The Very Venerable Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche ( Founder, Shree Mangal Dvip Boarding School ) 1933 – 2023 Read the Short Biography of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche Paying Respect to the Kudung of our beloved founder, Kyabje Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche Our kind founder, the Lord of Refuge Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche passed into parinirvana on May 5, 2023, the fifteenth day of …
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A Prayer for the Swift Return of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
མྱུར་འབྱོན་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགས་སོ། ། A Prayer for the Swift Return of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, written by H.H. The Karmapa Fowarded from Rinpoche’s Website: https://rinpoche.com/a-prayer-for-the-swift-return-of-khenchen-thrangu-rinpoche/ Download the PDF: Here ་ནས་རྣམ་དག་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་བདེ་བ་ཆེ། ། སྣང་སྟོང་ཟུང་འཇུག་སྒྱུ་མའི་རོལ་གར་གྱིས། ། སྲིད་ཞིི་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་ཁྱབ་བདག་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་། ། མཉམ་མེད་བླ་མའི་ཞབས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། dö ne nam dak chö ying de wa che nang tong sung juk gyu may röl gar gyi si shi yong kyi khyap dak dor je chang nyam me …
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The Lord of Refuge Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche passing into Parinirvana
To all those around the world who have a connection, direct or indirect, with the Lord of Refuge, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche: With great regret, we would like to share some sad news with you. On May 5, 2023, the fifteenth day of the third Tibetan month of the Water Hare Year, at the age of ninety-one, the Lord of Refuge …
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PRAYERS FOR KHENCHEN THRANGU RINPOCHE
Medicine Buddha and Tara Prayers are Being done at SMD for our Founder The entire Thrangu family have been united in prayer, ever since our beloved founder, Thrangu Rinpoche fell ill at the beginning of the month. He was hospitalized on May 6th in ICU in critical condition. He has rallied and is stable, but is still in the hospital. …
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NEW SCHOOL YEAR STARTED
The New School Year Started On April 23 – We Took In 65 New Children Most are boarders, but there are a few Day Scholars who need help. If you would like to change a child’s life, drop us a line at himalayanchildren@gmail.com SMD Hosted The 29th Thrangu Mani Dungdrup Puja Every year, a ten-day Mani Puja (Recitation of 100 …
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59 NEW CHILDREN ADMITTED
We Admitted 59 New Students This Month We did admissions on March 20 and 21. The new school year will on April 23. The children started to arrive a little early – note the red cheeks on the small children – this is often seen in high-altitude children from cold, windy mountain villages. Everyone was welcomed into the SMD family. …
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CELEBRATING LOSAR AT SMD
Losar Tashi Delek – Tibetan Buddhist New Year We celebrated the Losar holiday from February 18th until the end of the month. For SMDers, the highlight was seeing Thrangu Rinpoche at the Thrangu Yangtse Monastery, a couple of hours away. At any given time, we normally have above 100 children in residence at our school, but this year, since there …
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LOSAR TASHI DELEK! 2023
Happy New Year – The water rabbit year 2150 By the blessings of the truth of the Three Jewels and Three Roots, As this New Year of the Female Water Hare dawns, May all misfortune of illness, famine, and war be pacified, And may the glorious qualities of an age of perfection grow. -Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Namo Buddha, Nepal Losar …
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Happy New Year 2023!
Celebrating Annual Sports Meet We celebrated our annual Sports Day on January 13. Students and staff had been preparing for weeks – the excitement inside the school was electric! Three emcees made announcements in the languages we use: Tibetan, English, and Nepali. Special thanks to all our guests for their presence and time, and our event managers (Tsering Dhondup B340a …
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CELEBRATING OUR FOUNDER’S 91st BIRTHDAY
Visiting and paying Homage to our founder and Tsawe Lama Kyabje Yongzin Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. On 9th December, all of SMD – children and staff, bussed up to Thrangu Tashi Yangtse monastery at Namo Buddha to offer “Ku Sung Thuk” and Homage to Tsawai Lama Kyabje Yongzin Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. There we also celebrated Rinpoche’s birthday without a massive crowd, …
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Tashi Delek From SMD School
Sponsors In 27 Countries Help SMD We started the year with 70 boarders without sponsors. Now all but a handful of SMDers are sponsored. Remarkable, given the challenges the world is facing. Last month, I noted that it is more difficult to get sponsors for boys (especially older boys). Bingo! Friends in Canada sponsored Ravin Kadkha, pictured above on the …
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SMD School Autumn Update
After COVID-19, So Happy To Be Together Again Basanta Budha (grade 5) was so eager to get back to SMD that he walked four days straight from his village. “I love to stay in school for many reasons such as, when I go to my home in the village, I have to work. To be honest, I don’t have friends …