Nov 22, 2020

In a live Internet broadcast, His Holiness Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche explains how all experiences of life, whether joyful or challenging, can be turned into a path to enlightenment. His teaching is in English with simultaneous translation into multiple other languages including French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. Hosted by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal. Access translations

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His Holiness the Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, popularly known as H.H. Kenting Tai Situ Rinpoche, is proclaimed in number of sacred texts as the incarnation of Bodhisattva Maitreya in Tushita heaven, crowned as the future Buddha in 623 B.C. and subsequent incarnations as Guru Padmasambhava. In 1012 A.D. he was born in Tibet as Marpa the Great Enlightened Translator, who introduced the sacred Kagyu lineage from India. The lineage continued with his disciple Milarepa, then Marpa’s incarnation Gampo Tsultrim Nyingpo and as the first Tai Situ Drogon Rechen in 1148.  In 1407 the enlightened Chokyi Gyaltsen received the title Imperial Preceptor (ཀྭན་ཏིང་དབེན་ཐོང་མེའུ་ཙི་གོ་སཱི།) “Kuan Ting Yuan Thong Miyu Tsi Guo Shi” from Emperor Yongle. In 1727 H.H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa the Great, popularly known as Situ Panchen, founded Mount of Excellence, a non-sectarian, multi-disciplinary Palpung Institution in Tibet, which he established as the Palpung Monastic Seat. There are 300 pre-Buddhist and Buddhist monasteries, as well as 180 monasteries of the Kagyu lineage, under the spiritual supervision of Palpung Monastic Seat and its Supreme Head, His Holiness the Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa.

The current Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa was born to a farmer/nomadic family in the Kingdom of Dege, East Tibet, in 1954. He was enthroned in the Palpung Monastic Seat shortly upon recognition. In 1959 at the age of 5, he was safely brought to the Kingdom of Bhutan by senior lamas of the Palpung Monastic Seat. From there he later traveled to India, following His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama for refuge. He spent a number of years in Sikkim, Bhutan, and West Bengal until age 22. During this time he received ordinations from H.H. the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, as well as the entirety of basic and advanced Buddhist studies and transmissions from a great number of eminent masters. In 1976 at age 23, H.H. the Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa established Palpung Sherabling Monastic Seat in Himachal Pradesh, India. Its main functions and contributions include training, educating, ordaining and giving transmissions to the Buddhist masters of present and future generations across and beyond denominations and ethnicity. In 1984 H.H. the Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa founded the Maitreya Institute, dedicated to interfaith and inter-disciplinary harmony through exchange of and exposure to subjects based on love, kindness, compassion and wisdom. Concerned about the disharmony among people, religions, and ideologies throughout the world, as well as environmental degradation, in 1989 he initiated Pilgrimage for Active Peace — One World, One Humanity, in which he embarked on a trip around the world’s holy sites. The initiative celebrated its silver jubilee in 2014.

H.H. the Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa is a great scholar, philosopher, poet, artist, architect and geomancer. He has written more than 20 books in English. His Tibetan language compilation comprises more than 200 volumes, and his writing, more than 15 volumes. He continuously teaches and transmits te sacred lineage of Dharma to his students and disciples worldwide.
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About the Host

Geshe Tenzin Wangyal was born in India in 1961, following his parents’ journey from Tibet to India in 1959. At age 11 he began formal studies as a monk at Menri Monastery near Dolanji, India, where he completed an 11-year course of traditional studies at the Bön Dialectic School. He was awarded his geshe degree in 1986. He now lives as a householder, and has been living and teaching in the West for more than 30 years. An accomplished scholar in all aspects of sutra, tantra and dzogchen, Rinpoche is an acclaimed author and a respected teacher of students worldwide. As the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha International, he has established numerous centers and institutes of learning in the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and India. Fluent in English, Rinpoche regularly offers online teachings in the form of live webcasts, online workshops and YouTube videos. He is renowned for his depth of wisdom; his clear, engaging teaching style; and his dedication to making the ancient Tibetan teachings highly accessible and relevant to the lives of Westerners.
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