Rinpoche’s Story

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Since this is a text-generation task rather than a…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 92-minute biographical interview, Khensur Rinpoche describes his…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 93-minute interview at Buddha House, Khensur Rinpoche…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 96-minute oral history, Khensur Rinpoche traces his…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Here is the draft paragraph: In this 93-minute session,…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The moment a nineteen-year-old monk left his village for…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The annual blessing at Sera Je — where the…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The question of why monks at Sera never ate…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ten thousand monks packed across the Jokhang's courtyards, rooftops,…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 63-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche recounts life as…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 94-minute session recorded in December 1988, Khensur…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A yard-long log thrown hard onto stone paving signals…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 93-minute biographical session, Khensur Rinpoche recounts his…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. When tigers roared near the caves where Khensur Rinpoche…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 92-minute oral history, Khensur Rinpoche recounts his…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Looking at old photographs, Khensur Rinpoche recounts his monastic…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Looking at old photographs during this 88-minute biographical interview…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 55-minute session at Buddha House, Khensur Rinpoche…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. At five years old, Khensur Rinpoche was already being…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Recorded as part of an ongoing oral history project,…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Enormous white rock formations visible for miles — called…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 58-minute session at Buddha House, Khensur Rinpoche…

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Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 63-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche recounts his own…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Selected as Abbot of Sera Je monastery through the…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Young Tibetans crossing mountain passes at night — some…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 69-minute biographical interview, Khensur Rinpoche recounts how…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Khensur Rinpoche works through page-by-page corrections to a written…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The most vivid passage in this 92-minute session is…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 92-minute oral history, Khensur Rinpoche recounts his…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A dzo bolting into a river — saddle spinning…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Monks walking through knee-deep snow with torn shoes and…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. An accidental gunshot that alerted two hundred monks to…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A small child urinates on a ritual warning fire,…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Working through the manuscript of Khensur Rinpoche's autobiography, this…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 70-minute biographical interview, Khensur Rinpoche — recorded…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 62-minute conversation, Khensur Rinpoche works through notes…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Starting with the Losar custom of throwing tsampa as…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 62-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche opens with the…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 47-minute behind-the-scenes session from December 1988, Khensur…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Khensur Rinpoche's missed bell, misplaced clap, and bruised knees…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Remembered for his shining bald head and for beatings…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A candid debate over physical punishment in Tibetan monasteries…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 93-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche recalls the upheavals…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 52-minute Q&A, Khensur Rinpoche recalls monastic life…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Rather than a formal teaching, this 62-minute session at…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Short of food and near despair at Sera Monastery,…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 88-minute archival session, Khensur Rinpoche maps the…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ordained on the same auspicious day the Buddha gave…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A researcher's questions about monastery structure draw out detailed…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The session opens mid-ritual — Khensur Rinpoche and an…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The near-mythical Kangyur lung — an oral transmission of…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The image of Longdol Lama patrolling a yearlong Kangyur…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 31-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche describes firsthand a…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Working on a book about his own life rather…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 80-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche joins his assistants…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 75-minute working session, Khensur Rinpoche helps compile…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 90-minute session at Buddha House, Khensur Rinpoche…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 62-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche narrates and clarifies…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Correcting spellings and reorganising passages in real time, Khensur…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 56-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche narrates the rebuilding…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Working through the manuscript of his own life story,…

Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 24-minute session — likely the final installment…