Release of the 14th Künzig Sharmapa’s book
Dhagpo’s Team is happy to share that a new book by 14th Künzig Sharmapa, “Insight through Learning, Reflecting, and Meditating: The Fourfold Application of Mindfulness”, has been published by Rabsel Edition. In this book, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö, His Holiness the...
Losar 2025 – Best wishes for the Year
Best wishes for this Year of the Wood Snake Lama Jigme Rinpoche and the community of Dhagpo Kagyu...March 8, 1993: Consecration of the Stupa of Enlightenment
With the consecration of the Stupa of Enlightenment, Dhagpo Kagyu Ling welcomed its first support for offering and virtue accumulation, representing the very manifestation of Buddha’s mind. This stupa is so named because it was first built in India on the occasion of...March 1, 1982 – Anchoring the Dharma in the City: Creation of the First Urban Center in Biarritz
Karma Teksum Tchöling. Handwritings of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. Offering the opportunity to connect to the Dharma in the city, close to home—this is the vocation of the Karma Teksum Tchöling centers, the first of which began in...After Losar, the Nyungne season
Since 1980, Nyungne retreats—the meditative practice of Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion with eleven faces and one thousand arms—have been a feature of Dhagpo’s program in the first month of the Tibetan year, a period considered to be very propitious for...March 17, 1984 – A Historical Step: The First Three-Year Retreat
Close to 6:30 in the evening, after a day of rituals, a convivial buffet, the receiving of their sacred texts, and a procession around their future place of practice, fifteen men and five women crossed the threshold of the retreat center or drupkang located in...
Participatory financing: a shared involvement
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...A Month-Long Retreat Combining Learning and Meditation
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...