SAMADHI INCeNSE
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སྲིད་ན་དཀོན་པའི་རང་བྱུང་རྩི་ཤིང་གིས།Made from the essence of rare and precious natural plants, མཐོ་རིས་དགའ་བ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་བདུག་པའི་སྤྲིན།The clouds of frankincense please all upper realms of precious ones,
དམ་པ་དགྱེས་པའི་མཆོད་པ་རྨད་བྱུང་འདི།Unsurpassable offerings, delighting every supreme ones,
ཏིང་འཛིན་བདུག་སྤོས་བསྐྲུན་པའི་ཕྱག་རྗེས་ལགས།Thus resulting in the creation of the samadhi incense.
This is to express my joy of initiating a new website of Samadhi Incense.
Www.samadhiincense.com
Shangpa Rinpoche4 October 2023Kathmandu
དམ་པ་དགྱེས་པའི་མཆོད་པ་རྨད་བྱུང་འདི།Unsurpassable offerings, delighting every supreme ones,
ཏིང་འཛིན་བདུག་སྤོས་བསྐྲུན་པའི་ཕྱག་རྗེས་ལགས།Thus resulting in the creation of the samadhi incense.
This is to express my joy of initiating a new website of Samadhi Incense.
Www.samadhiincense.com
Shangpa Rinpoche4 October 2023Kathmandu
Welcome to the Samadhi Incense Store, where the Anis of Tharpa Choeling Nunnery are dedicated to handcrafting the best artisanal incense for generations to come. Read more
Location
Kagyu Institute of Buddhist Studies, Kirtipur, Nepal
Kagyu Institute of Buddhist Studies
Shangpa Rinpoche envisioned an institute for his Tharpa Choeling Nunnery nuns to receive education and for laypersons to receive dharma teachings. Thus, the development of the institute had begun.
The construction of Kagyu Institute of Buddhist Studies (KIBS) was completed in 2004. Its grand opening and consecration ceremony was held on 5 December 2004.
The 14th Kunzig Sharma Rinpoche had graced the occasion that marked a milestone in the propagation of Buddha Dharma in accordance to with the Karma Kagyu tradition. HE Trulshig Rinpoche most compassionately bestowed an initiation at the newly opened Kagyud Institute for Buddhist Studies and Retreat Centre on the 6 December 2004. In 2015 during the major earthquake in Nepal, parts of the buildings were affected. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no dharma courses for international students due to strict travel restrictions worldwide. It was also during this period that most of the senior nuns were away participating in the 4 years retreat in Ngedon Palbar Ling Retreat Centre, Sarangkot. Instead of the usual 3 years and 3 months retreat period, it was extended to about 4 years due to the pandemic. Anis exited from their retreat in March 2023. Rejoice! Shangpa Rinpoche has plans to renovate KIBS in 2024 so that the facilties can be improved and the dharma courses for lay persons may resume thereafter. Please continue to support us! Thank you so much.
The 14th Kunzig Sharma Rinpoche had graced the occasion that marked a milestone in the propagation of Buddha Dharma in accordance to with the Karma Kagyu tradition. HE Trulshig Rinpoche most compassionately bestowed an initiation at the newly opened Kagyud Institute for Buddhist Studies and Retreat Centre on the 6 December 2004. In 2015 during the major earthquake in Nepal, parts of the buildings were affected. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no dharma courses for international students due to strict travel restrictions worldwide. It was also during this period that most of the senior nuns were away participating in the 4 years retreat in Ngedon Palbar Ling Retreat Centre, Sarangkot. Instead of the usual 3 years and 3 months retreat period, it was extended to about 4 years due to the pandemic. Anis exited from their retreat in March 2023. Rejoice! Shangpa Rinpoche has plans to renovate KIBS in 2024 so that the facilties can be improved and the dharma courses for lay persons may resume thereafter. Please continue to support us! Thank you so much.
Kirtipur Monastery (now KIBS)
Kirtipur Monastery (where the Kagyu Institute of Buddhist Studies was later built) was a small and simple building on an open field, built by devotees of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje and offered to His Holiness when he first visited Nepal. 16th Karmapa had appointed lamas from Mendong Monastery (a small Karma Kagyu monastery in Tibet) to run the Kirtipur Monastery. Since then, many high lamas had completed their spiritual practices in the monastery. It has also been an important source of spiritual guidance, teachings, empowerments and inspiration to countless lay devotees.
The last resident lama of Kirtipur Monastery, Lama Kunkhyab Rinpoche earnestly requested Shangpa Rinpoche to take charge of the running of Kirtipur Monastery and its future development. Touched by his sincerity, Shangpa Rinpoche accepted this responsibility. Rinpoche felt that the Monastery possesses great potential to benefit more sentient beings but was restricted by lack of facilities and limited size. Shangpa Rinpoche's vision was to establish a Buddhist Institute in which both sangha and lay followers could engage in the pursuit of Buddhist Philosophy and meditation - an institute for higher learning in Buddhist Studies for all. Kirtipur Institute Of Buddhist Studies (KIBS) was established in year 2001 following this vision. It was completed in 2004.
19 April 2023 marked the 20th parinirvana anniversary of Lama Kunkhyab Rinpoche. Sangha from KIBS and Tharpa Choeling Nunnery together recited mainly Amitabha Ritual Prayers and Calling Guru From Afar prayers. We pray our spiritual masters live long and healthy, may their wishes be spontaneously fulfilled and may all sentient beings be happy and come into contact with the Buddha Dharma. By purifying defilements and accumulating merits, may all attain Buddhahood quickly.
The last resident lama of Kirtipur Monastery, Lama Kunkhyab Rinpoche earnestly requested Shangpa Rinpoche to take charge of the running of Kirtipur Monastery and its future development. Touched by his sincerity, Shangpa Rinpoche accepted this responsibility. Rinpoche felt that the Monastery possesses great potential to benefit more sentient beings but was restricted by lack of facilities and limited size. Shangpa Rinpoche's vision was to establish a Buddhist Institute in which both sangha and lay followers could engage in the pursuit of Buddhist Philosophy and meditation - an institute for higher learning in Buddhist Studies for all. Kirtipur Institute Of Buddhist Studies (KIBS) was established in year 2001 following this vision. It was completed in 2004.
19 April 2023 marked the 20th parinirvana anniversary of Lama Kunkhyab Rinpoche. Sangha from KIBS and Tharpa Choeling Nunnery together recited mainly Amitabha Ritual Prayers and Calling Guru From Afar prayers. We pray our spiritual masters live long and healthy, may their wishes be spontaneously fulfilled and may all sentient beings be happy and come into contact with the Buddha Dharma. By purifying defilements and accumulating merits, may all attain Buddhahood quickly.
Kumud Cafe
We opened a new cafe in September 2023 KIBS! Named Kumud Cafe, it means White Lotus Cafe.
During the belated birthday celebration of Shangpa Rinpoche on 23 September 2023 in KIBS, we served many cups of coffee, drinks and even ice-cream thanks to all guests, visitors and supporters.
Within Kumud Cafe is our humble little Samadhi Incense Store. Please refer to the catalog to see our products. Unfortunately, we are unable create an online e-commerce platform and to ship internationally. Afterall, we are practising nuns and not professional retailers. Our sincerest apologies. Nonetheless, please email, whatsapp or call us ahead in time before you travel to Nepal so that we may arrange for you to pick up the items. Thank you for your support.
We are not professional baristas so please bear with us. We will do our very best to serve you when you visit Kumud Cafe. Coffee is always a good idea at Kumud Cafe!
All proceeds of the cafe go to support Anis' daily living expenditure, operational expenses of our cafe, etc.
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New Arrival!
Sneak Peek at our latest product - High Quality Sur
- Sur offering is a Vajrayana Buddhist practice in which a mixture of flour, sweets and dairy products, is consecrated and placed in a fire or burned as incense. The resulting fragrant smoke is a complete offering to satisfy the five senses of all sentient beings. Thus, sur offering is a mixture of substances to satisfy sensual pleasures. Essentially, it is a smoke offering for all sentient beings, for the deceased especially during the first 49 days, for appeasing karmic debtors, sanctifying the environment before spiritual practices, etc.
- Our high quality and complete sur has additional precious or aromatic substances and which are prepared according to Buddhist traditions. Each package of our high quality sur contains a piece of mantra for liberation through contact. Burn this piece of mantra together with the sur so that the deceased can contact the mantra through the smoke and be liberated.
