Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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The Real Purpose of Buddhism
As we practice the path, the view is that of interdependent origination, and the conduct is that of non-violence, not harming others. These are the real characteristics of Buddhism. To not harm others at all
A Jewel Garland of Advice
Last night at our Monday night prayers, Rinpoche read this beautiful piece he wrote in 2019: A Jewel Garland of Advice. The PDF linked HERE has both Tibetan and English. Rinpoche has now also posted
Take Yourself on the Path
Buddha is the unexcelled Teacher who reveals to us the path of inner development. The path is the holy Dharma that Buddha taught. The Sangha can be anyone, lay or ordained, who has entered into
Reflections on the First Annual Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup in Northern California
སྤྱི་ཟླ་དགུ་པའི་ཚེས་ཉེར་བདུན་དང་ཉེར་བརྒྱད་ཉིན་གཉིས་རིང་བྱང་ཁ་ལི་ཧྥོ་ན་ཉའི་བོད་རིགས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་ཚོགས་པ། ༼སྡེ་བཞི་ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་།༽ ཚོགས་ཁང་ནང་དུ་ཐེངས་དང་པོའི་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་ཆེན་མོ་ཚོད་ལྟའི་ཆེད་དུ་ཉིན་གཉིས་རིང་འཚོགས་པས་ཧ་ཅང་ཡག་པོ་བྱུང་། དགེ་བས་འགྲོ་རྣམས་ཆོས་འབྱོར་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཀྱི་དཔལ་ལ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཞུ། Tashi Delek! This past weekend marked the end of a two-day preparation for an eventual Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup, the first that I’ve done in Northern California. The event was organized and
How to Practice Dharma
Secondly, how do we practice Dharma? In general, whatever practice of Dharma we do, it is very important that it be sustained by a compassionate motivation from the beginning. The word for Buddhism in Tibetan,
ཨ་རིའི་པོར་ལེན་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་མ་བཅུ་བདུན་པ།
Read Rinpoche’s Blog (in Tibetan) here. Originally posted September 18, 2024.
Blessing of the Butterflies 2024
Every year, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche prays together with Louise J. Miranda Ramirez, Tribal Chairwoman of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation, and the Pacific Grove community for the monarch butterflies as they make their epic 3000