Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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Photos from the 2025 Amitabha Pureland Retreat in Taiwan
Rinpoche arrives to Taiwan, with translator (name unknown) and the nun who leads the Taiwan sangha. Over the weekend of Friday to Sunday, March 14-16, 2025, Rinpoche led an Amitabha Pureland Retreat with
Reflections on Tibetan Uprising Day 2025
རྒྱ་རིགས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་གཡས་ནས་སྨད་ཀྱང་རུང་། བོད་རིགས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་གཡོན་ནས་བསྟོད་ཀྱང་རུང་། རང་གི་ལས་དབང་རྐང་རྗེས་ཕྲ་མོ་འདིར། ཕྱི་ནུར་གོམ་གང་མི་བྱེད་སྡིག་པ་ཁུར། Tashi Delek A big thank you to my dear MDC Sangha my dharma brother and sister friends for organizing this Tibetan Uprising Day event even without me around. From the bottom
The Story of Zawo Bhumo, one of the Buddha’s previous incarnations
This is a short narration of a story taken from one of the Buddha’s previous lifetimes, referenced in the sutras. It is said that before being born as a human and later becoming the Buddha,
Happy Losar 2025!
དོན་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ལོ་གསར་ཇི་ལྟར་བྱེད་དགོས་མིན། What Makes a Meaningful New Year ༅༅།། ཕན་བདེའི་དགེ་ལེགས་འོད་སྟོང་རབ་འབར་བའི།། འགྲོ་བའི་མི་ཤེས་རབ་རིབ་འཇོམས་མཛད་པ།། སྨྲ་བའི་སེངྒེ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས།། འགྲོ་རྣམས་ལོ་ཟླ་སྐྱིད་ཀྱིས་འཚོ་བར་ཤོག། You who blaze with light of well-being and goodness, Clearing cataracts of confusion from the eyes of beings, O Lion of Teachers, Venerable
The Third Paramita: Patience
In general, there are many categories of objects of patience. In brief, it can be explained by condensing them into five main points: 1. Showing the need to cultivate patience 2. The patience of remaining
2 of 2 beautiful and practical teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9cZgC9CyHA
1 of 2 beautiful and practical teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJD6CsJJ9ks
Prayer to Ārya Avalokiteśvara
During Monday night chanted prayers on 2/17/25, Rinpoche shared this text with the sangha: See original text on the Lotsawa House website, translations in English and Tibetan. ༄༅། །འཕགས་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཞལ་མཐོང་མ་བཞུགས། ། The Vision A Prayer to Ārya Avalokiteśvara