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ROCHDALE
TIBETAN
GESHE LAMA AHBAY TULKU RINPOCHE
Recently I had the greatest honour of Rinpoche visiting my home to eat with us & do a teaching for myself & a small group of spiritually minded people
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Geshe Lama Ahbay Tulku Rinpoche
It isn't very often you get
a Tibetan Buddhist Monk
dining at your home and
giving teachings, but
that's precisely what's
been happening right
here in Rochdale. Geshe
Lama Tulku Ahbay Rinpoche
isn't just any monk though,
he's the reincarnation of a
highly clairvoyant Tibetan
Lama and also 3rd in line to
a Tibetan Buddhist Monk
dining at your home and
giving teachings, but
that's precisely what's
been happening right
here in Rochdale. Geshe
Lama Tulku Ahbay Rinpoche
isn't just any monk though,
he's the reincarnation of a
highly clairvoyant Tibetan
Lama and also 3rd in line to
When he suggested coming to my flat last year how could I refuse? So a group of us came together and welcomed him for a great evening of teachings, food and blessings.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama. So what's he doing you might ask, coming to visit Julie Kelly & a group of friends in the 7 sisters?
Well explains Julie "I've been friends with Rinpoche for many years, he kindly wrote the foreword for my book A Death Worth Living For" We first met when I began sponsoring the education of one of his monk students in India and our friendship has continued.
Recently though, Ahbay Rinpoche has been traveling the world, delivering teachings on love, compassion, overcoming anger and all kinds of things that make the world a nicer place.
What I can't believe, he wanted to come back and that's exactly what happened on the 29th of March😄 when our group came back together with a few extra people for a great evening and personal Medicine Buddha blessings.
Our Wonderful Group
Being Tibetan, Rinpoche is naturally inquisitive and loves nothing more than finding out about people and their lives, culture and beliefs. This is why he was over the moon to be bombarded with lots of questions about Tibetan Buddhism. As last nights experience proved, Rinpoche's way of answering questions is very much Tibetan style - 'direct' something we Westerners often struggle with but if you ask a question you want an answer right?
The thing is with Rinpoche, you never know quite what you're going to get. Last year was filled with chanting and mantra, but this year, was on a more personal level with great Tibetan Buddhist teachings and true to form - lots of laughter. Whatever we were expecting there's no escaping the fact that simply being in the presence of such a great teacher is both an honour & a privilege.
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The thing is with Rinpoche, you never know quite what you're going to get. Last year was filled with chanting and mantra, but this year, was on a more personal level with great Tibetan Buddhist teachings and true to form - lots of laughter. Whatever we were expecting there's no escaping the fact that simply being in the presence of such a great teacher is both an honour & a privilege.
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One of our group members and also a very dear friend Anne Fitton, mentioned during the evening how she'd recited the Om Mani Pedme Hung Mantra since being a child on & off. True to form, Rinpoche remembered this and presented her with the most beautiful Tibetan Thangka.
Anne Fitton
Receives a Gift from
Rinpoche
Receives a Gift from
Rinpoche
Rinpoche is currently in the process of building a monastery in India where young people who want to be one monks can go to live & study the Dharma teachings. Many who want to become monks have escaped their motherland of Tibet which is now under the rule of Communist China and has been since 1959.
Many of these young monks have experienced torture and persecution simply for wanting to follow Tibetan religion and speak their own mother tongue (Something now illegal in Tibet). Many have also spent long periods of time imprisoned for their unwaivered loyalty to his Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet. Most make the treacherous journey on foot across the Himalayan mountains to the safety of Nepal whether they are received for medical treatment etc. The monastery Rinpoche hopes to build, will have its own medical facility for this purpose and also several floors for the monks & guests to live and study
To raise money for his cause, Rinpoche has set up a little shop where he is selling Tibetan goods such as mala beads, Tibetan Thangkas, Alter bells etc. He's also accepting donations by Standing order.
Many of these young monks have experienced torture and persecution simply for wanting to follow Tibetan religion and speak their own mother tongue (Something now illegal in Tibet). Many have also spent long periods of time imprisoned for their unwaivered loyalty to his Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet. Most make the treacherous journey on foot across the Himalayan mountains to the safety of Nepal whether they are received for medical treatment etc. The monastery Rinpoche hopes to build, will have its own medical facility for this purpose and also several floors for the monks & guests to live and study
To raise money for his cause, Rinpoche has set up a little shop where he is selling Tibetan goods such as mala beads, Tibetan Thangkas, Alter bells etc. He's also accepting donations by Standing order.