When the 16th Karmapa sent Lama Gendun Rinpoche to France, he said, “I know you are a lama who has carried his practice to its conclusion. The time has come for you to accomplish the benefit of others.” And thus for more than twenty years, this monk and accomplished yogi made the Buddha’s teaching accessible in France and Europe to whoever wished to practice it. The purity of his ethic, the depth of his meditation, and the clarity of his discernment made him a source of inspiration for many practitioners, Buddhist or not, and continues to today. Lama Gendun Rinpoche left us on October 31, 1997.
We celebrate his parinirvana with a day of Chenrezig mantra accumulation and the offering feast practice of Milarepa.
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See the day’s practice program in French here.
