Category: Student Blog

I describe my summer as healing.

If I had to describe my summer in one word, I would use the word “patience”. Having finished my first year at KIBI, I was a bit apprehensive about coming back home for summer, because I was afraid of losing my habit of Dharma practice. But I had to work, so I went to the…

K.I.B.I. students share their experience about studying here. Absolutely inspiring!  Movie by Maria Vautrin.

On the 10th of February 2016, I went to the National Blind School in Delhi with the KIBI team.

Wonderful picnic in Sanjay Van Forrest.

Fall Semester Exams-2015

KIBI celebrated Gandhi Jayanti with the cleaning KIBI cleaning India Program. Pictures by Maria Maisova

KIBI continues activity for Nepal. Yesterday, with the help of kind Swiss sponsors, we were able to buy 1000 tents and 1000 wool blankets. Special thanks to Lama Thabkhe for guiding us in old Delhi.

The monks, staff and students in KIBI conducted pujas and offered butter-lamps today in spiritual solidarity and solace with all the suffering multitudes throughout the Himalayan world in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the epicenter of which struck Nepal. As Nepal in particular, and other states of India to a lesser extent, undergoes the…

We’d like to share some pictures made during the first days of the course. Enjoy! 

Khenpo Karma Ngedön on the purpose of Dharma Studies.

Glimpses of our everyday life. 

H.H. the Gyalwa Karmapa fulfilled the earnest wishes of two delegations of European pilgrims from Poland and Germany today by granting them a group audience at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (KIBI).

H.E. Choje Togden Rinpoche, a revered lineage master of the Drikung Kagyu, graced the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (KIBI) with his presence, and had an auspicious audience with H.H. the Gyalwa Karmapa today.

Here are some impressions of the Losar day in KIBI.

3 Days annual Mahakala Puja was completed today. Thanks to all donors and participants!

Merry Christmas everyone! The KIBI Public Meditation Course 2014 began today. 174 participants from 23 different countries joined in! The course introduction was given by Khenpo Mirti followed by an explanation of what Sojong is by Ven Dupsing Rinpoche. The PMC participants were also fortunate to receive the oral transmission (lung) of the four preliminary…

Fall semester is over! The semester was quite difficult and very intense, especially for the first year students. They could not even find a free day for sightseeing, so they do not really know what Delhi looks like! However, the students can relax now until the beginning of January and reward themselves with a completion tea…

Today is Mahatma Gandi’s Birthday. This year Honorable Prime Minister Modi ji has encouraged the public to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi’s wish for an environmentally clean India. Instead of celebrating a simple holiday everyone should engage to cleaning activities. So all KIBI residential members, including teachers, students and guests, participated in this noble social activity by cleaning KIBI’s…

The precious Lama Teunsang visited KIBI on 20 Sep 2014 and gave us teachings on The Four Dharmas of Gampopa. He is an incredibly powerful master who was sent to France in 1976 by His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa to establish the great Montchardon centre. He literally built it with his own hands. The…

H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa and a group of devotees offered 1000 lamps at KIBI this evening, on the last day of 2014, with noble aspiration prayers for the welfare of all sentient beings in 2015 and especially for the swift return of Shamarpa. H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa also gave his New Year greetings to all KIBI meditation…

On the evening of 31st October 2013, H.E. Beru Khyentse Rinpoche paid a visit to KIBI and upon the request of the students, he kindly agreed to give the oral transmissions of the Manjushri Namasamgiti and Guru Yoga of the 16th Karmapa. Before giving the oral transmission, Rinpoche mentioned that although he had visited KIBI…

We have had a lucky week in KIBI, as students and guests were able to join in activities led by HH the Gyalwa Karmapa twice this week. His Holiness led a catch and release puja which was followed by a wonderful lunch with the students and guests last weekend. Last night the KIBI students were…