Earlier this month Lama Jampa Thaye was in residence at the major Dechen centre of Kagyu Ling in Manchester where he bestowed a great number of teachings, transmissions and blessings.
Over the weekend of the 2nd of February people from across the country gathered in Manchester's city centre to receive the next part of the 8th Situ Rinpoche's commentary on the 3rd Karmapa's 'Mahamudra Aspiration Prayer’. Lama Jampa also gave the reading transmission of 'Ladder of Enlightenment’, the songs of realisation of the Kagyu retreatant, Jamyang Tenphel. On the Sunday afternoon Lama Jampa completed the weekend with the initiation of Atisha's Green Tara.
Over the course of the following week, in the beautiful surrounds of Kagyu Ling Buddhist Centre, Lama Jampa bestowed practice instructions and lungs including the whole Kagyu Mahamudra ngondro commentary, entitled the Torch of Certainty, by Jamgon Kongtrul Lord Thaye and other yidam practices. He also gave personal instructions to many students who came for interviews.
On the 10th February Lama Jampa and Dechen Dolma were guests of honour at the Kagyu Ling gathering to celebrate the Tibetan New Year of the Wood Dragon. Recitation of the King of Aspiration and other prayers was followed with prayers for the long life of all the Lamas. Students offered Lama Jampa kataks to mark the auspicious occasion, and Lama Jampa gave Kagyu Ling a thangka of the 35 Buddhas, to encourage the confession of misdeeds at the end of the year and to strengthen our resolve to live moral lives.
Lama Jampa joined Kagyu Ling's community for the recitation of Tangtong Gyalpo's Chenrezig sadhana on Sunday morning, and closed his visit with a joyous recognition of the effort made to build the stupa, shipped from Nepal, in the centre's garden. Kagyu Ling look forward to the stupa being filled with sacred objects and consecrated by Lama Jampa later on in the Wood Dragon Year.