Dharma Message - August 17, 2025
“Say to yourself: “Just like me, others too are tormented by similar suffering, or even much worse...” Train yourself by thinking: “If only they could be free from all this suffering! How wonderful it would be!” This will also help you to understand how to practice loving kindness, where the focus of the practice is those who have no happiness."
Transforming Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment, Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima 
ANNOUNCEMENTS  
  • Tupten Ösel Choling is pleased to announce an opportunity to attend a retreat and receive oral transmissions and instructions from Venerable Sogan Rinpoche.  Visit this LINK for more information.  
  • Ven. Sogan Rinpoche attended the 2025 World Peace Gathering at the Anaheim Convention Center, California, USA, April 19 and 20, 2025.  The aim of the summit is to foster peace and compassion in the world.  Click HERE to view pictures of this event and other recent sangha pictures.  
  • Ven. Sogan Rinpoche's book, Dreams and Truths from the Ocean of Mind, is now available on PRINT and AUDIOBOOK.  
2024 Suka Vajra Sangha Retreat - Galilee Episcopal Camp and Retreat Center
“In a solitary place where the thought of death penetrates your heart, the practitioner that completely relinquishes attachment seals the retreat boundaries of forsaking this life’s phenomena and will no longer encounter the outsiders of the eight worldly concerns.” 
H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, Extracting the Essence of Accomplishment through Direct Instructions that are Easily Understood.
GROUP PRACTICE
Welcome to our Sangha.  We are a Tibetan Buddhist community following the Teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha under the care and compassion of Sogan Rinpoche, who has generously offered to share his knowledge of the Buddhadharma with anyone wishing to receive it.  Click HERE to add your name to our email list.  
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"While I am away, I urge you to study and practice the Dharma diligently. I would also like to recommend that you make an effort to get together and discuss the teachings and do the practices that I have shown you:
Ngondro
Guru Yoga tsok
Shakyamuni Buddha
Chenrezig
Phowa
I would like you to alternate the practices. This will help you to build our Dharma community and support each other's practices so you can grow together as Dharma brothers and sisters."  – Sogan Rinpoche, 11/3/13, Oakland, CA