Lerab Ling said goodbye to Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi 
Approximately 5,000 people worldwide watched the live video streaming of teaching Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi Lerab Ling.
Photo: Bart Natra
Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi participated in six days of celebrations with the students of Rigpa in southern France, and concluded his visit to Lerab Ling promising return.
Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche, who turned 17 last month, was traveling in the West for the first time, to celebrate the centenary of his predecessor, Khyentse Rinpoche. After the start of his tour in Dordogne, Ringtone , the main seat of Khyentse Rinpoche in Europe, Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi hosted by Sogyal Rinpoche, Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, Rinpoche and 1 500 people his arrival at Lerab Ling. He was accompanied Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche , the grand-son and spiritual heir of Khyentse Rinpoche, Matthieu Ricard and , who spent many years in the service of Khyentse Rinpoche, as an assistant and translator. The highlight of the visit was the instruction given by Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi in the temple, his first major public conference in the West, where he talked about Bloodline of good heart. His teaching was viewed live through a video streaming free by about 5000 people in the world, including the mother of Khyentse Rinpoche in Bhutan Yangsi.
Sogyal Rinpoche Rinpoche Rabjam and applaud at the end of teaching Yangsi Khyentse Rinpoche
Photo: Ane Damcho Drolma. Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi gave the empowerments of Rangjung PADME Nyingtik and Pema BTES Nyingtik , the " treasures of the mind " revealed by Khyentse Rinpoche. He chaired a full day of practice in the temple, on the anniversary of Guru Rinpoche, as well as a practice of offering blood on the hill Lerab Ling. He also met with teenagers Rigpa program for young , responded to questions about how they can apply the lessons in life, and gave an interview to View Magazine. Visiting Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi took place almost exactly 20 years after the last major teachings of Rinpoche Dilgo Khyensté in the West, to Prapoutel in the French Alps. When hosted Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi Lerab Ling, Sogyal Rinpoche said: "At Prapoutel in 1990, I asked Khyentse Rinpoche to return and he promised to do. We have been waiting for this moment. And now, now, that promise came true. That's why it's so incredibly moving and meaningful, Rinpoche to welcome you here today. "
Each day was full of opportunities to remember Khyentse Rinpoche and hear about everything he has done to serve the Buddha's teaching.
Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche sharing stories of the day
where he accompanied Khyentse Rinpoche.
Photo: Jens Arnold
Rabjam Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche Rinpoche and both shared their memories of Khyentse Rinpoche, Matthieu Ricard and showed photographs taken while serving Khyentse Rinpoche.
There was the projection Brilliant Moon, a film recently by Neten Chokling Rinpoche's life Khyentse Rinpoche, and some personal items of Khyentse Rinpoche, notammment relics of the Buddha, were exposed throughout the visit. 
Matthieu Ricard shows a selection of his photographs Photo: Jon Schmidt
The international tour of Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi now leads in Portugal Croatia, United States, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia, before the conclusion of the centenary celebrations in Bodhgaya, India, in December. As he prepared to leave, Khyentse Rinpoche Yangsi said: "I will not forget to return to Lerab Ling."
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Professor Steven Goodman is director of research and a permanent member of the Department of Asian Studies, comparative, Institute of Integral Studies, California. He earned his doctorate at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1984. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Khyentse Foundation and is part of the Working Committee for Buddhist Literary Heritage Project, which will oversee the translation of the entire Buddhist canon into English. Professor Goodman has taught the Abhidharma in Shedra Rigpa Lerab Ling in 2002 and a book based on the teaching he gave on that occasion forthcoming at Snow Lion. 
