Welcome
to Kagyu Samye Dzong Edinburgh
Welcome to Samye-Dzong
Edinburgh. This website is dedicated to the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
We are the Edinburgh outpost of Kagyu
Samye Ling Monastery, the first and largest Buddhist Monastery
and Tibetan Centre in the West.
The head
of our school is HH. The 17th Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorje who resides in
India. Click on the teachers link to find out more about the 17th Karmapa.
We meet regularly in at the Theosophical Society in Scotland,
28 Great King Street, Edinburgh to practice meditation in the Dharma. You
are welcome to join our meetings. Keep an eye on the Program button where
you can find out where and when we meet. Any special events will also be published
there.
We wish to say our special thanks to Dr Choye Akong Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe
Losal Rinpoche for their guidance and immense teachings. We pray for their
long lives. Click on the teachers link to find out more.
Please note that these pages are best viewed at 1280 x 800.
Ringu
Tulku Rinpoche 2008 visit
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was
trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters such as
HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche. Rinpoche took his
formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and Sampurnananda
Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as Professor of Tibetology
in Sikkim for 17 years. His doctoral thesis was on the Ecumenical Movement
in Tibet.He founded Bodhicharya, an international organization that coordinates
the worldwide activities to preserve and transmit Buddhist teachings, to promote
intercultural dialogues and educational & social projects. Click here
for Rinpoche's 2008 program at Kagyu Samye-Dzong Edinburgh.
