Celebrating Karma Thinley Rinpoche’s 92nd birthday!

Yesterday, May 25, we celebrated the birthday of one of Lama Jampa's principal teachers and master of the Sakya and Kagyu traditions, Karma Thinley Rinpoche.

Karma Thinley Rinpoche was born into the noble family of Bongsar in 1931 in the Nangchen area of Kham, Eastern Tibet. Over the last twenty-five years, Rinpoche has founded centres and taught extensively in Canada, the U.S.A., New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He has hundreds of devoted Western, Tibetan and Nepali students and has received a vast array of teachings from within the Kagyu, Sakya and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism. 

In addition to being an accomplished poet and artist, Rinpoche is a renowned historian, having written (in English) The History of the Sixteen Karmapas. 

His major projects are the continuing supervision of his nunnery Tegchen Lekshey Ling in Bodhnath, Nepal and of Sangngak Phodrang in Nangchen, Tibet.

“Following the glorious Karmapa and Sachen, activity of the holders of the black and red crowns...Supreme guide, glorious spiritual friend, long may you remain.”

(From Karma Thinley Rinpoche’s Long Life Prayer, composed by His Eminence Chogye Trichen Rinpoche.)

Also, here are some beautiful pictures of the three day long life pujas that were held to celebrate the birthday of Karma Thinley Rinpoche at Tegchen Lekshey Ling in Nepal!

For more information visit www.karmathinleyrinpoche.com