In early February 2022, Sakya Dechen Ling Stuttgart was delighted to host Lama Jampa Thaye for a series of teachings spanning three days.

From Thursday 13 until Sunday 23 January, Lama Jampa was in Los Angeles to give teachings at the Dechen Sakya Centre in Santa Monica. The sangha were particularly joyful as the visit was a long awaited one.

Lama Jampa visited Manchester on the weekend of the 3rd-5th December, during which he continued to bestow teachings on Gampopa’s magnus opus, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, to over 100 people in a city centre venue.

Last weekend Lama Jampa was able to return to Prague Bodhi Path to teach the final section of the Rays of the Stainless Vajra Moon by the Master Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye.

Due to Covid 19 restrictions and his delicate health, Karma Thinley Rinpoche was not able to visit Lama Jampa in London en route to Nepal this year in August. As soon as it was possible and manageable, Lama Jampa and Dechen Drolma travelled to Nepal to visit Rinpoche. For his advanced age Rinpoche is in good health, and very happy to have been able return to Nepal from Canada.

Last weekend Lama Jampa gave a full day of teachings from the Sakya tradition at Fulham Palace in London. The former residence of the Bishop from the 11th until the 20th century, its beautiful grounds formed an historic backdrop to the event.

On Friday 22nd October Lama Jampa was invited to HOME in Manchester to celebrate the publication this year of the new edition of River of Memory: Dharma Chronicles.

A personal account by one of Lama Jampa’s students, of the book launch held in Bristol UK in October 2021 where Lama Jampa read from his new book: River of Memory: Dharma Chronicles.

On Saturday 2 October over 120 people journeyed through the autumn rain to enjoy a day of teachings with Buddhist meditation master and scholar, Lama Jampa Thaye at The Future Inn, Bristol.

Despite all the current travel restrictions, Lama Jampa was somehow able to undertake a ten day tour of Dechen and Bodhi Path centres in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It was a wonderful occasion for all the students who had long anticipated Lama-la’s arrival.

On Saturday, September 11th, 2021, Lama Jampa Thaye made his Autumn visit to Yorkshire to transmit the final chapters of The Jewel Rosary of the Supreme Path, composed by Lord Gampopa (1074-1153).

From July until the end of August Lama Jampa was in residence in the Périgord noir region of France. During this time gave teachings and engaged in countless other dharma activities, including the bestowal of vajrayana initiations and visits to a number of Buddhist centres in the area.

Lama Jampa Thaye received a warm welcome when he visited the north west on 10 and 11 July to give his first teaching in the region since February 2020. This shedra teaching - the sixth instalment of ‘The Jewel Ornament of Liberation’ by Gampopa - was long-awaited and very much appreciated by around 150 students who gathered at the Bolton Whites Hotel.

On Saturday 3 July Lama Jampa was able to give his first public teaching of 2021 . The event took place at Ashton Gate stadium in Bristol, England and around 100 people came together from all corners of the UK to attend.

Lama Jampa's planned teachings for the Bodhi Path centres in Valencia and Prague this month were cancelled. These, as well as the requested teachings at Khyenkong centre in Warsaw, will be rescheduled at the earliest opportunity.

On Saturday 24 October Lama Jampa Thaye gave a day of rare and precious dharma teachings at Fulham Palace, London.

I would like to express my great appreciation of the manner in which our centres, groups and individual students have maintained our activities during these past several months.

On Saturday 3 October, the Sakya Buddhist Centre was delighted to welcome Lama Jampa to give a day of Buddhist teachings at the Paintworks Eventspace in Bristol.

At the end of September Lama Lampa Thaye traveled to Germany and visited the Bodhipath centre Renchen-Ulm as well as Sakya Dechen Ling in Stuttgart.

In the words of that well known Joni Mitchell song* “you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone”, the last few months have given us pause for thought if we imagined that the Lama’s packed programme of teachings up and down this country and beyond was invulnerable to change and circumstance.