MEDICINE BUDDHA SUTRA
February 2019
This past summer student and translator Annie Bien requested Reverend Khyongla Rato Rinpoche to teach the The Medicine Buddha Sutra. Rinpoche then asked Annie to translate the sutra, which he then used for the lecture.
We are posting Annie’s translation entitled, “The Mahayana Sutra known as ‘The Distinctly Vast Previous Prayers of the the Arya Bhagavad Medicine Guru Vaiduryaprabha,” or Medicine Buddha Sutra for short. We thank Annie for all her hard work. Click on link below for PDF.
Despite having no prior acting experience, Khyongla Rato was asked to portray a monk in the 1993 film Little Buddha, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, who "wanted the real thing." Rinpoche consulted the Dalai Lama, who told him he should go ahead and do this, so he ended up playing the role of the Abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Bhutan. Rinpoche also has considerable screen time in the 2014 documentary Monk with a Camera, because he is the "root guru" of Venerable Nicholas Vreeland, the subject of that film.
Khyongla Rato Rinpoche on Santideva's Compendium of Training and Confession Text
Taught at The Tibet Center NYC August 14, 2017
Venerable Khyongla Rato Rinpoche on The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva Pt 1
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012 AT 1:12PM
Venerable Khyongla Rato Rinpoche on The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva composed by Gyalse Ngulchu Thogme recorded October 18, 2011 at The Tibet Center
August Teachings
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 AT 10:17AM
We were very fortunate to receive many teachings in August from Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and Venerable Nicholas Vreeland.
Photos by Jane L. Wechsler
Geshe Vreeland on Guide to Bodhisattva Way of Life, Chap IV, pt 3
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2011 AT 1:31PM
Ven Geshe Vreeland gives a talk on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Chap IV Conscientiousness, Pt 3, from May 2009.
June Teachings
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011 AT 1:00PM
June was chock full of teachings at The Tibet Center. The Venerable Khyongla Rato Rinpoche gave three lectures on the Three Principal Aspects of the Path with Ven. Nicholas Vreeland translating, and on June 28 visiting lecturer Jigme Neal taught on Tong Len.
hoto: Jane L. Wechsler