Happy New Year 2023

The signs of degenerate times are even clearer.
Effects of war and pandemic continue to torture the whole world.
Extreme weather screams of environmental tragedies.
The future does not look good for this world of ours.
And yet this is no time for us to weaken.
The real solution lies in each of us.
Let us turn the hatred into kindness.
Let us open our eyes to interdependence and realise the futility of disunity and greed.
Let each of us light a lamp of wisdom and compassion in our hearts.
And turn this world of ours into a paradise of kindness and harmony.
No one else – only each one of us can do this.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year of healing, harmony and helping each other with courage, confidence and clarity.

Ringu Tulku
Gangtok

White Tara: Healing Light of Wisdom – a new publication

Bodhicharya Publications is very happy to announce the publication of Ringu Tulku’s latest book ‘White Tara: Healing Light of Wisdom.’ This book presents his teachings on the practice of White Tara, focusing on the short daily sadhana by Tenga Rinpoche and explaining how it includes all aspects of practice: shamatha, vipassana, Mahamudra and so on.

Purchasing a copy of this beautiful text will not only bring you these timeless teachings, but will also donate funds to Rigul Trust, to support their activities among the people of Ringu Tulku’s homeland in Rigul, Kham. 100% of all profits received go directly to Rigul Trust.

You can purchase your copy from our online book shop here:

https://bodhicharya.org/product/white-tara

Also available globally as a print and e-book from all good online bookshops.

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Ringu Tulku: Rigul Trust funding

Dear friends world wide,

A letter from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche about Rigul, his birthplace, and where he has his monastery:

“I am very pleased to report that the school, clinic and shedra are going very well in Rigul. I would like to thank you all for your very generous contributions.

To secure the well being for the people of Rigul in the longer term, a plan has been created with the help of a professionally managed investment fund. This investment fund has enabled us to better utilise the accumulated reserves whilst still maintaining our current day to day funding of Rigul. The aim of this fund is to grow it sufficiently over the next ten years so that it will provide a legacy which will support the people of Rigul into the future. We would also like to remind you that 100% of all donations received from you go towards benefiting the people of Rigul since the Trust is operated on a volunteer basis.

Our task has not yet been completed. With your help, the people of Rigul will be able to continue to have health care services and free education and food for children as well indefinitely into the future.

I send you my heart felt gratitude for all the help and support that you are giving to the people of the village of my monastery”

Ringu Tulku

Wishing you all the very best,

Margaret Richardson
Founder of Rigul Trust

www.rigultrust.org

Interfaith Prayers for World Peace

Tuesday 8th March 2022 at 5pm (GMT/UTC)

This coming Tuesday Rinpoche will speak at the week long Interfaith Prayers for World Peace* event. Rinpoche has chosen to teach and recite a prayer by Thangtong Gyalpo entitled ‘Prayer of Truthful Words to Pacify the Fear of War.

Find out more about the event here.


*The Interfaith Prayers for World Peace series is jointly organized by Ligmincha International and CyberSangha® under the guidance of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

Summer Camp 2022 – 25th to 31st July

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We are happy to announce that Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has kindly agreed to teach at Summer Camp 2022, live in Casa da Torre, Portugal. Sessions will also be broadcasted, making it possible to attend either at the venue or via Zoom. The topic is yet to be decided.

For more information, and to register your interest in attending either live or online, please visit:

Bodhicharya Portugal

New Year’s Wishes from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Tashi Delegs & Happy Water Tiger Year of 2022 CE from Ringu Tulku @ Bodhicharya Berlin

སྐུ་ཁམས་བཟང་ཞིང་ཞབས་པད་བརྟན་པ་དང་།།
དོན་གཉིས་བཞེད་དོན་ལྷུན་གྱིས་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག །
མཛའ་བརྩེ་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས།།
འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁམས་ཀུན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཤོག །
ཆུ་སྟག་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་རི་མགུལ་སྤྲུལ་མིང་པས་གུས་ཕུལ།།

May you live long and in good health.
May your wishes for yourself and others be effortlessly realised.
Love, kindness, harmony and happiness may prevail.
And the whole world be filled with auspiciousness.

This prayer is sent by Ringu Tulku,
on the Water Tiger Tibetan New Year.
03.03.2022

A Prayer for peace

By Ringu Tulku Rinpoche (in Tibetan, English and German).

སངས་རྒྱས་བྱང་སེམས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།།
བདག་གིས་དུས་གསུམ་བསགས་པའི་དགེ་བའི་ཚོགས།།
ལྷག་བསམ་རྣམ་དག་སྨོན་པའི་ནུས་མཐུ་ཡིས་།།
འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁམས་འདིར་འཁྲུག་རྩོད་ནད་ཡམས་སོགས།།
ཉེས་ཚོགས་ཀུན་ཞི་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས།།
ཕན་ཚུན་བྱམས་པའི་སེམས་དང་ལྡན་གྱུར་ཅིག། །།

By the blessings of Enlightened and Compassionate ones,
By the power of my positive actions of three times,
And my prayers of pure aspiration,
May wars, conflicts, epidemics
And all other maladies dissolve in this world,
And may the earth and all who live on this earth enjoy the abundance of wellbeing,
May all learn to live lovingly with each other.

Durch den Segen von Erleuchteten und Mitfühlenden,
Durch die Kraft meiner positiven Handlungen aus drei Zeiten,
und meine reinen Wunschgebete,
Mögen Kriege, Konflikte, Epidemien
Und alle anderen Leiden in dieser Welt sich auflösen,
Und möge die Erde und alle die auf dieser Erde leben
die Fülle des Wohlergehens genießen,
Mögen alle lernen, liebevoll miteinander zu leben.

Ringu Tulku
Bodhicharya e.V. Berlin, 24 February 2022

The passing of His Holiness the 4th Dodruchen Rinpoche

His Holiness the 4th Dodruchen Rinpoche (1927-2022) entered into parinirvana yesterday at around 4pm in his retreat at Lukshama near Gangtok in Sikkim. He was one of the main lineage holders of the Nyingma School of Buddhism and especially the Longchen Nyingthik set of teachings. He is regarded as one of the most respectable teachers of Tibetan Buddhism.

He was personally one of my main teachers and was our refuge and protection. His presence in Sikkim was one of the main reasons for us to settle there. I remember all the kind and wise ways that he helped us in various ways.

Once when an insect entered into my ear he woke up in the middle of the night and found a way to get it out. He was the same way to all the people who came to get his help. Buddhists and non Buddhists all went to get his blessings in Sikkim. We would go to him when a child couldn’t sleep at night and for any major and minor needs. The community now feel like they have lost their protector.

We pray for a swift return of his reincarnation who would be similarly kind and wise.

Ringu Tulku
26.01.2022

Rigul Greetings and Gratitude

Dear friends worldwide,

So very many of us have so willingly and graciously helped Ringu Tulku’s people in Tibet over the years.

The people in Rigul send their heartfelt greetings, appreciation and gratitude for all the help and the kindness that so many of us have provided with support and funds for health, education and poverty relief in Rigul.

Over the years we have helped fund the first purpose built school, the first purpose built health clinic. And! Funded two free school meals a day, free textbooks, free boarding, salaries for teachers and cooks. With the clinic we have funded the salaries of the doctor, the nurse and the running costs of the clinic along with funding an ambulance. We’ve helped fund the first ever piped water to several taps located in the school and the clinic  etc. And- the first ever toilets with water supply too.

Sometime ago, I was told by a lama from Rigul that the whole atmosphere of the people in Rigul had changed with them developing more confidence, more interest in the children’s education and  now receiving health care.

There are so many ways that we can help and will share with everyone some of the numerous fund raising activities that have taken place in the next Rigul news posting.

Wishing us all good health and a joyful mind for the new year,

Margaret Richardson and Ringu Tulku