Bodhicharya Meditation Center

25/02/2026

"So whatever comes, nice experiences, not nice experiences, they come and they go. And I have to allow them to come and allow them to go."~Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

'Meditation Advice from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche', read the full article in 'The Ringu Tulku Archive' here:
https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/news/meditation-advice-from-ringu-tulku-rinpoche

24/02/2026

´Aspiration of the Mahamudra of Definitive Meaning’ by the 3rd Karmapa 🙏🏻✨❤️

༄༅། །ངེས་དོན་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གཞུགས་སོ།

𝗔𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗵ā𝗺𝘂𝗱𝗿ā 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗽𝗮, 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗷𝗲

ན་མོ་གུ་རུ།
namo guru
Namo guru!

བླ་མ་རྣམས་དང་ཡི་དམ་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ལྷ། །
lama nam dang yidam kyilkhor lha
All you masters and yidam deities of the various maṇḍalas,

ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་དུས་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བ་སྲས་དང་བཅས། །
chok chu dü sum gyalwa sé dangché
Buddhas and your bodhisattva heirs throughout the ten directions and three times:

བདག་ལ་བརྩེར་དགོངས་བདག་གི་སྨོན་ལམ་རྣམས། །
dak la tser gong dak gi mönlam nam
Turn your loving attention towards me and grant your blessings,

ཇི་བཞིན་འགྲུབ་པའི་མཐུན་འགྱུར་བྱིན་རླབས་མཛོད། །
jizhin drubpé tün gyur jinlab dzö
So that all may be conducive to the fulfilment of my aspirations.



བདག་དང་མཐའ་ཡས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །
dak dang tayé semchen tamché kyi
May streams of virtue, unsullied by the three conceptual spheres,

བསམ་སྦྱོར་རྣམ་དག་གངས་རི་ལས་སྐྱེས་པའི། །
samjor namdak gangri lé kyepé
Sprung forth from snowy peaks—my own pure intentions and actions,

འཁོར་གསུམ་རྙོག་མེད་དགེ་ཚོགས་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་རྣམས། །
khor sum nyokmé gé tsok chugyün nam
And those of all other sentient beings, who are infinite in number—

རྒྱལ་བ་སྐུ་བཞིའི་རྒྱ་མཚོར་འཇུག་གྱུར་ཅིག །
gyalwa ku zhi gyatsor juk gyur chik
All merge into the vast ocean of the buddhas’ four kāyas.



ཇི་སྲིད་དེ་མ་ཐོབ་པ་དེ་སྲིད་དུ། །
jisi dé matobpa desi du
Meanwhile, for as long as I have not yet reached that level of attainment,

སྐྱེ་དང་སྐྱེ་བ་ཚེ་རབས་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཡང་། །
kyé dang kyewa tserab küntu yang
Throughout the course of my many lives in one rebirth after another,

སྡིག་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྒྲ་ཡང་མི་གྲག་ཅིང་། །
dik dang dukngal dra yang mi drak ching
May I never so much as hear the words ‘wrongdoing’ or ‘suffering’,

བདེ་དགེ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་དཔལ་ལ་སྤྱོད་པར་ཤོག །
dé gé gyatsö pal la chöpar shok
And may I enjoy the splendour of oceanic happiness and virtue.
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Read and download the full text 'Aspiration of the Mahāmudrā of Definitive Meaning' by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje here at Lotsawa House:
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/third-karmapa-rangjung-dorje/mahamudra-aspiration

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Listen to the teaching given by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche at Bodhicharya France in Lusse, on the 'Aspiration of the Mahāmudrā of Definitive Meaning' by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, here on Ringu Tulku Archive:
∙ https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/archives/aspiration-for-mahamudra-2
∙ https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/archives/aspiration-for-the-mahamudra

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Photo: The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje. Photo from kagyuoffice.org, the official website of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa

24/02/2026

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23/02/2026

"We are saying here that we want to help everybody, and to help them the best we possibly could. So, I should use my life to at least do the first step towards that."~ Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, with Mary Heneghan, in “White Tara, Healing Light of Wisdom”, p37, Bodhicharya Publications, 2022.

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Order the book "White Tara – Healing Light of Wisdom" here:
https://bodhicharya.org/product/white-tara/

Photo of the stupa thanks to Building Bodhicharya Berlin, Stupa Berlin, Bodhicharya Berlin

23/02/2026

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21/02/2026

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Live Webcasts: Long Life Offering Ceremony in Dharamsala
www.dalailama.com/live

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend a Long Life Prayer offered to him by Former Tibetan Political Prisoners from around the world and the Lhasa Boys Association Switzerland at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, HP, India on February 23, 2026.

Webcasts also available in Tibetan, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, Hindi, German, Russian, Italian, Japanese, and Mongolian.

All times Indian Standard Time (IST=GMT+5:30)

February 23rd - Long Life Offering Ceremony
Time: 8:30am - 10:00am IST

For times in your area 8:30am IST on February 23rd in Dharamsala, India is the same as 3:00am GMT on February 23rd in London, UK; and 7:00pm PST on February 22nd in Los Angeles, California, USA. Other times can be found using Time Zone Converter (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html).

20/02/2026

"I just allow it to be and then, like the waves coming and going, it dissolves itself. There is nothing outside my mind."~Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

'Meditation Advice from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche', read the full article in 'The Ringu Tulku Archive' here:
https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/news/meditation-advice-from-ringu-tulku-rinpoche

18/02/2026

མེ་རྟ་ལོ་སར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།

རྩ་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།།
བདག་གི་ལྷག་བསམ་དག་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་མཐུས།།
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་བཞེད་དོན་ལྷུན་གྱིས་འགྲུབ་པ་དང་།།
བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག །

མེ་རྟ་ལོ་སར་ལ་རི་མགུལ་སྤྲུལ་མིང་པས་གུས་ཕུལ།།

By the power of the blessings of all enlightened beings, and with my sincere prayers from my pure heart,
May all your good wishes become accomplished,
And may you enjoy the prosperity of all your well being.

Ringu Tulku
Tashi Delek on the New Year of the Fire Horse Year.

མེ་རྟ་ལོ་སར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།

རྩ་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།།
བདག་གི་ལྷག་བསམ་དག་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་མཐུས།།
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་བཞེད་དོན་ལྷུན་གྱིས་འགྲུབ་པ་དང་།།
བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཤོག །

མེ་རྟ་ལོ་སར་ལ་རི་མགུལ་སྤྲུལ་མིང་པས་གུས་ཕུལ།།

By the power of the blessings of all enlightened beings, and with my sincere prayers from my pure heart,
May all your good wishes become accomplished,
And may you enjoy the prosperity of all your well being.

Ringu Tulku
Tashi Delek on the New Year of the Fire Horse Year.

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Link to the message from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche on Bodhicharya's website here:
https://bodhicharya.org/losar-tashi-delek-2/

17/02/2026

Losar Tashi Delek!
Happy Tibetan New Year of the Fire Horse 🙏🏻✨❤️🔥🐎

16/02/2026

Solar Eclipse
(Tuesday, February 17th, 2026)

Prayer of Samantabhadra (or Kuntuzangpo)*:
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/rigdzin-godem/prayer-of-kuntuzangpo

This direct and important text is not only an aspiration prayer, but also a very profound teaching and an introduction to the Dzogchen approach.

This popular and well-known prayer is especially recommended to be recited during special times like earthquakes, eclipses and solstices, utilizing such times as an opportunity for liberation.

*Note: Kuntuzangpo in Tibetan, Samantabhadra in Sanskrit, means ‘always good', ‘always well’ or ‘unchanging goodness’. (From Rigpa wiki)

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https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/archives/winter-teaching-2020

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Painting: The Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra

16/02/2026

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In this intimate conversation, eminent Tibetan Buddhist master and scholar Ringu Tulku Rinpoche traces his extraordinary life shaped by exile, rigorous study, a lifetime of practice and teaching across cultures, leading him to this very moment.⁠ Listen to the episode here: https://www.shambhala.com/this-very-moment-episode-5-ringu-tulku-rinpoche
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He describes his early years studying and practicing under Khenpo Tsöndrü, the Sixteenth Karmapa, and his main teacher Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, as well as a variety of teachers from the Kagyu Nyingma, Geluk, and Sakya traditions lending to his rimé (nonsectarian) training. Rinpoche also highlights two major lay influences: Professor N. C. Sinha, who shaped his understanding of history and ethics, and Freda Bedi, who nurtured his English, cross-cultural awareness, and early teaching activity.⁠
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Reminiscing on his early education, Rinpoche describes his experiences studying at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath and later his unanticipated 8-year appointment translating textbooks into Tibetan for the education department in Sikkim, followed by 17 years of teaching Tibetan Language and Literature at the college level before “retiring” and continuing his teaching internationally.⁠
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Since 1990, Rinpoche has been traveling and teaching Buddhism at over 50 universities, institutes, and Buddhist centers in Europe, Australia, Asia, and North America, as well as participating in interfaith dialogues and academic conferences, making him a true nomad and advocate of the nonsectarian impulse.⁠

*Photo of Rinpoche courtesy of Gerry McCulloch.