Dharma Teachings by Drupa Rinpoche Lobsang Yeshi, Khacholing Minnesota Resident Teacher. Also see: Drupa Rinpoche’s Posts
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Hello All,
Khacholing is pleased to announce the new semester of Dharma classes (in English language and Tibetan language) to be held online and in-person at 315 Morton Street W, St. Paul MN 55107. English language Dharma classes alternate with Tibetan language Dharma classes, as per the schedule below:
Amended Class Schedule for November 2025 – May 2026
| 30th Nov 202510am – 12pm | White Tara Long Life Initiation |
| 7th Dec 202510am – 12pm | Introduction to Meditation |
| 14th Dec 202510am – 3:30pm | Gaden Ngachö (Lama Tsongkhapa Day)- The Grand Thousand Offerings to Lama Tsongkhapa & Lama Choepa Tsok Offering |
| 19th Dec 202510am – 4pm | |
| 21st Dec 202510am – 12pm1:30pm – 4pm | སྔོན་འགྲོ་སྦྱོར་བའི་ཆོས་དྲུག་གི་ཉམས་ལེན། – In-person & onlineསྒྲོལ་ཆོག ། Tara Puja (In Tibetan) |
| 28th Dec 202510am – 5pm | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English)- In-person & online |
| 4th Jan 202610am – 12pm | No Class – New Year Break |
| 9th Jan 20264:30pm – 7pm | Teaching on Seven Point Mind Training by HE Jhado Rinpoche |
| 11th Jan 20262pm – 6pm | Solitary Yamantaka Initiation by HE Jhado Rinpoche |
| 18th Jan 202610am – 12pm1:30pm – 4pm | སྔོན་འགྲོ་སྦྱོར་བའི་ཆོས་དྲུག་གི་ཉམས་ལེན།སྒྲོལ་ཆོག ། Tara Puja (In Tibetan) |
| 25th Jan 202610am – 12pm | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English)- In-person & online |
| 1st Feb 202610am – 12pm | སྔོན་འགྲོ་སྦྱོར་བའི་ཆོས་དྲུག་གི་ཉམས་ལེན། |
| 8th Feb 202610am – 12pm | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English)- Hybrid – In-person & online |
| 15th Feb 202610am – 12pm | No class – Losar Preparation |
| 18th Feb 20268am – 5pm | Losar – Tibetan New Year Gompa (DMOD) is open for visitation |
| 22nd Feb 202610am – 12pm | སྔོན་འགྲོ་སྦྱོར་བའི་ཆོས་དྲུག་གི་ཉམས་ལེན། |
| 1st March 202610am – 12pm | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English)- In-person & online |
| 8th March 202610am – 12pm | སྤྱོད་འཇུག་སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པའི་ལེའུ། (in Tibetan) |
| 15th March 202610am – 12pm | Bodhicaryavatara: Chapter 8 – Meditative Concentration (in English)- In-person & online |
| 22nd March 202610am – 12pm1:30pm – 4pm | སྤྱོད་འཇུག་སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པའི་ལེའུ། (in Tibetan)སྒྲོལ་ཆོག ། Tara Puja (In Tibetan) |
| 29th March 202610am – 12pm | Bardo Prayer – Supplication Prayer for the Intermediate State |
| 5th April 202610am – 12pm | སྤྱོད་འཇུག་སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པའི་ལེའུ། (in Tibetan) |
| 12th April 202610am – 12pm | No Class |
| 17th April 202610am – 4pm | སྒྲོལ་ཆོག ། Tara Puja (In Tibetan) |
| 19th April 202610am – 12pm | Bardo Prayer – Preparing for Death |
| 26th April 202610am – 12pm | སྤྱོད་འཇུག་སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པའི་ལེའུ། (in Tibetan) |
| 3rd May 202610am – 12pm | Bardo Prayer – Supplication Prayer for the Intermediate State |
| 10th May 202610am – 12pm | སྤྱོད་འཇུག་སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པའི་ལེའུ། (in Tibetan) |
| 17th May 202610am – 12pm | Bardo Prayer – Preparing for Death |
| 24th May 202610am – 12pm1:30pm – 4pm | སྤྱོད་འཇུག་སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པའི་ལེའུ། (in Tibetan)སྒྲོལ་ཆོག ། Tara Puja (In Tibetan) |
| 30 & 31st May 10am – 5pm | Weekend Retreat (TBC) |
His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th Birthday celebration at TAFM (Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota)
1st Semester 2025 Notice
Hello All,
Happy 2025! May the new year bring calm, peace, joy and a deeper practice of the Dharma, a sanctuary in these troubled times. Below is this year’s Class Schedule. It’s a later start this year, so do have a close look at the schedule. I look forward to being with you in class very soon.
Sincerely,
Drupa Rinpoche
Today (8th November 2024), Khacholing Center co-sponsored a long-life puja for His Eminence Gangkar Rinpoche, offering prayers for his continued long life and requesting that he dispel the darkness of ignorance among sentient beings through the illumination of the Dharma.
Tashi Delek and greetings to all! Welcome to the 2nd semester of Kacholing Center’s Dharma program 2024. I hope this rather warm summer has been a happy and meaningful one for you.
In the English language Dharma classes last semester, we covered the technique of training in samathaor meditative concentration. Meditative concentration is an indispensable tool for us to navigate daily life and deepen our spiritual practice. It is not merely keeping one’s mind blank. Its goal is to sharpen one’s mind to enable us to penetrate the full meaning of Dharma teachings, to understand ourselves better and manage our existence in the most fruitful way, which is to develop the 2 bodhicittas, namely conventional bodhicitta and ultimate bodhicitta. This chapter focuses on the methods to cultivate conventional bodhicitta.
For the Tibetan language Dharma classes, we will continue to conclusion the 37 Practices of the Bodhisattvas and thereafter, begin the First Panchen Lama’s text titled Wishes for Release from the Perilous Straits of the Intermediate State, Hero Releasing from Fright that offers advice on preparing for death and be liberated from the illusory appearances at the time of death and during the intermediate state (bardo).
This semester will also feature a Vajrasattva Retreat at the end of the semester. This is a potent purification practice that depending on the practitioner’s motivation and strength of practice, is able to eliminate one’s accumulated negativities and remove obstacles to progress on the Path.
Classes will be online on Sundays from 10am-11.15am and as before, classes will be conducted in English and Tibetan on alternate Sundays as per the Schedule below.
Class Schedule for July – Nov 2024
To gather a great store (of merit & wisdom) with little effort, Is rejoicing in virtue is praised as best.
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