Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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The Meaning of Dharma
First, as for the meaning of Dharma, in general, the word for Dharma in Tibetan, Chö, has many meanings, but in this context, it is that which guides your mind in a positive direction, a
We have a yurt!
6-14-25: Update: The 30′ yurt, generously donated to Rinpoche and the Manjushri Dharma Center by Thay Kozen of the Mount Adams Buddhist Temple is now going to its new and permanent home: Lama Lakshey Zangpo
Together Strong
There is a Tibetan saying, “Five fingers clenched together make a fist.” Each finger alone does not have much power. If the five fingers are curled together they have great strength. Like that, if we
2024 Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup Retreat
ཨ་རིའི་པོར་ལེན་ཌི་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་ཆེན་མོ་ཐེངས་མ་བཅུ་བདུན་པ་ཉིན་དྲུག་རིང་ཁ་སང་ཉེ་ཞོའི་བར་ཆད་གང་ཡང་མེད་པར་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་བས་དགེ་བས་དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་སྐུ་ཚེ་ཡུན་རིང་བརྟན་ཅིང་འགྲོ་ཀུན་བདེ་བའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཞུ།། Tashi Delek everyone! I would like to briefly say something about the annual Amitabha Dechen Shingdrup Retreat here in Portland, which concluded yesterday. This was the 17th retreat conducted in Portland at the NWTCA.
Interdependence and emptiness
According to Buddhist philosophy and practice, all things are empty of existing from their own side. What is the reason? Because they are interdependent. All things arise by the power of interdependence. Whatever is interdependent
Examine Yourself
We always see others' faults, but it is difficult to see your own faults. For example, although we see things that are distant from our eyes very clearly, we don't see some things that are
The Importance of Contemplation and Mind Training in the Modern Age
Body, speech, and mind are the fundamental aspects of sentient beings. Buddhists refer to these as the three doors or three gates. Whether one desires to open these doors towards virtuous or non virtuous deeds