Celebrating Lha Bab Düchen
Nov 6, 2020
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 day of the ninth month of the...
Read MoreAnnouncing a New Guru Rinpoche Pilgrimage App from Nekhor
Jul 29, 2020
We are pleased to launch, on this particularly auspicious Guru Rinpoché Day, the Nekhor app. “Nekhor” in Tibetan means “Circling the Sacred,” or simply “Pilgrimage,” this is exactly what this app will help you...
Read MoreNekhor Pilgrimage: Circling the Sacred
Jan 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 been to fulfill a single overarching mission:...
Read MoreMore Joyful News From Nekhor! Upcoming Pilgrimage in November 2019
Oct 23, 2019
Tukdrup Barché Kunsel Pilgrimage: November 2019 To inaugurate the publication of Following in Your Footsteps: the Lotus Born Guru in Nepal, Nekhor invites you on our inaugural Tukdrup Barché Kunsel pilgrimage! This...
Read MoreJoyful News From Nekhor: Book Release!
Oct 23, 2019
Book Publication | “Following In Your Footsteps: The Lotus-Born Guru In Nepal” Nekhor, as part of Lhasey Lotsawa Translations & Publications, is honored to announce the publication of Following in Your Footsteps:...
Read MoreNew Translations of the History of the Jarung Kashor Stūpa
Jan 10, 2018
Dear Dharma friends near and far, It is with great joy that we announce that the full English translation of the History of the Jarung Kashor Stūpa, otherwise known as the Boudhanath...
Read MoreMultiplying Effects: 5 Ways of Multiplying Merit
Nov 8, 2017
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....
Read MoreBhutan Pilgrimage with Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche – September 19th to 26th, 2015
Jun 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 with two additional days of retreat. Many of...
Read MoreGuru Rinpoche’s Body, Speech, and Mind Blessings
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...
Read MoreThe Four Holy Places
Dec 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...
Read MoreNew Book Launch
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