United Trungram Buddhist Fellowship

From my perspective, Buddhism is not a religion that demands blind faith in dogmatic beliefs. Neither is it a philosophy that traps us in an idealized world, nor a cultural phenomenon that stubbornly clings to old traditions. Buddhism in fact is a systematic methodology of practices through which we free others and ourselves from suffering and attain real happiness.

True happiness is achieved through the direct understanding of the way things are, through compassionately working for the ultimate happiness of others and through confidently developing our previously dormant capacity for enlightenment.

All of this is based on the understanding of selflessness, which is the foundation of Buddhism. - Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche


Milarepa Center - The first part of the Mahamudra Hermitage Project. The center will be dedicated to training in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. With short-term retreats for individuals and groups, and traditional longer-term retreats for dedicated practitioners, it will be a place for the transmission of ancient Buddhist teachings in ways that are responsive to a 21st Century way of life. Ground breaking ceremony of the new main temple of Trungram Monastery: May 18, 2012 Lumbini Udyana Mahachaitya: Open since April, 2011	Rinpoche's Asia tour - Taiwan: Dec. 27, 2014, Taichpei: Teaching: The Power of Compassion Thousand-arm Avalokiteshvara Empowerment (For details, click from event calendar for December, 2014) Dec. 28 - 29, 2014, Taipei: Teaching: Training and Practice in Buddhism (For details, click from event calendar for December, 2014) Jan. 10, 2015, Taichung: Teaching: Theory and Practice of Buddhism (For details, click from event calendar for January, 2015) Jan. 11, 2015, Kinmen: Teaching on Amitabha Practice (For details, click from event calendar for January, 2015) - Hong Kong: Dec. 13, 2014: Puja with Milarepa Practice, Teachings and Milarepa Empowerment Dec. 14, 2014: Teaching: Dharma in Our Daily Life (II) Green Tara Empowerment and Teaching with H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche Dharmakaya Retreat Center Cochecton, New York Aug. 16, 2014 Discovering the Dharma retreat 2014 with H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche Garrison Institute, New York Sep. 18 - 24, 2014 Spaces limited, registration open. See more details on the Dharmakaya website. Milarepa Center Groundbreaking Ceremony with H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche, Ven. Khenchen Rinpoche, distinguished guests, followers and friends (view video on page) Cragsmoor, NY Thursday, July 18th, 2013

Milarepa Center
- The first part of the Mahamudra Hermitage Project. The center will be dedicated to training in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. With short-term retreats for individuals and groups, and traditional longer-term retreats for dedicated practitioners, it will be a place for the transmission of ancient Buddhist teachings in ways that are responsive to a 21st Century way of life.

Ground breaking ceremony of the new main temple of Trungram Monastery: May 18, 2012

Lumbini Udyana Mahachaitya Model
Lumbini Udyana Mahachaitya: Open since April, 2011

Rinpoche's Asia tour

- Taiwan:

Dec. 27, 2014, Taichpei:
Teaching: The Power of Compassion
Thousand-arm Avalokiteshvara Empowerment
(For details, click from event calendar for December, 2014)

Dec. 28 - 29, 2014, Taipei:
Teaching: Training and Practice in Buddhism
(For details, click from event calendar for December, 2014)

Jan. 10, 2015, Taichung:
Teaching: Theory and Practice of Buddhism
(For details, click from event calendar for January, 2015)

Jan. 11, 2015, Kinmen:
Teaching on Amitabha Practice
(For details, click from event calendar for January, 2015)

- Hong Kong:

Dec. 13, 2014:
Puja with Milarepa Practice, Teachings and Milarepa Empowerment

Dec. 14, 2014:
Teaching: Dharma in Our Daily Life (II)

Green Tara Empowerment and Teaching
with H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche

Dharmakaya Retreat Center
Cochecton, New York
Aug. 16, 2014

Discovering the Dharma retreat 2014
with H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche
Garrison Institute, New York
Sep. 18 - 24, 2014

Spaces limited, registration open. See more details on the Dharmakaya website.

Milarepa Center Groundbreaking Ceremony
with H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche, Ven. Khenchen Rinpoche, distinguished guests, followers and friends (view video on page)
Cragsmoor, NY
Thursday, July 18th, 2013