Tag: Samye Ling

  • Lorna & Bill & the Samye Ling Archives A Tribute

    I first met Lorna Watson at Johnstone house, in the old shrine room of Samye Ling Monastery in Eskdalemiur, Southern Scotland. It was 1987 and Akong Rinpoche was beginning to formalise his Tara Rokpa Therapy Process:  we were both part of a group that spent three days in retreat with Rinpoche and Edith Irwin, completing…

  • THE PHOENIX

    I am skiing down through the snow and come across a building called Innovation. I walk through the door, and come across the people at the pay kiosk. I say I have no money with me but I want to meet my other half. They let me go in and I go up the escalator to meet…

  • HOW I MET RINGU TULKU RINPOCHE

    Andy with Rinpoche at the summer camp in Portugal, 2014 25 years ago I was trying to write a research methodology text book but was unable to so due to severe writers block.  This was making the lives of my friends in Glasgow a misery.  One day someone suggested that I go to a quiet…

  • MEETING THE TEACHER

        Having made my first visit to Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Buddhist Centre with the express purpose of attending a talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, my second visit, a few months later, was to find out more about the Centre itself. Driving through the soft, green rolling hills of Southern…

  • A TRIBUTE TO AKONG RINPOCHE

          ‘Only the impossible is worth doing’[1].  Choje Akong Rinpoche was indeed, as described by Colum Kenny in the Irish Independent newspaper this week, a remarkable man:  tulku, father, husband, lama, teacher, labourer, refugee, politician, healer, soothsayer, pure visionary, founder of Samye Ling and the Rokpa and Tara Trusts.  A trusted guide to…