Welcome to Lam Rim Buddhist Centre

Lam Rim Buddhist Centre is a registered charity no 326675 and is the founding centre for all of the group of Lam Rim Buddhist Centres

We are a retreat centre located in the beautiful countryside on the Welsh/English borders in Monmouthshire.

We embrace Buddhist principles and values, while providing quality facilities, enabling people to experience more fulfilling ways of living within a peaceful and harmonious environment. Lam Rim Buddhist Centre is open to anybody who is interested in visiting.

Click here to view a slide show of Lam Rim

We have just been fortunate enough to receive a visit from our patron - Rizong Rinpoche - who gave us teachings during his stay.

Click here for photos of Rizong Rinpoche's visit

We now have some recordings of the teachings Rizong Rinpoche gave for download on the site, click here to see download page

Click here for our SPRING/SUMMER 2008 Programme.

Our Patron - Kyabje Rizong Rinpoche - see biography under Patrons

His Eminence Rizong Rinpoche

The Venerable Rizong Rinpoche, born in Nodrok (Ladakh) in 1928, was recognised at the age of one by the 13th Dalai Lama as the Tulku (reincarnation) of the previous Rizong Rinpoche. Until the age of eighteen, Rinpoche studied in Rizong Monastery. He went to Tashi Lhunpo for a year before joining Drepung Loseling Monastery (Lhasa) in the mid 1940s where he studied with Trizur Lhundup Tsondra. He completed his geshe degree in Drepung and his tantric studies in Gyume Tantric College. He left Tibet in 1959 after the Chinese take-over. Rinpoche served for three years as Abbot of Gyume Tantric College and for six years as the Abbot of Drepung Loseling.

Rinpoche is one of the most highly respected lamas in the world today. He currently holds the post of Jangtsey Chojey Rinpoche. This is one of the three highest posts in the Gelupa tradition representing Gyeltsap-Je, one of the two spiritual sons of Je Tsong Khapa - the founder of the Gelupa tradition.

Rinpoche has lived a life of simplicity and meditation since his youth. In the summer of 1995 he completed his third three year retreat, this time in a cave in Ladakh, so remote that it is snowed in for six months a year.

The Lam Rim Centres are honoured to host a third visit by Rinpoche. Rinpoche visited us in May 1990 and August 1997.

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MOST OF THE PICTURES ON THIS WEBSITE HAVE BEEN TAKEN ON LOCATION AT LAM RIM BUDDHIST CENTRE.