Treasurer Ivy Loo is our Treasurer. She is also a student of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Lama Wangdor, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and His Holiness Kusum Lingpa. Born and raised in Singapore, Ivy moved to California in 2000, where she worked on Special Events and Fundraising for a non-profit organization. Ivy came to New York in 2003 […]
Blazing Wisdom Institute is pleased to announce that its Fifth Annual Buddhist Prayer Festival for World Peace will be held from May 27 through 30, 2011, over the Memorial Day Weekend. The Prayer Festival is sanctioned by our spiritual director, Ven. Hung Kar Dorje Rinpoche, abbot of "Blue Valley Buddhist Wheel of Dharma Sanctuary" Monastery […]
Guhyagarbha Tantra Teachings Continue with Khenpo Sonam Topgyal Rinpoche Blazing Wisdom is pleased to announce that Khensur Rinpoche Sonam Topgyal, senior Khenpo of Riwoche Monastery and founder of the Riwoche Society and Temple in Toronto, Canada, will return to BWI from September 16-23, 2011, to continue his precious instruction on the Guhyagarbha Tantra, based on […]
Reading from “Flowers & Bones” at Dzogchen Foundation winter retreat, Garrison Institute, January 2011.
Heart advice at the Dzogchen Foundation winter retreat, Garrison Institute, January 2011.
The principles of the Buddhist path, Dzogchen Foundation winter retreat, Garrison Institute, January 2011.
This is a lecture covering 2 days in January 2011, when Tulku Sherdor spoke to a group on retreat at Garrison NY. Tulku Sherdor is introduced by Lama Surya Das.
The principles of the Buddhist path, Dzogchen Foundation winter retreat, Garrison Institute, January 2011.
"If there were something we could do to show our gratitude for the great service offered to us, from time immemorial to the present, by horses, cattle and sheep, whose brute labor we have used and whom we have butchered; to cause tranquility and happiness to prevail in our land and region, and the people in it to enjoy harmonious relations; and, above all, to bring about the restoration and further development of peaceful relations among the various monasteries, dharma traditions and religious systems, wouldn't that also help to increase affection and friendship among people? And wouldn't finding a way to create and extend cordial relations among people, from our perspective as Buddhists, propel us further along the path taught by our most compassionate Teacher? If we could take such ideas and actions as a starting point, and embellish them with the superior viewpoint (boddhicitta), living life gently and consciously, wouldn't the world itself, quite naturally, be improved thereby? "
Dzogchen Foundation Advanced Retreat Austin, Texas - May 10th, 2010
As the colophon to the beautiful aspiration prayer for Lama Sang’s rebirth composed by Hung Kar Dorje Rinpoche states, and as I witnessed, Lama Sang entered his final meditation of this lifetime at 9:00 a.m. on the second day of the Tibetan New Year, in February 2009.
Accordingly, Rinpoche and the other Tulkus, Khenpos and Lamas of our Lung Ngon Monastery have decided that the commemorative service marking the one year anniversary of this sacred display will begin precisely on the second day of Lo Sar this year, which is February 15, 2010. The service will continue for three to five days. The principal sadhana to be practiced in assembly in the Samye Temple is Minling Dorsem, the same practice we did last year during the ‘dung chod,’ leading up to the cremation and revelation of relics.
