About
Gen Rinpoche Venerable Losang Namgyel La
Gen Rinpoche Venerable Losang Namgyel La is a senior Western monk who left his home in Australia when young to live in India and Nepal for Buddhist study. Gen Rinpoche La has been teaching Buddhism internationally for 40 years. For most of those years Gen Rinpoche La travelled extensively to teach in many countries around the globe.
Since 2020, Gen Rinpoche La has developed this online presence where students old and new can receive teachings, attend retreats, follow guided meditations, access many recordings from past years.
Gen Rinpoche Namgyel La has extensive knowledge of the Stages on the Path to Enlightenment (Tibetan: Lam Rim), which is a Tibetan Buddhist text presenting all the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha in a sequence that leads us to the understanding and realisations of the Buddhist path.
Gen Rinpoche Venerable Losang Namgyel La is the reincarnation of the accomplished Chö master Dorje Namgyel. This was told to him numerous times including by Tamding Rinpoche and Tashi Rinpoche when they stayed with Gen Rinpoche La in India in 1990-91, and by several oracles including the Nepal mirror reader in 1989.
What is the uniqueness of the teachings of Gen Rinpoche Venerable Losang Namgyel La?
Gen Rinpoche Namgyel La combines authentic teachings with western psychology. Gen Rinpoche La's humour and laugh is said by many people to make them feel happy and blessed.
Shares the belief in a non-sectarian approach to offer Dharma education in an authentic and 21st century way.
Provides practical advice for individual spiritual growth and healing.
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Explains difficult concepts in an easy way that everyone could easily understand and immediately apply in their daily life.
Gen Rinpoche Namgyel La has completed several long retreats and many many group retreats—Lam Rim and various Tantric—and studied under a great number of esteemed Lamas, including:
Gyalwa Rinpoche
Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche
Gen Lamrimpa
Geshe Sonam Rinchen
Geshe Dawa (LTWA)
Lati Rinpoche
Tara Tulku
Choeding Rinpoche
"These are some of the incredible Gurus who were very kind and compassionate in giving me initiations, vows and teachings.” - Gen Rinpoche Namgyel La
On the 29th of November 2022, the reincarnation of Choeding Rinpoche officially entered the monastery in Nepal where he will now reside. V.N.O.S. supports Rinpoche with offerings throughout the year and especially on his birthday, the 21st of December.
Rejoice! And enjoy these 18 video clips from the special entering ceremony:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsgIDlUE37EzxdLXogvsN4R5KDfjL0kAm
The Shang Ganden Choekhorling Monastery in Pokhara
The original Shang Gaden Choekhorling Monastery was established in 1642 in Tibet, and rebuilt in Pokhara, Nepal in the 1970s preserving all of the special original traditions:
• Annual special three-day fire puja for 3 deities.
• 15-day Mani Retreat in springtime.
• Annual recitation of the whole Kangyur.
• Annual special Tara puja with 100,000 Praises to the 21 Taras.
• Besides the tantric practises as done in all Gelukpa monasteries, unique to this monastery is the practise of Vairochana. Besides an annual three-day retreat, it is done by request.
• Annual six week rain retreat that includes a five-day Medicine Buddha puja and three days chanting Chöchö.
Initially, the great Lama Choeding Rinpoche—the reincarnation of the great Kadampa practitioner Geshe Ben Kungyel—was the abbot of the monastery. After passing away, in time his reincarnation was found and His Eminence Khedup Rinpoche is now studying for a geshe degree in Sera Monastery, India.
However, the monastery does not own the land or the building, and there are ongoing fundraising efforts in this regard. In the past a small piece of land was given to the monastery, about 5 minutes walk away. With the help of sponsors including Gen Rinpoche Namgyel La, there is now a school building on that site which also serves as a guesthouse occasionally.
Gen Rinpoche Namgyel La believes that spiritual practice should not be bound by labels of religion or tradition. Instead we should respect and appreciate our different approaches while adhering to our true lineage teachings, reaching back to Shakyamuni Buddha.
We welcome sincere practitioners of the Dharma to join us, for the benefit of all sentient beings.