Two workshops with Venerable Rinchen from Cairns

HELD AT KAMALASHILA TIBETAN BUDDHIST CENTRE
​18 & 19 October 2025

Kamalashila Tibetan Buddhist Centre hosted Ven Rinchen, on her first visit to the centre from Cairns. She conducted two wonderful workshops – Death and Dying, and Mindfulness Meditation.

On the Saturday, Ven Rinchen led us on a journey of discovery about our own thoughts and feelings of dying, workshopping ways to have us look at this often-unspoken subject in our western culture with a new and almost joyful approach. Then on Sunday Venerable taught and guided us in mindfulness meditation, based on The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. 

It was a rich weekend of dharma, full of learning and laughter. Ven Rinchen’s knowledge on these subjects was very inspiring, and she has a direct way of imparting this to others. She made many new friends with her warm and open teachings. We thank Ven Rinchen sincerely for offering these two workshops to the south coast community. Thank you to all the lovely people who attended and shared in this very special weekend.

After this successful weekend came a rare and well-earned day off for Khenpo la and Ven Rinchen, serving the sentient beings tirelessly. We thank Ven Rinchen from the bottom of our hearts for giving such a wonderful two days of workshops and teachings to our local south coast community; we sincerely wish that she returns to Kamalashila soon.

“Thank you so much for facilitating the Death and Dying workshop with Venerable Rinchen recently. She is a special teacher. The warmth and welcome from everyone at KTBC were heartfelt. We hope to participate in more events in the future.”
~ Wendy and Wyn 

“A thank you to the KTBC team for organising the Death & Dying Saturday Workshop – it was so informative, covering just about every aspect of death for me to think about. I was privileged to be in the presence of a dying friend whose daughter so kindly shared the time and space with her mum with me (she passed away three weeks ago), so Rinchen’s guidance was timely, and it really deepened my understanding of death.”
~ Chiaki

“Thank you for hosting this wonderful weekend.”
~ Zena