H.E. Palchen Galo Rinpoche’s Schedule in San Jose, CA and Roseville, MN

H.E. Palchen Galo Rinpoche, San Jose Schedule

September 26 and 27, 2026

Huy?n Không Monastery
14335 Story Rd
San Jose CA 95127

 

His Eminence Palchen Galo Rinpoche, son and Dharma heir of H.E. Chöje Ayang Rinpoche, will be giving Vajrasattva and Amitabha empowerments in San Jose, California, this weekend, September 26 and 27. Download the schedule here. Please note that the starting time is 9:00 am Pacific.

 

Rinpoche will also be giving the Buddha Amitabha empowerment and Dharma teachings in Minnesota October 3 and 4. Please download the Minnesota schedule here.

Schedule in Minnesota

October 3 and 4, 2026

PHAT AN TEMPLE
475 Minnesota Ave.
Roseville, MN

 

 

 

 

 

Cremation Ceremony Live Streamed

Cremation Ceremony of H.E Choeje Ayang Rinpoche

at Thupten Shedrub Jangchubling Monastery in Bylakuppe, South India on July 18, 2026

 

7.00 AM (India) or 6:30 PM July 17 in California  Here is a time zone converter. 

His Eminence Gyangkhang Rinpoche, the head of Namdroling Monastery, and Lama Sonam Gyatso Rinpoche, along with the other Namdroling lamas performing the cremation ritual, will arrive at Thupten Shedrub Jangchub Ling Monastery with a traditional welcome by all the sangha members and lay people.

8.00 AM (India) or 7:30 PM July 17 in California

H.E Choeje Ayang Rinpoche’s Kudung (an honorific term for the mortal remains of a realized master) will be carried out from the shrine hall, led by a ceremonial procession of golden parasols and accompanied by skeletal dakas and dakinis. While circumambulating the old and the new temple with the sacred kudung, the monks will chant the prayer melody from “Drangchar Zimbu Mei Gur Yang (sbrang mchar zim bu mei mgur dbyang) from the songs of Kyobpa Jigten Sumgon’s prayer to the Lineage masters. Upon the holy kudung reaching the cremation stupa, notable Rinpoches, Khenpos, and other dignitaries will offer scarves.

On placing the kudung inside the Purkhang (cremation stupa), the Jinsek (fire offering rituals) will begin simultaneously, each of them led by an eminent Buddhist master in the four directions:

East- H.E Kyabje Gyangkhang Rinpoche presides over the Jinsek of Dorsem (Buddha Vajrasattva),

North- Venerable Lapchi Dorzin Thundup Palden presides over the Jinsek of Dorje Phagmo ( Buddha Vajravarahi),

West – His Eminence Palchen Galo Rinpoche presides over the Jinsek of Oepakme (Buddha Amitabha), and

South – Venerable Lama Sonam Gyatso Rinpoche presides over the jinsek of Shitro (100 peaceful and wrathful deities)

 

Download the full schedule July 16 – July 20, 2026.

 

 

For those of you unable to attend in person, the ceremony will be live streamed on Facebook. This is the Facebook page where you can access the live stream and find photos of the preparations.

 

 

We invite you to make a tax-deductible offering to help complete Rinpoche’s stupa and to support the cremation ceremonies. Please click below or send your check in USD to: Amitabha Foundation, P. O. Box 2572, Aptos, CA 95001

Cremation Ceremony July 18, 2026

Ayang Rinpoche’s Ku-Dung (holy body) at Thupten Shedrub Jangchub Ling Monastery in India

H.H. Palchen Galo Rinpoche, True Lhamo and the staff at Ayang Rinpoche’s monastery are planning the activities surrounding the cremation of Chöje Ayang Rinpoche’s ku-dung (holy body) on July 18, 2026. Visitors are welcome.

If you would like to attend and have not already let someone in your own country know, please send us an email so that we can notify the monastery.

Click here for a guide for travel to Bylakuppe and accommodations in the area. To be able to stay within or even visit the Tibetan Settlement of Bylakuppe for the day, attendees will need to have a PAP, Protected Area Permit. Please enter “Dickyi Larsoe Tibetan Settlement, P.O. Bylakuppe-571104, Mysore, Karnataka” as the place proposed to visit. Note that it can take a month or longer to get the PAP approved. If you have not received approval before traveling, please bring a copy of the PAP application with you.

After the cremation, Rinpoche’s holy relics will be placed into a new stupa being constructed at his monastery. We invite you to make a tax-deductible offering to help complete Rinpoche’s stupa and to support the cremation ceremonies. Please click below or send your check in USD to: Amitabha Foundation, P. O. Box 2572, Aptos, CA 95001

NOTICE: HE Ayang Rinpoche December 2022 True Nature of Mind Teachings POSTPONED

 

This notice comes from HE Ayang Rinpoche and from Amitabha Foundation, Inc., Ayang Rinpoche’s charitable corporation in the US.

HE Ayang Rinpoche’s True Nature of Mind teachings and associated Vajrasattva empowerment and teachings originally scheduled to be given in San Jose, CA in mid-December 2022 have been postponed.   Although Rinpoche’s intent is to offer these teachings instead at an alternate time in the future, no future date has been scheduled at this time.  Once a new date is scheduled the information will be posted well in advance on the Amitabha Foundation website at https://amitabhafoundation.us.

 

The teachings originally scheduled for December 2022 were not being organized by the Amitabha Foundation and neither HE Ayang Rinpoche nor the Amitabha Foundation has access to the list or contact information of those who may have registered with the private party organizing the event.  We are posting this announcement in an effort to ensure that those who may have registered are notified of this change as soon as possible.

HE Ayang Rinpoche regrets that he is unable to offer the teachings in December 2022 as planned.

Following earlier discussion, Ayang Rinpoche notified the private event organizer on October 25th 2022 that he would not be able to offer the teachings scheduled for December in San Jose and requested that the organizer notify those who may have already registered as soon as possible. For those who may not receive notification of this postponement from the private organizer or who may receive information from the private organizer seeming to indicate that the teachings will go forward as planned, Ayang Rinpoche wishes to clearly emphasize that he will NOT be offering True Nature of Mind teachings or associated Vajrasattva empowerment and teachings in San Jose, CA in December 2022.

https://amitabhafoundation.us/6204-2/