifetime.
Published in the Washington Post on March 6, 2025. Shared by email from Khenpo Karten Rinpoche on March 10, 2025.
Link to read article in Washington Post (requires subscription, which can be canceled anytime) Need help accessing? Contact manjushridharmacenter831.org.

Rinpoche shared this video, which is on Facebook, posted by Lobsang Tsering Taying Tsang on March 10, 2025.

གསུམ་བཅུའི་དུས་དྲན་ཐེངས་༦༦ པ།
ཁྱེད་ཚོའི་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ཅི་འདྲ་རླབས་ཆེ་ལ། མིས་ལྟས་ན་ཡིད་དུ་འོང་བ་འདུག ད་དུང་སོག་པོ་དང་ཐེ་ཝན་གྱི་དར་ཆ་མཉམ་དུ་ཡོད་ན་ཅི་མ་རུང་། མི་རབས་གསར་པ་ཁྱེད་ཚོས་རྣམ་དཔྱོད་དང་བློ་གྲོས་ཀྱིས་དེ་རིང་འཛམ་གླིང་ཚན་རྩལ་གྱི་ཁྲོད་དུ་གོམ་པ་མཉམ་དུ་སྤོ་ཐུབ་པའི་ངེས་པ་རྙེད་སོང་། ད་ལྟའི་ང་ཚོས་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་ལང་ཕྱོགས་ནི་ཁྱིས་ཆུ་བཅད་པ་ལྟ་བུའམ། མདོར་ན་དགྲ་གཉེན་གོ་ལྡོག་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་སུ་གྱུར་ཟིན། ང་ཚོའི་མ་འོངས་པའི་ལས་དབང་དེ་མགོ་འབུལ་ལས་འབུལ་གྱི་མི་རིགས་ཆེན་པོ་ནང་དུ་བྲན་གཡོག་མི་བྱེད་པར་རང་དབང་སླར་གསོ་ཐུབ་པའི་རེ་བ་ཁྱེད་ཅག་ལ་བསྐྱང་ཡོད། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ། བོད་རྒྱལ་ལོ།

May all cultures and peoples live together in harmony and peace.

2025 Amitabha Pureland Retreat in Taiwan
2025-03-13 17:30 - 2025-03-16 02:30 | online event, CA, United States
Rinpoche will be leading an Amitabha Retreat in Taiwan at the Taichung City Deguang Cultural and Educational Foundation, and our Dharma brothers and sisters there kindly agreed to allow Rinpoche’s international sangha to attend via Zoom. Even though the proceedings will be in Tibetan and translated into Chinese, Rinpoche’s English speaking students can still benefit by seeing Rinpoche and soaking in the good energy of the practice. It’s a late night puja for us!
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Text: Here is the Amitabha Retreat Text in Chinese and Tibetan (sorry, no English). Participants will recognize and can use the familiar Amitabha sadhana, which is in Tibetan, English, and Chinese: The Recitation for Accomplishment of Sukhavati from the Sky Dharma Mind Terma.

2025 Amitabha Pure Land Retreat
Retreat Dates & Sessions:

Friday, March 14, 2025 (full moon day)
Session 1: 08:30 to 10:00 Taipei Time (Thursday, March 13, at 5:30pm to 7:00pm Pacific Time)–UPDATE –THIS SESSION MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE VIA ZOOM (Releasing of the animals–in-person event)
Session 2: 10:30 to 12:00 Taipei Time (Thursday, March 13, at 7:30pm to 9:00pm Pacific Time)–UPDATE –THIS SESSION MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE VIA ZOOM (Releasing of the animals–in-person event)
Session 3: 14:00 to 15:30 Taipei Time (Thursday, March 13, at 11:00pm to 12:30am Pacific Time)–THIS MAY BE FIRST SESSION AVAILABLE VIA ZOOM–NOTE THAT IS IS ALSO THE START OF THE FULL MOON, A TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE, AND MARKS CHOTRUL DUCHEN
Session 4: 16:00 to 17:30 Taipei Time (Friday, March 14, at 1:00am to 2:30am Pacific Time)
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Session 1: 08:30 to 10:00 Taipei Time (Friday, March 14, at 5:30pm to 7:00pm Pacific Time)
Session 2: 10:30 to 12:00 Taipei Time (Friday, March 14, at 7:30pm to 9:00pm Pacific Time)
Session 3: 14:00 to 15:30 Taipei Time (Friday, March 14, at 11:00pm to 12:30am Pacific Time)
Session 4: 16:00 to 17:30 Taipei Time (Saturday, March 15, at 1:00am to 2:30am Pacific Time)
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Session 1: 08:30 to 10:00 Taipei Time (Saturday, March 15, at 5:30pm to 7:00pm Pacific Time)
Session 2: 10:30 to 12:00 Taipei Time (Saturday, March 15, at 7:30pm to 9:00pm Pacific Time)
Session 3: 14:00 to 15:30 Taipei Time (Saturday, March 15, at 11:00pm to 12:30am Pacific Time)
Session 4: 16:00 to 17:30 Taipei Time (Sunday, March 16 at 1:00am to 2:30am Pacific Time)

Chötrul Düchen Full Moon Celebration of Miracles & Lunar Eclipse
2025-03-13 23:00 - 2025-03-14 23:00 | CA
Chötrul Düchen is one of four major Tibetan Buddhist holy days, celebrated on the first full moon after lunar new year. It is known as the Butter Lamp Festival, Festival of Lights, or Great Day of Miraculous Manifestations. It commemorates the day that Buddha Shakyamuni settled the question of his enlightenment with naysayers by performing many miracles. This full moon day is considered a “merit multiplier” day, with the effects of both positive and negative actions multiplied ten million times. This year, the moon will be full over the evening of Thursday, March 13th into the early hours of Friday, March 14th. Additionally, this year, there will be a total lunar eclipse visible on the west coast at roughly 11pm Pacific Time, and 2am Eastern. On this auspicious day, we rejoice that Khenpo Karten Rinpoche is giving Amitabha teachings to our Taiwan Dharma family–Khenpo La’s international sangha can join in via Zoom on this special occasion–see the Zoom link and details here: 2025 Amitabha Retreat in Taiwan
Learn More: The Story of the 15 Days of Miracles, Rigpa Wiki-Brief Explanation of Chotrul Duchen
Learn More: Total Lunar Eclipse March 13-14, 2025

Singapore Amitabha Retreat
2025-03-23 | online event, CA, United States
No further details but will keep Sangha posted if we can join via Zoom.

Hosted at:
Kagyu Monlam Singapore
6B Lorong 7 Geylang, Level 3
Singapore 388790

TEACHING SCHEDULE & Zoom Link TBD

Malaysia Teaching & Meditation
2025-03-29 | CA
No further details but will keep all posted!

Rinpoche Returns Home--Kata Ceremony ~ 7-9pm
2025-04-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Ven. Khenpo Karten Rinpoche
We have details! Rinpoche will land in Monterey at 8pm on Tuesday, April 1st. It’s suggested that you come to the Manjushri Dharma Center by 7pm and plan to wait until 9pm–as due to travel, Rinpoche may be home early or late. We will welcome Rinpoche home with a traditional kata ceremony (white silk scarf used to show respect). Katas provided. Offerings of flowers for the altar or healthy food (Rinpoche is diabetic) for his fridge is welcome!
Rinpoche will be very tired, so after we welcome him home, we will depart quickly and let him rest. Please remember to let him rest this coming week, and honor the “monk’s office hours” and not contact him prior to 12pm PT if possible. (He uses the mornings for his personal practice).
We will all be together on Saturday, April 5th for meditation–hope to see you there!

Garden Volunteer Day
2025-04-19 11:00 - 13:00 | CA
Calling all volunteers! We are hosting “Garden Volunteer Day #5: Weeding with Warm Hearts” 🙂 Many hands make light work and we will focus on the happy weeds springing up after the rains. Don’t worry, they will spring up elsewhere! We can help balance their immense success allowing our flowers more room to grow. Our last garden volunteer day was in January before Rinpoche’s travel, so there is much to do! If you can lend even 15 minutes (or an hour, or two) after meditation on Saturday, April 19th, 2025, you will make a monk happy! Thanks to all volunteers of the past, present, and future!
We will supply: coffee/tea/goodies and a few garden tools
You should supply: your own garden gloves, tools you like, etc.
Many thanks and hope to see you there!
Questions? Contact Rachel at rachelichristo@gmail.com or 831-277-0529

All-Sangha Meeting 2025
2025-06-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Annual All-Sangha Meeting
Saturday, June 14, 2025
11:00am Pacific Time (after meditation)
In-person and on Zoom
Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Every year, the spiritual community of the Manjushri Dharma Center comes together to reflect on the past year, envision the year ahead, and confirm our Board Members for the next term. Join us after meditation on Saturday, June 14th to hear a brief overview of the state of center and goals for the future.

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Summer Solstice Blessing of the Waters 2025
2025-06-20 18:00 - 18:30 | Lover’s Point Beach, 17th St and Ocean View Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Friday June 20th, 2025 is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. For many years now, at both summer and winter solstices, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche offers a Blessing of the Waters, by reciting two prayers that he composed, Propitiating the Devas of the Four Elements and the Prayer for World Peace.We now have a new prayer book with many other prayers as well. This year, we will meet again in person at Lover’s Point Beach. We will gather in community and send our good energy to the ocean, to all the waters of the world, and to all of nature and humanity. Attendees are asked to bring flower petals/flowers for the offering.
Because this practice is on the beach, there is no opportunity for us to also broadcast online (as far as known).
This practice may also be done by any person in they place they live. Practitioners may download these prayers to recite at the beach, by a river, or wherever you choose outside in nature. Bring some flowers to offer and send your good energy and wishes for healing to the waters of the world, all the elements of nature, and all sentient beings.
Here is an “instruction on how to practice” the Blessing of the Waters, composed by Rinpoche and Pema Tsultrim/Aaron (past MDC President) with more information on how to conduct a “do-it-yourself” Blessing of the Waters ceremony. Instructions on Blessing the Waters
Tashi Delek!
Prayer for World Peace
Through roots of goodness of us all on this vast earth,
May all living creatures become full of
love and compassion,
So that all enjoy peace on earth!
Stop bad intentions, thoughts and deeds
of all those who terrorize others,
That all living beings on this earth
come together like one family!
May all be well, have long life and health
with bliss of mind, free of illusion.
May all mothers have oceans of bliss
of body, for now, and ultimately of mind.
May this lamp of wisdom love, oneness,
highest remedy to clear darkness,
Enter the hearts of all living beings,
so their perfect path be illumined!

Footnote to Prayer for World Peace: In the name of all religions on earth, as I see and hear of increasingly many unwarranted harmful actions being enacted, thinking, with a joyful, universal aspiration, how wonderful it would be if all such activities ceased entirely. Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, on 2-4-2015, on Wednesday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s auspicious day, wrote this dedication prayer to be recited at the conclusion of other prayers, meditation, or practices.
Images: Header is from 2020 summer solstice, photographer unknown, same for first of the three combined photos–last two are from 2017 summer solstice, photographer Bill Cox.

Traditional Tibetan Medicine with Dr. Jetsun Cheme
2025-06-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Traditional Tibetan Medicine
Dr. Jetsun Cheme
Saturday, June 21st, 2025
11:00am Pacific Time (after meditation)
In-person event
Manjushri Dharma Center
When Rinpoche was in New York, he had an appointment with the well-known Dr. Jetsun Cheme, at the Jetsun Kunphen Ling Center in Elmhurst, NY. Rinpoche was so impressed with her skills, he invited her to California, and she accepted! After meditation on Saturday, June 21st, Dr. Cheme will see anyone who wishes to be examined by her. She known to be an intuitive healer, and she will offer a pulse reading consultation. She does not charge for her services, only for the herbal medicines she may recommend.
More about Dr. Jetsun Cheme

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 90th Birthday Celebration in the MDC Backyard
2025-07-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
The MDC will celebrate the momentous occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday in the MDC backyard! The event will take place after meditation on Saturday, July 5th, at 11:00AM. (Actually, His Holiness’s birthday is July 6th but we will celebrate a day early when we are all together). This is a luckypot (potluck) so bring whatever food you like! The spiritual leader, father, and protector of the Tibetan people, manifestation of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion; please do join us to celebrate the life of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso La, a Buddha appearing in human form.

ཁྱེད་ས་སྟེང་འདིར་བཞུགས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས། ང་ཚོ་ལ་སྤོབས་པ་ཡོད།
ཁྱེད་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདིར་ཕེབས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས། ང་ཚོའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཡིན།
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་གསུངས་ཐོས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས། ང་ཚོའི་སེམས་ལ་བདེ་སྐྱིད་སྟེར།
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་ཞལ་མཇལ་བ་ཙམ་གྱིས། ང་ཚོའི་སེམས་ཀྱི་ཟུག་རྔུ་སེལ།
“Your mere presence on this earth gives us encouragement,
Your mere arrival on this soil is our meritorious good fortune.
The mere sound of your voice is a symphony which hearing brings us great happiness,
And with the mere sight of your face, all our sorrows disappear and joyfulness dawns.”
~Khenpo Karten Rinpoche

Dzam Ling Chi Sang: Universal Prayer Day Smoke Puja
2025-07-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Universal Prayer Day, or Dzam Ling Chi Sang, is celebrated on the full moon of the 15th day of the 5th month of the Tibetan Lunar calendar, which is July 10, 2025 of the Gregorian calendar. It is a time for spiritual cleansing. Tibetans hang prayer flags and burn juniper twigs. Rinpoche will lead us in a smoke puja in the backyard of the Manjushri Dharma Center, and the ceremony will go for one hour from (approximately) 10:00AM to 11:00AM. Participants are invited to wear all white clothing to symbolize purification. After the Dzam Ling Chi Sang ceremony, all are invited to stay for tea.
“Here is a brief history of Dzam Ling Chi Sang . During the time of Trisong Detsen , the first emperor of Tibet , there were many evil mountain deities in Tubo Kingdom. Guru Rinpoche was invited to Tibet to subdue these evil deities and turned them into Dharma protectors instead. Also after Samye Monastery was built, Guru Rinpoche held a ceremony to give thanks to all the deities, nagas, yakshas, devas and so on. During the day, humans built Samye Monastery but at night, all the devas and spirits continue to construct the temple. That is why at the completion of Samye Monastery, Guru Rinpoche held a smoke offering ceremony to commemorate this and to honor the deities. This is the beginning of Dzam Ling Chi Sang since the time of Guru Rinpoche till the present day. Also Sang is Tibetan for incense powder which is also used to purify our body, speech and mind.”
From Rinpoche’s 2023 Facebook post
Questions? Contact Rachel (MDC volunteer/president) at rachel.i.christo@gmail.com.

Chökhor Düchen - First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma
2025-07-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Please join Rinpoche and the MDC to celebrate Chökhor Düchen – ‘The First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma’ with a Buddha Shakyamuni Puja. This is an important holiday in which we honor the day that the Buddha Shakyamuni first taught after attaining enlightenment. For seven weeks after his enlightenment, Buddha did not teach. Finally, encouraged by Indra and Brahma, he turned the Wheel of Dharma for the first time, at Sarnath, by teaching the ‘Four Noble Truths’. Before the event, please read Rinpoche’s in-depth Teaching and blog Essence of Buddhism As Related to the Four Noble Truths (http://www.khenpokarten.org/2019/10/normal.html)
Text for evening: Treasury-of-Blessings-Shakyamuni-Practice-byMiphamRinpoche
About Chökhor Düchen
Chökhor Düchen is one of the four great occassions (Losar, Saga Dawa, Choekhor Duchen and Lhabab Duchen) celebrated by all Tibetan Buddhists. During those times, it is believed that the effects of positive or negative actions are multiplied ten million times. It falls in the Tibetan Lunar calendar in the 6th month, 4th day. Choekhor means “Prayer Wheel” or “Dharma Wheel”, the common religious objects in Tibet, and Duchen means “great occasion” in Tibetan. Hand held wheels are hollow wooden or metal cylinders attached to a handle which are printed with mantras and when turned spread spiritual blessing. Mantras invoke the attention and blessings of the Buddhas, for example —Om Mani Padme Hum–the mantra of Chenrezig also known as Avalokiteshvara who is the Buddha of Compassion, invokes great love, compassion, and wisdom. Tradition has it that Buddha was not convinced that teaching what he had discovered through his meditations could be communicated in a way that would be of any benefit to others. It took the intercession of the great gods, Brahma and Indra, to persuade him to do so for the benefit of all sentient beings. The Buddha then addressed the five people who had been his companions during the time spent with the forest yogins, and taught this first teaching–the Four Noble Truths.

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18th Annual Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup 2025
2025-08-16 07:00 - 2025-08-18 16:00 | Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association, 4401 NE 122nd Avenue, Portland, OR, 97230, United States
The 18th Annual Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup with the Venerable Khenpo Karten Rinpoche will be held over two weekends in late August in Portland, Oregon and Trout Lake, Washington. The annual event is hosted by the Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association. The event is held in Tibetan and there will not be an English translator, but all are welcome to join and enjoy the special energy of the practice of Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light.
Note that the first weekend will be held at the NTCA in Portland, and the second weekend will be held at the Mount Adams Buddhist Temple (also known as Trout Lake Abbey), the home of Rinpoche’s Dharma brother Thay Kozen. Rinpoche is encouraging participation from his western students for either weekend, but especially for the second/closing weekend.
More details/carpooling: We started a “google doc” to encourage carpooling and to help with travel coordination. Attendees will be responsible for their own transportation and accommodations, but the Portland sangha is offering to pick folks up from the airport.
If you plan to attend, please contact Pema Tsomo at 503-544-3938.
Text in Tibetan: Here’s a copy of the Sadhana ‘Dechen Shingdrup’
The detailed schedule is below in English and Tibetan.

18th Annual Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup 2025
2025-08-22 07:00 - 2025-08-24 16:00 | Mount Adams Buddhist Temple, 46 Stoller Rd, Trout Lake, WA, 98650-9712, United States

Welcome Back Rinpoche! Kata Ceremony
2025-08-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Please note–there is no fixed time for this event–due to travel, timeline may vary!
Rinpoche will land in Monterey at 7:15pm on Friday, August 29th, 2025, after leading the 18th Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup in Portland, OR and Trout Lake, WA for that past two weeks. We will welcome our dear teacher with a traditional kata ceremony (white silk scarf used to show respect). It’s suggested that you come to the Manjushri Dharma Center by 7pm and plan to wait until 8pm–as due to travel, Rinpoche may be home early or late. Katas provided. Offerings of flowers for the altar or healthy food (Rinpoche is diabetic) to stock his refrigerator is welcome!
Rinpoche will be very tired, so after we welcome him home, we will depart quickly and let him rest. Please remember to let him rest in the coming week and honor the “monk’s office hours”–do not contact him prior to 12pm PT if possible. (He uses the mornings for his personal practice).
We will all be together on Saturday, August 30th for meditation if Rinpoche is up for it–please check the website to make sure it’s still on.
Welcome back Rinpoche!

Refuge Ceremony October 2025
2025-10-01 10:00 - 11:30 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Taking refuge has a very profound meaning, and Buddhist practitioners take refuge regularly in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha–but there is also a very special refuge ceremony. In a refuge ceremony, you are formally becoming a Buddhist and creating a deep karmic link with the teacher. You commit yourself to the path of love and compassion and to awakening the non-dualistic freedom that already exists within you.
If any member of the community would like to take refuge with Rinpoche, he has chosen an auspicious date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from 10-11am at the Manjushri Dharma Center. Please contact him in person or by phone at 831-917-3969 to make arrangements.
Those who have already taken refuge may join the ceremony to renew their vows.
The meaning of taking refuge is very profound, and there are many layers. Taking refuge does involve certain specific commitments, and Rinpoche wrote about the 5 Precepts and Benefits of Precepts of Refuge. The Refuge Vow Book may be presented to each person taking refuge with Rinpoche. The date & your Dharma name will be added in the back of the book–if no books are available, you will be given a piece of paper with your Dharma name.

5 Precepts + Benefits and Precepts of Refuge
Refuge Vow Book Example

Here are a few additional resources explaining the meaning of the refuge ceremony in Buddhism (these are not directly from Rinpoche):
https://www.samyeling.org/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/choje-akong-tulku-rinpoche/the-meaning-of-taking-refuge/
https://www.lionsroar.com/the-decision-to-become-a-buddhist/
Questions? Contact Rachel at rachelmdc2016@gmail.com.
Image: One of a Pair of Manuscript Covers from the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra); Original public domain image from Art Institute of Chicago.

Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup--Northern California
2025-10-03 08:00 - 2025-10-05 16:00 | Sera Jey Foundation, 6712 Portola Drive, El Cerrito, 94530
The second annual Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup with the Venerable Khenpo Karten Rinpoche in Northern California will be held over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 3-5. The exact times and details are TBD. This special event is hosted by the Tibetan Association of Northern California in Richmond, CA. The event is held in Tibetan and there will not be an English translator, but all are welcome to join and enjoy the special energy of the practice of Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light.
Important Notes:

The event is held in Tibetan and there will not be an English translator, but all are welcome to join and enjoy the special energy of the practice of Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light.
Here’s a copy of the Sadhana ‘Dechen Shingdrup’ (Tibetan text only)
Breakfast and lunch will be provided (vegetarian). All meals are sponsored by community members and offered free of charge.
They will have cushions there and chairs, but participants should bring their own cushions (whatever will help make your sit comfortable).
They may need help with food preparation and/or cleanup, so come early/stay late if you can offer to volunteer

Shrine room etiquette
Rinpoche is informal here in California, but it is good for students to know how to show respect in a traditional way in the gompa (shrine room):

Remove shoes and hats before entering the gompa
As soon as you enter, make 3 prostrations in the direction of the altar
When the teacher enters, please stand and bow slightly, hold your hands in prostration or “lotus blossom” at your heart
After the teacher makes 3 prostrations and sits down, the students then make 3 prostrations before sitting down
Keep all texts, Buddha images, or images of the Lama off the floor
Do not show the soles of your feet to the teacher/altar during the session. (Exceptions can be made for those with back problems or leg problems or anyone who needs to stretch their legs–use a scarf or cloth to cover your feet as you extend and stretch is good.)
Dress modestly, don’t show too much bare skin or wear super-tight or revealing clothing
Feel free to move and adjust your sitting position, but try not to disturb others; as you leave make a slight bow to the altar/teacher before turning away
At the end of the whole retreat, there will be a “kata ceremony” where white silk scarves are presented to Rinpoche as a sign of respect and thanks, and typically attendees also give “dana” at this time–a special monetary offering. Please bring your own kata if you have one. Dana should be concealed in an envelope.

Blessing of the Butterflies 2025
2025-10-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Monarch Grove Butterfly Sanctuary, 250 Ridge Road,, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Every year, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche prays together with the Pacific Grove community for the monarch butterflies as they make their epic 3000 mile migration, stopping at the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary. The monarchs need prayers more than ever.
Typically in October, monarch butterflies cluster together on pine, cypress and eucalyptus trees in the Sanctuary. Their migration to Pacific Grove is so unique that Pacific Grove is nicknamed ‘Butterfly Town, U.S.A.’ The community has always welcomed the butterflies and advocated for their protection. Citizens of Pacific Grove voted to create an additional tax to create the Monarch Grove Sanctuary which is cared for by dedicated volunteers.
The Monarch Grove Sanctuary is located at 250 Ridge Road, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950.
Directions and More information: https://www.cityofpacificgrove.org/visiting/monarch-butterfly-sanctuary
Note: Description drawn from the City of Pacific Grove website.

Happy Halloween 2025!
2025-10-31 17:00 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Want to have some fun for Halloween? No kiddos coming to your door? Come to the Manjushri Dharma Center! One of Rinpoche’s long-time friends and student (Foster) will host trick-or-treating from MDC, where lots of kids come to the door and lots of candy is given out. This year, with Rinpoche on retreat, it will be “just us kids.” Costumes encouraged, additional bags of candy welcome. We’ll have tea on offer and maybe a few snacks, if you can get past the giant spiders in the yard! Happy Halloween!
Questions: contact Rachel at rachelmdc2016@gmail.com

See more photos from last Halloween–2024 here: Happy Halloween 2024

Happy Lhabab Düchen!
2025-11-11 | CA
Lhabab Düchen is a Buddhist festival celebrated to observe the Buddha’s descent from the Trāyastriṃśa heaven down to earth. According to legend, the Buddha ascended the Trāyastriṃśa heaven temporarily at the age of 41, in order to give teachings to benefit the gods in that desire realm and to repay the kindness of his mother by liberating her from Samsara. He was exhorted by his disciple and representative Maudgalyayana to return, and after a long debate and under a Full Moon Buddha agreed to return. He returned to earth a week later by a special triple ladder prepared by Viswakarma, the god of machines. This event is considered to be one of the eight great deeds of the Buddha.
On Lhabab Düchen, the effects of positive or negative actions are multiplied ten million times. It is part of Tibetan Buddhist tradition to engage in virtuous activities and prayer on this day.
This year Rinpoche is on retreat during this great occasion–to rejoice in his merit is a great virtuous act!

Happy Lhabab Düchen
About the image: The Buddha’s Descent from Tavatimsa Heaven, 19th Century, Thailand, from the Walters Art Museum, and Look and Learn History.

Garden Volunteer Day
2025-12-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
The rain has been falling and the weeds are growing at the Dharma Center! Please come enjoy some light weeding and gentle garden cleanup this coming Saturday after meditation. Tea and the best instant coffee you ever had, as well as some goodies will be on offer.
We will supply: coffee/tea/goodies and a few garden tools
You should supply: your own garden gloves, tools you like, etc.
Many thanks and hope to see you there!

Winter Solstice Blessing of the Waters 2025
2025-12-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Lover’s Point Beach, 17th St and Ocean View Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Winter Solstice Blessing of the Waters 2025
Sunday, December 21st, 2025
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Lover’s Point Beach
17th St and Ocean View Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA

This year is very special, because Rinpoche will be moving to Portland sometime in the next year, and this may be the last year we gather together in person at the winter solstice. Although it is Rinpoche’s intention to return for summer and winter solstices to Lover’s Point beach to conduct this ceremony every year, life is unpredictable. Please join us on the winter solstice for this special event!
December 21st, 2025 is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. For many years now, at both summer and winter solstices, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche offers a Blessing of the Waters, by reciting two prayers that he composed, Propitiating the Devas of the Four Elements and the Prayer for World Peace. This year we will once again gather in community and send our good energy to the ocean, to all the waters of the world, and to all of nature and humanity. Attendees will be provided with candles to light as we celebrate the light of love and wisdom. Attendees are encouraged to bring flower petals to scatter as we send our good wishes to the ocean and the world.
Entire Collection of Texts: Naga Torma and Blessing for the Four Elements (Tibetan and English)
Can’t make this event, but wish to participate? Practitioners may download these prayers to recite at the beach, by a river, or wherever you choose outside in nature. Bring some flowers to offer and send your good energy and wishes for healing to the waters of the world, all the elements of nature, and all sentient beings. Additionally, here is an “instruction on how to practice” the Blessing of the Waters, composed by Rinpoche and Pema Tsultrim with more information on how to conduct a “do-it-yourself” Blessing of the Waters. Instructions on Blessing the Waters
Questions? Contact Rachel at rachelmdc2016@gmail.com

Prayer for Peace
Through roots of goodness of us all on this vast earth,
May all living creatures become full of
love and compassion,
So that all enjoy peace on earth!

Stop bad intentions, thoughts and deeds
of all those who terrorize others,
That all living beings on this earth
come together like one family!

May all be well, have long life and health
with bliss of mind, free of illusion.
May all mothers have oceans of bliss
of body, for now, and ultimately of mind.

May this lamp of wisdom love, oneness,
highest remedy to clear darkness,
Enter the hearts of all living beings,
so their perfect path be illumined!

Footnote to Prayer for Peace: In the name of all religions on earth, as I see and hear of increasingly many unwarranted harmful actions being enacted, thinking, with a joyful, universal aspiration, how wonderful it would be if all such activities ceased entirely. Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, on 2-4-2015, on Wednesday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s auspicious day, wrote this dedication prayer to be recited at the conclusion of other prayers, meditation, or practices.

New Year's Eve Vajrasattva Purification Practice
2025-12-31 18:30 - 20:30 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Start the New Year of 2026 with a clean slate by purifying negative karma of body, speech and mind accumulated over the past year and in past lives through the powerful practice of Vajrasattva (Dorje Sempa).
This special event will consist of teachings by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche on the Vajrasattva practice, an explanation of the meaning of the mantra and on the four opponent powers (tob shi) that we perform to purify our negative actions. After a short break, we will then accumulate recitations of the Vajrasattva Mantra. After the Puja, MDC will celebrate the coming New Year with tea and treats. Please wear white clothing or adornments if you can (no worries if not), and feel free to bring some food or refreshments to welcome in the new year (again no pressure, just come! We will have plenty).
Link to texts: The Sadhana of Glorious Vajrasattva, a Terma Revelation of H.H. Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, and additional readings written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, The Four Powers of Purification , A Brief Confession, Heartfelt Advice of Dharma Nectar ; What Makes a Meaningful New Year?
Vajrasatva New Years Eve practice will be held both in-person at the Dharma Center and virtually on Zoom.

Please do join us for this powerful practice. Tashi Delek!

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CANCELLED: New Year's Day Celebration, Yurt Blessing & Long Life Blessing
2026-01-01 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
Cancelled due to rain and storm:
Hello Dear Sangha! Our Dharma friends at Tsina Mani Choling have cancelled the new year’s day celebration in the Santa Cruz mountains due to the rain and possible high winds. While the Larung Hermitage is moving right along in becoming a beautiful retreat location, with the newly erected 30′ yurt situated nicely along with other smaller yurts and teacher’s quarters, the property is not quite ready for an indoor celebration in the rain. We will keep everyone posted on the yurt blessing in the year to come! Happy new year everyone!

Cancelled: New Years Day Celebration, Yurt Blessing & Long Life Blessing
Hosted by Tsina Mani Choling
with Lama Lakshey Zangpo Rinpoche, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, and Adzom Rinpoche
Thursday, January 1, 2026
12pm
In-person event
Location: Larung Hermitage in the Santa Cruz Hills
(detailed driving directions will be provided)
This special event is hosted by Lama Lakshey’s Dharma center, Tsina Mani Choling, and is a celebration of the coming year and a blessing of the yurt donated by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche to Lama Lakshey. This is a special invitation and sign up is required. Detailed driving directions will be sent directly from Tsina Mani Choling via Evite (please note–your name and email will be shared with them). Please wear sturdy shoes, layers for both cool and warm climates, and if possible, bring food or drink to share.
Here is a message from the hosts:

Dear Dharma friends,
We hope this message finds you well enjoying the holidays. You are invited to a New Year’s Day Celebration at Larung Hermitage! We hope you can join us by ringing in the New Year on the land.
This will be a potluck style gathering.
Carpooling encouraged 🙂
Please reach out with any questions!
If this is your first time to the land please follow the directions (they will be sent with the Evite) closely as GPS will only get you to lower driveway and cell service is spotty.
Hope to see you soon.
With gratitude–Megan Larson
and this update from our hosts:
Dear Dharma friends, We are very happy to update you that Adzom Rinpoche & Khenpo Karten Rinpoche will be joining our New Years Day celebration @ Larung Hermitage! Adzom Rinpoche has generously offered to bestow a longevity empowerment for all who join. This is a very auspicious occasion for our community as we walk on our spiritual path. We look forward to seeing you all very soon.
Here is background about the yurt:
The 30-foot yurt was originally donated to Khenpo Karten Rinpoche by Thay Kozen, Rinpoche’s dear friend and the spiritual leader of Mount Adams Buddhist Temple. When Rinpoche decided to move from Pacific Grove to the Pacific Northwest (no details on that yet, no timeline) Rinpoche offered the yurt to his dear Dharma brother Lama Lakshey Zangpo. The generous gift lives on and connects these three dear teachers and their students in a knot of unending good energy.
Read more about the yurt:

We have a yurt!
Yurt has arrived! Thank you Volunteers!
Yurt Moving Day

Questions?
Contact Rachel Christopherson at rachelMDC2016@gmail.com or text or call 831-277-0529.

Losar Tibetan New Year Celebration
2026-02-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Manjushri Dharma Center, 724 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, United States
Happy New Year Sangha! Tibetan lunar New Year or Losar will begin on Wednesday, February 18, 2026. We will gather to celebrate at 6:30pm with prayers and a “luckypot” celebration. Please bring a dish to share to celebrate the year of the Fire Horse on this auspicious occasion! (Perhaps we will even see some Lama dancing!)
Learn more: Tibetan New Year Traditions
2026 in the Gregorian calendar marks the transition to the year 2153, which is the Year of the Fire Horse in the Tibetan calendar.

The festival officially lasts 15 days, with the most significant celebrations occurring in the first three days:

February 16–17 (Preparation): Families clean their homes, settle debts, and prepare traditional foods like Guthuk (a noodle soup with symbolic dumplings).
February 18 (Day 1: Lama Losar): Focused on spiritual offerings and honoring one’s guru or household shrine. This day is typically reserved for immediate family.
February 19 (Day 2: Gyalpo Losar): Known as “King’s Losar,” it is a day for visiting friends, neighbors, and local leaders to exchange “Tashi Delek” greetings.
February 20 (Day 3: Chockyong Losar): People visit monasteries and stupas to hang prayer flags and make offerings to protective deities.
March 4: The festival concludes on the 15th day with the Butter Lamp Festival (Chotrul Duchen).

Happy Chötrul Düchen Full Moon Celebration of Miracles & Lunar Eclipse
2026-03-03 | CA
Chötrul Düchen is one of four major Tibetan Buddhist holy days, celebrated on the first full moon after lunar new year. It is known as the Butter Lamp Festival, Festival of Lights, or Great Day of Miraculous Manifestations. It commemorates the day that Buddha Shakyamuni settled the question of his enlightenment with naysayers by performing many miracles. This full moon day is considered a “merit multiplier” day, with the effects of both positive and negative actions multiplied ten million times.
This year, in addition to Chötrul Düchen falling on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, there is a total lunar eclipse, often called a “Blood Moon.” The eclipse will be visible across North and Central America, the Pacific, East Asia, and Australia. (Totality is at 3:04am Pacific Time). This is the only total lunar eclipse of 2026 and the last one visible from North America until 2028, making it a rare event.
Learn More: The Story of the 15 Days of Miracles, Rigpa Wiki-Brief Explanation of Chotrul Duchen
Learn More: Total Lunar Eclipse March 3, 2026

Although we will not host a celebration at MDC, practitioners are encouraged to celebrate their good fortune in encountering Dharma, to practice virtue and positive thinking on this day. There are miracles in every moment of being alive.

Tibetan Uprising Day 2026
2026-03-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Windows on the Bay, Corner of Del Monte and Camino El Estero, Monterey, 93940, United States
Join us on Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm PST in-person at Windows on the Bay, the corner of Del Monte and El Estero (703 Del Monte Ave, Monterey, CA 93940) as we join a day of international protests known as Tibetan Uprising Day.

Please note: Protesters cannot step into the street or hand out leaflets to cars, as per a city safety mandate. Signs will be provided, or you may bring your own. We will be there rain or shine.

The annual protest on Tibetan Uprising Day is very special to Rinpoche, an event that he has organized with the MDC annually for many years. 2026 marks 67 years of oppression and resistance. Rinpoche, his students and supporters in Monterey will continue to make our community aware of the ongoing human rights abuses in Tibet, in solidarity with such protests around the world.
Since the Chinese occupation in 1959, more than one million Tibetans have been killed. To fly a Tibetan flag, even mention His Holiness the Dalai Lama, send an email abroad, or say the phrase “human rights,” is cause for imprisonment and torture. 99% of all Tibetan monasteries have been closed. These horrors and atrocities continue today throughout Tibet. The situation is desperate and worsening; the Tibetan people and their culture are being systematically attacked.
Around one million Tibetan children are forced to attend government boarding schools. Children as young as four are educated with CCP-approved lesson plans and taught almost entirely in Chinese. In some parts of Tibet, parents must attend language classes to make sure that Chinese is spoken at home. Buddhist monasteries are told to shut down their free language classes. Tibetan educators are threatened or detained for offering language instruction to children. Even the name “Tibet” is under threat.
Xizang Tibet
In an act of colonial violence, the CCP is pushing for English-language references around Tibet to be changed to “Xizang”, the Chinese name for Tibet imposed by the Chinese government.
Yet, Tibetans continue to stand up against this repression in a non-violent way, as they have each year for over 66 years. We cannot let the world forget. Please lend your voice to peace, justice, and freedom: Support Tibet!
Tibet is the least free country on earth. Tibet must be free
Learn the latest and how you can help:

UK-based Free-Tibet
US-based Students For A Free Tibet.

Learn about the historical context and current views with the resources below:

March 10 Commemoration: Rinpoche and his friend Pema wrote about why we commemorate March 10th–when more than 100,000 Tibetans surrounded the Norbulinka palace in Lhasa, putting their lives between the Chinese army and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

PBS Frontline: Battle for Tibet

PBS Frontline: Battle for Tibet Aired on Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Can be viewed on PBS app for free

Opinion | Dalai Lama:
My hope for the Tibetan people –
The Washington Post

Tibetans have spent nearly 75 years fighting for freedom. Their struggle should continue beyond my lifetime.
Published in the Washington Post on March 6, 2025. Shared by email from Khenpo Karten Rinpoche on March 10, 2025.
Link to read article in Washington Post (requires subscription, which can be canceled anytime) Need help accessing? Contact manjushridharmacenter831.org.

Rinpoche shared this video, which is on Facebook, posted by Lobsang Tsering Taying Tsang on March 10, 2025.

གསུམ་བཅུའི་དུས་དྲན་ཐེངས་༦༦ པ།
ཁྱེད་ཚོའི་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ཅི་འདྲ་རླབས་ཆེ་ལ། མིས་ལྟས་ན་ཡིད་དུ་འོང་བ་འདུག ད་དུང་སོག་པོ་དང་ཐེ་ཝན་གྱི་དར་ཆ་མཉམ་དུ་ཡོད་ན་ཅི་མ་རུང་། མི་རབས་གསར་པ་ཁྱེད་ཚོས་རྣམ་དཔྱོད་དང་བློ་གྲོས་ཀྱིས་དེ་རིང་འཛམ་གླིང་ཚན་རྩལ་གྱི་ཁྲོད་དུ་གོམ་པ་མཉམ་དུ་སྤོ་ཐུབ་པའི་ངེས་པ་རྙེད་སོང་། ད་ལྟའི་ང་ཚོས་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་ལང་ཕྱོགས་ནི་ཁྱིས་ཆུ་བཅད་པ་ལྟ་བུའམ། མདོར་ན་དགྲ་གཉེན་གོ་ལྡོག་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་སུ་གྱུར་ཟིན། ང་ཚོའི་མ་འོངས་པའི་ལས་དབང་དེ་མགོ་འབུལ་ལས་འབུལ་གྱི་མི་རིགས་ཆེན་པོ་ནང་དུ་བྲན་གཡོག་མི་བྱེད་པར་རང་དབང་སླར་གསོ་ཐུབ་པའི་རེ་བ་ཁྱེད་ཅག་ལ་བསྐྱང་ཡོད། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ། བོད་རྒྱལ་ལོ།

May all cultures and peoples live together in harmony and peace.
