Christchurch
Based in New Brighton, Kagyu Choeyang Ling Christchurch provides regular weekly meditation sessions and hosts visiting teachers.
A listing of upcoming events is available here.
Regular Meditation Practice
You are welcome to attend our weekly meditation session on Sundays at 10:00 am. The session lasts about one hour, usually followed by a short video providing inspiration and explanation.
Ideally contact us if you would like to attend or just come along at the start time to 39 Rodney Street, New Brighton (enter through the red gate). Anyone is welcome to join in – you do not have to be a Buddhist. Donations are helpful, but voluntary.
Christchurch News
Lama Assi will be giving a public talk in Timaru on Friday 7th June at 7.30pm, discussing the question 'What is the purpose of this life' from the Buddhist perspective.
Please see the event page for more information.
Kagyu Choeyang Ling has a new website, covering both of the centres in Nelson and Christchurch. The new site is a merger of the now obsolete rigdrolyehse.org.nz site and the old kcl.org.nz to create a new common identity for KCL.
The new structure is clearer, considerably more powerful with... [More]
Venerable Lama Assi has requested that Rigdrol Yeshe Buddhist Institute be known as Kagyu Choeyang Ling Christchurch with immediate effect. Lama's centre in Nelson will be known as Kagyu Choeyang Ling Nelson.
The Kagyu Choeyang Ling name was given to Lama by His Holiness 17th Karmapa for... [More]
Rigdrol Yeshe Buddhist Institute
Kagyu Choeyang Ling Christchurch, formally known as Rigdrol Yeshe Buddhist Institute, was renamed in March 2013. See this news posting for details of the change.