This was filmed shortly before his death in 1991, and includes archival footage. It is on Youtube in 5 segments, narrated by Richard Gere, filmed by Mattieu Ricard .

HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was a true enlightened being, brimming with compassion.

The film also shows much about Tibet, Bhutan, and of course the prohibition of religion imposed by the Communist Chinese in Tibet. The film also has interviews with HH Dalai Lama. And shows the young Yangtse.

                           "Whatever appears, nothing has moved from the absolute nature."

        'Decide that nothing is extraneous to the absolute nature, taking the example of gold jewelry.'

A Goddess Radio (Santa Fe, 2007) interview with Rinpoche is available in my Sounds audio section. Their energies go deep on this one, with some good teachings about buddhism.

My Tibetan Buddhist lama teacher emailed the message below to me tonight, and asked me to pass it on to the Esalen community. She said that there is some urgency for it to get sent, because of the possibilty of fears and disturbances arising from the fires, etc. "while so many things feel scary with the fires it might rekindle the beneficial inner fire of the intentions for the community. "

So here is her wisdom message to Esalen:

you might contact people at Esalen with this message from me.

Here is a brief explanation of Tibetan Buddhism as explained by Khen Rinpoche:

www.wildhorses.com/articles/tibetan.shtml

See also free online yoga lessons at: www.wildhorses.com/yoga

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