Matt Willis – Page 14 – Kunzang Palchen Ling

Chime Lama

Chime Lama is a Tibetan language teacher, translator and dharma practitioner. She holds an MFA in Poetry, an MA in Buddhist Studies and a BA in Religion. She is a graduate of the Translator Training Program […]

Tom Schmidt

Tom Schmidt began studying and performing music in 1957. As a young adult he studied with jazz masters Charlie Haden and Dave Holland and taught music at Naropa University the summers of 1975 & ‘76. […]

Naomi Schmidt

Naomi Schmidt took refuge from H.H. the 16th Karmapa in 1974 and has been practicing dharma since then. She worked at Karma Triayana Dharmachakra from 1979-2010, and taught meditation there from 2002-2010. Naomi is a […]

Construction Photos of Second Floor

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Self-Arisen Guru Rinpoche

Story of the Self-Arising Guru Rinpoche Image [This was shared by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche at the conclusion of his October 4-5, 2014 teachings.] This is the story of how that image appeared […] When we […]

Letter from Rinpoche (and video excerpt!)

Dear Sangha Members and Friends, Tashi delek! In the past few months there have been many exciting developments at KPL. The goals we set at the beginning of the summer for the second floor have […]

Eight-Inch Nails

Jetsun Milarepa, in one of his songs, sang: “There are three nails to meditation. If I explain them: the first is that thoughts are the dharmakaya. The second is that awareness is lucidity. The third […]

Recognize the Unity of Your Root Guru and Guru Rinpoche

We do need to recognize that our root guru and Guru Rinpoche are not two different individuals or two different things. We need to meditate on their inseparability or their unity. And if we don’t […]

Unreserved Entrustment

The next four lines of this song make a point that is of incredibly great importance for any vajrayana practitioner. In the first line he says: Unbearably intense longing and devotion blazed. So, he [Terchen […]

The True Obstructor

We are not going to be able to recognize the nature of our mind as long as we believe in the existence of the self. It is this belief in the existence of the self […]