Event : Teaching and Retreat with Khenchen Rinpoche
Date : Sep 17-22 (Retreat Sep 18-19)
Venue : 24 Lorong 29 Geylang 03-00 Leow Sih Building
Map 1 :
http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_36642/travel_site_48880/
(Retreat @ Buddhist Union, 43 Lowland Road)
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Organizer : Drikung kagyu OM Centre
Programme :
Sep 17 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Teachings on Songs of Milarepa
Sep 18 9:30 am - 9:30 pm Meditation Retreat *
Sep 19 9:30 am - 9:30 pm Meditation Retreat *
Sep 20 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Consultation *
Sep 20 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Teaching on Heart Sutra
Sep 21 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Consultation *
Sep 21 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Teaching on Heart Sutra and Book
Signing
Sep 22 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Refuge Taking with Khenchen Rinpoche
Sep 22 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Mani Recitation
The village of Tsari and the surrounding areas are among the
most sacred places in Tibet. It was there that the most Venerable
Khenchen Rinpoche Konchog Gyaltsen was born in the spring of 1946,
and it was there that he spent his early years. In 1959, because of
the political situation in Tibet , Khenpo Rinpoche fled to India
with his family. The family then settled in Darjeeling , where
Rinpoche began his education. Even at a young age, he was an
excellent and dedicated student, and was able to complete his
middle school studies in less than the average time.
At about this same time, a new university, the Central Institute
of Higher Tibetan Studies, opened in Varanasi , India . Determined
to be among its first students, Khenchen Rinpoche traveled to
Varanasi , in October 1967 to seek admission. He then began a
nine-year course of study that included Madhyamika, Abhidharma,
Vinaya, the Abhisamayalankara, and the Uttaratantra, as well as
history, logic, and Tibetan grammar. In early 1968, he had the good
fortune to take full monastic ordination from the great Kalu
Rinpoche and, shortly after graduating from the Institute, he
received teachings from the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa on The Eight
Treasures of Mahamudra Songs, by the Indian mahasiddhas.
Even after completing this long and arduous course of study,
Khenchen Rinpoche wanted only to deepen his knowledge and practice
of the Dharma. With the same intensity that he brought to his
earlier studies, Rinpoche sought out and received teachings and
instructions from great Buddhist masters. One was the Venerable
Khunu Lama Rinpoche, with whom Khenchen Rinpoche studied two works
of Gampopa The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and The Precious
Garland of the Excellent Path. Rinpoche's studies with the
Venerable Khunu Lama also included Mahamudra and many of the songs
of Milarepa.
Maintaining a balance between theoretical understanding and the
practice of meditation, Khenpo Rinpoche began a three-year retreat
in 1978 under the guidance of the enlightened master Khyunga
Rinpoche. During this time, he was able to deepen and enhance his
understanding of The Five-fold Path of Mahamudra and the profound
Gong Chik text of Lord Jigten Sumgon. He also received many other
transmissions.
In 1985, Khenchen Rinpoche traveled to the main seat of the
Drikung Kagyu lineage, Drikung Thel, in Tibet . There, he was able
to receive personal blessings, as well as instructions and
transmissions of Mahamudra and the Six Yogas of Naropa, from the
enlightened master Venerable Pachung Rinpoche.