GONG XI FA CAI / HAPPY LOSAR 2010

Many many Tashi Delek! Happy Happy Tibetan New Year!

My Dearest students and friends,

I wish and pray that everyone have the most happy, healthy, most prosperous and meaningful New Year. May all your wishes come true, may Buddha always bless you and may you have a successful and virtuous 2010.

May your life be most meaningful by practicing loving kindness, compassion and boddhichitta.

With lots of prayers,

Tulku Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche

Phuntsok Labrang

Message from Geshe Zopa,

On behalf of Tulku Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche, my wishes and prayer goes out to everyone and may the coming Tibetan and Chinese New Year be filled with good health, prosperity, laughter, happiness and enlightenment.

I have organized extensive pujas, sangha offerings and prayers offering during this great Monlam Festival in Nepal. I have also organize light offerings to many holy places in Nepal and India, saffron robe offering to Guru Shakyamuni Buddha statue in Mahaboddhi Temple in Bodhgaya, India. Together with that, I have also organize food and clothes (Shawl) charity to the poor in Bodhgaya for the entire 15 days of Buddha’s miracle merit multiplying day. All these are solely dedicated for the long life and fulfilment of all the holy wishes of His Holiness Dalai Lama, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche, all holy Gurus and students and friends of the Great Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchog.

Happy new year.

With lots of prayers,

Geshe Zopa

Dear students and friends of Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche,

“Tashi Delek and prayers to all from Phuntsok Rinpoche”.

For your information, Phuntsok Rinpoche has just completed his one and a half month summer retreat and would like to dedicate his merits to everyone who’s directly or indirectly connected to him.

Rinpoche also managed to have a short but fun packed holiday after his retreat, and despite all that excitement, he continued to dedicate his merits to everyone. He is now back to school and he is enjoying very much both his studies and with his classmates. Rinpoche is also looking forward to having some fun time on his birthday on Oct 28.

Wesak 2009 Message

To all my students, dharma brothers, sisters and friends from all over the world,

Tulku Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche sincerely pray and wish everyone a most happy Wesak month (Sakadawa) and he also wishes and pray that may everyone have a most wonderful, meaningful and enlightening Wesak month too.

Rinpoche will dedicate all his merits and prayers to whoever that is connected to the late Great Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchog and himself, to have the most happy, most healthy, most successful, greatest and most meaningful Wesak and the rest of the days, weeks, months and many years to come.

Rinpoche will be doing lots of recitation of Guru Shakyamuni Buddhas mantra, read and meditate on Guru Shakyamuni Buddha's life story followed by lots of candle light offerings, flower offerings, nectar offerings and pujas to all Buddhas and holy beings. He will also practice generosity by feeding vegetables/food to animals, visit holy places and make extensive offerings during this Wesak month.

Rinpoche said that he will dedicate all his merits for everyone's happiness and meaningful life.

With lots of prayers,
Tulku Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche
Phuntsok Labrang Kopan.

2009 Tibetan and Chinese New Year

After my retreat in mid December, I went back to Kopan Monastery and the first thing I did was to see Phuntsok Rinpoche. He immediately asked me why I didn’t call to wish him happy birthday which was in October. I told him I was in retreat. It seems many people called to wish him plus there was a celebration organized for him in Kopan Monastery. I felt very happy and touched with his complaint, as this only showed his love, care and concern for me and every single moment while I was in retreat, I felt his blessings with his enlightened mind.

I had a wonderful time with him for two whole weeks and I was extremely overjoyed with his enthusiasm and interest in his studies. For your information, he started school beginning of this year and he is doing very well. He loves school and his English language has improved tremendously that he is now able to communicate with others directly. In fact his vocabulary and pronunciation is better than mine.

He is also more matured, able to memorize different prayers and practices, Tibetan language, mathematics, science ...etc. subject which I never had a chance to study. I am so happy with his progress. He continues to love living in the compound of Kopan Monastery. In one recent incident during the visit of LDC group, they invited him and other young lamas for lunch. It was a Friday morning but he gently declined due to school. Our little lama said “Lunch is not important as my school”. I must admit I’m so impressed.

Khen Rinpoche and I was outside the Kopan coffee shop and we both tried to convince him to take a day off from school for lunch with the LDC group but he still insisted lunch was not important and decided to stay in school. The other little lamas ended up joining us and Phuntsok Rinpoche ended up having potatoes for lunch.

Later that day when I went back, he asked me if I enjoyed lunch. I replied ... “Of course I did, we had lunch in Hyatt Kathmandu. How about you?” Little Phuntsok Rinpoche replied “Of course I did... I enjoyed my potatoes”.

He’s grown up, still chubby, playful but lots of interest in study. He’s also very cute, very loving and very funny. Every body loves his unique character...I love it too. ;-D

I just want to share this with all students and friends of Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche who cares for him and who’s interested to know how he is doing. He is happy and doing great.

On behalf of Phuntsok Rinpoche, I like to wish everyone and pray, may the coming Chinese and Tibetan new year be filled with good health, prosperity, laughter, happiness and enlightenment.

I have organized extensive pujas and prayers offering during this great Mulam Festival in Nepal, the 15 days of Buddha’s miracle merit multiplying day which is solely dedicated for the long life and fulfilment of all the holy wishes of His Holiness Dalai Lama, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup, Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche, all holy beings and students, friends and supporters of the Great Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchog.

Happy new year.

Geshe Tenzin Zopa

Phone Call By Geshe Tenzin Zopa

Few days ago I got a chance to speak to Phuntsok Rinpoche just before my brother Lhundrup left for Singapore for the late great Mahasiddha Geshe Lama Konchog’s relic exhibition to be hosted by ABC during the coming Wesak for 3 days, from 16 – 19 May in ABC’s new premises.

Phuntsok Rinpoche asked me about my health and if I am eating a lot and whether I have gain much weight in order to compete with him.

I also asked about his schooling (language) which started few months ago in Kopan. Phuntsok Rinpoche replied that he has been very happy and enjoyed his lessons. He has completed his homework and he received good comment from his teacher. He wanted to know what I will be rewarding him for his good performance. I told him I have just sent him a very interesting car and that he can only play on Saturdays. He however requested to play the car on the second half of the day as well. My reply was “yes”, as long as he has done his homework, he can play with the car anytime. I have also promised to bring him a helicopter after I see the end of his one year result. He said he will not disappoint me and asked when I will be going back. My answer was “soon”.

He then said “tashi delek” and “be fat” before he hung up.

I am extremely pleased to hear he’s doing great and he has improved in this studies as well. I am also very grateful with the divine blessings and also very thankful to the great care and proper guidance given by Khen Rinpoche as well as his guardian Thubten Lhundrup, Ani Chodron and Nyudrup Tsering.

Phone call to Phuntsok Rinpoche on March 2008

About one week ago, I called Phuntsok Rinpoche and somehow he was the one pick up the phone. Naturally he asked who I was and my reply to him was “I am your great uncle”. Then I continued to ask him “Do you remember I have plans to test you on some of the prayers I requested you to memorize? I will test you when I see you next time”. Phuntsok Rinpoche then replied “I will do the test now but do you remember what you promise to give me if I pass the test? You promise to give me a toy car.” “Toy car? I thought you were joking” was what I said to him.

He then started reciting for approximately ten minutes all the prayers that I requested him to memorize. It was very shocking and wonderful, at the same time delighting moment for me that he has put so much effort to memorize these prayers. He is doing very well in his studies and so from this year onwards, he will do extensive studies and language memorization. He has also grown up to 5 years old and he is in good health and very happy in monastery that he do not wish to leave the monastery boundary. This is indeed very good and wonderful for him and for all of us too.