Dharma Activities in 2025

During 2025 Samye Ling benefitted from an amazing range of visiting teachers who each gave memorable and inspiriting teachings on a variety of useful dharma topics.

These are the opportunities we had to receive the Dharma this year:

23 – 27 February
Annual Protector Prayers

12-17 March and 31 March – 28 April  (joining other Monasteries and Nunneries)
His Holiness the 17^th Gyalwang Karmapa’s Arya Kshema teachings on the Fifty Verses on the Guru

4 - 20 May
Annual Nyungney Retreat led by Ven. Lama Dondam

24 -25 May
Ashes Ceremony with Lama Dondam and visiting Lamas

30 May – 5 June
5^th UK Kagyu Monlam
Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu taught 'Calling the Guru from Afar' by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye

11 June
Refuge Ceremony with Abbot Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

14 July (joining other Monasteries and Nunneries)
HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa conferred the transmission for the Tara Mandala Sadhana as well as the short Five Deities Tara Sadhana which His Holiness composed recently.

18 July – 20 July
Khenpo Jamyang Lodro taught Sang Tik Dolma (Green Tara) practice

21 July – 14 September
Khenpo Jamyang Lodro The Ornament of Precious Liberation by Lord Gampopa

21 July - 16 September  
Khenpo Karma Drodul taught The Four Noble Truths

13 – 20 August
Summer Retreat - Drupon Khen Rinpoche Karma Lhabu taght The Ornament of Precious Liberation – Lord Gampopa

18 August – 17 September (joining other Monasteries and Nunneries)
His Holiness 17^th Gyalwang Karmapa gave Mar Ngok Summer Teachings – The Origins of Secret Mantra

25 September - 6 November
Khenpo Phurba Wangchuk taught Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend

5 October
Refuge Ceremony with Abbot Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche 

8 October
The 12th Anniversary of the passing of our Founder Khyabje Akong Tulku
Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on Guru Yoga to His Holiness 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rikpe Dorje, from a commentary composed by H.E. 12th Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche

Guru Yoga, Sang Puja and Tseringma Puja practice sessions

Khenpo Phurpa Wangchuk gave teachings on Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend

9 – 15 October
Khyabje Akong Tulku Memorial Retreat

Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on Guru Yoga to HH 16^th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rikpa Dorje, from a commentary composed by H E 12^th Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche

Practice Sessions:  Guru Yoga, Sang Puja and Tseringma Puja

Khenpo Phurpa Wangchuk gave teachings on Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend

14 October
Joined with other Monasteries and Nunneries for Anniversary of Paranirvana of
8^th Karmapa, Mikyö Dorje
With His Holiness the 17^th Gyalwang Karmapa, featuring the sadhana of Kagyu songs written by Mikyö Dorje, an offering of debate by the Kagyu shedras, and a talk by His Holiness explaining the significance of this anniversary.

8 – 26 October
Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on Guru Yoga to HH 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rikpa Dorje, from a commentary composed by H E 12th Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche

27 October – 4 November
Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on Mahayana Sutra Advice to a King (King Bimbisara)

27 October – 20 November
Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on Nagarjuna's Precious Garland (Ratnavali)

5 – 7 November
Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on the Mahayana Sutra Advice to a King (King Udayana)

10 November – 20 November
Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva

21 November – 2 December
Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on ‘The Confessional Sutra on Repaying the Kindness of the Mother', composed by the 3rd Gyalwang Karmapa Rangjung Dorje

2 December
Khenpo Ghawang gave teaching on Sang Puja, Smoke Offering prayers

3 December
Khenpo Ghawang gave teachings on the visualisation guide for the Four Session Guru Yoga for HH 16^th Gyalwang Karmapa

23 December 2025 – 2 January 2026 (joining other Monasteries and Nunneries)
Online teachings by His Holiness 17^th Gyalwang Karmapa on the Introduction to the Abhisambodhi of Vairochana.