Additional Photos from Kalu Rinpoche's visit in September 2011

Photos of Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche are copyrighted to him. Photographers:
Hugh Bacon, Emanualle Gomez, Michele Martin and Vanya Sloan.

Pot Luck

The pot luck on November 12, was to celebrate the end of the October donor campaign.

Scenes from the Weekend of Teachings on GROUNDED SPACIOUSNESS: INTEGRATING BUDDHIST WISDOM INTO DAILY LIFE

Teachings by Ari Goldfield and Rose Taylor

GROUNDED SPACIOUSNESS INTEGRATING BUDDHIST WISDOM INTO DAILY LIFE. November 4 – 6, 2011

These classes taught the essential view of wisdom as the Buddha presented it in the Prajnaparamita (Transcendent Wisdom) Sutras, and how individuals could connect with it and sustain it. They also taught body-based meditation techniques to help manifest wisdom's awareness in our own daily experience.

His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche visited KSC to bless the temple and offer teachings in September

http://hiseminencekalurinpoche.org/Yangsi.html




"He is the reincarnation of KALU RINPOCHE who was born in 1905 in eastern Tibet. During his early years, he was tutored by his father at home and received a thorough grounding in the meditative and ritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.

When Kalu Rinpoche was fifteen years old, he was sent to begin his higher studies at the great monastery of Palpung, the foremost center of the Karma Kagyu school. He remained there for more than a decade, during which time he mastered the vast body of teaching that forms the philosophical basis of Buddhist practice and completed two three-year retreats. Rinpoche's gurus included the foremost disciples of the supreme master of the Eclectic Movement, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye. Among them were the Fifteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Khakhyap Dorje; Eleventh Tai Situ Pema Wangchuk Gyalpo, the abbot and foremost teacher of Palpung monastery; Zhechen Gyaltsab Byurme Namgyla, the great Nyingma master who was regarded as Mipham Rinpoche's unequaled disciple; and the meditation master Drupon Norbu Donrdrup, whose teaching had a profound impact on Rinpoche's life. At the same time, his Dharma brethren included the foremost masters of his generation: Kongtrul Khyentse Ozer, Zhechen Kongrtrul Rinpoche, Jamyang Khyentse Choki Lodro, Dingo Khyentse Rinpoche, and many others.

At age twenty-six, Rinpoche left Palpung to pursue the life of a solitary yogi in the woods of the Khampa countryside. For nearly fifteen years, he strove to perfect his realization of all aspects to the teachings and he became renowned in the villages and among the nomads as a true representative of the Bodhisattva's path. Rinpoche's simple and direct style of teaching is in many ways the product of the need to bring the living experience of the Buddha's teaching to those who had not benefited from the sophisticated educational system of the monastic system.

It was thus with an established mastery of meditative practice that Kalu Rinpoche returned to Palpung to receive final teachings from Drupon Norbu Dondrup, who entrusted him with the rare transmission of the teaching of the Shangpa Kagyu.

During the 1940's, Rinpoche visited central Tibet with the party of Situ Rinpoche, and there he taught extensively. His disciples included the Reting Rinpoche, regent of all Tibet during the infancy of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

Returning to Kham, Rinpoche became the abbot of the meditation center associated with Palpung and the meditation teacher of His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa. He remained in that position until the situation in Tibet forced him into exile in India.

Kalu Rinpoche has taught extensively in America and Europe, and during his three visits to the West he had founded teaching centers in over a dozen countries. In France, he has established the first retreat center ever to teach the traditional three-year retreats of the Shangpa and Karma Kagyu lineages to Western students." ---http://www.kagyu.org/kagyulineage/teachers/tea11.php

Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche

On Friday September 9 Kalu Rinpoche spoke on “How To Free Your Heart, How to Free Your Mind”

On Saturday he performed the Refuge Ceremony & Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony and in the evening he gave Heart Advice.

On Sunday September 11 at KSC he did the Consecration of the Temple and Sukhasiddhi Empowerment

KSC's Work Party on August 27, 2011

The last photo was taken as Susan and Valerie prepared for a sale of various Buddhist items the following day.

Thanks for the photos Vanya Sloan

The Annual KSC Work Party happened on August 27, 2011

The Lama Dog Dancer watched over everyone.

KSC June Retreat at Buckhorn Springs

Milarepa Empowerment

On May 21 and 22 the Venerable Lama Lodru Rinpoche gave the Milarepa Empowerment and instructions the the Milarepa practice.

The day before the teachings he blessed the new statues of Sukkasiddi, Green Tara and White Tara.

Kunzang joined and assisted Rinpoche. His photo is on the left below.  Acharya Kunzang has attained a 12-year degree from the Nalanda Buddhist University and has been Lama Lodu Rinpoche's attendant at KDK for several years.

                       "Receiving Empowerment in Vajrayana teachings is like planting a seed for Enlightenment. It prepares our body speech and mind just as tilling the soil and furnishing nutrients would facilitate seed growth. While we already have Buddha Nature, our obscurations keep us from realizing it, and the Empowerment aids us in beginning the process to reveal our Enlightened Mind."