Kagyu Samye Ling: The Story: Celebrating 40 years of the first TIbetan Buddhist Monastery & Cultural Centre in the West

Ani Rinchen Khandro

Dzalendra Publishing

145

2007

9780906181232

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Celebrating 40 Years of the First Tibetan Buddhist Monastery & Cultural Centre in the West. Samye Ling's story begins in 1950's Tibet when two young high Lamas, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Akong Rinpoche and their followers were compelled to escape from their occupied homeland. From the teaming refugee camps of India to the dreaming spires of Oxford and eventually to the gentle landscape of southern Scotland, where they established the first ever Tibetan Buddhist centre in the West. Set in a lush, green valley cradled by the rolling hills of Eskdalemuir, Kagyu Samye Ling has grown from humble beginnings to a world renowned monastery and centre of Tibetan culture with satellite branches across the globe. The story of Samye Ling charts the remarkable history and achievements of the centre and the triumph over adversity and is dedicated to the inspirational work of Akong Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche.