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Building of the drubkhang - a three-year retreat centre
"Benchen Drubde Osal Ling Poland" |
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  The Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism is also known as drub gyu, or The Practice Lineage, because the school places great importance on intensive meditative practice - for many centuries there has been a tradition of three year meditative retreats. In the early days, individual practitioners meditated in mountain caves or similarly isolated retreats. Later on there was established the custom of small groups of practitioners performing retreats together, learning the same, most crucial practices of the Kagyu tradition at the same time. Such a system has been working until now and it allows monasteries to educate people in the basic Kagyu practices and to keep the transmission of the teachings of this tradition unbroken, thereby enabling them to help others as Dharma teachers.
Special three-year retreat centres are called drubkhangs, and people who have completed a three-year retreat are entitled lamas. read more
In August 2005, during the Kalachakra initiation in Grabnik, Venerable Tenga Rinpoche officially announced that the first western three-year retreat centre under the auspices of the Rinpoches would be located here. To mark the connection between Grabnik drubkhang and the retreat centre of the Benchen monastery in Nepal, named Benchen Drubde Osal Ling, our centre will be called "Benchen Drubde Osal Ling Poland". Rinpoche stressed that the place should be beneficial to practitioners from all over Europe. read more |
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| Donation for the three-year retreat's building |
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