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Annual Mahakala Prayers with Samye Ling Sangha

This intensive 5 day prayer ritual is practiced in order to clear away obstacles to peace and progress in the Dharma... click for more info

Start : February 16, 2012
End : February 20, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

LOSAR - Tibetan New Year with Samye Ling Sangha

We wish you a very Happy "Losar" - many Tashi Delegs and best wishes for the Year of the Male Water Dragon..... click for more info

Start : February 22, 2012
End : February 22, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Refuge Ceremony & 1000 Armed Chenrezig Initiation with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche

Akong Tulku Rinpoche has kindly agreed to give refuge and bestow the Chenrezig Initiation so that anyone wishing to take part in the Nyungney Retreat... click for more info

Start : February 23, 2012
End : February 23, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Annual Nyungney Retreat with Samye Ling Sangha

We begin the Tibetan New Year with this auspicious purification practice of 1000 Armed Chenrezig.... click for more info

Start : February 24, 2012
End : March 11, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £25.00 Donation Basis ( suggested donation)

Easter Retreat - Meditation Made Simple with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche and Clive Holmes

Meditation may be simple but it is not so easy! In light of this, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche will explain how to tame the mind with kindness and how to learn the art of meditation, with one essential ingredient: joy!... click for more info

Start : April 6, 2012
End : April 9, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £100 (suggested donation)

Refuge Ceremony with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

Refuge Ceremony with the Abbot of Kagyu Samye Ling, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche. click for more info

Start : April 8, 2012
End : April 8, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Chod Puja - Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche Birthday Celebrations with Samye Ling Sangha

On Sunday the 6th of May, 2012, Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche celebrates his 72nd birthday. Every 12th year is an important one within the astrological Tibetan Calendar and this year the 6th May will be the Dragon day of the Dragon month of the Dragon year... click for more info

Start : May 4, 2012
End : May 6, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Selected Verses from "The Way of the Bodhisattva" by Shantideva with Khenpo Damcho Dawa Rinpoche

This text is the best-known guide to living as a Bodhisattva and one very dear to the heart of Khenpo Damcho Dawa, who often refers to it when teaching the Rinpoches and masters who are his students in Tibet... click for more info

Start : May 11, 2012
End : May 18, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £125 (suggested donation)

Amitabha Retreat with Khenpo Damcho Dawa Rinpoche

During this week, Khenpo Damcho Dawa will lead an Amitabha practice retreat, awakening the mind to the presence of Buddha Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light, and preparing the mind for rebirth in the Sukhavati pure realm at death... click for more info

Start : May 19, 2012
End : May 25, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £100 (suggested donation)

Powa Practice Retreat with Khenpo Damcho Dawa Rinpoche

The Transference of Consciousness at Death (Powa) retreat follows on from the 2011 preliminary teachings on Amitabha, given both by Khenpo Damcho Dawa and Drupon Rinpoche... click for more info

Start : May 26, 2012
End : June 1, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £100 (suggested donation)

Shedra Studies Course - The Mahayana Uttara Tantra Shastra with Drupon Rinpoche

The fourth part of Drupon Rinpoche's six year Shedra Studies Course, this course is open to new students as well as those who have attended in previous years... click for more info

Start : July 27, 2012
End : August 26, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling
Price: £250 (suggested donation)

Tea Party and Open Day with Samye Ling Sangha

We extend a warm welcome to you to attend our annual Tea Party and Open Day... click for more info

Start : August 12, 2012
End : August 12, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Guru Rinpoche Initiation with Drupon Rinpoche

Drupon Rinpoche will bestow the Guru Rinpoche initiation... click for more info

Start : August 26, 2012
End : August 26, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Guru Rinpoche Drubcho with Samye Ling Sangha

Dedicated to world peace and especially to the activities of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, everyone is welcome to come and join us in the Temple for these joyous and meaningful prayers... click for more info

Start : August 27, 2012
End : August 31, 2012

Venue: Samye Ling

Guru Rinpoche, The Second Buddha with Lama Zangmo

This retreat will focus on the Guru Rinpoche Sadhana which is practiced monthly in Samye Ling on the 10th day of the Tibetan calendar... click for more info

Start : October 13, 2012
End : October 21, 2012

Venue: Purelands Retreat Centre
Price: £370

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