Wishing Your Eminence Gyalwa Dokhampa a very Happy Birthday!  May Your Eminence Live long for the benefit of many mother sentient beings and help us to lead a meaningful life.  - Office Bearers & Volunteers  at Office of Gyalwa Dokhampa

Tashi Delek! Happy Losar to all! Life is in constant transformation due to many causes and conditions, Therefore, a New Year is full of potential and opportunity to transform our Life positively! May all of us accumulate the causes for Good Health, Happiness and through a Meaningful Life! Love, From Gyalwa Dokhampa and all the Members of His Eminence's Offices.

Over 500 monks and nuns, plus nine trulkus and lamas, from Nepal and India, came for the blessing Dechhog Khorlo Dompa: Amid the 100,000 devotees seated for the Chakramsamvara blessings in Punakha, was an elderly man dressed in maroon jersey and black trousers.  A long shiny rosary hung around his neck. Phurita Sherpa, 61, from Boudhanath, Nepal was listening carefully, trying to follow what was being transmitted by His Holiness the Je Khenpo in Dzongkha.  In his hands were the...

    By the blessings of the Dragon Masters inseparable from the Wish-fulfilling Tara, may the New Year fulfill the wishes of all beings. May the New Year give joy to those who lack it and may the joys and happiness of those who have it in their life be further increased! With love and prayer, Gyalwa Dokhampa

Text: Goon Yung; photo: Ho Yan & interviewee. Special thanks to the interviewee. His Eminence the 9th Khamtrul Rinpoche is young, friendly and approachable. With commitment to ‘Live to Love’ motto and selfless loving kindness, he has got in touch with various social classes through different charity activities such as visit, public talk and seminar. In particular he wishes to share his own experience with young generation so as to bring to them short but enduring influence. He has been...

The opening of the Annual Drukpa Council (ADC) in Ladakh provided a moment for the Bhutanese and the Ladakhis to recount the relationship the two shared centuries ago. Speaking at the opening yesterday at the Hemis monastery, home minister Minjur Dorji said friendship between Ladhak and Bhutan was established in the 16th century between Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal and Ladakh King Singay Namgyal. He said King Singay Namgyal had offered many religious monuments and temples in Ladakh to...

Annual Drukpa Council: For the first time, three nangtens (relics) of lhakhangs in Ladakh were displayed for public viewing yesterday at the Hemis monastery during the annual drukpa council. The Dorji Phurpa Drothrabma (winged vajra dagger), which is the main nangten of Hemis monastery, Dorjisempa’s statue and Milarepa’s statue were the three relics. Khamtrul rinpoche, Jigme Pema Nyinjadh, who was the chairman of first and second ADC, explained that the 31-inch tall winged dagger, which...

GANGTOK, 14 Oct.: The IXth Khamtrul Rinpoche Jigme Pema Nyinjadh of Druk-Sangag Choeling Gumpa, Darjeeling delivered a sermon here in the capital today. Although he frequently visits Sikkim, this was his first sermon here. The Khamtrul Rinpoche and Kyabje Thuksey Rinpoche are the spiritual heirs to the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa of the Drukpa Lineage. The lineage acquired the name Drukpa in the twelfth century when assuming human form,  Avalokiteshvara, the Lord of Compassion - manifested in...

Gangtok, October 14 – The 9th Khamtrul Rinpoche Jigme Pema Nyinjadh gave a public talk on min training to a packed audience here in State Capital this morning. He said Buddhism is not a religion, but rather a way of life to finding happiness. Sharing the knowledge he received from different learned masters, the head of the Khamtrul lineage said his interest to visit and teach to the poepl of the Himalayan region such as Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh was also a way of returning to the...