2025 Programs, Events & Activities
Moments from the Birthday Celebration of His Eminence Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche
December 25
All Barom Kagyu Dharma Centres in California, as well as in Sydney, Vietnam, Malaysia, and other places, celebrated the birthday of H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche.
On the occasion of Rinpoche’s birthday celebration, students made offerings through the Twelve Deeds prayers and the Sixteen Arhats puja, along with long-life prayers for Rinpoche’s longevity, great health, and that his noble wishes be spontaneously accomplished.
May all his Dharma activities spread in all ten directions, benefiting all beings without obstacles, establishing auspicious connections through these positive circumstances.
H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche Dharma Events | November–December 2025 | USA
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White Tara Retreat
Date
December 22–23, 2025
Location
3267 Knightwood Way
San Jose, CA 95148Main Benefits
Healing, protection, purification, and long life
Removal of obstacles and dangers
Compassion, wisdom, and inner peace
Fulfillment of wishes
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Celebrating the Birthday of His Eminence Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche
Saturday, December 20, 2025
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Twelve Deeds and Sixteen Arhats Prayer3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Mandala Offering3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Vietnamese students will present birthday wishes and videos from Barom Kagyu centers via Zoom5:00 PM
Birthday Celebration Dinner
at Dynasty Cuisine
1001 Story Rd, San Jose, CA 95122 -
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White Zhambhala Practice and Empowerment
Ceremony Details:
• Date: November 29, 2025
• Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Location: 2769 Glauser Dr, San Jose, CA 95133
• Contact: Ms. Nga – (408) 857-1999
Nyungne Retreat Led by H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche and Lama Wangchuk Concludes at the Saigon Dharma Centre – Oct 2025
In accordance with the requests of students from the Barom Kagyu Dharma Center in Hanoi, and students in Malaysia, Rinpoche traveled there and gave precious dharma teachings and led retreats.
Last week, one set of Nyungne retreat led by H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche and Lama Wangchuk concluded on Monday at the Saigon Dharma Centre.
All students were joyful, enthusiastic, and deeply inspired to continue their Nyungne practice.
May this merit bring wisdom and relaxation to all sentient beings, becoming the cause for establishing them in the glory of everlasting peace and happiness.
མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་༧བསོད་ནམས་བསྟན་འཛིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཟླ་ཤས་ཡུན་གྱི་ཨོ་གླིང་འབའ་རོམ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆོས་ཚོགས་སུ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཛད་སྒོ་རྣམས་ལེགས་པར་གྲུབ་ཅིང་། ཝེད་ནམ་ནུབ་ཕྱོགས་ཧ་ནོ་ཡིས་འབའ་རོམ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་སློབ་མ་རྣམས་དང་མ་ལེ་ཞི་ཡའི་འབའ་རོམ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་སློབ་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཇི་ལྟར་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཞུས་པ་བཞིན་དེར་ཕེབས་ནས་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ལམ་སྟོན་དང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་མཛད་རིམ་རྣམས་གྲུབ་ནས། ཝེད་ནམ་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ཡོད་པའི་འབའ་རོལ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆོས་ཚོགས་སུ་ཕེབས་ནས་སྨྱུང་གནས་ཆ་གཅིག་སོགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བྱེད་སྒོ་དག་ལེགས་པར་གྲུབ་པར་དགེའོ།།
དགེ་འདིས་མཐུ་ཡིས་སྐྱེ་འགྲོ་ཀུན་ལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་བདག་མེད་རྟོགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱུད་ལ་འཁྲུངས་ནས་གཏན་གྱི་བདེ་བའི་དཔལ་ལ་འགོད་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་རུ་འགྱུར་བར་ཤོག དགེའོ།། ལེགས་སོ།། བཀྲ་ཤིས་པར་ཤོག།
The Two-Day Zambalha Retreat Led by H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche at the Saigon Barom Kagyu Dharma Centre – Oct 2025
The two-day Zambalha retreat, led by H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche, was meaningfully completed at the Saigon Barom Kagyu Dharma Centre.
May this merit bring wisdom and compassion to all beings, and peace and harmony to the world.
H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche and Lama Namsai Visit Barom Kagyu Sam Ten Chuling (Malaysia)
H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche and Lama Namsai Lead Amitabha Retreats at the Hanoi and Saigon Barom Kagyu Dharma Centres – Sep 2025
On Sep 7, 2025, H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche and Lama Namsai led Amitabha retreats at the Hanoi and Saigon Barom Kagyu Dharma Centres.
The retreats were meaningfully completed, and all Vietnamese students were very happy and grateful for Rinpoche’s teachings and guidance.
Barom Kagyu Monlam
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Sunday, 10th August 2025 – 10:00 AM
At Barom Kagyu Sydney Dharma Centre, 50B Woods Road, Sefton NSW, Australiaདུས་བཟང་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་རྒྱལ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་བཞི་ལས་སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་སྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་དང་ཁམས་གསུམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཉམ་མེད་སྒམ་པོ་པའི་སྐུ་མཆོད། རྒྱལ་དབང་རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེས་སྐུ་ཟླ་ཞལ་ནས་འཇལ་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་སུམ་འཛོམས་ཀྱི་ཟླ་བ་འདིར། ང་ཚོ་འབའ་རོམ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ནས་༧ མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་བསོད་ནམས་བསྟན་འཛིན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་དང་བླ་སློབ་ཡོངས་ནས་ཇི་ལྟར་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཞུས་པ་བཞིན་༧ དྲུང་གོ་ཤྲཱི་རྒྱལ་བའི་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ཨོ་གླིང་འབའ་རོམ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་སྐྱོ་བྲག་སྒྲུབ་བརྒྱུད་ཆོས་གླིང་དུ་ཞབས་སོར་འཁོད་ནས་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ཐུང་མི་བཀའ་ཆོས་ཟབ་རྒྱས་རྩལ་གནང་མཛད་པ་དང་། རྟེན་གསུམ་ལ་རབ་གནས་དད་ལྡན་ཡོངས་ལ་ཕྱག་དབང་བྱིན་རླབས་སོགས་ཐུགས་རྗེས་གཟིགས་པ་བསྐྱངས་གནང་མཛད་པ་ང་ཚོ་ལས་དང་སྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོ་བྱུང་བས་བཀྲིན་ཆེ་།
སླད་མར་༧ མགོན་པོ་གང་ཉིད་སྐུ་ཚེའི་ཞབས་པད་བརྟན། ཐུགས་བཞེད་ལྷུན་གྱིས་འགྲུབ། སྐུ་རྐྱེན་མཐའ་དག་ཞི་ནས་བསྟན་དང་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་དུ་སྐུ་ཚེ་ཚེ་ལྷའི་གཤིས་སུ་བཞུགས་པའི་སྨོན་འདུན་ཞུའོ།།Following the heartfelt requests of H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche, Sanghas and students, Drong Goshrl Gyalway Gyaltab Rinpoche has graciously accepted our invitation to visit the Sydney Barom Kagyu Dharma Centre today.
Rinpoche's presence is a profound blessing, filling our hearts and our Centre with immense peace and joy. His teachings and guidance are a priceless gift, illuminating the path of Dharma for all of us.
Attendees received a profound blessing and the precious teachings on Invoking the Kagyü Lineage from Rinpoche.
We conclude by offering prayers for His Holiness’s long life, excellent health, and for all his wishes to be spontaneously fulfilled. May all obstacles be pacified, and may he remain with the nature of the deity of longevity for the benefit of the teachings to all sentient beings.
Chodrak Monastery
Chodrak Monastery was founded by Venerable Langre Dagpa Gyaltsen, an emanation of Manjushri, in 1361. The monastery is located in the high, pristine province of Kham in east Tibet, in a location chosen by Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava as a place for retreat and meditation. The monastery adheres to the Barom Kagyu lineage and its first teachers were renowned saints.
The structure of the monastery is traditional, complete with diverse schools for learning and retreat. At the philosophical institute, Karma Leksheg Ling, monks study the Kangyur and Tengyur, the original teachings of Buddha Sakyamuni and the commentaries of Buddhist masters throughout the centuries. Theksum Choekar Ling is a school dedicated to the study of Marpa Lotsawa’s teachings.
H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche’s Visit to Ho Chi Minh City Dharma Center – August 2025
On August 2, 2025, after several months of Dharma activities in the USA, H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche was warmly invited by many students from the Saigon Barom Kagyu Dharma Centre to offer teachings.
In response to their heartfelt invitation, he traveled to the Saigon Barom Kagyu Dharma Centre and shared profound Dharma teachings with the students. Everyone cherished this rare and precious opportunity to be in the presence of their Guru.
Highlights from the Dharma Teaching Tour in Washington State
Washington State, USA
July 12–20, 2025
These photos capture precious moments from the Dharma Teaching Program led by H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche and Venerable Lama Namsai in Washington State, USA.
During this special Dharma tour, practitioners and local communities gathered together to receive profound Buddhist teachings, prayers, empowerments, pujas, and guided practices dedicated to peace, compassion, wisdom, purification, and the benefit of all sentient beings.
The teaching program was held at several temples and monasteries across Washington State, including Van Hoa Temple, Giac Vien Temple, Lien Hoa Temple, and Bodhi Monastery.
May these sacred moments inspire faith, compassion, wisdom, and the continued flourishing of the precious Dharma.
SPECIAL DHARMA EVENTS IN JULY Dharma Teaching Program of H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche & Ven. Lama Namsai Washington State, USA July 12 – July 20, 2025
Photos from the Naga Puja and Animal Release
Los Gatos, California
June 16, 2025
These photos capture precious moments from the Naga Puja and Animal Release ceremony held on the special sacred day during the holy month of Saga Dawa.
Practitioners gathered together with prayers, compassion, and mindful aspirations to participate in the Naga Puja and the practice of animal release, dedicating merit for peace, healing, purification, long life, harmony with nature, and the benefit of all sentient beings.
Moments from the Saga Dawa Nyungne Retreat at the US Barom Kagyu Dharma Center
Led by H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche and Venerable Lama Namsai
Location: US Barom Kagyu Dharma Center, 4017 Higuera Highland Ln, San Jose, CA 95148, United States
During the sacred month of Saga Dawa, practitioners gathered in devotion and mindfulness to participate in the Four-Set Nyungne Retreat at the US Barom Kagyu Dharma Center.
The retreat began with check-in and Nyungne teachings on the evening of June 6, 2025. The four sets of Nyungne practice were held from June 7 through June 14, 2025, and concluded with the final morning sadhana practice on June 15, 2025.
Throughout the retreat, practitioners engaged in the traditional Nyungne purification practice associated with Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig), including prayers, mantra recitation, meditation, prostrations, fasting, silence, and compassionate aspirations dedicated to all sentient beings.
Photos from the Amitayus and Zhambhala Puja
Barom Kagyu California Center
San Jose, California
May 3–4, 2025
These photos capture the Amitayus and Zhambhala Puja led by H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche at the Barom Kagyu California Center.
During this special Dharma gathering, practitioners participated in Amitayus prayers, White Zhambhala practices, Tsok offerings, and Mahakala pujas dedicated to long life, prosperity, purification, protection, and the accumulation of merit for all sentient beings.
H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche Dharma Events | January–June 2025 | USA
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Naga Puja and Animal Release
Date
10am Monday, June 16 2025
Location333 Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95032.
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SAGA DAWA 2025: 4-SET NYUNGNE RETREAT
Led by H.E Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche
Date
June 06–15, 2025
Location
Barom Kagyu California Center
4017 Higuera Highland
Ln, San Jose, CA 95148,
United StatesTimetable
Starting 4PM June 6 — Check-in with
Nyungne teaching at 7PM from
RinpocheThe first set of Nyungne is from
Saturday, June 7 - Sunday, June 8Set 2 of Nyungne is from Monday,
June 9 - Tuesday, June 10Set 3 is from Wednesday, June 11 -
Thursday, June 12Set 4 is from Friday, June 13 -
Saturday, June 14Final day is Sunday, June 15-
Nyungne sadhana at 4AM, breakfast
at 6AM and retreat concludes at
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Amitayus and Zambhala Puja
Led by H.E Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche
Date
Saturday 3rd of May, 2025
Location
Barom Kagyu California Center
4017 Higuera Highland Ln,
San Jose, CA 95148, United StatesTimetable
9AM - 12PM Amitayus Prayer
2PM - 5PM Amitayus, Tsok
Offering and MahakalaSunday 4th of May
9AM - 12PM White Zambhala
2PM - 5:30PM White Zambhala Tsok
Offering and Mahakala Puja
