Winter Time in New York Town

Lama Jampa Thaye has spent the past ten days in New York. During this time he met with Khenpo Kalsang Gyaltsen who is supervising the construction of Tsechen Kunchab Ling, the American seat of His Holiness Sakya Trizin.

Lama Jampa and Khenpo Kalsang in Tsechen Kunchab Ling

Lama Jampa was shown the status of the new temple building construction and the wonderful statues that will fill the new shrine room. The work began in 2005 and the temple will be ready to receive His Holiness when He visits America this summer. Lama Jampa and Khenpo Kalsang discussed the plans for His Holiness' visit as well as the progress of American dharma in general.

Lama Jampa also met up with Pamela White, a long term disciple of Shamar Rinpoche and columnist for the major contemporary Buddhist journal, Tricycle. A couple of days later Lama Jampa was invited to the office of Tricycle in Greenwich Village. There he had a very friendly discussion about dharma in modern times with the editor James Shaheen, website editor Phillip Ryan and staffer Monty Mckeever.

Lama Jampa, Dechen Dolma and Katie in Greenwich Village

Lama Jampa would like to take this opportunity to extend his best wishes to everyone for a happy Christmas in the heart from New York City.

New-look Dechen website and new website for the United States

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new-look Dechen website and a new website for Lama Jampa's increasing activity in the United States, represented by Dechen Foundation.

Please click here to browse the new-look Dechen site and here to browse the new United States site.

Recent News

Lama Jampa is currently in Manchester giving personal interviews for a week. This follows the teaching event in London last Saturday, 4 December, where Lama Jampa bestowed Nubkyi Rigdzin's commentary on the Zhenpa Zhidral (Parting From the Four Attachments), together with the initiation of Black Manjushri.

This was the first time Lama Jampa bestowed the initiation of Black Manjushri, which is drawn from the esoteric Sakya collection: the 13 Golden Dharmas. Lama Jampa received the complete transmission of the 13 Golden Dharmas in 1986 from His Holiness Sakya Trizin in His Holiness's personal shrine room in Deradun, India. Lama Jampa will bestow the initiation of Simhamukha (Lion-Faced dakini), another deity from this collection, in Los Angeles in April next year.

Lama Jampa's itinerary for the remainder of this year will see him travel to New York for a private visit, followed by his return to Manchester where he will bestow the concluding part of "The Instructions of the Supreme Siddhas" by Situ Tenpe Nyinjay, which is a commentary on the third Karmapa Ranjung Dorje’s famed text, "The Prayer of Mahamudra" at the Kagyu Shedra.

For more information on this year's Kagyu shedra, please visit this link.