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New Pages on our Website

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:05:42 +0000

Please visit three new pages on our website: Eco Group, Wishlist, and Prayer Requests!

New staff for the Shechen Monastery Office in Nepal

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:43:22 +0000

Australian artist, Charlotte Davis, recently joined Lopon Thupten Dawa and the Khenpos of SMBV as part of the Shechen Monastery’s office staff. She is a graduate of the Tsering Art School and was its chief administrator for many years. Please read more about her in this interview from the online magazine, Gentle Voice:

http://gentlevoice.org/content/2012/02/snapshots-thangka-painter-nepal/

Shechen Eco Group

admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:40:45 +0000

Shechen Monastery’s Eco Group, founded by Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche, is working on environmental issues in Nepal. Read about its activities and vision:

http://shechen.org/about/eco-group
http://vairochana.com/articles/item/29-walking-the-path-of-environmental-buddhism.html

Celebrate 25 Years of Sponsorship

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:40:15 +0000

This is the twenty-fifth year of the Shechen Sponsorship Program for monks and nuns. Thank you to all our sponsors and also to the donors who gave to the rebuilding the Namo Buddha Retreat Center roof and the classrooms in India. We deeply appreciate your support!

Nuns from Shechen Nunnery in Bhutan Train as Solar Engineers

admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:39:38 +0000

Four nuns from the Shechen Nunnery in Bhutan are training in the Barefoot College to become solar engineers.

In September 2011, four nuns from Shechen Orgyen Chozong in Bhutan traveled to India to attend the Barefoot College founded by Bunker Roy. The college provides basic services and solutions to problems in rural communities with the objective of making them self-sufficient and sustainable. These ‘barefoot solutions’ can be broadly categorized into solar energy, water, education, health care, and women’s empowerment.

For the first time in the history of Bhutan, nuns are training to become solar engineers. Dema, Lemo Ysering, Yeshi, and Sangye Dema, four Bhutanese nuns from the Shechen Nunnery, are studying along side women from South America and Africa. They will follow a six-month course devoted to the installation and maintenance of solar electricity.

To eliminate any barriers of education and language, the Barefoot College trains using sign language. The course includes training in resistances, lantern circuits, soldering, and charger circuits.

The nuns are quick learners and have demonstrated an avid interest in learning this technology with grace and dignity, and seem to be enjoying this new learning experience.

Once their training is complete, they will install solar electricity at the Namo Buddha Retreat Center in Nepal and in their own nunnery in Bhutan. They will also teach the other nuns and monks how to maintain the systems. The project is sponsored by Karuna-Shechen.

This is a wonderful step toward a more ecological approach in countries where electricity is difficult to find and expensive to maintain. We look forward to their return as solar engineers!

Jewel Mountain

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:06:59 +0000

Jewel Mountain, a newly released short film on Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, can now be seen on the web. It was made in the mid-1990s and is the first in a series of subsequent films on his life. Edited by Nathaniel Dorsky and photographed by Matthieu Ricard and Vivian Kurz.

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v21109026CykmWgMA

Shechen Centers in Mexico, Croatia, and Taiwan

admin — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:06:00 +0000

Shechen Centers in Mexico, Taiwan, and Croatia, were created by Buddhist practitioners around the world to study and practice according to the lineage of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Recently Rabjam Rinpoche and a tulku and khenpo from Shechen Monastery held a seven-day teaching seminar in Croatia.The centers are sanctioned by and under the guidance of Rabjam Rinpoche.

Our centers invite teachers from the lineage, arrange seminars, offer classes in study and meditation, and host retreats. Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche and Rabjam Rinpoche have visited and taught at all of them.

Shechen Taiwan and Shechen Mexico have resident teachers (khenpos) who graduated from the Shechen Philosophical College in Nepal.

For further information

Shechen Croatia www.shechen.hr

Shechen Mexico www.shechen.mx

Shechen Taiwan www.shechen.org.tw/intro.htm

Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship/ Shechen USA //www.shechen.org/home page

We look forward to seeing you.

Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (DVD)

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:58:46 +0000

The DVD of BRILLIANT MOON is now available for sale at 20% off the retail price. Part of the proceeds goes to Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship.

Click this link and apply the offer code BRILLIANT in the online shopping cart.

http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=1152&affiliate=5vasiz&kino_promo_code=brilliant

To see the trailer for the film: http://brilliantmoonmovie.com

Shechen is dedicated to the flourishing of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual and cultural activities, and to fulfilling the vision and projects of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:20:09 +0000

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991) was one of the great luminaries of Tibetan Buddhism in the twentieth century. He was a highly realized and accomplished master committed to the transmission and preservation of Tibet’s spiritual legacy.