Celebrating Lha Bab Düchen
Hilary Herdman
October 24, 2021
Lha Bab Düchen (lha babs dus chen) in Tibetan translates as, ‘The Festival of the Descent from Heaven.’ We celebrate this great event on the 22nd
Pilgrimage
Multiplying Effects: Five Ways of Multiplying Merit
Phakchok Rinpoche
July 1, 2021
Practitioners should take advantage of all opportunities to increase the accumulation of merit easily and swiftly. We need to know how to magnify our virtues. Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us regularly that we need to consistently accumulate merit.
Nekhor Pilgrimage: Circling the Sacred
Peter Woods
January 29, 2020
For over half a decade, a small group of Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoché’s students have been researching the sacred sites of Guru Padmsambhava. Our goal has
Bhutan Pilgrimage with Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche – September 19th to 26th, 2015
Samye Team
June 10, 2015
Phakchok Rinpoche invites his sangha to embark with him on a pilgrimage to sacred sites of Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon. The pilgrimage concludes
Guru Rinpoche’s Body, Speech, and Mind Blessings
Phakchok Rinpoche
May 1, 2012
About two weeks ago we were on a pilgrimage following the footsteps of the Lotus Born in Nepal and Sikkim. It was a memorable trip still so vivid and in memory of it, I would like to share Padmasambhava’s last instructions to his students before leaving for the Chamara Island.
The Four Holy Places
Phakchok Rinpoche
December 15, 2010
A pilgrimage is an important act of devotion and faith as it enables us to accumulate merit and purify our defilements and obscurations of the body, speech and mind by the power of the blessings of the sacred sites.