Celebrating Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
June 9th, 2010 by Sarah LiptonLast night, about 25 people from all parts of the Boston Shambhala community gathered to listen to
stories, look at pictures and learn more about the great teacher Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Acharya Emily Bower and Hazel Bercholz shared not only their love of this great teacher with us, but managed to bring his presence into the room. It was almost as if through the smoke of the incense, we could see his large stature, his golden honey skin, and most of all his shining eyes and universe-sized heart-mind.
If you are interested in Celebrating the Return of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche this summer in the form of the reincarnation or tulku, Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche, please click here. We warmly invite you to join Mangala Shri Bhuti and Dzigar Kongtrul as we commemorate the life of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and welcome Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche on his first visit to the United States.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was a man of advanced spiritual knowledge. [While I was a young man in Tibet,] he undertook to give me special instruction. I felt drawn to him as if he had been my father; and thus I often addressed him without any shyness or doubt. He was very tall and dignified and never seemed in a hurry. What he did was perfection of its kind, even the way he walked into the hall showed this quality; all he said was expressed to perfection. In fact, he surpassed anyone I had ever met. His writings were equally remarkable, and added to this he was a poet and had a gift for telling delightful stories. Dilgo Khyentse gave me private teaching. When he left after several months, this was so great a sorrow and shock to me that for a few days I could neither study nor eat.
Condensed and Edited from “My Childhood at Dutsi Tel,” in Born in Tibet, in The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, Volume One, page 52.
To watch a short video of Pema Chodron talking about Dilgo Khyentse as well as the trailer for the forthcoming movie Brilliant Moon, please visit the Chronicles Project. Thank you Acharya Bower and Mrs. Bercholz for creating a bridge for us to this incredible teacher.
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche




