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H.E. Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding Rinpoche
Her Eminence Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding Rinpoche, the highest and most thoroughly trained female Buddhist teacher in the West, was born into the Drolma Podrang, or Tara Palace of the Sakya Khon family in 1938, the year of the earth tiger. She began her dharma studies at the age of five. His Holiness Sakya [...]
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, formally addressed as His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trizin Rinpoche. His Holiness Sakya Gongma Trichen is a [...]
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 [...]
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Donate Under construction; please check back Your involvement in the growth of SKC with donations will provide for our continued success. With support, we will be able to continue to make the Dharma a practical presence here in the lives of not only Jetsun Kushok’s students, but also for the [...]
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The garden at SCC Volunteering at SKC If you are interested in helping out with any of the ongoing work projects here, please get in touch. Projects include, at appropriate times of the year, painting the outside of the building, painting inside, vegetable garden, grounds work, general inside clean up, leading the Sunday [...]