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Riwoche Dharma Center (ริโวเชธรรมสถาน) is a Tibetan Buddhist centre in a housing estate off Thepharak Road in Samut Prakan, the province on Bangkok’s south-eastern edge. Its main practice is chanting and meditation in the Tibetan style, alongside courses for Buddhists and the general public.
The centre says it was founded to carry on the practice line of Chao Khun Pho Chaeng, the Chinese monk who founded Wat Pho Maen Khunaram in Bangkok. In the centre’s account, that line came from Riwoche Monastery in Kham, eastern Tibet, and joins two streams: Nyingma teachings going back to Guru Padmasambhava, and the teachings of the Taklung Kagyu.
Its president is Phakchok Rinpoche, head of the Taklung Kagyu lineage. Its principal teacher is Khenpo Sonam Rinpoche, who by 2012 had been teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Thailand and neighbouring countries for more than twenty years. The centre has also hosted visiting lamas: in April 2014 Lama Rinchen Phuntsok, for many years secretary to Dudjom Rinpoche, gave a five-day series on the mandala of Vajrasattva there.
Visiting
The centre's website is in Thai and English but has not been updated since 2015, so check its Facebook page for current programmes before you go.
Teachers
1
Talks
by its teachers · 6 of 8
Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
An Introduction to Buddhism
Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
Keys to Happiness
Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
Taking It Slowly with Vajrayana: Overview and Advice
Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
Three Important Exercises 1: Breathing to Settle the Mind
Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
Three Important Exercises 2: Wishing All Beings Happiness
Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
Three Important Exercises 3: The Nature of Mind Is Pure
Nearby
within 150 km
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Sources and verification
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Written from published sources by the volunteer editors. Not yet reviewed by an outside advisor.
- OrganisationRiwoche Dharma Center: about the centre (founded to promote Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism, especially the practice line of Pho Chaeng of Wat Pho Maen Khunaram, descended from Riwoche Monastery in Kham: Nyingma teachings from Guru Padmasambhava and Taklung Kagyu teachings; Phakchok Rinpoche as president; Khenpo Sonam Rinpoche as principal teacher, teaching in Thailand and nearby countries for more than 20 years; main activities chanting and Tibetan-style meditation, courses and counsel; photos of the front, shrine room and garden)
- OrganisationRiwoche Dharma Center: Opening the Mandala of Vajrasattva (teachings by Lama Rinchen Phuntsok at the centre, 11-15 April 2014; address in Soi Thippawan 57, Thepharak Road, Bang Mueang Mai, Mueang Samut Prakan)
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