Khacholing Center Alter Shakyamuni Buddha

Dharma Teachings by Drupa Rinpoche Lobsang Yeshi, Khacholing Minnesota Resident Teacher. Also see: Drupa Rinpoche’s Posts

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1st Semester 2025 Notice

Hello All,
Happy 2025! May the new year bring calm, peace, joy and a deeper practice of the Dharma, a sanctuary in these troubled times. Below is this year’s Class Schedule. It’s a later start this year, so do have a close look at the schedule. I look forward to being with you in class very soon.

Sincerely,
Drupa Rinpoche

Today (8th November 2024), Khacholing Center co-sponsored a long-life puja for His Eminence Gangkar Rinpoche, offering prayers for his continued long life and requesting that he dispel the darkness of ignorance among sentient beings through the illumination of the Dharma.

Tashi Delek and greetings to all! Welcome to the 2nd semester of Kacholing Center’s Dharma program 2024. I hope this rather warm summer has been a happy and meaningful one for you.

In the English language Dharma classes last semester, we covered the technique of training in samathaor meditative concentration. Meditative concentration is an indispensable tool for us to navigate daily life and deepen our spiritual practice. It is not merely keeping one’s mind blank. Its goal is to sharpen one’s mind to enable us to penetrate the full meaning of Dharma teachings, to understand ourselves better and manage our existence in the most fruitful way, which is to develop the 2 bodhicittas, namely conventional bodhicitta and ultimate bodhicitta. This chapter focuses on the methods to cultivate conventional bodhicitta.

For the Tibetan language Dharma classes, we will continue to conclusion the 37 Practices of the Bodhisattvas and thereafter, begin the First Panchen Lama’s text titled Wishes for Release from the Perilous Straits of the Intermediate State, Hero Releasing from Fright that offers advice on preparing for death and be liberated from the illusory appearances at the time of death and during the intermediate state (bardo).

This semester will also feature a Vajrasattva Retreat at the end of the semester. This is a potent purification practice that depending on the practitioner’s motivation and strength of practice, is able to eliminate one’s accumulated negativities and remove obstacles to progress on the Path.

Classes will be online on Sundays from 10am-11.15am and as before, classes will be conducted in English and Tibetan on alternate Sundays as per the Schedule below.

Class Schedule for July – Nov 2024

7^th Jul 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
14^th Jul 2024 10am – 11:15am	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (in Tibetan) – Online only
21^st Jul 202410am – 11:15am	How to Train in Shamatha – Meditative Stabilization (in English) – Online only
28^th Jul 2024 10am – 11:15am	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (in Tibetan) – Online only
4^st Aug 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
11^th Aug 202410am – 11:15am	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (in Tibetan) – Online only
18^th Aug 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
25^th Aug 202410am – 11:15am	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (in Tibetan) – Online only
1^st Sept 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
8^th Sept 202410am – 11:15am	No class
15^th Sept 202410am – 11:15am	བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ། (in Tibetan) – Online only
22^nd Sept 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
29^th Sept 202410am – 11:15am	བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ། (in Tibetan) – Online only
6^th Oct 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
13^th Oct 202410am – 11:15am	བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ།(in Tibetan) – Online only
20^th Oct 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
27^th Oct 202410am – 11:15am	བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ། (in Tibetan) – Online only
3^rd Nov 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
10^thNov 202410am – 11:15am	བར་དོ་འཕྲང་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་འཇིགས་སྒྲོལ་གྱི་དཔའ་བོ། (in Tibetan) – Online only
17^thNov 202410am – 11:15am	Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English) – Online only
23^rd & 24^th Nov 202410am – 5pm	Vajrasattva Retreat – TBC
Month of December	Winter Break

To gather a great store (of merit & wisdom) with little effort, Is rejoicing in virtue is praised as best.

Past Dharma Teaching

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July 7 2024

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Public puja (Prayer session) for His Holiness’ knee surgery and quick recovery

Recent Photos Gallery

Drupa Rinpoche at North Memorial Hospital during his Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) course.

Drupa Rinpoche visiting and teaching at Houston Temple, Texas, Dec 2023.

Rinpoche at Gyuto Monastery, Dharamsala, India

Butter Lamp, Khacholing Teaching Location

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