In order to celebrate the vast and melodious dharma activity of our precious teacher, Lama Jampa Thaye, members of the Dechen Community offered over £2700 to sponsor a  Long life tsok puja at Karma Thinley Rinpoche’s nunnery in Kathmandu, Tegchen Legshay Ling and also a Tsethar (life release) ritual.

People from London and beyond were blessed with a day of Vajrayana Buddhist teachings by Lama Jampa Thaye this Saturday, 23 November. The venue was Regent’s University’s elegant Herringham Hall, appropriately located in the Inner Circle of Regent’s park.

Sakya Buddhist Temple has just been blessed with a two week long visit from Lama Jampa Thaye.

Sakya Dolma Ling in Mexico City was recently blessed with a ten day visit by Lama Jampa Thaye and Dechen Dolma. Eager gatherings of people came together to receive a number of important teachings and initiations at the Dechen Mexico Dharma Centre.

During the weekend of October 11-13, 2024, Lama Jampa Thaye, accompanied by his wife Dechen Dolma, visited the Karma Kagyü Sangha center in Vienna, Austria. This marked his second visit to the center, which is affiliated with the BodhiPath Organisation.

With its echoes of Victorian grandeur the Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel in Bristol was the setting for Lama Jampa Thaye's third visit to Bristol of 2024 on Saturday 5 October. Over 100 people came to hear the 9th part of Sakya Pandita’s ‘Discriminating the Three Vows’, and to receive the initiation of Manjushri Arapatsana.

Continuing his tour of Germany & Switzerland, on the outskirts of Basel Lama Jampa bestowed the initiation of White Tara according to the lineage of Shakya Shri Bhadra. The resident Dechen group together with dharma friends from around Switzerland came together for this mid-week occasion, and many stayed afterwards and joined Lama Jampa and Dechen Dolma for coffee and cakes in a relaxed and informal setting.

Visit of Lama Jampa Thaye to Sakya Dechen Ling Stuttgart. 20th - 22nd September 2024

On Saturday 14 September Dharma friends from across the United Kingdom and Europe gathered in Harrogate to receive the transmission of Phowa, the the final part of the Sky Dharma teachings of Mingyur Dorje.

The completion of the second week of teachings at Sakya Changlochen Ling was a momentous event, marking the first ever transmission in the West of both the blessing and detailed teachings of this extraordinary practice. 

Yesterday, Friday 23rd August, Lama Jampa completed transmitting the entire text entitled 'Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering' by Karma Thinley Rinpoche.

Over the weekend of 10th and 11th August, Lama Jampa completed his second summer teaching at Karmapa's European seat in the Dordogne, France. 

On Tuesday August 6, at the invitation of Lama Jampa Thaye, Dechen LA Sakya Buddhist Center, was blessed to welcome His Holiness Gongma Trichen Rinpoche, Her Eminence Gyalyum Chenmo and their entourage to Santa Monica.

Lama Jampa has just completed five days of teaching on Sakya Pandita’s ‘Discriminating the Three Vows’ at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, His Holiness Karmapa’s European Seat in the Dordogne. 

From 17 until the 23 July, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa was in the north of England to give series of teachings at Lama Jampa’s Dechen Kagyu centres; Kagyu Dechen Dzong in Harrogate and Kagyu Ling in Manchester.

Last Saturday, 8 June, Lama Jampa resumed his teaching on Sakya Pandita’s ‘Discriminating the Three Vows’, continuing with the section on the vajrayana. Topics covered included the meaning and practice of mahamudra meditation, as outlined in the source texts, the tantras, and communicated through the teachings and songs of great masters. The text also emphasises the necessity of receiving vajrayana initiation, as through this, the appropriate connection is made with the relevant meditation deity and one has a basis for cultivating this through subsequent practice.

Lama Jampa Thaye has just completed his spring program of teachings at Sakya Buddhist Center Los Angeles. It was a busy and joyful visit, with a wonderful array of teachings, time with the sangha and planning for the future.

From 3 - 5 May, in amongst sunshine and showers, Lama Jampa Thaye visited Sakya Dechen Ling in Stuttgart to give a series of dharma teachings. Over the course of three days, around 40 people from Germany, France, Switzerland and the UK gathered to receive the next part of Sakya Pandita's 'Discriminating the Three Vows' and the rarely given initiation of Manjushri Lion's Speech.

Last weekend people from across the UK came to Harrogate for the visit of Lama Jampa Thaye and Dechen Dolma. The highlight of the weekend was the bestowal of the Amitabha Initiation (Buddha of Limitless Light) from the Sky Dharma lineage of Mingyur Dorje, on Saturday afternoon.

There could not have been a better surrounding for the presentation of the nine-centures-old text by Sonam Tsemo, The General Presentation of the Tantra Sets.