CLASS CANCELLATION NOTICE
Due to the extreme weather warnings, the Class for tomorrow 28th December will be cancelled. We apologize for the short notice.
Introduction to Meditation
Rinpoche gave a lecture titled “Introduction to Meditation” on 7th Dec 2025. The talk covered the theory and purpose of meditation, as well as practical instructions on how to meditate, followed by a guided session. If you missed it and are interested, here is the link to the YouTube clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTED7neQwag&t=3343s
Some images from DMOD’s first official program — the White Tara Long-Life Initiation (30th Nov 2025).
Some photos from the session on “The Role of Mind in Tibetan Buddhism: Protecting Your Mental Health” — part of the Intergenerational Cultural Education Among Tibetans talk series. This special collaborative program is organized by the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota (TAFM) in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality & Healing.
མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་མཛོད་འཛིན་རྒྱུད་སྟོད་མཁན་ཟུར་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་བྱ་དོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ས་གནས་མི་ནི་སོ་ཊར་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར་དང་བཀའ་ཆོས་གསལ་བསྒྲགས།
༄།། །གྲུ་དགོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དགའ་ཚལ་ནས་ཇི་ལྟར་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པ་བཞིན་རྣམ་གྲྭ་མཁན་ཟུར་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་བྱ་དོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནས་ས་གནས་མི་སོ་ཊར་བློ་སྦྱོང་དོན་བདུན་མའི་བཀའ་ཁྲིད་དང་འཇིགས་བྱེད་དཔའ་བོ་གཅིག་པའི་བཀའ་དབང་བཅས་གནང་རྒྱུའི་ཞལ་བཞེས་བཀྲིན་ཆེ་བས་མཛད་རིམ་གཤམ་གསལ་ལྟར་ཡིན་པས་དོན་གཉེར་ཅན་རྣམས་ནས་གཤམ་གསལ་དུས་ཚིག་རེའུ་མིག་ལ་ཐུགས་སྣང་ཡོང་བ་དང་།འཇིགས་བྱེད་དཔའ་གཅིག་གི་བཀའ་དབང་ཞུ་བར་འདོད་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཉིན་རེར་ཐུན་དྲུག་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱས་བསྡུས་གང་རུང་དང་། དཔའ་གཅིག་བདག་བསྐྱེད་རྒྱས་བསྡུས་གང་རུང་ཉིན་རེར་ཆག་མེད་གསུང་དགོས་ཁས་ལེན་དགོས་པས་དེ་དོན་དགོངས་པར་མངའ་བ་མཁྱེན།
Former Gyuto abbot HE Jhado Rinpoche to visit Minnesota in Jan 2026 and his teaching schedule.
DMOD is pleased to announce that upon its request made to HE Jhado Rinpoche former Abbot of Namgyal Monastery and Gyuto Monastery, Rinpoche has graciously accepted DMOD’s request for the following program:
DMOD Opening Day 19th September 2025
DMOD’s Opening Day began with an assembly of 15 Sangha reciting prayers at the Gompa’s main door as per tradition. Devotees, well wishers and neighbours lined the street below to witness this inaugural ritual. This was followed by the Consecration Puja in the Gompa before the main Buddha altar that was adorned with a vast array of offerings. The floors of the Gompa reverberated with the deep chanting tones of the monks, accompanied by the devotees which had grown to more than 150 people. Upon the conclusion of the Puja, offerings were made to HH Dalai Lama’s throne and the Sangha. Drupa Rinpoche, founder of DMOD then gave a welcome-cum-thanksgiving speech in Tibetan and in English. Everyone was invited to offer khata (white scarf) to His Holiness’ throne. The morning’s event culminated in an extensive buffet of Tibetan and Asian dishes, to the delight of all who attended. May the Buddhadharma flourish for the benefit of all living beings!
You can watch the day’s event using this link: https://youtu.be/Or9LdUZpn38?si=WP-bzEWfGVDwQFBc
ANNOUNCEMENT - Class Schedule For NOV 2025 - May 2026
Greetings from Drupa Monastery Oasis of Dharma! We are pleased to announce our Dharma program that will take place from November 2025 through to May 2026.
White Tara Long Life Empowerment: 30th Nov 2025
A group of Dharma students sincerely requested Drupa Rinpoche to inaugurate DMOD's activities by bestowing a Long-Life Empowerment for the well-being of all and the flourishing of the Buddhadharma. For reasons of auspiciousness, Rinpoche graciously accepted the request and will confer the White Tara Long Life Empowerment on 30th Nov 2025 from 10am at the DMOD premises. It is advised to follow a strict vegetarian diet on that morning.
Meditation sessions & Classes - Khacholing Center Dharma classes (in English language and Tibetan language): Alternate Sundays at DMOD
Meditation: Rinpoche will lead 20-minute meditation sessions before each class.There will be a short break after each meditation session. Participants are welcome to remain to join in the follow-on Dharma classes or are free to leave thereafter.
Classes: For the benefit of new attendees, here is a brief summary of the text that is being discussed in the English language classes: Bodhicaryavatara or Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life by Shantideva.
Ancient wisdom yet relevant to contemporary life, Shantideva’s verses challenge our outlook and responses to everyday life situations through reasoning and logic. The text extols the value of developing bodhicitta (altruism) through cultivating mindfulness, introspection and engaging in the 6 Perfections of generosity, morality, patience, joyful effort, concentration and wisdom. This semester discusses the Perfection of Concentration. In the Tibetan language Dharma classes, the text that is being discussed is Six Preparatory Practices and second chapter of Bodhicaryavatara. The combined (Eng/Tibetan) class schedule is set out below.
Main Highlights of the program for this semester
Visit by His Eminence Jadho Rinpoche: Teachings on “Seven Point Mind
Training” and the conferment of the Solitary Yamantaka Empowerment (in
Tibetan with English translation): Friday 9th Jan 2026 from 4:30pm at DMOD, 315 Morton St W, Saint Paul MN 55107.
Teachings: HE Jadho Rinpoche is a renowned Buddhist scholar and vajra master
who was the former abbot of Namgyal Monastery as well as Gyuto monastery, Dharamsala, India. The teachings will be on the mind training text titled “Seven Point Mind Training” that sets out the basis and methods of mind training in one’s spiritual journey for the ultimate benefit of all beings.
Empowerment: The Solitary Yamantaka Empowerment is of the Highest Yoga
Tantra category that requires the participant to undertake vows and lifetime prayer commitments. The commitments involved in taking the Yamantaka initiation are lifelong practices of:
⁃ Daily recitation of the Six Session (short or long) Guruyoga prayer
⁃ Daily recitation of the short or long sadhana of Yamantaka.
Participants need to undertake these practice commitments after receiving the initiation. This Initiation also involves taking bodhisattva vows and tantric vows. Access to pdf copies of the Six Session Guruyoga & the Yamantaka Sadhana will be given to participants after the initiation.
Some images from Gaden Ngachoe (Lama Tsongkhapa Day) special puja
Dear all,
There have been a few changes to the class schedule. Please see the amended schedule for November 2025 – May 2026 under the Program section. Thank you.
Remodelling works at 315 Morton St W are ongoing. Watch this page for developments!
