After years of prayer and aspiration, Gomde CA is excited to announce that H.E. Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche will be returning to our precious retreat land to teach on “The Four Dharmas of Gampopa” on July 27-29, 2012.  May we all rejoice in this good fortune and gather together for her auspicious presence and teachings.   Registration detail will be available soon.

When H.E. Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche was ten months old, she was recognized by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa as the reincarnation of the great Dakini of Tshurphu, Khandro Orgyen Tsomo, the consort of the 15th Karmapa. Khandro Orgyen Tsomo was known throughout Tibet as one of the most respected and revered female masters who spent most of her life in retreat and was known to all as Khandro Chenmo or the Great Dakini. Thus, Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, as a Jetsünma within the Mindrolling lineage and a Tulku within the Kagyu lineage holds both the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages.

Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche began receiving teachings and transmissions from a very young age from some of the most revered Tibetan masters of our age such as Kyabje Mindrolling Trichen, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Kyabje Trulshig Rinpoche, Kyabje Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, Kyabje Tulku Ugyen Rinpoche and Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche.

Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche has been teaching internationally for nearly two decades. Rinpoche has been teaching extensively in North America, Europe and Asia since 1992. In 1993 Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche established the Samten Tse Retreat Center in Mussoorie, India. Samten Tse is the result of Rinpoche’s vision of a place of study and retreat for both monastics and Western lay practitioners where students from the East and West can live together harmoniously in a spiritual community and practice in implementing the teachings of buddhadharma in daily life.