Monday, November 26, 2007
See Photos of Celebration
See Photos Page 1 - Page 2
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Photo from Birthday Party
Birthday Wishes from Helsinki
Wish you all the best for your birthday - keep healthy and a long live
Saturday, November 24, 2007

All members and friends of Vajra Vidya Portland wish you a most joyous birthday. We are so grateful to have you as our teacher. On this auspicious occasion, please accept our best wishes. We will continue our dharma study and practice in gratitude for your presence in our lives.
Best of wishes for your 75th birthday!
Best of wishes for your 75th birthday!
Thank you for making the effort to travel to Southern California to spread your dharma.
Your presence teaches us about wisdom and compassion, and the clarity of your words helps us to understand what your presence has revealed.
I am very grateful for your blessings.
Molly Schneider
Friday, November 23, 2007
From Albany KTC
Yours in the Dharma,
Jeanne Mathewson on behalf of Albany KTC
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Happy Birthday
Dear Rinpoche,
With all my heart I wish to thank you for your immeasurably profound teachings and transmissions, and above all for your presence in this world today. May you abide with us for many, many years to come, radiating the joy of Liberation.
With all my love and devotion,
Ani Jinpa Lhamo
75th birthday
Dear Rinpoche,
I wish you a very happy birthday and many good wishes for a long and healthy life. I appreciate very much all the teachings I have received from you over the past 22 years and the week of Initiations for the retreat was the best of my life. I have also found great benefit from the last 2 teachings from you on Lojong and Pointing Out the Dharmakaya.
Thank you so much for all your kindness
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Cheerful Birthday
Your enriching and magnificent presence has touched so many lives. May you continue to bring peace to the world through your perfect teachings and your many activities. Please enjoy your birthday.
Cyncie Moore
Nova Scotia, Canada
Your Birthday
Your birthday falls so close to
our great holiday,Thanksgiving, that
I am filled with gratitude,
knowing full well that
your gifts are beyond thanks
and I must live always
with this infinite
debt of love.
Lacking the merit to attend your birthday,
I send these vain words and make the same promise as
Prince Candracchattra made to Tathagata Bhaisajyaraja
long ago in the universe called Mahavyuha
to hear, believe, honor, uphold, penetrate, and incorporate
your beautiful teachings in all my lives.
May your health be perfect.
May you be ageless as you are wise, like Nagarjuna.
May your Buddhas’ smile shine on forever.
Carroll, in Maine
( written as the first snowflakes of the year came
floating down and whitened the world in peace)
Happy Birthday
Thank you for granting us so many years of your precious presence, pouring out teachings, initiations and instructions unceasingly. May you be in good health and strength for many years to come
from Hanna Hündorf, long term resident and retreatant at Kagyu Samye Ling, Scotland - now leading the Dharma Study Group Kiel and helping in Samye Dzong Kirchheim, both in Germany
Happy Birthday Rinpoche
Your grateful student, Cole
Happy Birthday from Prague, Czech Republic
Happy Birthday Rinpoche
Monday, November 19, 2007
Feliz Cumpleanos Rinpoche
Happy birthday Rinpoche,
May you have many more years so we can continue to benefit from your teachings and kindness.
Aureliano Nava
Los Angeles
Happy Birthday Rinpoche
Who is the glory of the teachings
May your excellent qualities expand to fill the sky
And may your life be long and steadfast
May your buddha activity of elucidating and accomplishing
Blaze gloriously
Completely victorious in all directions
Love from Pema
in London, Ontario
Happy Birthday, Rinpoche!
Happy 75th birthday!
Dear Rinpoche,
May you have a long and healthy life and continue to bless beings with the light of Dharma.
Happy 75th birthday!
Hudson
Blessings for your Birthday
Celebrating Your 75th Birth Day
First, I wish to thank your most precious mother and father for bringing you into this world! Secondly, I wish to thank you for being an incredible teacher of the Dharma. Thirdly, I wish you a very healthy and long life. Please take some time on your birthday to realize what a great impact you have had over the last 75 years on all your students and this one in particular. Happy Happy Happy Birthday Rinpoche!
As it is,
Sheila Duddy
Minneapolis, Mn
Happy Birthday!
May you have happiness, joy, health and long life. Thank you for sharing your extraordinary life and wisdom with us all. BAW
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Thank you so much for everything that you give us. May you stay in good health and have a long life.
Best wishes,
Anders Nygaard
Happy Birthday Rinpoche

From Vajra Vidya Centre, the Netherlands
Dear Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche,
We wish you a very happy birthday! May you always be well and in good health.
Also from all our students here from Vajra Vidya The Netherlands
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Happiest of Birthdays to you Rinpoche from Los Gatos California
I wish you a very, very happy birthday, and many more to come!
You provide such happiness in my life and such care for me.
Your detailed teachings on Mahamudra are so clear and helpful.
They sing in my mind like music. Please never stop bestowing
us with your wonderful wisdom! I fervently wish long life to you,
please bless us with your presence for a very long time to come.
Please enjoy the day of your wonderful birthday, may you be as
happy as you make all of us!
A sincere wish to you Rinpoche, Happy Birthday!!!
With love,
Greg of Los Gatos California
Birthday Wishes
Dear Rinpoche,
Very best wishes for a very happy birthday, good health and long life. Long
Carole in
Kalachakra Stupa completed for your birthday!
Wishing you a very Happy 75th Birthday.
Tashi Delek!
Wishing you a very Happy 75th Birthday.
Thank you for your kindness and teachings.
You have made such a difference to my life.
May all beings be blessed with such a connection.
May you have good health and a long life.
Kindest regards,
Yours in the Dharma,
Chris Leslie
From Karma Chagchen Ling - Vienna/Austria
Dear V. V. Thrangu Rinpoche,
On this happy occasion of your 75th birthday, we are sending our most joyful greetings from Vienna/Austria and stay, with constant wishing-prayers for your well-being and long life,
Very sincererly Yours
Dr. Wolfgang Leibel
with Elisabeth and the members of KCL Vienna
Happy Birthday Rinpoche
From The Karma Kagyu Community Germany
The Karma Kagyu Community Germany with its lamas and members, the sangha of the Kamalashila Institute®, the grateful retreatants of Karma Tekchen Yi Ong Ling, and the practitioners of all other centres thank you for everything you have given to us by your immeasurable generosity. May you always be well and in good health! May you have a long life fort he benefit of all beings!
Yours in the Holy Dharma,
Horst-Günter Rauprich
President
Happy Birthday Rinpoche
I wish you Happy Birthday with all my heart. It is 6 years that I do not follow your teachings nor have come to Nepal, but your existence just continues to serve as a guide in my life. At present I started again the Dharma teachings in Rome and hope to soon be able to follow your dharma teachings again in Sarnath. All best wishes for a very long life. Stefanella
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Happy Birthday Rinpoche
Druppon Susan Chapman
Happy Birthday!
May you always be our light.
Good health and long life.
Birthday Wishes
Birthday Wish for Thrangu Rinpoche
May your kindness continue to grow and your aspirations be fulfilled. Thank you for starting Nitartha Institute.
Best wishes,
Linda Patrik
Happy Birthday, Rinpoche!
Tashi Delek!
Happy Birthday, Rinpoche!
Warm regards, and thank you for your wonderful teachings,
Sally Clay, Teachings Editor
Densal Magazine and KTD Publications
Friday, November 16, 2007
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday
Dear Thrangu Rinpoche,
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, and that your health may thrive and Dharma activity flourish for many more years.
Also thanking you for the generous teachings, advice and help you have given us over so many years.
Maarten and Susanna Vermaase (Oxford)
on behalf also of Maarten's yoga groups
Happy Birthday, Rinpoche!
Having traveled so long and far through samsara,
I want to thank you for offering a frequent flyer ticket to nirvana.
A companion ticket!!
May all beings be able to use it soon.
Wishing you nothing less than Dewachen in every lifetime,
Yours always in the dharma,
Hayong Trukhen Lakpa
Sandy Garson
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Happy Birthday, Rinpoche!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Victoria Medicine Buddha Practise Group
We are a small group in Victoria BC who meet twice a month to practise Medicine Buddha. On November 19, we will be doing our practise in Tibetan (we usually practise in English) in honour of Rinpoche's birthday. I believe that there will be a cake too...
with all of our good wishes as Rinpoche continues to spread the dharma (and his smile) wherever he goes... long may he continue!
Walter Quan
on behalf of the Victoria Medicine Buddha Practise Group
Steve in Texas
Dear Thrangu Rinpoche,
Your rowdy and semi-tamed students in Texas thank you for your generosity and patience, and wish you a long healthy life and many more years of enlightened activity among us.
Steve Smaha in Austin
An Offering Prayer to the Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche`s Birthday
From Shambhala Sun Foundation, Canada
Dear Thrangu Rinpoche,
On behalf of everyone at the Shambhala Sun Foundation, publishers of the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma magazines, we send our best wishes for your good health on the occasion of your 75th birthday. Thank you for your tireless devotion to presenting the genuine buddhadharma to students young and old in Tibet, Nepal, India and the West.
Melvin McLeod
Editor-in-Chief
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Debra Ross
Development and Marketing
From Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
Thank you very much for being with us.
From Frankfurt, Germany
All the very best wishes for your 75 birthday and especially good health. Thank you so much for all the love you have given to me and Holger and the many years of blessings and teachings, especially this year in Germany.
Would love to be there in Namo Buddha to celebrate with you and all the guests.
Yours in the dharma, Barbara & Holger Obermann, Frankfurt, Germany
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
From Vajra Vidya Study Group Munich
Yours very faithfully
Monday, November 12, 2007
Happy Birthday Rinpoche
From Santa Monica KTC
Wishing you a Happy Birthday and since it is close to Thanksgiving... I will add "Thanks" for "Giving" so much to us.
Daniel Kane
Santa Monica KTC
Best Wishes for Your Birthday
All best wishes for your birthday and for always. What a marvellous thing, to be able to help so many people.
I always appreciate your teachings and advice, especially for retreats.
Many many more happy and healthy birthdays!
Sincerely,
Miriam Maisel
Heartfelt Birthday Greetings
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Happy Birthday Rinpoche!
Happy Birthday Rinpoche! Many blessings and wishes for a long life
Cheerful Birthday Rinpoche!
Your kindness to me and all other beings never ceases to humble me. You have been there when I was alone and have always showed me the way through your own example. You have allowed me to offer and have reminded me to not forget. Thank you for showing me what compassion actually is. Thank you.
Cheerful Birthday Rinpoche!
Humbly Yours,
Martin Evans.
From Tampa, Florida KTC
Happy Birthday from Chicago KTC
Dear Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche,
Happy 75th Birthday Rinpoche!
Dear Rinpoche,
Emaho!
Happy 75th Birthday Rinpoche!
May you continue to have good health and enjoy a long life and may your teachings, generosity, excellent qualities and Bodhisattva activities expand and fill all our skies, now and for all future generations to come.
Tom Leeser
From Malaysia
(Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia)
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Hi Rinpoche
Hi Rinpoche –
Thank you so much for your smile, the one we all keep in our hearts, after we have once seen it on your site
We might make the mistake of thinking that these are dark days without your friendly and inexhaustible reminder to us always
Keep beaming on us all, Sun of the Dharma!
Peace and light to us all!
Haj Ross
Friday, November 9, 2007
Celebration of a Patriarch
Happy Birthday!
From Gaby in Munich, Germany
Dear Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche,
Thank you for making the earth worthy and for allowing us to participate, as best as we can, in your enlightened activities.
Happy Birthday, always and ever,
from Gaby Hollmann in Munich, Germany
Happy Birthday Lama-la
With Love & Devotion Always, Ken & Karen
Happy 75th Birthday Rinpoche!
May the seventy-fifth year of Our Venerable Master's
life remain stable and healthy. He is truly a jewel
in the crown of the three jewels...I wish our Rinpoche
TASHI DELEK blessings. In truth and loving kindness,
Karma Tsultrim Matok Parkin
Happy Birthday, Rinpoche!
Cheryl Kiras
Happy Birthday Rinpoche!
Bernard D. Tremblay
(aka Karma Chopal)
From the TTC-Hamburg Sangha
Best wishes to You, dear Rinpoche!
Thank you for all Your precious dharma-teachings and
Kind regards,
Madhavi
Hamburg
Thursday, November 8, 2007
From Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project
Dear Rinpoche,
The Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project sends its wishes for your long life, good health, and the continuation of your many projects to benefit beings. Thank you for all you have done for the students of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and for your unfailing dedication to the buddhadharma. May all your work and teachings flourish.
Carolyn Gimian, Director
Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
From Karma Lekshey Ling Institute
May I forward best wishes to Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche on his birthday that he will live long in this world with his great activities, in the name of our Abbot, Ven. Chöje Lama Phuntsok, the faculty, monks, students and pupils of Karma Lekshey Ling Institute in the Kathmandu Valley,
Khenpo Karma Namgyal
Happy Birthday!
Thank you for all your efforts to teach the dharma.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Happy Birthday Rinpoche!
Thank you for your unending work and ceaseless effort to help guide all beings to liberation. I look forward to seeing you very soon and I send out my biggest thanks to you for all of your kind instruction and help over the last four years.
Tsewang Namgyal (James Daniel)
Asheville, NC
From Palpung Yeshe Chökhor Ling- Europe
The community of Palpung Yeshe Chökhor Ling - Europe
Monday, November 5, 2007
Happy Birthday Rinpoche!
Happy Birthday Rinpoche!
Timothy Olmsted
President of the Yongey Foundation in Colorado
Happy Birthday Rinpoche (November 20th) from Kagyu Samye Ling
As the co-founder of Kagyu Samye Ling, the first Tibetan Buddhist Centre in the West, Akong Tulku Rinpoche always ensured that all Buddhist teachings given at Samye Ling were transmitted by the very best teachers. A renowned scholar and highly realised master who has been tutor to both the 16th and 17th Karmapas, Kenchen Thrangu Rinpoche has been a frequent visitor to Samye Ling and has given numerous precious teachings and empowerments. He is a veritable jewel of the Kagyu Lineage and everyone at Kagyu Samye Ling wishes him a happy birthday and a long life. May his wisdom and compassion continue to illuminate the world for many years to come.
On behalf of Akong Tulku Rinpoche, currently in Tibet, and Lama Yeshe Losal, on retreat,
Ani Rinchen Khandro
(author of Kagyu Samye Ling - The Story)
Happiest of birthdays to you Rinpoche!
With much love,
Linda and Richard Page and Family
Happy 75th Rinpoche!
Eyes that are the mountain peaks,
The sea of your compassion
Flowing from sky to mountain peaks
Always knowing my love for you,
Is as deep as the silence I am……
Dr. Sun
We Are Blessed
I bow to That which allows you to be here helping and guiding us. We are blessed to have such a being, as you, in our world! May we all repay your kindness by applying the instructions you have tirelessly given us to our own lives!
old dog
From Karma Mahasiddha Ling - Idyllwild
All of the students at Karma Mahasiddha Ling would like to wish you a heartfelt happy birthday and are all so grateful to be your students! May you live long and continue your tsunami wave of benefit to all beings!