Tag: Kagyu Samye Ling

  • Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

    Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche Vin Harris talks about the life of a remarkable man     I knew Akong Rinpoche as a friend and teacher for about forty years. Between 1978 and 1988, the Samye Ling community under his leadership built the first authentic Tibetan Buddhist temple in the West; it is named after Samye…

  • FULFILLING THE VISION

    SAMYE LING Fulfilling the Vision from Sitar Rose on Vimeo. Sitar specialises in health, education and the arts and frequently works with sensitive and difficult issues. After training in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University, she started making documentaries in 1980. Since then she has  researched, directed. filmed and edited her own productions . Fulfilling the Vision…

  • Daily life at the Monastery

    This is the third article in the series by Ani Rinchen Khandro published in the New Statesmanin which she relates her experience at the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastry in Scotland. If, after having encountered a realized spiritual master of authentic and unbroken lineage, one wishes to become a Buddhist the next step is to ‘take refuge’. In the…

  • APPROACHING BUDDHISM

    DETAIL ON THE BASE OF STUPA AT SAMYE LING   Ani Rinchen Khandro recounts years living in South-East Asia and her life as a Buddhist nun at Kagyu Samye Ling monastery. When one encounters anyone born in the west who is a Buddhist, the likelihood is that they were not born into the faith, but…