by yone | Jan 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Worksite Diaries – Episode 2 Designing a building means projecting oneself into the future and juggling with a multitude of factors to effectively meet needs. In this new episode of our worksite diaries, Guillaume Pares-Amado, project manager of the Institute’s...
by yone | Jan 2, 2025 | 50 Years of History, Uncategorized
During a day trip to Dordogne on January 21, 1975, the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje visited the stretch of land on the Côte de Jor that was to become Dhagpo Kagyu Ling.He was invited by Bernard Benson, a British industrialist who owned the Château de...
by yone | Dec 30, 2024 | 50 Years of History
In a highly symbolic moment marking the Church’s openness to a Buddhist presence on European soil, Pope Paul VI met with the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje at the Vatican, in Rome, on January 17, 1975. Welcoming the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the Pope stated that...
by yone | Dec 30, 2024 | 50 Years of History
Under gusty skies at the turn of the new century, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje, was greeted at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling on January 9— three days after arriving in Paris on his first visit to Europe. Addressing some two thousand practitioners under a large...
by yone | Dec 30, 2024 | Centers, Dhagpo Kagyu Ling
Somehow the impossible can take place if we have an open mind, an open heart. Our predecessors had great open hearts, and that’s what made things possible. His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Best Wishes for the coming year 2025 Lama Jigme Rinpoche and the community...
by yone | Dec 24, 2024 | Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Residences project
Lama Jigme Rinpoche clarifies the role of Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s Institute and the purpose of these Residences. The 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje indicated the reference texts that are necessary to learn, contemplate, and meditate upon. The 14th Shamarpa, Mipham...
by yone | Nov 24, 2024 | Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Uncategorized
On two occasions this year, facilitators who share the Dharma as part of programs at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Dhagpo Kundreul Ling and the Dhagpo urban centers (KTT) met at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s Institute. These meetings gather different generations of facilitators. They...
by yone | Nov 8, 2024 | Dhagpo Kagyu Ling
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, accompanied by Bernard Benson, Côte de Jor, January 1975. Compiling Dhagpo’s History at 50 Years 2025 marks fifty years since His Holiness the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje first set foot in France and...
by yone | Oct 8, 2024 | Centers
One year ago, on October 7, 2023, Lama Teunsang left his physical body at Karma Mingyur Ling. When speaking of him, Jigme Rinpoche said: For close to half a century, Lama Teunsang was perfect, without any defect…Perfect in his way of guiding beings; perfect in...
by yone | Oct 6, 2024 | Centers
Since 2014, several drupchös—intensive practice accumulations—have been conducted annually at Dhagpo Kundreul Ling and other lineage centers across Asia and Europe. This is how a lineage endures and remains vibrant. Gendun Rinpoche transmitted these practices in order...
