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塔藏寺是一座历史悠久的格鲁派寺院，是尊贵的嘉杰宋江仁波切——察霍本波阿瓦札巴第四代传承持有者——的主要驻锡之地。
Tatsang Monastery stands as a venerable Gelugpa institution, serving as the primary residence for His Eminence Kyabjee Sungjang Rinpoche, the fourth lineage holder of the Tsakho Ponpo Ngawa Drakpa.

Qoute from Rinpoche. True and lasting fulfillment arises naturally when the mind turns toward the welfare of all sentien...
06/11/2026

Qoute from Rinpoche.

True and lasting fulfillment arises naturally when the mind turns toward the welfare of all sentient beings — not as an obligation, but as the spontaneous expression of a heart freed from the prison of self-grasping. This is the very ground from which bodhicitta blossoms.

When we remain bound to the eight worldly concerns clinging to pleasure, gain, praise, and fame, while fleeing their opposites we find ourselves caught in the endless turning of saṃsāra, mistaking the shadow of happiness for its substance. The untamed mind, drunk on the illusion of a fixed and precious self, generates the three poisons: ignorance, attachment, and aversion. From these arise all confusion and suffering, without exception.

The teachings remind us that all beings, without a single exception, have been our mothers in past lives have carried us with kindness, nourished us, and protected us from harm. To recognise this is to feel the ground shift beneath habitual selfishness. Compassion and loving-kindness are not merely virtuous sentiments; they are the direct antidote to the self-cherishing mind, which is the true root of all our misery.

As Śāntideva taught: *all the suffering in the world arises from seeking happiness for oneself alone; all the happiness in the world arises from seeking happiness for others.* This is not poetry it is a precise description of the mechanics of mind.

To loosen the grip of self-grasping, even slightly, is to glimpse a vast and undefended openness — the beginning of genuine peace.

Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche, Dungsey Marwang Choeki Gyaltsen Chok, and Semo Jetsun Choeyang Wangmo are currently in Toronto...
06/07/2026

Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche, Dungsey Marwang Choeki Gyaltsen Chok, and Semo Jetsun Choeyang Wangmo are currently in Toronto.🇨🇦

殊胜吉祥的卫塞节🙏🌿🪷在这殊胜吉祥的卫塞节——于藏历四月十五日，月圆之时隆重庆典——我们以虔诚感恩之心，齐聚一处，纪念释迦牟尼佛一生中三大超凡入圣之事：其一，太子悉达多·乔达摩于蓝毗尼园中神迹降生；其二，于菩提伽耶菩提树下，证得无上正等正觉...
05/31/2026

殊胜吉祥的卫塞节🙏🌿🪷
在这殊胜吉祥的卫塞节——于藏历四月十五日，月圆之时隆重庆典——我们以虔诚感恩之心，齐聚一处，纪念释迦牟尼佛一生中三大超凡入圣之事：其一，太子悉达多·乔达摩于蓝毗尼园中神迹降生；其二，于菩提伽耶菩提树下，证得无上正等正觉；其三，于拘尸那罗城入大般涅槃。此三大解脱事业同于农历同一吉日圆满成就，本身即是如来不可思议加持与无量威德之明证。
卫塞节绝非仅是缅怀历史之日，更是对我们每一位修行者的真诚召唤——以更深厚的信愿与精进，将身心皈依于佛陀正法。在这吉祥殊胜之日，我们当以认真诚恳之态，深入闻思经典及其注疏，持续精进于正式禅修，并努力培养智慧与慈悲——此二者乃解脱道之根本。此日亦是诚实审视自我之时：佛法在我们心中扎根几许？我们尚需如何精进，方能令其蓬勃生长？
尤为重要的是，卫塞节提醒我们：真正的修行必须付诸实践。慈悲心的生起——无论是愿菩提心，还是行菩提心——绝不应仅停留于蒲团之上或佛堂之内。凡于祈祷、供养、禅观之中所生起的功德与证悟，皆应转化为对一切有情众生的慈爱、布施与奉献之具体行动。如大乘传承所教示：于殊胜吉日所积累之功德，将成倍增长、无量无边。愿我们在这最吉祥之日，于起心动念、言语举止之中，尤为勤谨、持戒清净、慈悲广大，并将此精神延续于此后每一天。
一切吉祥——愿诸事圆满，众生安乐。
The Auspicious Occasion of Vesak Day
On this most sacred and joyful occasion of Vesak — celebrated on the auspicious fifteenth day of the fourth lunar month — we gather in devotion and gratitude to commemorate three transcendent events in the life of Śākyamuni Buddha: his miraculous birth as Prince Siddhārtha Gautama in the gardens of Lumbinī, his supreme attainment of unsurpassed, perfect Enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree at Bodhgayā, and his final passage into Mahāparinirvāṇa at Kuśinagara. That these three profound milestones of liberation all occurred on the same day of the lunar calendar is itself a testament to the extraordinary blessing and power of the Tathāgata.
Vesak is not merely a day of historical remembrance — it is a living invitation to turn our hearts and minds toward the Dharma with renewed sincerity and depth. On this auspicious day, we are called to engage meaningfully with the Buddha's teachings: to study the Sūtras and their commentaries with diligence, to sustain our formal meditation practice with regularity and care, and to cultivate the qualities of wisdom and compassion that define the path to liberation. It is a day to reflect honestly on how deeply the Dharma has taken root in our lives, and what we must still do to let it flourish.
Above all, Vesak reminds us that genuine spiritual practice must be brought into action. The generation of compassion — bodhicitta in its aspiration and application — must not remain a feeling confined to the cushion or the shrine room. Whatever merit and insight arise from our prayers, offerings, and meditations on this most blessed of days, we are urged to translate them into concrete acts of kindness, generosity, and service toward all sentient beings. As taught in the Mahāyāna tradition, the merit accumulated on sacred days such as Vesak is multiplied many times over; may we therefore be especially diligent, virtuous, and compassionate in thought, word, and deed throughout this auspicious day, and carry that spirit forward into every day that follows.
Sarvamangalam — May all be auspicious.

༄༅། 🇫🇷 Under the precious guidance of Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche, a sacred Kalachakra Guru Yoga retreat was successfully a...
05/29/2026

༄༅། 🇫🇷 Under the precious guidance of Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche, a sacred Kalachakra Guru Yoga retreat was successfully accomplished from the 23rd to the 29th of May by Rinpoche and a gathering of devoted practitioners from France. Throughout these seven auspicious days, the participants engaged wholeheartedly in the profound practices of the Kalachakra Guru Yoga — generating the deity, reciting the mantra, and cultivating the inseparable union of bliss and emptiness — in accordance with the authentic transmission of the Gelug tradition.
May the virtue and merit accumulated through this retreat be purely dedicated, without any trace of self-grasping, to the long life and stable throne of Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche, to the preservation and flourishing of the precious Buddha Dharma in all directions, and above all, to the swift liberation of every sentient being throughout the six realms from the ocean of cyclic suffering. May the auspicious light of the Kalachakra — the Wheel of Time — dispel the darkness of ignorance in all hearts, and may peace, wisdom, and compassion reign throughout the world.🌿

Kyabje Rinpoche presided over the Kalachakra Guru Yoga six sessions Guru Yoga Initiation today at Vajradhara-Ling, Franc...
05/26/2026

Kyabje Rinpoche presided over the Kalachakra Guru Yoga six sessions Guru Yoga Initiation today at Vajradhara-Ling, France.🇫🇷

Day 1 of Retreat — Root Teaching:🇫🇷The Origin of Suffering and the Path of TransformationAt the heart of the Buddhist pa...
05/23/2026

Day 1 of Retreat — Root Teaching:🇫🇷

The Origin of Suffering and the Path of Transformation
At the heart of the Buddhist path lies a profound recognition: the primary source of all suffering — both our own and that of countless beings — is the self-grasping mind and the self-cherishing attitude that flows from it. Clinging to a "self" that appears solid, independent, and supremely important, we instinctively prioritize our own comfort, pleasure, and security above all else. This deeply ingrained habit of selfishness is not a moral failing to be judged, but a fundamental misunderstanding of reality — one that keeps us bound in the cycle of confusion and suffering.
The antidote the Buddha taught is not suppression or self-denial, but wisdom — specifically, the wisdom of interdependence (pratītyasamutpāda). When we genuinely contemplate how every aspect of our existence arises in dependence upon countless other beings and conditions, the rigid boundary between "self" and "other" begins to dissolve. We see that the wellbeing of others is inseparable from our own. From this understanding, compassion (karuṇā) arises naturally — not as a forced virtue, but as the spontaneous response of a mind that has begun to see clearly.
This is the great transformation at the center of practice: selfishness, recognized and understood, becomes the very doorway through which boundless compassion enters the world.🌿

🇫🇷Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche arrived at Vajradhara-Ling, France, today to commence a lengthy retreat with devotees.
05/23/2026

🇫🇷Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche arrived at Vajradhara-Ling, France, today to commence a lengthy retreat with devotees.

We are delighted to share an old portrait of Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche. This photo was taken a few days before Rinpoche's...
05/21/2026

We are delighted to share an old portrait of Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche. This photo was taken a few days before Rinpoche's departure from his birthplace, Ngawa, Tibet, to India in 1998.🌿

🇩🇪By the grace of the Three Jewels and the blessings of the unbroken lineage of Lama Tsongkhapa, the week-long programme...
05/11/2026

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By the grace of the Three Jewels and the blessings of the unbroken lineage of Lama Tsongkhapa, the week-long programme of teachings presided over by Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche, concluded auspiciously today at Khandro Ling, Germany.
Over the course of seven days, Kyabje Rinpoche bestowed the complete empowerment (dbang) of Amitābha — the Buddha of Boundless Light and Lord of the Sukhāvatī Pure Land — together with associated ritual transmissions and practice instructions. The empowerment conferred the full authorization to engage in sādhana practice related to Amitābha and established the ripening connection (smin pa'i 'brel ba) between the disciples and this most compassionate of Buddhas.
At the heart of the programme was the oral transmission (lung) and practice instructions for Phowa — the Vajrayāna practice of consciousness transference ('pho ba) at the time of death. Phowa is one of the Six Yogas of Nāropa and is regarded within the Gelug and broader Vajrayāna traditions as among the most profound and practically indispensable of advanced contemplative methods. Through the Phowa practice, the trained practitioner cultivates the capacity to direct the stream of consciousness (rnam shes) out through the crown aperture (tshang ka) at the moment of death and transfer it into the heart of Amitābha Buddha, thereby securing rebirth in the Sukhāvatī Pure Land. Transmission of this practice is entrusted exclusively to qualified lineage holders who have themselves received and mastered the unbroken succession of blessing from teacher to disciple, tracing ultimately to the primordial source. Kyabje Rinpoche guided participants through both the theoretical basis of the practice — grounded in the Vajrayāna understanding of the subtle body, the energy-winds (rlung), and the central channel (rtsa dbu ma) — and its practical implementation, including the recognized signs of accomplishment (rtags) that arise in the meditator's body through sustained training.
The programme also encompassed related dharma teachings that provided essential doctrinal context for the empowerment and transmission, enabling participants to integrate the practices into a coherent path of study and meditation.
The sangha extends its heartfelt gratitude to Kyabje Sungjang Rinpoche for his immeasurable kindness in transmitting these precious teachings, and to all those at Khandro Ling whose tireless effort made this gathering possible. May the merit accumulated throughout this programme ripen for the boundless benefit of all sentient beings, and may the lineage continue to flourish without interruption.

承三寶加持，仰仗宗喀巴大師不斷傳承之殊勝法脈加被，甘珠尔·松章仁波切主持之為期七日之法會，今日於德國空行洲（Khandro Ling）圓滿吉祥告竣。
於此七日之中，甘珠尔·仁波切圓滿傳授阿彌陀佛——無量光佛，極樂淨土之主——之完整灌頂（dbang），並賜予相關儀軌傳承及修法教授。此次灌頂使弟子獲得修持阿彌陀佛本尊法之完整授權，並建立與此最具大悲心之佛陀之間圓熟之因緣（smin pa'i 'brel ba）。
此次法會之核心，為頗瓦法——金剛乘臨終意識遷轉法（藏文：'pho ba）——之口傳（lung）及修持教授。頗瓦法係那若巴六法之一，在格魯及廣大金剛乘傳統中，被視為最深奧且於臨終實修中最為不可或缺之高級觀修法門之一。通過修持頗瓦法，修行者培養於臨終之際將意識（rnam shes）由頂門梵穴（tshang ka）導出，遷轉至阿彌陀佛心間之能力，從而確保往生極樂淨土。此法之傳承，唯付囑於具格之傳承持有者——彼等須已親受並圓滿通達由師至弟子之不間斷加持傳承，追溯至本初根源。甘珠尔·仁波切帶領參與者深入了解修持之理論基礎——立足於金剛乘對細身、氣（rlung）及中脈（rtsa dbu ma）之見解——以及其實修方法，包括修行者於精進修持中身上生起之功德徵兆（rtags）。
此次法會亦涵蓋為灌頂與傳承提供必要義理背景之相關佛法教授，使參與者能夠將此諸修法融入聞思修之完整道次。
法眷謹向甘珠尔·松章仁波切致以衷心謝忱，感念仁波切以無量慈悲傳授此等珍貴教法；並向空行洲所有為此次法會不懈付出者深表謝意。願此次法會所積累之功德，回向一切有情，願傳承如日月常明，永續不斷，廣利無邊眾生。🪷

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