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Friday Harbor, San Juan Island If you are driving to the island, you will be taking the ferry from Anacortes, WA, or Sidney, B.C. Detailed information on the ferry schedule will be included in your registration packet, along with directions for driving to the SKC gompa and please use the resources on this page [...]
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H.E. Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding Rinpoche
Her Eminence Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding Rinpoche (Jetsun Kushok) was born into the Dolma Podrang or Tara Palace of the Sakya Khon family in 1938, the year of the earth tiger. Jetsun Kushok is the third woman in the history of Tibet to have transmitted the Lamdre (the Path and Fruit) teachings and is a [...]
The Sakya Tradition
The Five Founders of the Sakya Order. center: Sachen Kunga Nyingpo; top left: Sonam Tsemo; top right: Drakpa Gyaltsen; lower left: Sakya Pandita; lower right: Chogyal Phagpa Sakya is one of the main traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. The Sakya tradition takes its name from the monastery founded in 1073 at Sakya (which [...]
His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche
His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche served as the 41st head of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism until March 2017, when the throneholder duties were handed over to His Holiness Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, the 42nd Sakya Trizin. His Holiness Sakya Gongma Trichen is a member of Tibet‘s noble Khon family, which founded the [...]
Khenpo Pema Wangdak
Khenpo Pema Wangdak was born in Purang, Western Tibet, in 1954. In 1959 he fled with his family to India, where they settled in a refugee camp in Mundgod. He became a monk at the age of seven and later attended the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Benares, receiving his Acharya degree [...]