Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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March 10 Commemoration
Each year, many of my friends ask me, Khenpo, what is Tibetan Uprising Day? As you may know, each year, I and thousands of Tibetans around the world protest on the anniversary of this day.
Pure Lands are Nowhere Else
8) Samsara and nirvana are no more different Than the two sides of one hand. Abandon dualistic discrimination; Pure lands are nowhere else! That is my heart advice. This verse teaches the difference between samsara
Homage and Prostrations to Buddha Shakyamuni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA0-GlwUsH8 ༅ ཐབས་མཁས་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཤཱཀྱའི་རིགས་སུ་འཁྲུངས།། TABKHÉ TUKJÉ SHAKYÉ RIK SU TRUNG With skillful means and compassion, you were born in the Sakya clan, གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་བདུད་ཀྱི་དཔུང་འཇོམས་པ།། SHYEN GYI MI TUB DU KYI PUNG JOMPA Unconquerable by others, you
Advice on Friendship by Patrul Rinpoche
Advice to Lama Rigdzin Gyatso On Understanding the Influence of Companions and Avoiding and Adopting Them Accordingly by Patrul Rinpoche The influence of good friends’ behavior is as follows: The company of the wise increases
Losar Tashi Delek!
On Wednesday, February 18th, 2026, Rinpoche hosted a Losar celebration to usher in the Year of the Fire Horse. With warmth, good food, and AMAZING MUSIC, we gave the first day of the new year
Reflections on the Heart Sutra Retreat 2026
དགུན་ཆོས་ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོའི་དཔེ་ཁྲིད་དང་།། སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་འདོན་སྒོམ་རྗེས་གནང་སོགས།། ཐོས་བསམ་ཇི་སྙེད་བྱས་པའི་དགེ་བ་འདི།། འཇིག་རྟེན་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ལྡན་པའི་རྒྱུ་རུ་བསྔོ།། Over Valentine’s Day weekend, the MDC joyfully hosted our annual New Year’s Retreat at Wave Street Studios in Monterey, California. It was a deeply meaningful and inspiring gathering for our Sangha.
Losar Tashi Delek! Year of the Fire Horse Good Wishes
Header verse (larger text): “May all sentient beings throughout the three realms be free from suffering and the causes of suffering, and may they swiftly attain the state of lasting happiness and liberation.” The five-line
Benefits of Understanding Interdependence and Drawbacks of Not Understanding It
As for the first, as said in Sutra, O bikshus! One who sees interdependent origination sees the Dharma! One who sees the Dharma sees the Tathagata, the Buddha. And Je Tsongkhapa said in his Praise