Today (March 1st 2020) is Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche’s birthday. On this auspicious day, one of my secret wishes was fulfilled. Last year, I received lojong and vajra dance trainings from Ani
Read MoreWhat is RYI? Rangjung Yeshe Institute right? This cool place you can study Tibetan and learn all about Buddhism. The best thing is that now we can study online
Read MoreOne of the most interesting elements of studying at RYI is how adaptable this place is as a university. Over the past three years of
Read More༡༼གནས་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ༽ The perfect place འདས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྦས་གནས་ཀྱི་ཆེ་བ།། ད་ལྟའི་རྫོགས་སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་བལྟམས་ཡུལ་གྱི་ཞིང་མཆོག། བག་ཕེབས་སླེབས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ངན་སྒོ་དེ་བཅད་པའི།། རང་བྱུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སློབ་གྲྭའི་གནས་དེ་ངོ་མཚར་བ།། The greatness of the secret place of all the past Buddhas, the supreme realm of the birth place of the present enlightened Buddha, just by arriving in
Read MoreBrainstorms in our TTIP classes have been fun. Some topics that we have been discussing are that how to keep balance between “loyalty” to the
Read MoreWe live in a world in which attention is a primary resource, a “pearl of great price”. It is our primary resource for the practice
Read MoreIt is not about being creative of new knowledge, It is about being appreciative of precious knowledge. It is not about ascending to a higher realm, It
Read MoreI won’t lie, every time the return to in-person classes gets delayed further I’m disappointed. I miss living in Nepal, I miss the Stūpa, I miss
Read More1. [A Whirlwind of Semester] This past semester has been very special in many ways. Having finished my first semester last year here at RYI,
Read MoreDuring my time here at RYI, I began having a completely different experience to the Buddhism that I knew. Having grown up in a Buddhist family, I had
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