By Lyndon Comstock Having recently returned from Surmang Dutsi Til, I’d like to give you a brief first-hand report. The photographs and videos that accompany this report were taken by Jon Ransohoff, who went with me. Also included below are comments about the shedra by Karma Senge Rinpoche and Surmang
Letters
Dear friend, THIS is an amazing photo. It was taken on the first day of school at the Surmang Shedra, just five months after this year’s earthquake that devastated so much of the area. This is what the long years of rebuilding the shedra have been all about. Not only
Note: This letter regarding the Surmang shedra, written in Tibetan and signed by Chokyi Senge Trungpa XII Rinpoche, Aten (Chetsang) Rinpoche, and Surmang Khenpo, was translated by Gerry Wiener. To the Lord of Refuge Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, the entire Shambhala community possessing unchanging authentic faith, and all other altruistic
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14th July 2020
Chogyam Trungpa’s Collected Tibetan Works
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20th October 2020
Nuns already moving into new Surmang Kyelaka Nunnery
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25th March 2015
Annual Chakrasamvara Dance
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10th March 2015
Welcome to our New Board Members
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10th January 2018
Announcing the Surmang Shedra Consecration
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20th October 2020
Nuns already moving into new Surmang Kyelaka Nunnery
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14th July 2020
Chogyam Trungpa’s Collected Tibetan Works
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22nd June 2020
Update on Nuns at Surmang
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27th July 2019
After 60 years, Nuns return to Surmang
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16th June 2019
Rainbow over Surmang Valley as New Nunnery Site Consecrated
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Black Hat Dance from Surmang
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Sakyong Visits Surmang Dutsi Til
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