by yone | Feb 16, 2025 | Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Residences project
Worksite Diaries – Episode 3 The financing of a place like Dhagpo Kagyu Ling is first and foremost a matter of philosophy.In this new episode of our worksite diaries about the Institute’s Residences, Joëlle Ondo, a retired lawyer living near Dhagpo and member of the...
by yone | Feb 9, 2025 | Dhagpo Kagyu Ling
During the month of January, many students had the opportunity to acquire or deepen their knowledge of the Dharma, at various centers in Europe. At Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, this year the Institute’s students began studying the Gyü Lama, Treatise on the Supreme Continuum of...
by yone | Jan 31, 2025 | 50 Years of History
Over the years, the celebration of Losar, Tibetan New Year, has found its place in the Périgord landscape as a moment of openness and sharing. Celebrated on the first day of the year in the Tibetan calendar, Losar is preceded by several days of traditional ceremonies,...
by yone | Jan 31, 2025 | 50 Years of History
From the month of February 1985, bulldozers transformed Dhagpo Kagyu Ling into a vast worksite to improve the Center’s living conditions and welcoming capacity. Despite the rain, the work went ahead to dig trenches in order to install drains, water supply and...
by yone | Jan 31, 2025 | 50 Years of History
With the creation of the Dhagpo Dedröl Ling association on January 31, 1996, a structure is in place to support the retreat center for secular practitioners, located in Marfond, a few kilometers from Dhagpo Kagyu Ling. Lama Jigme Rinpoche and two close disciples of...
by yone | Jan 31, 2025 | 50 Years of History, Dhagpo Kagyu Ling
To begin this year of commemoration, we celebrated several events marking Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s history together, on site and online.Here’s a look back at the highlights of January 2025. January 9: the 17th Karmapa’s first visit to Europe and to Dhagpo Kagyu...
by yone | Jan 31, 2025 | 50 Years of History
After his first European tour, Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, travelled to Dhagpo Kundreul Ling in the Auvergne region where he stayed in retreat from February 6 to June 8, 2000 to pursue his education alongside His Holiness the 14th Künzig Shamarpa,...
by yone | Jan 20, 2025 | Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, Residences project, 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...
