KPC Dharma Reading Group
Join us on Zoom every Friday night at 7:30 Eastern Time (U.S.) for a discussion of Patrul Rinpoche’s classic text, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, supplemented by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang’s commentary, A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher. This practical guide covers essential Tibetan Buddhist practices, and is filled with stories and quotes, relating Buddhism to everyday life.
Led by Lopon Nidup, coordinator for the Padma Mani Translation Committee (PMTC) at Namdroling, KPC’s mother monastery in India, the reading group is relaxed and informal. Lopon first explains the meaning of the main text, followed by the commentary, and finishes with a Q&A. Everyone is invited to attend!
View our event calendar and click on the calendar event for the link to join by Zoom.
You don’t need a copy of the texts to attend, but if you’d like to you can order them here:
Order Words of My Perfect Teacher here.
Order A Guide to The Words Of My Perfect Teacher here.
(Both are also available on Amazon.)
About Lopon Nidup
Orphaned at a young age and raised by a loving foster family, Lopon Nidup had to work as a child to pay for his primary school expenses. He did very well in school, and credits that to having many helpful teachers along the way. While he was still a student, he had an injury at work. This became the catalyst for his instant renunciation of samsara. The day he was supposed to receive the scores on his finals, the result of everything he had worked so hard for, he walked away to become a monk.
Lopon Nidup joined Namdroling Monastery in 2011 and completed the foundational Ngondro practices that year. In 2012, he started at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute (NNI) and later graduated in 2022. In 2017, as a student, he served as the institute’s librarian, and in 2018, a translator member for PMTC. From 2019 to 2021, he worked in the English section of Ngagyur Rigzod Editorial Committee.
Lopon Nidup has been the coordinator for the Padma Mani Translation Committee since 2022. He has been responsible for overseeing many translations such as HH Penor Rinpoche’s A Lamp on the Path: Vol. 2 and works by Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok.
KPC is very fortunate and grateful to have Lopon Nidrup share his wealth of knowledge and wisdom with us.
