Khyongla Rato Rinpoche Teaching
“Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Ganden Lha Gyama)”
October 27th 2 – 4pm
Please join us for special guest teachings with Khyongla Rato Rinpoche!
Rinpoche will teach on Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Ganden Lha Gyama).
These teachings are open to All levels. No registration is required!
The teachings will be in Tibetan with English translation.
Course material can be found here.
We request that you please do not use any mobile phones, laptops, cameras etc at Tushita. Also taxis are not allowed to enter Tushita – please leave your taxi at the Himalayan chai shop (next to the Vipassana Centre entrance) and walk into Tushita.
We are able to host this event thanks to the generosity and kindness of previous students and guests. Any donations are appreciated and will enable us to offer more amazing Dharma activities in the future!
Khyongla Rato Rinpoche is a reincarnate lama and scholar of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism. Rinpoche was born in the Dagyab region of Kham, in southeastern Tibet. In 1928 senior Gelugpa monks divined that a five-year-old boy living in this remote part of Tibet was the reincarnation of the ninth Khyongla. On his sixth birthday monks on horseback took him from his parents home to a monastery some distance away where he was installed as its spiritual head.
For over three decades he lived the sober life of a monk, studying at the most famous monasteries in Tibet and earning the Lharampa Geshe degree. In 1959, after the Chinese communists took over, Khyongla Rato (along with thousands of monks as well as the Dalai Lama) fled Tibet on footover the Himalayas to safety and to a radically different life in India. Eventually he came to Europe and then the US, and in 1968 he starting living in New York City. In 1975 he founded The Tibet Center, a center for the study of Buddhism. For more than 30 years he was the director and main teacher at the Tibet Center, teaching primarily in English.