Annual Mani Drupchen
Attached please find an announcement from the monastery in Orissa regarding sponsorship of the Mani Drupchen, for which you are invited to participate if interested. The Drupchen is mostly funded, the invitation is more if you wish to participate and have a connection with the Drupchen, which takes place from May 28th to June 5th. The easiest way to participate is by paying online (currently) through the Ripa Ladrang website: https://www.ripaladrang.org/index.php/donate. Please access through Internet Explorer. The Ripa International website will be supporting online payments in the near future.
Announcement for Mani
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RIC Opening Update
The Ripa Council, together with the Ripa International Center, are very pleased to announce the opening ceremony of the Ripa International Center, scheduled for July 22nd, 2012 and on the following day, July 23rd, the Buddhist consecration ceremony. The opening will be followed by the Ripa International Summer Retreat 2012. The complete dates are therefore: July 22nd through August 17th, 2012. The retreat program includes: a one week Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchö, an introductory seminar on Buddhism, a Gesar Enrichment Practice, Nyung Ne and Tsa Lung. Following the retreat there will be a Medicine Buddha weekend seminar on August 18th-19th.
Please join us for this historic event!
For further details please see: http://www.ripa-international.com/en/program/summer-retreat. |

European Spring Tour
Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche is on a teaching tour in Europe from April 4th – May 28th with the Padma Ling (and also Shambhala) organizations of: Switzerland (Fribourg, Bern, RIC), Germany (Freibourg, Karlsruhe), Belgium (Brussels), France (Paris, Marseille), Spain (San Sebastian, Barcelona), Austria (Vienna), United Kingdom (London), Russia (Moscow), and Ukraine (Kiev).
For further details, please see either: http://www.ripa-international.com/en/program. |

Winter retreat 2011 with Sey Rinpoche
Attached are the general informations concerning the retreat, the registration and the flyer. Please note that you have until November 30th to register.
Flyer
General informations
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Visit by His Eminence the Vidyadhara Terton Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche in Switzerland, 30 July 2011
Please join us for a special blessing event to be held on Saturday, 30th July 2011 at the Ripa International Centre in Ried. Details are provided in the attachments below.
Namkha Drimed Rinpoche
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A little Tibet
Attached is a story on the Monastery in Orissa that was published in The New Indian Express Sunday Magazine on June 26 and as Sunday Magazine of The Sunday Standard in New Delhi.
The New Sunday Express |

The Ripa Summer Retreat 2011: August 1st - 21st
The Ripa International Summer Retreat 2011 will take place in Sau near Barcelona, Spain from August 1st through
August 21st 2011. Tthe first week of the retreat is dedicated to Ngöndro practice, the second week is dedicated to
Yeshe Tsogyal Drupchen yidam practice and the third week will be dedicated to Tsa Lung and Nyung Ne.
The coming year is astrologically important for His Eminence as it is the year of the rabbit. It is requested that
everyone should please come together in the summer retreat to offer prayers and to take part in the longevity pujas
and ceremonies during the summer retreat.
Please mark your calendars! |
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