Termites: Protect Lives and Buildings
Worksite Diaries – Episode 6 When designing a large building in the heart of nature, the microcosmos—the world of the infinitely small—also comes into play. In this new episode of our Worksite Diaries, Guillaume Pares-Amado, project manager for the Institute’s...June 19-20, 1982: International Tibetan Buddhism Days with Künzig Shamar Rinpoche at the Vincennes Pagoda
In June 1982, seven months after the parinirvana of the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rikpe Dorje, the 14th Shamarpa, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö, now solely responsible for the Karma Kagyü lineage, initiated the International Days of Tibetan Buddhism and Tradition at the Pagode du...June 13, 2013: The Inauguration of Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s Institute
From June 13, 2013, Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s Institute was inaugurated in the presence of several thousand people from all over the world, fulfilling one of the 16th Karmapa’s wishes to make the Buddha’s authentic teaching accessible to as many people as...The Imprint of the 14th Shamarpa, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö, on Dhagpo Kagyu Ling
In the preface to the book The Fourfold Application of Mindfulness: Discernment through Learning, Reflection, and Meditation (Rabsel Publications, 2025) Jigme Rinpoche writes, Mipham Chökyi Lödrö, the 14th Shamar Rinpoche, went into parinirvana in 2014. Ten years have...June 11, 2014 : Künzig Shamar Rinpoche enters into Parinirvana
“Friends, the Buddhist world has been cast into darkness. Tibetan Buddhism has lost, in this life, one of its greatest torchbearers and masters, His Holiness Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche. The Karma Kagyü tradition has lost a supreme leader, and one of our lineage holders....June 11-13, 1987: Coming out of First Retreat at Dhagpo Kundreul Ling and Arrival at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling
After three years, three months, and three days in seclusion from the outside world, the first group of fourteen men and five women to complete the traditional retreat emerged on June 11, 1987 from their drupkang, retreat center, at Dhagpo Kundreul Ling, and then...June 6, 1981: Tai Situ Rinpoche’s First Visit to Dhagpo Kagyu Ling
On June 6, 1981, Tai Situ Rinpoche, then twenty two years old, taught for the first time at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, where he stayed for two weeks. This high-ranking lama of the Karma Kagyu lineage chose to teach in English about the first commitment of all practitioners,...
Looking back in pictures at the last retreat guided by Lama Jigme Rinpoche and the celebration of our precious teacher’s fifty years of activity
Learning, Meditation and Gratitude During this retreat that he guides three times a year, Lama Jigme Rinpoche gave numerous instructions on how to turn our minds in the direction of enlightenment, placing ourselves under the protection of the refuge. When we...