Riwo Sangchö – The Mountain Smoke Offering Accumulation (烟供前言+仁波切开示 中文)
Dec 9, 2020
Click below to listen to the Chinese translation of Phakchok Rinpoche’s Riwo Sangchö Teaching Samye Institute · Phakchok Rinpoche – Riwo Sangcho Teaching – Chinese We are joyfully announcing the global online accumulation Riwo Sangchö practice. The merit...
Read MoreAuspicious Global Sangha Accumulations of Merit During Bumgyur Dawa
Feb 25, 2021
On this first Guru Rinpoche Day of the Tibetan Iron Ox year, Phakchok Rinpoche and Samye joyfully announce a series of three global sangha accumulation of merit events. As these practices will occur during the first month of the lunar...
Read MoreTsok Bum Series: Tsa Sum (The Three Roots)
Feb 7, 2021
On this first Guru Rinpoche Day of the Tibetan Iron Ox year, we are joyfully announcing the Tsa Sum (or: Three Roots) Tsok Bum. This will be the 8th and final tsok bum in the Samye Tsok Bum Series which...
Read MoreA Message from Phakchok Rinpoche in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Feb 6, 2021
Today, February 6, 2021, is the anniversary of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, the great-grandson of the great treasure revealer, Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa. Rinpoche was an emanation of Nupchen Sangyé Yeshé, one of...
Read MoreMonthly 100,000 Feast Offerings (Tsok Bum)
Jan 7, 2021
Phakchok Rinpoche believes that the tremendous magnetizing power of these tsok bum will be particularly effective in this period of global pandemic and unrest. Tsok is a profound Vajrayana practice of offering that swiftly gathers the accumulations of merit and...
Read MoreAn Offering of the Dharma and Introduction of Student Pathways from Phakchok Rinpoche and Samye Institute
Jan 1, 2021
Phakchok Rinpoche will offer a series of Dharma teachings over the course of the next month. As the teachers regularly remind us, the gift of the precious Dharma is the supreme offering as it alone unfolds the path to...
Read MoreAnnouncing a New Addition to the ‘Advice for Dying Practitioners’ Curriculum
Dec 11, 2020
All of us as practitioners often contemplate our own death, as well as the death of our fellow beloved sangha members. The question often arises ”how do we best prepare for death”? If the state of mind and heart are...
Read MoreChokgyur Dechen Shikpo Lingpa
Jun 21, 2020
150th Parinirvāṇa Anniversary On June 22, 2020, we celebrate the anniversary of the renowned tertön (treasure revealer) Chokgyur Lingpa. About Chokgyur Dechen Shikpo Lingpa (Tib. མཆོག་གྱུར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིག་པོ་གླིང་པ་, Wyl. mchog gyur bde chen zhig po...
Read MoreWhat Can We Do If We Really Start To Freak Out? (Part 1 – Relying on the Love of the Buddhas)
Mar 20, 2020
Guru Padmasambhava as the guru we can all call out and supplicate in times of freaking...
Read MoreVisualization: How and Why?
Mar 5, 2020
Visualization can seem unnecessarily complicated when we first encounter meditation instruction. But creating a mental image and using that as an object of our attention is an important technique on the Vajrayāna path. Here, Phakchok Rinpoche shares some brief instruction...
Read MoreNew Book Launch
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