Masters

The Buddha Śākyamuni taught detailed teachings, containing precise instructions on how to overcome mental problems step by step and how to develop and bring to perfection one's positive potentials. If one is fortunate enough to hear these instructions from a person who has fully understood the Buddha's explanations, practised them and fulfilled his intention, then that person may in turn be able to eliminate the causes of suffering from his own mind, and walk the Path which the Enlightened One has walked.

Thanks to the unbroken chain of great masters who have made the Buddha's teachings their own experience and passed them on to others, we can, even today, understand the Buddha's teachings well.

Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang

When Buddha was living as Prince Siddhartha in his father's palace, he asked to visit his kingdom. The king organised three visits for his son to different places in Magadha, preparing all the details in advance to ensure that he would not come across any unpleasant sights. However...

Rabten Rinpoche

„From my earliest childhood, I used to meet monks dressed in cherry robes who came from the great monastic universities located near Lhasa. I admired them so much! At other times I would visit the great institute of our region and, when I attended the monks' debates, I felt an unbridled attraction; around the age of...

Gonsar Rinpoche

In the time of the Seventh Dalai Lama, a young man from Amdo asked to be received into the home of his countrymen in Sera monastery near Lhasa; he was refused because his appearance was shabby and shabby. Leaving there, but still on the monastery grounds, he met a...

Rabten Rinpoce

The extraordinary signs that were seen at Geshe's death in 1986 made his disciples realise that they were not only witnessing the passing of a great teacher, but also that of a truly enlightened master. In the months following his death, while meditating...