Khenpo Ghawang

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Khenpo Ghawang is an important Master of the Kagyu Lineage.  Author of many books on Buddhist practices, rituals and philosophical texts, he has taught at Rumtek, His Holiness Karmapa's Monastery in Sikkim, India.  He is currently the principal Abbot of Palchen Choling Monastery in Sikkim, the Seat of the 12th Goshir Gyaltsap Rinpoche.

For more than 30 years, Khenpo Ghawang taught at various monasteries in India and also in Dharma centres in the USA and Taiwan.  He was the first Khenpo to be invited by Akong Rinpoche to teach in the Shedra (Dharma College) in Dolma Lhakang Monastery in Kham, East Tibet.

Khenpo Ghawang now mainly devotes his time to practice, meditating at holy sites in India and Nepal.

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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Meditation means simple acceptance.
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Only the impossible is worth doing.
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Whenever we see something which could be done to bring benefit to others, no matter how small, we should do it.
Chamgon Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
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Hasten slowly, you will soon arrive.
Jetsun Milarepa
It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Whatever obstacles arise, if you deal with them through kindness without trying to escape then you have real freedom.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Every sentient being is equal to the Buddha.
Chamgon Kentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Wherever and whenever we can, we should develop compassion at once.
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Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion.
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