H.E. Garchen Rinpoche at the Sakya Monastery, Seattle, January 2013. Photo by Katia Roberts.
Welcome
Drikung Seattle was founded by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche in 2013. Drikung Seattle is a Dharma center in the Drikung Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
March 2014 Photos
Gallery of visit and event photos taken by Mikolaj Lewicki.
just announced:
Dorzin Rinpoche June 6-8, 2014
Online registration open below!
We are delighted to welcome Dorzin Rinpoche for his first visit to teach at Drikung Seattle! The teachings will be translated by Ina Dhargye. HE Garchen Rinpoche specifically requested Dorzin Rinpoche to teach on Gampopa in Seattle.
Four Dharmas of Gampopa
Grant your blessing so that my mind may turn towards the Dharma.
Grant your blessing so that Dharma may progress along the path.
Grant your blessing so that the path may clarify confusion.
Grant your blessing so that confusion may dawn as wisdom.
༈ བློ་ཆོས་སུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །
ཆོས་ལམ་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །
ལམ་འཁྲུལ་བ་ཞིག་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །
འཁྲུལ་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སུ་འཆར་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །
Grant your blessing so that my mind may turn towards the Dharma.
Grant your blessing so that Dharma may progress along the path.
Grant your blessing so that the path may clarify confusion.
Grant your blessing so that confusion may dawn as wisdom.
༈ བློ་ཆོས་སུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །
ཆོས་ལམ་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །
ལམ་འཁྲུལ་བ་ཞིག་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །
འཁྲུལ་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སུ་འཆར་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །
Gampopa (1079-1135) also known as Dakpo Rinpoche, is one of the most important figures in the Kagyu lineage. The foremost disciple of Jetsun Milarepa, he truly consolidated the Kagyu tradition by integrating its special teachings with those of the other main trends of Buddhism.
Online registration now open below–if you have difficulties with the form just email us at: drikungseattle@gmail.com For those of you in the area we'd love it if you could print out the program flyer above and post it in your area coffee shop, yoga studio, community bulletin board. Thanks!
LOCATION
University Heights Center, 5031 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105
Friday & Saturday Room 109, Sunday Room 108.
Online registration now open below–if you have difficulties with the form just email us at: drikungseattle@gmail.com For those of you in the area we'd love it if you could print out the program flyer above and post it in your area coffee shop, yoga studio, community bulletin board. Thanks!
LOCATION
University Heights Center, 5031 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105
Friday & Saturday Room 109, Sunday Room 108.
Online registration
Fill out my online form.
Hotel Suggestions
Please email us at: drikungseattle@gmail.com for a list of hotel suggestions near University Heights.
Suggested Teaching Donations
Friday evening—$30
Saturday OR Sunday teaching—$45
Saturday AND Sunday teachings—$80
Full program—$110
Ordained sangha are our welcomed guests. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please register so we will be expecting you with adequate materials. Partial attendance is allowed. There are no pre-requisites to attend. All are welcome.
SUBMIT YOUR TEACHING DONATION
BY CHECK
To donate by check please mail a check made out to: "Drikung Seattle" to:
Drikung Seattle
4509 Interlake Ave N, #267
Seattle WA 98103
BY PAYPAL
To make a donation securely by major credit card via Paypal, just click on the 'donate' button below.
Please email us at: drikungseattle@gmail.com for a list of hotel suggestions near University Heights.
Suggested Teaching Donations
Friday evening—$30
Saturday OR Sunday teaching—$45
Saturday AND Sunday teachings—$80
Full program—$110
Ordained sangha are our welcomed guests. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please register so we will be expecting you with adequate materials. Partial attendance is allowed. There are no pre-requisites to attend. All are welcome.
SUBMIT YOUR TEACHING DONATION
BY CHECK
To donate by check please mail a check made out to: "Drikung Seattle" to:
Drikung Seattle
4509 Interlake Ave N, #267
Seattle WA 98103
BY PAYPAL
To make a donation securely by major credit card via Paypal, just click on the 'donate' button below.
Questions? Email us at: drikungseattle@gmail.com
Drikung Seattle shop
You can support the activities of Drikung Seattle by shopping in our new Cafe Press store. All proceeds (20% of the purchase price) goes directly to Drikung Seattle. We really appreciate your support!
Drikung Seattle shop
You can support the activities of Drikung Seattle by shopping in our new Cafe Press store. All proceeds (20% of the purchase price) goes directly to Drikung Seattle. We really appreciate your support!
May all sentient beings have happiness and love, the cause of happiness.
May all sentient beings be free from suffering and self-grasping, the cause of suffering.
May all sentient beings attain great bliss beyond suffering by recognizing their own true nature, self-knowing, innately clear awareness.- Translated by Ina Bieler
May all sentient beings be free from suffering and self-grasping, the cause of suffering.
May all sentient beings attain great bliss beyond suffering by recognizing their own true nature, self-knowing, innately clear awareness.- Translated by Ina Bieler
Drikung Seattle (mailing address): 4509 Interlake Ave N, #267 Seattle WA 98103 – drikungseattle@gmail.com
