This Weekend, September 6 - 8
Khandro Rinpoche
 Housing for Khandro Rinpoche's visit this weekend is sold out; however, the teachings and the meals are available! Register soon!
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Lodro Nyima Rinpoche
in Albany, NY
September 10th!
Discovering and Nuturing the Buddha Within
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Woodstock Times has a Two-Page Article on Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche's 90th Birthday
"He's pretty special. When you meet him, you feel very good. People walk out beaming." Maureen McNicholas is describing Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, the abbot of the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery (KTD) at the top of Meads Mountain Road in Woodstock."
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PHOTOBUCKETS FROM THE TEN-DAY TEACHING:
More to Come!  Ocean of Merit
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The culmination of months of planning came to fruition last week when nearly 800 students and friends of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche gathered at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra to celebrate his 90th Birthday.
Guests came from as far away as Tibet (where Khenpo Rinpoche's nephew Lodro Nyima Rinpoche lives), Taiwan, South America, and elsewhere, to participate in a White Tara long-life puja and luncheon in Rinpoche's honor.
During the chanting, guest after guest came up to RInpoche's seat with gifts, and delegations of students, including a large group of KTD staff members, made symbolic offerings to pray for his long life. May you live long and benefit beings, Rinpoche!
Photos above by Anitra Brown
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Jerry Wapner 30 Years of Service
Attorney Jerry Wapner of Woodstock, NY, left, looks over a calligraphy signed by His Holiness Karmapa. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Lama Karma Drodhul and KTD President Tenzin Chonyi look on. KTD Trustees honored Jerry on Tuesday for his more than 30 years of service as an attorney for KTD. Seeing a television interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1980 piqued Jerry's interest in Himalayan philosophy, and this led him to come up the mountain to meet the lamas at KTD. "You have guided us for many years, and have done this out of your love and care," Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche told him. "It is something we will cherish in our hearts and minds always." -- Photo, Lama Kathy Wesley
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Photo, Danielle Kayembe
Building a White Tara Shrine for Khenpo Rinpoche,
A Sacred Adventure
As Told to Amy Schwartz
 The Who, What, Where, and How of the White Tara Statue Shrine for Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche's 90th Birthday.Excerpt follows: "This lama knew a great statue maker - so great that he had moved several times and preferred to work anonymously in order to avoid too much attention and impossible numbers of orders. To this day, May Lein still doesn't know his name and has no way to reach him directly. May Lein later learned that this statue maker is no ordinary statue maker. His craftsmanship has been highly praised and he is considered a "national treasure" in the profession.
"Although he had never heard of Rinpoche before, the kind lama at Lekshey Ling developed great faith and enthusiasm for the project. He approached his friend the statue maker with a request for 155 White Tara statues of the very best materials in 5 months' time, and with no initial down payment. The statue maker reportedly laughed out loud and told the lama that someone was playing a joke on him and he should go back and check his facts. He also said nobody made White Tara shrines full of statues. The lama countered that the statues were to mark the 90th birthday of a very great teacher in His Holiness Karmapa's lineage. Apparently, that information changed the statue maker's heart."
Read the whole story here.
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