Drupla Kalsang

Drupla Kalsang was born in 1961 in the region of Kham in eastern Tibet. After traveling on pilgrimage Mount Kailash in western Tibet, Drupla Kalsang travelled to Nepal, where he engaged in a three-year retreat below the Asura Cave. Originally trained in the Karma Kamtsang tradition, Drupla Kalsang is now the resident monastic at Samye Hermitage New York, where he offers the daily prayers and offerings according to the Chokling Tersar tradition.

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"If we have mindfulness, we will see that the energy that gives rise to anger and other negative emotions has wisdom, and that the underlying sense of insecurity we presently feel is not necessarily a bad thing."

Phakchok Rinpoche, Awakening Dignity, Chapter 4: Three Meditation Teachers

Drupla Kalsang

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