Fall Meetings 2026: Forging a Shared Understanding of the Institute’s Residences and our Practice
Every year, for five days, Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s team takes a break to allow residents and the surrounding community to reflect, share, and practice together. This year, from September 28 to October 2, the fall meetings focused on two themes, agreed upon in advance with...
Passing of Drupla Michèle
Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the sad news of the passing of Drupla Michèle Peyrebrune. She had been a part of life at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling since the center’s earliest days: Michèle Peyrebrune, affectionately known to everyone as “Nun Michèle,” passed...
Trinlay Rinpoche Gives the Keys to the King of Prayers
During this fifth session (September 11–13, 2026), Trinlay Rinpoche continued and concluded his explanation of The Sutra of Aspirations for Excellent Conduct, also known as Samantabadhra’s Wishing Prayer. Drawing on several commentaries by Indian and Tibetan masters,...
“Warrior Heart”: teens on the summer course meet with Lama Jigme Rinpoche
“What do you look for first: peace or happiness?” “What has meditation brought to your life?” “Do you manage not to be carried away by your thoughts?” These were some of the questions asked by the teenagers participating in the four-day summer course at Dhagpo Kagyu...
50 years – Khenpo Chödrak Rinpoche: “The Dharma Is Universal”
Since the launch of the summer university in 1994, Khenpo Chödrak Tenphel Rinpoche has traveled to Dhagpo Kagyu Ling every year to teach Buddhist treasures of knowledge. This year, he continued his explanation of The Stages of Meditation, a treatise by the 8th-century...
Phakchok Rinpoche : from transformation to realization
As this photo retrospective reflects, Phakchok Rinpoche’s teachings on August 29 and 30 were marked by many joyous interactions. Rinpoche, who had not visited Dhagpo Kagyu Ling since 2013, taught on the Samadhi Raja Sutra, which he described as one of the most...
His Eminence Trungram Gyatrul Rinpoche: “Enlightenment is the very essence of mind”
Having traveled from the United States at the invitation of Lama Jigme Rinpoche for the second consecutive year, Trungram Gyatrul Rinpoche devoted his four mornings of teaching (August 13–16, 2026) to transmitting a teaching by Gampopa Seunam Rinchen, founder of the...
Lama Jampa Thaye: “Teaching with an Intelligent Fidelity to Tradition”
In July 2026, British-born Lama Jampa Thaye spent a week at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling to pursue his teaching on the Seven Points of Mind Training (lojong), based on his master Karma Thinley Rinpoche’s commentary[1], and on Sakya Pandita’s three disciplines (dom sum). He is...