Letters

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

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