མི་ལོ་ཉེར་ལྔ་ཙམ་གྱི་རྗེས་སུ་གུ་རུའི་སྐུ་དང་། ནང་ནས་བཟོས་པའི་བྲོ་བཅུད་ཅན་ཕ་ཡུལ་གྱི་ལག་ཟས་ཞིམ་པོ་དེ་འབྱོར་བས་ཧ་ཅང་དགའ་བོ་བྱུང་།

I want to say a few words about some packages I received from my dear family overseas. Almost 25 years ago, I was forced to leave my country. Since then, I haven’t been able to meet most of my family members. This week, for the first time in almost 25 years, I relished food which was prepared by my family with their own hands. I was able to do this because my nephew’s wife traveled to Lhasa, Tibet, where she was met by my family who traveled there to meet her and gave her these foodstuffs to bring to me. They sent a lot of food which she brought home to the United States and which my nieces and nephew shipped to California. I am overjoyed to be able to touch something from my homeland and to taste something which my family made with their own hands. They sent me CHURA, Tibetan dried cheese, THUD, mixed Tibetan cheese and butter,DROMA, a Tibetan root vegetable, and SHA KAMPO, Tibetan dried meat. Many of these foods are traditional Tibetan staples made by hand. I remember when I was young, my father always prepared these kinds of food for me. I ate these traditional Tibetan foods sent by my family, which were very delicious and warmed my spirit. Additionally, my brother sent to me a very precious Guru Padmasambhava, Guru Rinpoche, statue made by Larung Gar Monastery and blessed by 9,000 monks. I placed this statue on my altar set upon flowers. I really appreciate everything from my brother and my family. My body is here in the West, by my heart is always with my family. Thank you everyone and I send my love to you.

Written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, originally posted to Facebook on October 25, 2024