Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche will be giving a Medicine Buddha Teaching and Blessing Ceremony “To improve our health or to heal others, we practice Medicine Buddha.”

The event will be held Thursday, June 24th 2010, at 6:30pm at the Sedona Creative Life Center, 333 Schnebly Hill Road, Sedona AZ.  $15-$20 Suggested Donation;  $25 Donation for private Blessing. 

Lama Ahbay Tulku Jigme Thupten Tendar Rinpoche was born in Darjeeling, India in 1973. When he was  nine years old, he was fully initiated into monkhood and the tutor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Khabche Ling Rinpoche gave him the name Thupten Tendar. 

When he was twelve, His Holiness the Dalai Lama identified him as the reincarnation of the hermit Lama Lobsang Tenzin, who lived in a cave and was famous for his supernatural powers. One year later, he was enthroned as Tulku in Gaden Jangtse Monastery. As the hermit Lama Lobsang Tenzin, the animals of the forest, deer and monkeys would come to him and pople from all walks of life would seek him out for blessing. Lama Lobsang Tenzin was the founder of the Yega Choling Monastery in Tibet.

At present Lama Ahbay Rinpoche has full responsibility of Yaga Choling Monasery and it’s monks. 

Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche is currently traveling in the West giving teachings on various aspects of Buddhism in order to gain insight into western culture and also gather donations to help build a new temple in Nepal which will house and educate thousands of Tibetan refugees in exile. The new monastery will feed, clothe, house and educate refugee monks up to a University Standard.