Numerous teachings are available from the teachers listed below. Most of these recordings are in MP3 format. Copies of these recordings can be ordered from Kagyu Samye Dzong Cape Town. Your contribution supports the Centre in making these teachings available.
Contact Details
Kagyu Samye Dzong Cape Town Tel: +27 21 761 2978 Email: capetown@kagyu.org.za
List of Teachers
H.H. the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje
Website:http://www.kagyuoffice.org/
Biography:
His Holiness, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, is the spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage. Born in Eastern Tibet on 26 June 1985, he was recognized at the age of seven through a prediction letter that had been written by his previous incarnation. His Eminence Tai Situpa and His Holiness the Dalai Lama confirmed the identification. In June 1992, he returned to Central Tibet and Tolung Tsurphu Monastery, the main seat of the previous Karmapas, where he was enthroned. In late 1999, in order to meet his teachers in India, the Karmapa left Tibet for India, where he traveled to see the Dalai Lama.
The Indian government granted him refugee status, and he continues to stay at his temporary residence in Gyuto Monastery, not far from the Dalai Lama’s home in Dharamsala. He is studying Buddhist philosophy and meditation while receiving the transmissions and empowerments from the masters of his lineage. With a special interest in books, he has worked to preserve ancient texts; he has also encouraged the practice of meditative rituals. His artistic abilities have flourished over the years. In addition to writing poetry, he has become a skilled artist in drawing, painting, and calligraphy. The Karmapa has presided over these major ceremonies since 2001. Thousands visit the Karmapa at Gyuto Monastery where he gives public teachings. (Info from: http://www.kagyu.org/kagyulineage/karmapa/kar00.php and http://www.rumtek.org/HHGK/hh00.php)
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost (R)
aMP069
Dorje Sempa Practice
Jun 1989
01:23:00
50.00
H.E. the 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche
Website:http://www.palpung.com/rinpoche.php
Biography:
Born in Eastern Tibet in 1954, the 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche left Tibet for Sikkim in 1960, where he was united with His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. He established his monastery Palpung Sherab Ling in northern India in 1976. He has travelled widely – visiting North America, Europe, South-East Asia and New Zealand and lecturing on Buddhist philosophy and meditation. A renowned artist and calligrapher, Tai Situ Rinpoche speaks fluent English and is the author of several books in which he illuminates Buddhist teachings in commonsense terms using down-to-earth examples.
He is currently involved in the advancement of inter-faith and inter-cultural humanitarian efforts and was the inspiration and motivator for the 1989 Pilgrimage for Active Peace. In addition, Rinpoche is the founder and Spiritual Head of the extensively enlarged Sherab Ling Monastery. Rinpoche was also involved with the recognition and enthronement of His Holiness, 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP017
Tibetan Buddhism
1981
08:39:58
R50.00
aMP018
Gyud Lama
1981
06:56:05
R50.00
aMP019
Life of Naropa
1981
02:31:13
R50.00
aMP020
Shi-Né Meditation Instruction
1981
01:21:22
R50.00
aMP021
Therapy
Oct 1985
07:03:42
R50.00
aMP022
Mahamudra Teaching
1988
08:21:46
R50.00
aMP023
Meditation in Action
1988
05:36:02
R50.00
aMP117
Mahamudra Teaching
1988
03:52:47
R50.00
aMP024
Guru Rinpoche Teaching
Aug 1988
03:51:14
R50.00
aMP025
Death and Dying
Aug 1988
06:49:36
R50.00
aMP026
Public Talks
Aug 1994
04:01:23
R50.00
aMP027
Dorje Chang Tungma Prayer
Oct 1994
03:00:55
R50.00
aMP028
The Six Paramitas
Aug 1995
01:14:14
R50.00
aMP029
General Talk on Buddhism
Aug 1995
01:07:31
R50.00
aMP030
Talk on Devotion
Sep 1995
01:10:04
R50.00
aMP031
The Five Skandhas
1996
02:25:31
R50.00
aMP032
Prajna Paramita
Sept 1996
02:54:30
R50.00
aMP118
Mahamudra - Guided Meditations
2009
06:15:05
R50.00
Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Website: http://www.samyeling.org
Biography:
Chöje Akong Rinpoche was born in 1939 in Eastern Tibet and discovered as a tulku at the age of two. In addition to receiving spiritual and formal education, he also trained in traditional Tibetan medicine. As a teenager, he travelled from community to community, performing religious ceremonies and treating the sick. His spiritual training as a holder of the Kagyu lineage was completed under the guidance of His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa.
In 1959, he fled from Tibet to India, and a few years later, he and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche travelled to Oxford, where they learned English, and began to introduce the West to Tibetan religion and culture. This led to the foundation of the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, in Scotland, the first Tibetan Buddhist Centre in the West. The current abbot of Samye Ling is Akong Rinpoche’s brother, the Ven. Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche.
Akong Rinpoche is the head of the Samye Dzong Buddhist Centres in South Africa.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP124
Talk on 17th Karmapa
unknown
00:44:15
R50.00
Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Website: http://www.samyeling.org
Biography:
Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche is the well-loved abbot of our mothership (and the oldest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the West) – Samye Ling in Scotland. He has spent at least 20 years in various retreats, and was recognised by the former Kalu Rinpoche as one of the most highly attained meditators in the world. To be able to meet and meditate in his presence is a rare and precious opportunity.
Born in 1943 in Kham, East Tibet, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche escaped from Tibet as a teenager in 1959, arriving in India along with Akong Rinpoche, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and a handful of other exhausted refugees. From 1967, he served as Private Secretary to His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, until leaving to join his brother Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche at Samye Ling in Scotland two years later. After accompanying H.H. Karmapa on a tour of the United States, he and Lama Tenzin Chonyi established and managed the Karma Triyana Dharmacakra Centre in Woodstock New York, which is now H.H. Karmapa's main seat in the U.S.
In 1980, he was ordained as a Gelong monk by H.H. Karmapa, before entering entered a strict, long-term solitary retreat under the guidance of the Abbot of Karma Triyana, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. He has also received teachings from many of the highest Kagyu Lamas, including H.H. the 16th Karmapa,and from The 12th Tai Situpa, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Gyaltsap Rinpoche, and the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche. He has completed two 49-day Bardo retreats in total solitude and darkness. He has been instrumental in establishing a long-term Buddhist Retreat Centre and an Interfaith Centre for World Peace and Health on Holy Island, a small island off the coast of Scotland.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP089
Teachings by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche
2012
05:08:31
R50.00
aMP141
Dealing with Obstacles, Hindrances and Delusions on the Path
Mar 2015
01:15:08
R50.00
aMP142
Joyful Living through Meditation
Mar 2015
01:03:28
R50.00
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Website: http://www.bodhicharya.org/
Biography:
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters, including HH the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche. He took his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim and Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as Tibetan Textbook Writer and Professor of Tibetan Studies in Sikkim for 25 years.
Since 1990, he has been travelling and teaching Buddhism and Meditation at Universities, Institutes and Buddhist Centers in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. He also participates in various interfaith and Science and Buddhist dialogues. He authored several books on Buddhism as well as some children’s books both in Tibetan and European languages.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP062
The Noble Eightfold Path
Sep 2011
01:41:44
R50.00
aMP063
From Milk to Yoghurt
Sep 2011
09:19:29
R50.00
aMP064
Discovering Basic Sanity
Sep 2011
01:35:30
R50.00
Ven. Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Website: http://www.nalandabodhi.org/
Biography:
The founder and president of Nalandabodhi, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, is a leading Buddhist teacher in North America and an advocate of American and Western Buddhism.
A lover of music, art and urban culture, Rinpoche is a poet, an avid photographer, an accomplished calligrapher and visual artist, as well as a prolific author.
Rinpoche is fluent in English and well-versed in Western culture and technology. He is also the founder of Nitartha International, a non-profit educational corporation dedicated to preserving the contemplative literature of East Asia.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP052
The Treasury of Knowledge
Aug 1992 and Sep 1993
21:16:01
R100.00
Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche
Website: http://www.rinpoche.com/
Biography:
The Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche was born in Kham, Tibet in 1933, and was formally recognised at the age of five. He fled from Tibet to India in 1959, where he studied at Rumtek monastery in Sikkim, the seat in exile of His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, becoming the Abbot of Rumtek Monastery and being heavily involved in teaching. Since 1976, he has travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the United States.
Thrangu Rinpoche, a recognised master of Mahamudra meditation, has taught in over twenty-five countries and has seventeen centres in twelve countries. He is especially known for making complex teachings accessible to Western students. Because of his vast knowledge of the Dharma and his skill as a teacher, he was appointed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to be the personal tutor for His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP033
Gyud Lama of Asanga / Maitreya
1980
19:51:20
R50.00
aMP036
Ornament of the Precious Liberation
1980
19:41:58
R50.00
aMP037
The Four Ordinary Foundations
1980
05:39:47
R50.00
aMP038
The Four Special Foundations
1980
02:59:55
R50.00
aMP034
Life of Marpa
1981
05:09:35
R50.00
aMP035
Life of Milarepa and Gampopa
1981
04:54:10
R50.00
aMP039
History of Indian Buddhism
1981
05:26:33
R50.00
Chögyam Trungpa
Website: http://www.shambhala.org/teachers/chogyam-trungpa.php
Biography:
Taken from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6gyam_Trungpa):
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (28 February 1939 – 4 April 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.
Recognized both by Tibetan Buddhists and by other spiritual practitioners and scholars as a preeminent teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, he was a major, albeit controversial, figure in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method.
Among his contributions are the translation of a large number of Tibetan texts, the introduction of the Vajrayana teachings to the West, and a presentation of the Buddhadharma largely devoid of ethnic trappings. Regarded as a mahasiddha by many senior lamas, he is seen as having embodied the crazy wisdom (Tib. yeshe chölwa) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Some of his teaching methods and actions were the topic of controversy during his lifetime and afterwards.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP123
Chögyam Trungpa Live
1976
01:07:30
R50.00
Lama Tsondru
Website: http://www.kagyu.it/eng/home.html
Biography:
Lama Tsondru, who received monastic ordination in 1985, has received many teachings from important Masters like His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Tai Situ Rinpoche, Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Akong Tulku Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche and many others. She has completed two 4-year retreats at Samye Ling in Scotland.
With Lama Jinpa Gyamso she guides the Spanish centers connected with Kagyu Samye Ling monastery and the students currently committed to the first traditional retreat of Karma Kagyu lineage in Spain.
In June 2000, in recognition of her dedication and hard work over many years, and her ability to benefit many people through her example and her teaching, she was granted the title of “Lama” by Akong Rinpoche.
Lama Tsondru is well known and loved by her many friends and students for her warm, approachable, easy-to-understand teaching style, as well as for her dedication and hard work in serving the Kagyu Lineage and helping others.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP116
Kleshas
Dec 2002
02:18:56
R50.00
aMP066
The Heart of Compassion
Sep 2009
09:23:04
R50.00
aMP067
The Feminine Aspect of Buddhism
Sep 2009
02:59:14
R50.00
aMP068
Chenrezig Puja & Instruction
Unknown
01:07:08
R50.00
aMP119
Talk on Buddhism and Meditation
2009
01:17:28
R50.00
aMP134
The Art of Happiness
Mar 2014
10:55:52
R50.00
aMP135
Buddha Nature
Mar 2014
01:39:21
R50.00
Lama Zangmo
Website: Kagyu Samye Dzong London
Biography:
Lama Gelongma Zangmo first became a practising Buddhist when she arrived at Kagyu Samye Ling in 1977 and took refuge with His Holiness the 16th Karmapa. Having received teachings from many highly respected lamas who visited Kagyu Samye Ling, she completed several four-year closed retreats, during which time she became ordained as a Buddhist nun. Since 1998, she has been helping with running the Kagyu Samye Dzong Centre in London. That year, she was one of a group of nuns who accompanied Lama Yeshe Losal to India, where she became fully ordained as a Gelongma (Bhikkuni) in Bodhgaya. This will in turn enable others to take full Gelongma ordination within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in the future.
Lama Zangmo's strong connection with Kagyu lineage and in particular with Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe Losal has inspired her to work tirelessly and joyfully in service to the Dharma and helping others. In recognition of her long experience, selfless qualities and commitment, she became the first person in the UK to be honoured with the title of Lama in June 2001.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP091
Introduction to Medicine Buddha and Tara
Mar 2012
02:07:13
R50.00
aMP092
Refuge, Bodhicitta and Ngondro (with Ani Lhamo)
Mar 2012
03:47:13
R50.00
aMP093
The Bardo of Death
Mar 2012
01:38:03
R50.00
aMP143
Generosity
Mar 2015
01:20:09
R50.00
aMP144
Courage, Confidence and Compassion
Mar 2015
00:54:01
R50.00
Rob Nairn
Website: http://www.robnairn.net/
Biography:
Rob Nairn is one of the pioneers in presenting Buddhist philosophy and practice in a way that is accessible to the Western mind. In 1980, he resigned as professor of criminology at the University of Cape Town to commit full-time to his spiritual path. His training in psychology and Buddhism – including a four-year isolation retreat at Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Scotland – enables him to translate ancient Eastern wisdom into concepts we can understand and apply.
Currently Rob is the representative of Dr Akong Tulku Rinpoche for Kagyu Africa: three Kagyu Buddhist centres in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Harare, as well as two retreat centres. He spends half the year at the centres in Africa and half the year teaching in the United Kingdom and Europe. In the UK Rob is involved with the Mindfulness Scotland initiative together with National Health, and associate lecturer of the education faculty at Aberdeen University in Scotland, where he designed and founded the very popular three-year Master’s degree in Mindfulness.
Rob is author of three books – all of which are popular in many languages and selling well in Africa, the USA, UK and Europe: Tranquil Mind – An introduction to Buddhism and meditation; Diamond Mind – Psychology of meditation; and Living Dreaming Dying – Wisdom of Tibetan psychology.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP001
Diamond Mind Course
unknown
06:36:05
R50.00
aMP099
Tranquility Through Meditation
Early 1990's
03:06:17
R50.00
aMP100
Psychology Through the Ages
Early 1990's
03:26:15
R50.00
aMP101
Ngondro Practice
Early 1990's
02:29:38
R50.00
aMP102
Aspects of Practice
Early 1990's
03:03:17
R50.00
aMP103
Living, Dreaming, Dying
Jan 1994
04:31:00
R50.00
aMP108
Looking at Personality Types
Nov 1995
02:23:50
R50.00
aMP109
The Wheel of Life
Feb 1996
02:37:38
R50.00
aMP110
About Positive & Negative Thinking, Peace of Mind and Karma
Jun 1996
04:09:17
R50.00
aMP104
In/Out Retreat
Dec 1996
04:00:12
R50.00
aMP105
Tantra Lectures and Workshops
Apr 1997
18:01:57
R50.00
aMP112
Vajrayana Practice
Nov 1997
01:18:18
R50.00
aMP113
Meditation and Transformation
May 1999
08:12:57
R50.00
aMP106
Retreat at Ixopo
Oct 2000
18:49:28
R50.00
aMP114
Seven Points of Mind Training
Apr 2002
05:02:48
R50.00
aMP115
Introduction to Tantric Practice
May 2002
01:11:20
R50.00
aMP097
Successful Living - The Psychology of Happiness
Nov 2002
03:06:37
R50.00
aMP011
Learn to Meditate
Mar 2005
07:43:17
R50.00
aMP012
What is Buddhism?
Apr 2005
02:14:00
R50.00
aMP013
Cape Mountain Retreat – Seven Points of Mind Training
Dec 2005
07:10:03
R50.00
aMP014
Cape Mountain Retreat – Understanding Emptiness
Dec 2005
10:30:17
R50.00
aMP015
Creating a New Reality
Feb 2006
04:26:23
R50.00
aMP121
Retreat Teachings
Feb 2008
23:59:02
R50.00
aMP061
Cape Mountain Retreat – Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
Dec 2008 – Jan 2009
17:26:52
R50.00
aMP082
The Power of Dream
May 2009
01:48:52
R50.00
aMP083
Wisdom, Compassion and Insight Training
Nov 2009
29:05:01
R50.00
aMP055
The Enquiry Process
Mar 2010
01:09:11
R50.00
aMP122
Observing the Observer
2010
17:10:12
R50.00
aMP016
Mindfulness, Insight & Awareness
Nov 2010
36:13:34
R50.00
aMP045
Wheel of Life
Feb 2011
23:46:05
R50.00
aMP040
Compassion Training
Mar 2011
01:20:17
R50.00
aMP041
Introduction to Insight (with Beryl Schutten)
Mar 2011
04:40:00
R50.00
aMP042
Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep (Charlie Morley with Rob Nairn)
Mar 2011
13:02:01
R50.00
aMP043
Psychology of Meditation
Mar 2011
02:37:57
R50.00
aMP044
Mindfulness – The Key to Living Fully
Mar 2011
01:12:46
R50.00
aMP046
Introduction to Mindfulness & Meditation
Mar 2011
01:07:56
R50.00
aCD002
Guided Meditation – Settling, Grounding, Resting
Mar 2011
00:18:03
R30.00
aMP084
The Secret of Relationships - Beyond the Rational
Oct - Nov 2011
33:23:15
R50.00
aMP085
Compassion Training Part II - The Path to Insight
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
15:51:08
R50.00
aMP086
Progressing in Mindfulness - The Path to Insight
Jan 2012
16:50:50
R50.00
aMP087
Psychology of Buddhism
Feb 2012
02:53:21
R50.00
aMP088
The Spiritual Journey and Meditation
Feb 2012
06:28:28
R50.00
aMP126
Maturing the Mind
Nov 2012
32:26:25
R50.00
aMP132
Wheel of Life - The Cycle of Interdependent Origination
Jan 2014
09:00:50
R150.00
aMP133
Introduction to: Insight & Compassion Training
Jan 2014
11:17:50
R100.00
aMP147
Beginner's Meditation Instruction
Feb 2015
06:00:51
R50.00
aMP148
Graduated Mind Training
Feb 2015
18:02:29
R100.00
aMP149
The Effect of doing Vajrayana Practices
Feb 2015
01:20:04
R50.00
aMP154
Insight Training
Jan 2016
09:44:45
R100.00
aMP155
Wheel of Life
Jan 2016
04:56:41
R100.00
aMP156
Medicine Buddha - Medicine, Healing and Transformation
Feb 2016
01:50:05
R50.00
aMP157
Living Dreaming Dying
Feb 2016
07:26:49
R100.00
aMP158
Beginner's Meditation Course
Feb 2016
05:36:53
R50.00
Beryl Schutten
Biography:
Beryl has practiced meditation for over 30 years and has completed a 6 month retreat. She is authorized to teach by His Eminence the 12th Kentin Tai Situpa.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP041
Introduction to Insight (with Rob Nairn)
Mar 2011
04:40:00
R50.00
Charlie Morley
Website: http://charliemorley.com/
Biography:
Charlie Morley, based in London, is a Lucid Dreaming teacher and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism specialising in the use of both Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist dream practices with the aims of bringing mindful awareness into all stages of dream, sleep and waking life. He is the co-creator of a new holistic approach to conscious sleeping and lucid dreaming called “Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep”.
Charlie began to teach lucid dreaming within the context of Tibetan Buddhism in late 2008, at the personal request of his mentor and well-known meditation teacher Rob Nairn. He has also received the traditional Tibetan Buddhist “authorisation to teach” from Venerable Lama Yeshe Losal. Since then he has run numerous Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep workshops, courses and retreats around the UK, Europe, Brazil and USA as well as a bi-yearly tours of South Africa.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP042
Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep (Charlie Morley with Rob Nairn)
Mar 2011
13:02:01
R100.00
aMP096
Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep
May 2012
09:26:32
R50.00
aMP127
Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep
Aug 2013
07:54:43
R50.00
aMP136
Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep: The potential of 24 hour awareness
Aug 2014
01:34:19
R50.00
Donal Creedon
Website:
Biography:
Donal Creedon is a meditation teacher with many years experience, loved and deeply appreciated for his warmth, openness and sincerity. Donal has spent 12 years in retreat and was also a fellow of the Krishnamurti Foundation of India for 3 years.
This allows him to balance a clear and thorough understanding of Tibetan Buddhism with the non-sectarian and uncomplicated teachings given by Krishnamurti, helping Donal to communicate the heart of Buddhist teachings beyond language and culture.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP071
Onrus Retreat
Mar 1998
02:55:32
R50.00
aMP072
Mahamudra Course
Jan, Feb, Mar 1998
04:40:36
R50.00
aMP073
Meditation Course for Beginners
Jan, Feb, Mar 1998
08:04:13
R50.00
aMP074
Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
Feb, Mar 1998
06:14:00
R50.00
aMP075
Dharma Talk
Feb 1998
01:08:31
R50.00
aMP076
Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation Instruction
Feb 1998
00:43:46
R50.00
aMP077
Lojong Practice and Tonglen Meditation
Mar 1998
02:02:30
R50.00
aMP094
Introduction to Mahamudra
Apr 2012
01:09:00
R50.00
aMP120
Loving Kindness Meditation
2004
01:17:52
R50.00
Ken Holmes
Website: http://samyeling.org/
Biography:
Ken Holmes, born in London in 1947, travelled to India in 1970, where he spent some time in Dharamsala, studying with the monks and lamas around His Holiness the Dalai Lama. On his return to England, he went to Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, where he has been based for the past 36 years, devoting his life to making Tibetan Buddhist meditation and philosophy available to the Western world.
He is currently Director of Studies at Kagyu Samye Ling. His life is spent teaching in Samye Dzongs in various countries, assisting Akong Rinpoche, writing and translating dharma works, and he also occasionally interprets for visiting Tibetan lamas. He has also lectured in elementology and astro-science for the Tara-Rokpa College of Tibetan Medicine.
He was a founder member of the Scottish Inter Faith Council and has worked with the British Cabinet Office and the European Community on training programmes. He represented Buddhism at the seminal 2002 meetings in Brussels to discuss religious representation in the new European constitution. Ken has also developed and implemented a three year distance learning programme for the study of Buddhism.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP004
Dorje Chang Tungma
Mar 2006
01:59:09
R50.00
aMP002
Cape Town Teachings
Oct 2008
12:27:46
R50.00
aMP003
The Six Paramitas
Oct 2008
07:01:13
R50.00
aMP005
Goedgedacht Retreat – Understanding Consciousness
Oct 2008
09:29:57
R50.00
aMP006
Bardo Teachings
Oct 2010
04:02:16
R50.00
aMP007
Cape Town Teachings
Oct 2010
12:19:57
R50.00
aMP008
Bodhi Khaya Retreat - Perfect Mind (1 DVD)
Oct 2010
41:51:15
R50.00
aMP009
Bodhi Khaya Retreat - Perfect Mind (3 CDs)
Oct 2010
41:51:15
R50.00
aMP010
Buddha Nature
Undated
12:47:55
R50.00
aMP053
The Torch of Certainty
Undated
22:45:28
R100.00
aMP056
Bardo Teachings - Supporting Peaceful Dying (Jan Webster and Ken Holmes)
Nov 2009
02:53:24
R50.00
aMP057
Gurus - Karmapa, Akong Rinpoche, Kagyu Lineage
Nov 2009
01:35:38
R50.00
aMP058
Meditation Refresher
Nov 2009
01:40:37
R50.00
aMP059
Four Keys to Paradise - Vajrayana Visualisation Explained
Nov 2009
01:44:03
R50.00
aMP060
Tibetan Astrology and the Moon in Buddhism
Dec 2009
01:34:37
R50.00
aMP098
The Six Paramitas and Guided Chenrezig
Oct 2010
10:36:59
R50.00
aMP079
The Three Kayas
Nov 2011
01:43:27
R50.00
aMP080
Compassion and Devotion
Nov 2011
01:36:07
R50.00
aMP081
Meditation
Nov 2011
04:25:16
R50.00
aMP111
Awakening the Real Chenrezik
Nov 2013
01:16:12
R50.00
aMP129
The Bardo(s)
Nov 2013
01:42:05
R50.00
aMP130
Bodhi Khaya Retreat – Heart of Love, Breath of Compassion
Nov 2013
41:11:59
R100.00
aMP138
Real Bodhisattvas
Sep 2014
08:44:06
R50.00
aMP139
Reincarnation and Karma
Oct 2014
05:23:30
R50.00
aMP140
The Real Mahamudra
Oct 2014
08:40:29
R50.00
aMP150
The Six Paramitas
Oct 2015
01:30:20
R50.00
aMP151
Insight into Insight
Oct 2015
03:32:43
R50.00
aMP152
Chenrezig Practice Instruction
Oct 2015
01:37:05
R50.00
aMP153
Voidness for Dummies
Oct 2015
08:40:29
R50.00
aMP159
Overview of Tibetan Buddhism
Oct 2016
09:19:45
R100.00
aMP160
Short Prayer to Vajradhara
Oct 2016
06:36:09
R100.00
Ken and Katia Holmes
Biography:
Ken and his French wife Katia are based at Samye Ling Tibetan Centre, Scotland, where he is Director of Studies.
They both have been assisting Ven. Akong Rinpoche for about 40 years, translating Tibetan texts and interpreting for lamas.
They both are much respected internationally for their inexhaustible knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism, which they impart with wisdom and clarity, humility and an infectious sense of humour.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP007
Cape Town Teachings
Oct 2010
12:19:57
R50.00
aMP008
Bodhi Khaya Retreat - Perfect Mind (1 DVD)
Oct 2010
41:51:15
R100.00
aMP009
Bodhi Khaya Retreat - Perfect Mind (3 CDs)
Oct 2010
41:51:15
R100.00
aMP098
The Six Paramitas and Guided Chenrezig
Oct 2010
10:36:59
R100.00
aMP130
Bodhi Khaya Retreat – Heart of Love, Breath of Compassion
Nov 2013
41:11:59
R100.00
Alan Muller
Website:
Biography:
Alan Muller took refuge in 1997 with Akong Tulku Rinpoche. He has completed a one year and two six month closed retreats under the guidance of Lama Yeshe Rinpoche.
Alan was also a monk for six years and has dedicated his time fully to Kagyu centres since 2000. Some of the teachers he has received teachings from are H.H. Dalai Lama, Thrangu Rinpoche, Tai Situpa Rinpoche, Minjur Rinpoche and Drupon Rinpoche.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP161
Vajrayana Deity Practice Instructions
Oct 2016
12:05:21
R100.00
Ken Holmes and Jan Webster
Website:http://www.comacare.com/
Biography:
Jan Webster is a founding member and initiator of an innovative Non-Profit Organisation (NPO), ComaCARE, and has for many years been communicating and working with patients in comas.
ComaCARE aims to change attitudes and care practice of those in extreme and altered states of consciousness, specialising in coma patients. Jan is an organisation development consultant, trainer and coma care worker.
She has worked with many NGOs, mainly in the field of mental health and human rights.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP056
Bardo Teachings - Supporting Peaceful Dying (Jan Webster and Ken Holmes)
Nov 2009
02:53:24
R50.00
Chodrak
Website:
Biography:
Chodrak is a fully ordained monk in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and has taken Gelong ordination with Tai Situ Rinpoche. He divides his time between the Tergar Institute in BodhGaya India where he is program co-coordinator for Mingyur Rinpoche, and teaching in South Africa, Germany and the United Kingdom. In the UK Chodrak also works for the National Health Service in mental health as a healthcare assistant. He presents mindfulness workshops for health professionals and runs his own Zen shiatsu therapy practice.
Chodrak is is very knowledgeable in all rituals associated with the various practices and pujas. Chodrak studied and became proficient in the Tibetan language in a short time and was interpreter and attendant for Lama Thubten from 1983 until 1989. From 1989, Chodrak was on a four-year retreat at Samye Ling, part-time in position as chef to all the retreatants.
In 1994, Chodrak visited South Africa as resident monk at the Cape Town Samye Dzong Centre, and also oversaw the Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Harare Centers. In 2000, Chodrak moved to Sherabling, Tai Situ Rinpoche's seat in northern India. Whilst living there for 4 years he became the secretary and translator for Mingyur Rinpoche. He also acted as translator on all of Mingyur Rinpoche's visits to the UK.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP047
Bardo Workshop
Jul 2008
06:29:45
R50.00
aMP048
Ngondro
Jul 2008
00:41:35
R50.00
aMP049
Joyful Wisdom
Jun 2009
05:26:25
R50.00
aMP050
Bardo - Preparation for Death and Beyond
Jul 2009
01:41:09
R50.00
aMP051
Inner Peace - Enriching your World
Jul 2009
01:49:58
R50.00
Gelong Thubten
Website:
Biography:
Born into a Buddhist family, Thubten was ordained in 1993. During his early years as a monk, he completed a total of 200 pairs of the Nyungney fasting practice in retreat. He has been able to receive teachings and transmissions from many of the greatest Kagyu Lamas. Later he travelled widely, teaching at Samye Dzong centres around the world, and he regularly served as Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche's assistant on teaching tours.
He has taught meditation as a method of stress management for business executives in top UK companies, as well as within the NHS, in prisons, and to addiction counselling services, local councils and social workers. In June 2005, Gelong Thubten entered the first long retreat to take place at Samye Dechen Shing on the Isle of Arran.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP054
Vajrayana Deity Practice
Feb 2010
01:19:22
R50.00
aMP070
The Four Ordinary Foundations
Unknown
00:58:52
R50.00
aMP162
Meditation, Mindfulness and Inner Happiness
Jan 2017
01:16:30
R50.00
aMP163
Meditation, Mindfulness and the Path of Compassion
Jan 2017
07:51:11
R50.00
aMP164
Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on Death and the Bardo
Jan 2017
01:36:04
R50.00
aMP165
The 3 Vehicles and the Special Tradition of Vajrayana
Jan 2017
01:40:08
R50.00
Ani Lhamo
Website: Kagyu Samye Ling
Biography:
Ani Lhamo is a fully ordained Buddhist nun, who has completed a four-year cloistered retreat, and is an experienced teacher of meditation and Dharma courses. Currently working in adminstration at Samye Ling, as Lama Yeshe's secretary for the last seven years, she has learnt how to integrate the peace and stability of meditation into her busy, working life.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP092
Refuge, Bodhicitta and Ngondro (with Lama Zangmo)
Mar 2012
03:47:13
R50.00
aMP145
Creating a Stable Foundation for Practice
Mar 2015
01:30:33
R50.00
aMP146
Refuge
Mar 2015
00:55:27
R50.00
Melanie Polatinsky
Website:Randburg Centre: Melanie Polatinsky
Biography:
Melanie is a psychotherapist, lecturer and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, and has been empowered by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche to teach. She has worked and taught in a variety of fields with individuals and groups for the past 40 years. These include meditation, dream work, death and dying, bereavement, inner child work, relationships, karma and reincarnation, inner peace, discovering your true potential and many others.
Melanie gives weekly Buddhist lectures at the Randburg Centre on Monday mornings and Tuesday evenings on many different dharma topics from how to clear our psychological karmic imprints to the deeper Vajrayana Buddhist teachings.
She is also currently running a bardo training group once per month to prepare individuals for death and dying and to train people to assist others with death, dying and bereavement.
Recordings:
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aMP107
A Tantric Approach to Dreams, Death and Sadhana Practice
Jun 2012
09:31:34
R50.00
aMP125
Mirror-Like Wisdom Reflected through Relationships
Feb 2013
09:20:17
R50.00
Pujas
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aCD001
Chenrezig Practice (With Guided Visualisation) with Ken Holmes
Oct 2010
01:00:00
R30.00
aCD003
Chenrezig Practice (Complete Puja) with Ken Holmes
Oct 2010
00:59:00
R30.00
aCD004
Chenrezig Practice (Short Form) with Ken Holmes
Oct 2010
00:29:00
R30.00
aCD014
Chenrezig Puja with Pam Sheehan
2012
01:08:16
R20.00
aCD017
Chenrezig Puja (short version)
n/a
00:21:17
R20.00
aCD013
Ngondro - Refuge and Bodhicitta
n/a
01:06:55
R20.00
aCD008
Medicine Buddha Puja
n/a
00:49:55
R20.00
aCD015
Green Tara Puja with Akong Rinpoche
n/a
01:06:21
R20.00
aCD016
Green Tara Puja with Thrangu Rinpoche
n/a
00:44:59
R20.00
aCD019
Green Tara Puja with H.E. the 12th Tai Situpa
n/a
01:03:39
R20.00
aCD011
Guru Rinpoche Puja
n/a
00:22:29
R20.00
aMP065
Amitabha Buddha Puja
1997
00:38:19
R30.00
aCD007
Mahakala Puja
n/a
00:48:47
R20.00
aMP131
Milarepa Guru Yoga - for Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
n/a
00:46:41
R20.00
Video Recordings
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aDVD001
Akong Rinpoche at Cape Mountain Retreat
Feb 2006
01:18:18
R50.00
aDVD003
Buddhism - Finding the Peace Within (SABC Production)
2008
00:49:49
R20.00
aDVD004
Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in conversation with Rob Nairn
Feb 2007
01:31:33
R50.00
aDVD005
CMR Inauguration and CPT Samye Dzong
Nov 2005
00:08:37
R20.00
Other Recordings
Code
Title
Date
Length
Cost
aCD005
Tibetan Incantations
n/a
01:14:24
R20.00
aCD006
Learning Tibetan - Ani Kunzang
n/a
00:45:14
R20.00
aCD009
Lotus Sutra
n/a
00:58:58
R20.00
aCD010
Amitabha Sutra
n/a
01:00:19
R20.00
aCD012
Dorje Chang Tungma
n/a
00:06:35
R15.00