Tag: Samye Ling

  • 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…