Welcome to Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Cooperstown!
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Rangjung Yeshe Gomde was founded in 2008 by H.E. Chokling Rinpoche, H.E. Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Kyabgon Phakchok Rinpoche through The Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation. The land was donated by a kind student of these teachers, and is now being developed into a meditation center.

Our annual summer program features teachings and meditation instruction with masters from the Chokgyur Lingpa tradition.
Phakchok Rinpoche’s designated teacher(s) in residence provides meditation instruction, weekly classes, and other teachings throughout the year.

Main Teachings this Summer by Teachers:

Phakchok Rinpoche

Phakchok Rinpoche is the supreme head of the Taklung Kagyu lineage, the abbot of a monastery at Chapagaon in the southern Kathmandu Valley, and the head of Riwoche Monastery in Tibet's Dokham region and the recently established Riwoche Monastery in Nepal. Born in 1981 to Chokling Rinpoche and his wife Dechen Paldron, Phakchok Rinpoche is grandson of Tulku Ugyen Rinpoche and the eldest brother of the Yangsi Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Phakchok Rinpoche received the Khenpo degree (similar to a PhD) from H.H. 14th Dalai Lama and H.E. Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

Please see Rinpoche's website, http://www.phakchokrinpoche.org/, for more information about his biography and activities.

Khenpo Sonam Rinpoche

Khenpo Sonam Rinpoche , senior Khenpo of Riwoche Monastery, founder of the Riwoche Society and Temple in Toronto, Canada, Honorary Khenpo of Katog Monastery in Tibet, and senior holder of the Nying Tig and Ter Sar lineages from Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, Chadral Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, and others.

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Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

Meditation master and renowned teacher Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche has been teaching around the world for the past 25 years. Marked by warmth, humor and wit, his teachings offer a unique opportunity to directly connect with the Buddhist tradition in a fresh, vital way that is relevant to our lives today.
See Shedrub.org for more information about Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche.