Young Drukpa Association - YDA, Nepal

07/01/2026

Happy Birthday Rinpoche la 🥳🎂🎊💐🎈😇

The office bearers and volunteers at the Gyalwang Drukpa’s offices wish Kyabje Jangpa Rinpoche a very happy birthday and many happy returns. May you live long effortlessly for the benefit of all beings!

07/01/2026

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓾𝓷𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓷 𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓫𝔂 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓽 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓯𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯.

The secret of the uncommon path is that by taking care of others you are in fact looking after yourself. And to take care of others you need to think of yourself and your own well-being, but to do so from a place of generosity rather than thinking always of what “I want” or “I need”. It’s a cycle of interdependence and connection: we need to take care of others in order to take care of ourselves; we need to take care of ourselves in order to take care of others. Both are needed if we are to walk the uncommon path we need to benefit each other. This is the understanding.
~ 𝓖𝔂𝓪𝓵𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓰 𝓓𝓻𝓾𝓴𝓹𝓪, an excerpt from the book 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓔𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽

07/01/2026

Choosing a vegetarian lifestyle is a powerful way to show compassion for animals. By not eating them, you're offering them refuge - a chance to live in peace. Even if you can't give up all meat, reducing your intake is still a positive step and a meaningful way to show kindness. Every small change makes a difference.

03/01/2026

🌸 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚 𝐃𝐨𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦 🌸

Meeting practitioners at Quan Am Tu Vien, Gyalwa Dokhampa shared that the New Year is not only a time for wishes, but a powerful moment for self-reflection and intentional practice.

He emphasized two essential foundations for cultivating happiness in the year ahead.

🌿 From the karmic perspective, we are called to see that all phenomena—external or internal, personal or collective—arise from causes and conditions. Nothing happens by accident. Just as the mind gives rise to speech and action, the mind is the leader, while speech and action follow.

Therefore, training the mind is of utmost importance. When we practice generosity from the heart, learn to restrain our temper, and maintain discipline, we are engaging in mind training.

With sincere dedication to this inner work, Gyalwa Dokhampa affirmed that we are creating the causes for a genuinely happy New Year.

🌿 He further encouraged the cultivation of Bodhicitta—shifting our concern beyond our own happiness to include the wellbeing of all sentient beings.

At first, this may not feel natural. Yet through consistent practice, as compassion gradually expands to embrace all beings, negative karma is naturally purified.

Even those we once regarded as enemies may, over time, become protectors, supporters, or companions on the path.

🌿 The Buddha’s teaching that our future is shaped by what we do now offers a deeply positive perspective.

Gyalwa Dokhampa emphasized that if we truly trust the Buddha and the Dharma, we should be very confident that by confessing past negative actions with sincere remorse, and by making a clear commitment—starting today—to create positive conditions, we are shaping happiness not only for this New Year, but for many years to come, and even for future lives.

🙏 Holding these understandings in our hearts, may all beings be happy.
May this New Year unfold with wisdom, compassion, and auspicious conditions for all. 🙏

01/01/2026

🙏🎉 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐆𝐘𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀 𝐃𝐎𝐊𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐀 🎊

As another year gently comes to a close, I take this moment with a heart full of gratitude, reflecting on the many meaningful moments we have shared together.

Throughout this past year, members of our Drukpa lineage have continued to practice with sincerity and perseverance, quietly dedicating their efforts to the Dharma and to the benefit of all sentient beings.

Wherever you may be in the world, may you feel a sense of warmth and belonging as part of Drukpa lineage family. The compassion that connects us transcends borders and distance; it flows naturally through our shared commitment and goodwill.

In the joyful presence and blessings of the Gyalwang Drukpa, I offer my sincere prayers that all practitioners, devotees, and all beings may enter the New Year with peace, happiness, and genuine accomplishment on the path.

With my prayers and warm wishes.

～ Gyalwa Dokhampa

01/01/2026

ལོ་ནག་པོ་རྒྱབ་ཏུ་བོར་བས་འཛོམས་གསུམ་གྱི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཉིས། །ལོ་དཀར་པོའི་སྤྲོ་སྣང་ཤར་བའི་ལུས་བདེ་བའི་པདྨ་འབུས། །འཆམ་མཐུན་གྱི་ལེགས་དགུ་འབྱོར་བས་ལོ་གསར་པའི་ཕུན་ཚོགས་བཞད། །འཐེན་འཁྱེར་དང་ཕྱོགས་རིས་བྲལ་བའི་བག་གྲོ་པོས་འཚོ་བར་སྨོན། །ཕྲན་འབྲུག་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པས་སོ།། །།

24/12/2025

If you want to be a fearless person, you need first of all to be in reality. Speaking about this, I always ask my friends to be in reality. I never talk about the fancy things up there in the sky, even though if I wanted to, I could talk for days, weeks and months about them! I can speak of fairytales but I don’t like to. I’m not happy or comfortable doing that. I’m not fantasising about all these things because this is not reality. Reality is about how to deal with life, the day-to-day life. That is reality. If you know that, then you will get the real and authentic thing; you may call it Nirvana or heaven or whatever name you want to use. You will get it, you will have it within your life, within this very moment. So, this is reality, and it’s more reliable and realistic, so why don’t we go for that, rather than wasting time thinking of something that is not achievable? That is just like empty talking. ~𝓖𝔂𝓪𝓵𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓰 𝓓𝓻𝓾𝓴𝓹𝓪, an excerpt from 𝓦𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷 𝓤𝓷𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓷 𝓟𝓪𝓽𝓱: 𝓐 𝓖𝓾𝓲𝓭𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓾𝓪𝓵 𝓠𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽

23/12/2025

His Eminence Drubpon Khamtak Rinpoche returned to Ladakh this morning. Devotees and followers warmly welcomed His Eminence at Leh Airport as he arrived to lead the Winter Holistic Development Program.
Guided by His Eminence, this program continues to nurture spiritual wisdom, cultural preservation, and holistic growth for participants from across Ladakh.
May this winter season bring learning, reflection, and meaningful connections to all.

Drukpa

23/12/2025

🌸 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐐𝐮𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐦 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐚 🌸

Today at Que Lam Pagoda, during his visit to Vietnam, Gyalwa Dokhampa bestowed the Empowerment of Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara and transmitted the Refuge Vows to a large gathering of devoted practitioners.

This was a truly precious opportunity to receive an empowerment carried through an unbroken lineage. Through this occasion, practitioners are entering a clear and meaningful progression of the path:

1️⃣ Refuge — becoming a Buddhist
2️⃣ Generating Bodhicitta — entering the Mahayana path
3️⃣ Receiving Empowerment — opening the gateway to Vajrayana practice

The meaning of empowerment is profoundly sacred. It is not a miracle that transforms one into a Bodhisattva overnight.
Rather, it is an invitation to recognize and return to one’s true nature — beyond personal labels, fixed identities, and fault-based self-definitions — and to reconnect with the innate Buddha-nature within.

This is the skillful path of Vajrayana, which works directly with “the existing” — using lived experience, body, speech, and mind as the path itself — guiding practitioners toward the realization of the inseparability of emptiness and appearance, known as Mahamudra.

For this reason, receiving empowerment today is not merely a blessing for peace and wellbeing. It is truly the opening of a living gateway onto the path of awakening and liberation.

🙏 May all practitioners who received the empowerment remain diligent in their practice, bringing benefit to themselves and all sentient beings.

20/12/2025

Under the compassionate guidance of His Eminence Drubpon Khamtak Rinpoche, the sacred Sangay Tsewa (Chöd) practice was conducted at the highly sacred and auspicious site of Vajravārāhī, Sankhu, Nepal, marking the concluding day of a profound spiritual journey.

Earlier, on 29th November, His Eminence graciously bestowed the Sangay Tsewa Lung, blessing all practitioners with this precious transmission for the three women groups — Sirjana Sil Ama Society, Karuna Ama Society, and Lochen Ratna Mani Society — at Sambu, Kathmandu, since then they have been learning and practicing Sangay Tsewa for the past many days.

This meaningful spiritual program was organized by Drukpa Nepal and YDA Nepal, bringing together devotion, discipline, and collective prayers for the benefit of all sentient beings.

May the blessings of this sacred practice bring peace, wisdom, and compassion to all.

20/12/2025

Happy new year

༄༅གནམ་ལོ་གསར་དུ་བཞད་པའི་དགའ་སྟོན་ལ་གུས་པ་སྤྲུལ་མིང་འཛིན་པ་ཁམ་བུ་བྲག་ནས་ལག་གཉིས་སོར་བཅུ་འདབ་མ་སྙིང་ཀར་བཀོད་ནས་ལ་དྭགས་མི་མང་ཡོངས་ལ་མཚམས་འདྲི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་གྲངས་མེད་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་དང་མ་འོང་མི་ཚེ་མདུན་ལམ་ནང་ཚེ་དང་སྒྲུབ་པ་མཉམ་པའི་ཆོས་པ་བཟང་པོ་ཞིག་ཡོང་བ་དང་འཕྲལ་གྱི་བྱ་བ་ལམ་འགྲོ་དང་ནད་མེད་ཚེ་རིང་ཡོང་བའི་རེ་སྨོན་སླད་མེད་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་ལགས་སོ།།