by yone | Mar 25, 2025 | 50 Years of History, Uncategorized
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, explained that the existence of a library is one of the five key resources for Buddhism to take root where it did not previously exist. The mission of the Dhagpo Kagyu Library is therefore to preserve a...
by yone | Mar 25, 2025 | 50 Years of History
“Using your strengths to gain your freedom.” This was the theme of the first course for 13 to 18-year-olds guided by Lama Jigme Rinpoche at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling from April 26 to May 1, 1992. “At the time I was doing courses for top management. That’s when I saw there was...
by yone | Feb 26, 2025 | 50 Years of History
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...
by yone | Feb 26, 2025 | 50 Years of History
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...
by yone | Feb 26, 2025 | 50 Years of History
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...
by yone | Feb 25, 2025 | 50 Years of History
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...
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
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 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...
Dhagpo New Residences
