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June 2026
June 17, 2026
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His Eminence Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche met with Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche Jhampa Gyamtshog at Institut Ganden Ling in Veneux-Les Sablons, France. The meeting was a joyful and auspicious reunion.
June 17, 2026
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A message from H.E. Ling Rinpoche:
It is with profound sadness that I learned of the passing of Professor Bob Thurman. His departure is a great loss not only to the Buddhist community, but especially to the Tibetan Buddhist world, where he was widely respected and deeply cherished.
Professor Thurman was among the first generation of Western scholars and practitioners to study Tibetan Buddhism in depth. He was blessed with the rare opportunity to receive teachings and guidance directly from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and my predecessor, Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche,Inspired by their wisdom and compassion, he dedicated his life to the study, practice, preservation, and dissemination of the Buddha Dharma.
Throughout his life, Professor Thurman worked tirelessly to introduce the profound teachings of Tibetan Buddhism to countless people around the world. Through his scholarship, teaching, writing, and public engagement, he played a pivotal role in fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Buddha Dharma in the West. His efforts helped build bridges between cultures and traditions, benefiting innumerable students and seekers and contributing greatly to the flourishing of Tibetan Buddhism internationally.
As a devoted follower of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Professor Thurman wholeheartedly embraced His Holiness’s vision of promoting compassion, wisdom, nonviolence, and universal responsibility. He remained steadfast in his commitment to these values throughout his life and served as an inspiring example of how the Dharma can be integrated into both academic study and daily living.
Professor Thurman was also a deeply devoted disciple of His Holiness the 6th Kyabje Ling Rinpoche. He received his novice monk vows from my predecessor and maintained a close and heartfelt connection with the Ling Linage throughout his life. On a personal level, I had the good fortune of knowing him from my childhood, and over the years he became a dear friend. His warmth, devotion, wisdom, and unwavering dedication to the Dharma left a lasting impression on all who knew him. His passing leaves a great void in my heart and in the hearts of countless others.
I offer my heartfelt condolences to his family, students, friends, and all those whose lives he touched. May you find comfort in the extraordinary legacy he leaves behind—a legacy of learning, compassion, and dedicated service to the Buddha Dharma.
I offer my sincere prayers for Professor Thurman’s swift and auspicious rebirth, and may the merits of his life’s work continue to benefit sentient beings for generations to come.
With prayers,
Ling Rinpoche
June 16, 2026
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࿑ ཕྱི་ལོ། ༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་བ། ༦ ཚེས། ༡༧ ཉིན་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་གླིང་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ཕ་རན་སིའི་རྒྱལ་ས་པེ་རེ་སི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གནམ་ཐང་དུ་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར་སྐབས་བསྐུར་འོས་བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་མཆོག་དང་། ས་གནས་བོད་རིགས་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚོགས་གཙོས་དབུས་རང་རིགས་སྤུན་ཟླ་རྣམ་པ། ས་གནས་སུ་ཡོད་པའི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཁག་གི་འགན་འཛིན་དང་ཚོགས་མི་རྣམ་པས་སྤྲོ་སེམས་འཁོལ་བའི་ངང་ནས་ཕེབས་བསུ་ཞུ་སྐབས།།
H.E. Kyabjé Ling Rinpoche received a warm reception upon his arrival at Paris CDG Airport, followed by a joyful welcoming ceremony at Institut Ganden Ling in Veneux-Les Sablons.
June 14, 2026
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H.E. Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche graciously bestowed two days of teachings at Nalanda Monastery in France today for devoted disciples who had gathered from many parts of the world.
Rinpoche gave teachings on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path composed by the great master Je Tsongkhapa, and kindly bestowed the permission blessing jenang of Arya Sitātapatrā (White Umbrella Goddess) and the Long-Life Empowerment of Long-Life Empowerment of White Tara, Wish-Fulfilling Wheel (Cintachakra White Tara) with great compassion and kindness.
June 12, 2026
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࿑ ཕྱི་ལོ། ༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་བ། ༦ ཚེས། ༡༢ ཉིན་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་གླིང་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནས་ཕ་རན་སིའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་སུ་འཛམ་གླིང་ས་ཕྱོགས་གང་ས་ནས་ཕེབས་པའི་དད་ལྡན་རྣམས་ལ་རྗེ་བླ་མ་རིགས་གསུམ་སྤྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་རྗེས་གནང་སྩལ་སྐབས། །
H.E. Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche compassionately bestowed the precious empowerment of Je Rigsum Chikdüp—the combined practice of Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, and Vajrapani in one—at Institut Vajrayogini-FPMT in Marzens, France.
A large gathering of devoted students and practitioners received this rare and profound blessing, creating the causes for the flourishing of wisdom, compassion, and enlightened strength in their minds.
June 10, 2026
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H.E. Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche received a very warm welcome to France at Toulouse airport, by the leaders of Nalanda Monastery and Institut Vajrayogini-FPMT by the Resident Geshes, monastics and members of the community.
June 9, 2026
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His Eminence Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche spent time with a Lufthansa aircraft model at Munich Airport.
June 8, 2026
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With immense joy and gratitude, H.E. Ling Rinpoche is pleased to share the wonderful news that the knee surgery of our most precious and beloved Guru, His Holiness the Great Dalai Lama, has been successfully completed.
We offer our deepest prayers for His Holiness’s swift and complete recovery, unwavering health, and long life. May His Holiness continue to illuminate the world with his wisdom, compassion, and teachings, bringing peace and benefit to countless beings.
May all the noble aspirations of His Holiness be effortlessly fulfilled, and may the day soon come when he joyfully returns to Tibet.
June 7, 2026
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࿑ ཕྱི་ལོ། ༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་བ། ༦ ཚེས། ༥ ནས་བཟུང་ཉིན་གྲངས་གསུམ་རིང་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་གླིང་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནས་ཨི་ཀྲ་ལི་བླ་མ་ཙོང་ཁ་པའི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་སུ་འཇམ་མགོན་བླ་མ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ་ཆེན་པོས་མཛད་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་གནད་བསྡུས་པ་ལམ་རིམ་ཆུང་བའམ། ལམ་རིམ་ཉམས་འགུར་གྱི་བཀའ་ཁྲིད་དང། ཚེ་དཔག་མེད་མ་ཅིག་གྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱལ་མོའི་ལུགས་ཀྱི་ཚེ་དབང་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་སྩལ་སྐབས། །
H.E. Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche bestowed a 3 day series of teachings at the Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa-FPMT in Pomaia, Italy, concluding today. His Eminence gave teachings on The Concise Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, (Lamrim Chungwa), the essential summary of the stages of the path composed by Je Tsongkhapa, also known as the Experiential Song of the Stages of the Path (Lamrim Nyamgur).
His Eminence also bestowed the Buddha Amitayus Long Life Empowerment, conferring blessings for longevity, merit, and spiritual accomplishment for the assembled students and disciples.
June 3, 2026
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H.E. Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche received a heartfelt and joyous welcome upon his arrival to Italy.
Rinpoche was warmly greeted at the airport and at the Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa-FPMT in Pomaia by the Resident Geshes and Center Director, along with many sangha, students, friends, and members of the community.
