Looking Back on 2025, Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s Fiftieth Anniversary
We began our retrospective of Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s fiftieth anniversary with the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje’s first visit to the Côte de Jor on January 21, 1975, the day he marked out the land that would become the European center of the Karma Kagyu lineage....
Best Wishes for 2026
Whatever arises from the mind,is of the nature of the mind.Water and its waves – are they any different? Mahasiddha Saraha Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2026 Lama Jigme Rinpoche and the community of Dhagpo Kagyu...November 24, 2013: The Buddha’s Relics Arrive at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling
“The arrival of the Buddha” reads the headline in the Sud Ouest regional newspaper, referring to the exceptional arrival of the Buddha’s relics at Dhagpo Kagyu Lig on November 24, 2013, an auspicious day of Lhabab Duchen (1). They were to remain there until May 30,...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....Retrospective: zoom on what happened in April 2025
In April, events highlighted several major transmissions received by the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Thaye Dorje in 2000 and 2002, as well as the birth of the Dhagpo Kagyu Ling library, one of the five resources indicated by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa for the Dharma to take root...May 4 and 5, 2000 : Chogye Trichen Rinpoche Confers Two Empowerments
After transmitting key teachings to Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa at Dhagpo Kundreul Ling in the Auvergne, the eminent Sakya master Chögye Trichen Rinpoche made a stop in Dordogne to confer the empowerments of One-Thousand-Armed Chenrezig and Green Tara...April 2000: A Library is Born
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...January 21, 1975: The 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Touches Down in Dordogne
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...