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	H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche's Asia trip, winter 2013 Events in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong Taipei: Meditation class, talk over tea, lecture on Buddhism, White Jambhala empowerment - see event calendar for November, 2013 (information in Chinese) Singapore: Taming the Drunken Elephant Meditation Workshop - see event calendar for December, 2013 Hong Kong: Nagar Vase blessing, Vajra Ushnisha Sitatapatra empowerment, teaching: Dharma in Our Daily Life - see event calendar for December, 2013 (information in Chinese) Amitayu Empowerment and Talk <>with Venerable Khenchen Trinley Paljor Rinpoche October 6, 2013 Maplewood, NJ, U.S.A. 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 Discovering the Dharma retreat 2013 with H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche Garrison Institute, New York 6/22 - 27, 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

H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche's Asia trip, winter 2013
Events in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong

Taipei: Meditation class, talk over tea, lecture on Buddhism, White Jambhala empowerment - see event calendar for November, 2013 (information in Chinese)

Singapore: Taming the Drunken Elephant Meditation Workshop - see event calendar for December, 2013

Hong Kong: Nagar Vase blessing, Vajra Ushnisha Sitatapatra empowerment, teaching: Dharma in Our Daily Life - see event calendar for December, 2013 (information in Chinese)

Amitayu Empowerment and Talk
<>with Venerable Khenchen Trinley Paljor Rinpoche
October 6, 2013
Maplewood, NJ, U.S.A.

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

Discovering the Dharma retreat 2013
with H.E. Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche
Garrison Institute, New York
6/22 - 27, 2013