Author name: Roar Vestre

On the third day of Losar in the Fire Horse year 2026, the Mindrolling sangha gathered to offer ganachakra in commemoration of the parinirvana of Kyabje Minling Trichen.

In the auspicious Diamond Jubilee year marking sixty years since the founding of Mindrolling Monastery in India, Kyabje Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche bestowed the precious Kama transmissions upon a vast assembly of rinpoches, tulkus, khenpos, monastics, and lay practitioners, thus ensuring the pure continuity of the Buddhadharma for generations to come.

As Kyabje Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche bestows the Nyingma Kama transmissions at Mindrolling Monastery, stay up to date with all the latest news and photographs.

The annual seven-day drubchen of Thugje Chenpo began at Mindrolling Monastery on the 10th day of the first lunar month. This drubchen marks the parinirvana of Kyabje the 11th Mindrolling Trichen. It was a historic occasion as Minling Dungse Rinpoche, the 13th generation of the Mindrolling lineage, presided over the drubchen.

Over the course of 3 days, Kyabje Khochhen Rinpoche bestowed ordination to 189 monks at Mindrolling Monastery.

To commemorate the anniversary of the parinirvana of Chögyal Terdag Lingpa, the founder of Mindrolling Monastery, the monastery performed the annual Kagyed Drubchen, which concluded on March 24, 2023. This most profound, detailed, and elaborate 10-day drubchen has been performed according to the instructions of Terdag Lingpa by Mindrolling Monastery every year since the parinirvana of this great master in order to bring infinite blessings and immeasurable benefit for all sentient beings.

Beginning on the 10th lunar day of the first lunar month, Mindrolling Monastery began the annual 7-day drubchen of the Thug Je Chenpo, or the Great Compassionate One, to mark the anniversary of the Parinirvana of Kyabje Minling Trichen.

On February 22nd, 2023, the sangha of Mindrolling observed the anniversary of the parinirvana of Kyabje Mindrolling Trichen and performed the Guru Sadhana of Rigdzin Thugthig with vast offerings and sincere aspirations for the liberation of all sentient beings.

At Mindrolling Monastery, the annual 7-day Shinje Drekjom drubchö concluded on February 20th, the 30th lunar day of the 12th lunar month. This incredibly powerful practice is completed at the end of every year to dispel all obstacles for the coming year.

Mindrolling Monastery performed the annual Yamantaka Drubchö to dispel obstacles for the Tibetan New Year of the Water Tiger and began the New Year with the annual Thug Je Chenpo and Kagyed Drubchens.

The life force of the Nyingma school of the ancient translations, the Incomparable Sublime Compassionate Master, Kyabje Düdjom Rinpoche Sangye Pema Shepa withdrew his consciousness into the expanse of dharmata on the night of February 14th, 2022.

The Peerless Lord of Refuge, the Incomparable Sublime Compassionate Master, Kyabje Do Drubchen Rinpoche, withdrew his consciousness into the expanse of dharmata on the 25th of January 2022.