As we prepare to honour and celebrate the life of our precious teacher, Kyabje Chime Rinpoche, later this year, we would be deeply grateful for your help.

We invite you to share your memories of Rinpoche by sending us an article, a personal reflection, a tribute, or a short recollection. Your contributions may be included in materials prepared for the memorial event in September, as well as in future Marpa House newsletters, on our website, or in other publications produced over the coming months.

While we may not be able to include every submission, we hope to share as many as possible in one form or another. We offer our heartfelt thanks to everyone who takes the time to contribute.

Rinpoche’s legacy and profound influence will continue for many lifetimes to come. By sharing our memories and reflections, we can help preserve this precious legacy for future generations and also express our immeasurable gratitude for all that he has given us.

We’d be so grateful for anything you’re happy to share. Please send any materials to trustees@marpahouse.org.uk anytime between now and 31st August

with love

The Trustees of The Dharma Trust, Marpa House.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dearest friends,

As we come to terms with the profound loss of our precious teacher’s physical presence, and its impact on us both individually and as a sangha, we are very aware that all of Rinpoche’s students will want to ensure that the long-term spiritual support of Marpa House remains secure, and that Chime Rinpoche’s guidance and wishes in this matter are faithfully followed.

What Rinpoche created here is truly unique. It is the continuity of his unique vision, his love and care for us all, his rich legacy of teachings, his joy, warmth, and skill in presenting the Dharma, and the beautiful way he guided us over so many years that we are deeply committed to preserving.

Therefore, we are delighted to share with you and offer reassurance that, in accordance with Rinpoche’s wishes and our subsequent heartfelt request to Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, he has very kindly agreed to provide ongoing spiritual guidance for Marpa House. He will help us preserve and sustain Rinpoche’s vision and legacy into the future. We are deeply grateful for this extraordinary support and assistance.

Additionally, in accordance with Chime Rinpoche’s wishes, Lama Kunga Dorje will also support us with spiritual matters. We are profoundly honoured and sincerely grateful to them both for their support.

Of course, other esteemed teachers such as Tulku Pasang Rinpoche, Traleg Khandro, Khenpo Gyurme, Khenpo Tseten, and Venerable Sean Price will continue to visit and share teachings. We also have the reassurance of Lama Alasdair, Lama Klaus, and John Howard, and of Rinpoche’s White Sangha.

Crucially, we also have each other. Between us all, it is our inspiration, our love, our devotion and our continual efforts to practice and embody Rinpoche’s teachings in everyday life that will ensure Rinpoche’s enlightened efforts in bringing the authentic teachings of the Vajrayana here to the West flourish fully.

Marpa House will be open again for personal retreats and overnight guests from 21st May. Our programme here at the House until April 2027 continues to focus on retreats and contemplative practice, as is traditional following a great teacher’s Parinirvana. Next year, we will launch an ongoing programme of teachings and practice based on an outline Rinpoche gave us not long before his Parinirvana. We are also working hard to share the rich archive of teachings that Rinpoche gave us at Marpa House in an easily accessible format for you all.

We hope that this is reassuring. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any queries.

We very much look forward to seeing you all again soon, and to being together for Rinpoche’s memorial event in September, if not before.

With love,

The Trustees of The Dharma Trust, Marpa House.