Best Wishes for 2025

Best Wishes for 2025

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...
Compiling Dhagpo’s History at 50 Years

Compiling Dhagpo’s History at 50 Years

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...
An Exceptional Program to Honor the 14ᵗʰ Shamarpa

An Exceptional Program to Honor the 14ᵗʰ Shamarpa

Dear Friends, From May 18 to 20, we will gather to mark the 10ᵗʰ anniversary of the parinirvana of Mipham Chökyi Lodrö, the 14ᵗʰ Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche. Over these 3 days, we will pay tribute to our teacher and lineage holder, the 14ᵗʰ Shamarpa, with an exceptional...
The Institute’s New Residences

The Institute’s New Residences

Continuing to Inscribe the Dharma into the French Patrimony The arrival of the Buddha’s teaching in Europe is recent; the Dharma is not yet part of our Western culture. Creating sustainable conditions for its existence notably requires building places like the...
Healthy foundations!

Healthy foundations!

After studying the lay of the land and digging the foundations, the large works of the new residence for the Institute began with the placing of steel supports and casings required for pouring the foundations. The work was put on pause over the summer with a visit...