Recent Posts by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche and the MDC Volunteers
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Thank you Generous Sangha! New Roof Fund Complete!
We are delighted to relay the wonderful news that our fundraising campaign has been successful in raising the funds necessary to replace the roof of our beloved Manjushri Dharma Center. Our heartfelt thanks go out
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Khenpo Karten Rinpoche (right) with His Holiness the Dalai Lama (upper left) and the Manjushri Dharma Center (lower right) “As rain does not penetrate a well-thatched house, so clinging does not penetrate a
What is Saga Dawa?
Wednesday, May 12, marked the beginning of the month of Saga Dawa which will end on June 10, 2021. This is the most auspicious month in the Tibetan lunar calendar. In Tibetan, “Saga” means fourth
I visited my student Karma Palden in the Hospital
One of my dear Dharma friends and students, Miles McBreen, or Karma Palden, is currently hospitalized with health complications. I recently went to visit him in the hospital. Here is an excerpt from a very
The Importance of Oral Transmissions and How to Receive Oral Transmissions in the Modern Age
Originally posted on April 17th, 2021 on Khenpo Karten Rinpoche's Blogspot Even before the pandemic, I had been contemplating imparting oral transmissions of different practices that we hold at the Manjushri Dharma Center. Before the
Radio Free Asia Interview
On March 31st, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche gave an interview to a journalist from Radio Free Asia. They covered many topics including his story in coming to America, the way of practice in Tibet as compared
Happy Vaccine Lama!
On Thursday, April 1st (no joke!), Khenpo Karten Rinpoche received his first vaccine. Thank you to all those dedicated students who were looking out for an appointment, and taking our dear teacher to get his
On the 20th Anniversary of Kyabje Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche
ད་ནུབ་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་བསྟན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འདས་མཆོད་ཐེངས་མ་ཉི་ཤུ་པ འདི་ཉིད་ཆེས་གསར་གཏོད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ངང་ནས་དྲྭ་ལམ་zoom འཛུམ་གྱི་ནང་དུ། སྐུ་མགྲོན་གཙོ་བོ་དྭགས་བརྒྱུད་བསྟན་པའི་སྲོག་ཤིང་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གཙོས་ཆོས་ལུགས་རིས་མེད་ཀྱི་མཁན་སྤྲུལ་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་བཞི་བཅུའི་ཁ་ལྷག་དང་། ཁྱོན་སྐྱ་སེར་མི་གྲངས་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་ཁ་ལྷག་མཉམ་འཛོམས་ཀྱིས་ཟབ་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་སྲུང་གཙི་ལེགས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་། Last night, 3/27, we commemorated the the 20th anniversary of the Parinirvana of my Root Guru, Kyabje Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche, with the Practice of Guru Yoga Practice virtually on the