KHENPO TENKYONG RETURNS TO CAPE BRETON ISLAND!
Khenpo Tenkyong, Buddhist Meditation Master.
KHENPO KARMA TENKYONG’S VISIT AND ACTIVITIES
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Khenpo Karma Tenkyong’s 2026 Fall Visit
Please check back later for the dates of Khenpo Karma Tenkoyong’s 2026 visit to Baddeck, Nova Scotia where he will offer prayers to Tara and a traditional offering puja for Mother Earth.
For the past three years, Khenpo Karma Tenkyong – affectionately known as Khenpo ‘Ten” – has visited Karma Samadhi Ling (KSL), a non-profit organization dedicated to sacred ecology on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia (Una’maki), just outside the village of Baddeck. Since 2016 we have held smoke offering purification pujas on the land, and at nearby TaraLing, offering to all beings seen and unseen, for healing and the promotion of world peace.
Khenpo Ten embodies both wisdom and compassion, with a deep care for the earth, Mother Nature, and all living beings. His visits offer invaluable opportunities for learning, from Buddhist perspectives about our planet, to cultivating greater awareness and kindness towards all beings across time and space.
Annual Puja
This year’s purification smoke offering puja was postponed due to drought. However, Khenpo led Tara prayers at the site of our now installed Tara statue. He also conductged a short smoke offering puja by visualization, ensuring that all beings received blessing and were satisfied.
The puja to Tara this year was a beautiful ceremony that included a water offering. Blessed water—infused with precious substances, medicinal herbs, and blessing medicines brought and collected by Khenpo Tenkyong during his travels—was offered to the ponds of TaraLing. These sacred substances included blessings from his home monastery, Karma Triyana Dharmachakra near Woodstock, New York, USA.
Teaching Locally
During his visit, Khenpo Tenkyong taught at Giselle’s Inn in Baddeck on the topic of ‘Ancient Wisdom, Sacred Earth.’ He also provided teachings on meditation in Sydney and North Sydney, shared his knowledge with students at Cape Breton University, and met with doctors and medical staff at Northside Hospital in North Sydney. In addition, Khenpo met with Indigenous Elders at Membertou and offered many informal dharma teachings to those who sought his guidance.
Details about next year’s visit will be shared as soon as they are confirmed. Typically, Khenpo visits each September and offers teachings in Halifax, Baddeck, and Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Throughout the year, weekly meditation sessions are held every Friday morning from 9:00 to 10:00 AM at the Baddeck library. Mindfulness and meditation instruction is always available for those interested.
Weekly Meditation
Join us for Mindfulness Meditation at the local Baddeck Library each Friday morning from 9:00 to 10:00 am. People of any faith or none are encouraged to join. For more information, contact the Baddeck library at 902-295-2055 or Ani Jangchub (Mary Jane) at 902-295-0265.
Karmapa Online Teachings
To directly access current and past events by the 17th Karmapa, go to the official website of the Karmapa at https://kagyuoffice.org.
Also, please see our Kagyu Lineage Page for links to Karmapa’s online teachings.
Annual Teachings
We are delighted that Khenpo Karma Tenkyong has accepted our invitation to visit Cape Breton again this year to teach meditation. He will be visiting and teaching Sept 5 to 11, 2025. Check our Facebook page to stay up to date! (Karma Samadhi Ling)
Khenpo Karma Tenkyong (Khenpo10) loves our precious natural world and actively protects the environment. He has been a vegetarian for over 15 years and is strongly interested in the vegan lifestyle. In 2014 he was sent to the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery (KTD) by His Holiness Karmapa and serves as one of the resident teachers. Due to his love of nature and the environment he served under the 17th Karmapa as the co-coordinator of the Kagyu Himalayan monasteries which began following the Karmapa’s environmental guidelines. In 2016 the Karmapa appointed Khenpo10 to be his representative for our non-profit which holds the land of Karma Samadhi Ling, and whose main mission is to preserve our 130 acres of wilderness as well as the meditation practices of our traditional lineage.
Khenpo comes from a remote Himalayan village in Nepal near the Tibet border in a region of devout Buddhist families. He began his monastic training at a young age. Having excelled in his basic education, he was then accepted to study at the main monastery in exile of His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa in Sikkim, India. He completed the 11-year program in Buddhist Philosophy, earning the degree of Acharya which is equivalent to a master’s degree. In 2002, in recognition of his outstanding qualities and contributions, he was given the honorary title of Khenpo (PhD Degree) by the 17th Karmapa. From 2003 to 2014, Khenpo worked in the Karmapa’s administration. One of his main responsibilities was helping to establish the Karmapa’s new Environmental Organization, ‘Khoryuk’, an environmental organization of monasteries and nunneries all working towards environmental protection and sustainability, as well as climate change resilience. Their first step was to implement waste management and disaster management planning, along with the introduction of a vegetarian diet, planting trees, installing solar panels, and conducting basic education on environmental issues. Growing up in nature in the high Himalayas, Khenpo is keenly aware of how nature must be respected for the planet to thrive and ultimately survive. Khenpo likes to meet people where they are. He has a love of teaching, particularly to youth, about the importance of nature and the value of taking steps to preserve it.
Meditation Instruction
Private personal meditation instruction is offered by Lama Jangchub (Mary Jane) on request. Contact samadhiling@gmail.com or phone 902-295-0265 for more information. All instruction is by donation or free of charge.
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