2015 – Kunzang Palchen Ling

KPL Gets a New Porch!

Even in the winter, work continues at KPL. Here is a time-lapse video of KPL’s porch rafters being constructed. Our thanks to Dan Curtiss, Kevin Nielsen and Jeff Garden for your hard work! Thanks for […]

Chenrezig is Compassionate Emptiness

Chenrezig is compassionate emptiness. Chenrezig is not a flesh and blood person who has to sit there for eternity and who has to hold his two arms up. He is the affect of the realization […]

Our Potential for Awakening

Our basic nature—our basic being—is absolutely perfect. It is identical to the basic being or basic nature of buddhas. No distinction whatsoever can be made between the buddha nature of a sentient being and the […]

KPL Construction Update

Construction work continued throughout 2015. The first floor is near completion and the laborious work of gold leafing the buddha statue by Mr. John Lee and Lama Tashi Tobgyal begins. The focus of 2016 will […]

Because You Care So Much

There is only one reason to receive authentic vajrayana empowerment, and that is that you care so much about other beings that you are in a hurry to achieve buddhahood for their benefit. Sometimes people […]

Video, Photos from Atsara Retreat

Atsara Retreat The annual Atsara Retreat was held from September 23 to September 27, 2015 at Kunzang Palchen Ling. Atsara is an important protector practice in the Barway Dorje lineage. Dharma protectors, usually depicted as […]

How Can I Recognize the Nature of Mind When I’ve Never Seen It?

Question: Concerning the recognition of the nature of mind, how can you find something when you don’t know what you’re looking for? If I’m looking for a pencil I know what it looks like, so […]

Nick & Karma’s Wedding

June 20, 2015 [Photos by Robert Hansen-Sturm] [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”27″ gal_title=”Nick and Karmas Wedding”]

Buddha Statue Primed

Alan McCoy visited KPL the weekend of July 18-19 and took these photos of the Buddha statue in the main shrine room. The priming of the statue’s surface had just been completed—leaving it a smooth golden tan— in […]

Pure Realms Complete Within Your Own Mind

…sometimes we talk about a pure realm, for example the celestial realm of Vajrayogini, as though it were an external place—somewhere else; but then in this context we talk about it as something that is […]