Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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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
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.