Tsem Ladrang, Naranthan, Nepal
Our beautiful hand-painted sign announcing where you are
After many weeks of exhaustive search, the Tsem Ladrang team found a beautiful house in the hills of Naranthan in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is TSEM LADRANG, NEPAL. Along with people from other departments who stayed there for weeks, they worked hard to oversee the contractors as they carefully and beautifully renovated the house. The Ladrang has a nice yard, parking area, guest quarters, nice rooms, butterlamp house, and spectacular views of the surrounding mountains and Kathmandu Valley.
This is the beautiful Ladrang. The cover you see on top is for the veranda so not so hot to sit outside. Very nice, very windy and great views.
The Ladrang team and students did such an incredible job with the renovations and grounds. I love it so much. When I was there, I was ‘stuck’ there in a pleasant way. I did not want to leave at all. Every morning when I woke up, I was dying to open the windows to see the mountains, and let in the fresh cooling mountain air. Fantastic. I would walk up and down the mountains every evening after dinner for exercise. It took around one hour or so to complete the walk. At the bottom of the hill is a wonderful village market with restaurants, flower sellers, temples, fruit/vegetable shops, pharmacies, etc. The sellers very friendly. It was very pleasant to walk down and up the hill.
Here’s a short video I found on my phone yesterday and decided to post up now after I took the shots last year. It also has footage of me up the hill from the Ladrang, looking down onto the Ladrang with a nice vispassana meditation centre nearby. Naranthan Ladrang is fantastic.
May everyone be blessed. I love Tsem Ladrang in Naranthan very much.
Enjoy the videos and photos.
Tsem Rinpoche
Or view the video on the server at:
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/TsemLadrangNaranthanNepal.mp4
From Kuala Lumpur to Kathmandu! Tsem Ladrang in Nepal is located just outside the capital city of Kathmandu. Click to enlarge.
Kathmandu is towards the west of Nepal. Click to enlarge.
Naranthan is close to the city of Kathmandu but in a nice and rural area, just outside Nagarjun National Park. Click to enlarge.
The exterior of Tsem Ladrang. I love the hills and mountains in the background…
The main entrance to Tsem Ladrang (Naranthan, Kathmandu)
The Ladrang team welcoming me to the Ladrang for the first time after renovations were completed.
I am sitting on the roof of the ladrang enjoying the views. Very nice.
The wonderful, inviting living room and waiting room of the Ladrang, with the cozy fireplace in the corner…
Our Ladrang team did such a good job of renovating and setting up this living room. The painting on the right is my favourite depiction of Manjushri which I have loved since I was a young boy. And of course we have the gorgeous Green Tara statue on the left.
The audience room of Tsem Ladrang in Naranthan, Nepal
Our beautiful Vajra Yogini altar in the audience room of the Ladrang. Everyone should strive to have their own statue of Vajra Yogini. I love Vajra Yogini and making offerings to her.
The boys’ dormitory for staff, volunteers and visitors
The garage, guesthouse and accommodation for our Ladrang guard as well as storage with inverters to provide electricity for us when there is no power coming from the main grid.
The side garden of the Ladrang
Welcoming friends in the audience room
One of the first gatherings at our Nepal Ladrang, addressing some friends and volunteers who had worked so hard to organise everything.
You can see the foreground is our yard and beyond the gate are smaller mountains at sunset in the evenings…brilliant sunsets.
Surrounding houses from our ladrang.
From the road behind the Ladrang that goes uphill. The building on the left is our Nepal Ladrang
Such beautiful hills and mountains…
Another view…
Looking down onto Kathmandu Valley.
We are on the mountain behind the Ladrang. We climb to the top and surrounding areas. I would sometimes like to go to higher ground and do my prayers/sadhana.
If you look straight ahead, you see a pointy yellow structure. That is a golden stupa that crowns a Vispassana meditation centre behind Tsem Ladrang here in Naranthan.
Here is the stupa again.
On our property we have built a butterlamp house. Every day over 700 butterlamps are offered to sacred Vajra Yogini. I have finished offering 100,000 already. Other people have contacted our Ladrang team because they want to sponsor doing 100,000 also. Some cannot make it to the Nepal Ladrang, yet they still want to do it so we help them to arrange. Very nice practice. I love offering butterlamps. This butterlamp house is dedicated to Vajra Yogini. We have one image of Her in here and nothing else.
Myself making offerings to Sacred Vajra Yogini. You can see at the top of the picture is an image of Her.
I felt deeply fortunate to be able to offer 100,000 butterlamps to the Queen Vajra Yogini herself
We have a butterlamp house in this Ladrang in Nepal. Each day, we offered around 500 to 700 butterlamps to Vajra Yogini.
We added brocade behind Vajrayogini as an offering to her
The Queen Vajra Yogini. She is the sole image in our butterlamp house and each day, we are so fortunate to offer 500 to 700 butterlamps to her holy image.
So mystical and transcendental…Vajra Yogini illuminated by the glow of the butterlamps in our butterlamp house…
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Teachings on butterlamp offerings and the lighting of 1100 butterlamps!
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Its an old blog yet its hold many wonderful memories for The Tsem Ladrang team , I am sure. They are the ones who found a beautiful house in the hills of Naranthan in Kathmandu, Nepal. The place is serene and peaceful with beautiful mountains ranges. Looking at the old pictures its breath-taking and brilliant. The Ladrang is surrounded by scenery of outstanding natural beauty. Having a spacious yard, guest quarters, butterlamp house, to mention a few. The Ladrang has a spectacular views of the surrounding mountains and Kathmandu Valley.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing and teachings.
A placid, and tranquil place called Tsem Ladrang at Naranthan Nepal is simply the best location. Surrounded by nature’s beauty will be a perfect place for prayers, meditation and retreats. Having beautiful hills and mountain behind the Ladrang, from the Ladrang one could watch sunset in the evenings. That’s wonderful indeed. I do hope I have the opportunity to visit this breath-taking panoramic Ladrang in future. Looking at those pictures tells us all the beautiful, outdoorsy Ladrang with great scenery.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing and teachings on butterlamp offerings and the lighting of 1100 butterlamps as well.
It is very beautiful. The house you wish for in Colorado is a dream which is waiting to be fulfilled into reality but this one is real. You will find you won’t have any problems going for retreats when you feel you want to have a change of environments or to get away.
A perfect place for prayers, meditation and retreats.Thank you very much for the good article with nice pictures.
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Beautiful Tsem Ladrang in Kathmandu Nepal, what I saw from this post. Surrounding by beautiful landscapes mountain and away from the main road. A perfect place for prayers, meditation and retreats. Wonder if I have the privilege to visit this beautiful Ladrang on my trip to Nepal one of this days.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing.
This place is looks great may I have the great fortune to visit it one day. I loved Nepal the food was just fabulous and the weather is great. And one feels just very energetic all the time in Kathmandu, spiritual energy ?
Such a beautiful place and the views are magnificent. Finally get to see the place after reading about it in Paris’s book. I would really like to visit Nepal on a pilgrimage soon. Hopefully by end of this year. My wish for Rinpoche is to have many ladrangs in many places. This will benefit all the people around.
Dear Rinpoche,
I have heard from your liaisons how beautiful the ladrang in Nepal is. Now that I have seen the pictures, I understand what they mean. I think the beauty lies in its natural environment, cool fresh air and of course the proximity to so many old and sacred temples in Nepal! I have only been to Nepal once, on the pilgrimage with Rinpoche, and I hope to be able to do so again, and this time to see the ladrang as well. That would be so cool!
Lin
breathtaking… wow, really wonderful! hope everyone who enjoys this can have such a environ to live in and practise like this…
sob
I had the great fortune and privilege to stay at Tsem Ladrang in April 2009. It was a wonderful experience.
It is as Rinpoche described, surrounded by the magnificent sprawling views of the mountains, the air is cool and welcoming. The house itself sits on a lovely hill top, with a gorgeous garden at the back. The garden is gorgeous to me not because it is huge or immaculately manicured and landscaped, but because it is truly naturally beautiful.
It is not about opulence or grandeur, but one can immediately sense a certain serenity about this whole place. I suspect it is because Rinpoche has spent so many hours here, making prayers, chanting mantras and giving Dharma Talks. It is certainly highly blessed.
My favourite part of the house is really the butter-lamp house. It is tucked all the way in the back, built with bricks. Once you open door, you are greeted by the hundreds of butter-lamps flickering away. An exquisite statue of Varjayogini stands above all the lighted butter lamps. It is a sight not easily forgotten. With the light and shadows dancing on the walls, such is the splendid tribute to Vajrayogini!
Everything is furnished with simplicity but elegantly. Colourful cushions thrown strategically on the earth-toned sofas. An antique looking fire place in the middle of the living room that warms the place during the cold wintery months.
The throne room is especially dignified. Rinpoche’s Throne sits in the middle of the room, flanked by the tables on each side for the students or visitors to sit. Again, warm earth tones with splashes of bright colours from the cushions and thangkas. Another lovely room.
The Ladrang and Liaisons have done a wonderful job.
This is the Tsem Ladrang I remember in Nepal. And I do wish to visit it again. I can totally understand why Rinpoche would miss it.
Thank you Rinpoche for the beautiful shots of Tsem Ladrang Naranthan, Nepal. It is very, very beautiful. The house you wish for in Colorado is a dream which is waiting to be fulfilled into reality. But this one is real. Very soon you will have Ladrangs all over the world. At the moment you have 2 Ladrangs. One in Kuala Lumpur and one in Nepal. You will find you won’t have any problems going for retreats when you feel you want to have a change of environments or to get away. The surroundings of the Ladrangs in the different countries will not be same but the forest and the mountains will still be there. I can feel Tsem Ladrangs will sprout up very quickly in different countries like the 13 departments in Kechara Oeganisation which have grown so fast.
Tsem Ladrang Nepal is really beautiful. The butterlamp house is also very unique with beautiful butterlamp offered to sacred Vajra Yogini.
What a lovely place Rinpoche… Both Thierry and I want so much to be able to build a Tsem Ladrang in the mountains for Rinpoche near KWPC. I know as soon as we are able to afford it we most definitely will as we want Rinpoche to be happy… to be in the mountains, to be able to go onto Rinpoche’s wrap around balcony to take full advantage of the views… feeling the cool breeze and just taking in the fresh air… We truly wish this with all our hearts and I know we can make this happen!
Much love… Andrew
dear rinpoche so nice and holy this pleace.i go to see already dadrang in kathmandu.i m verry happy to see this pleace.there near by have one big(hindu) seatue narayan(bisnu).this pleace naranthan bucause of this god name.and he sleep in water.he got 4 arm. buddha incarnetion from narayan.wa are verry luky to have ladrang there.very very nice pleace.near can see jungle and mountain.you can sit top floor do puja and can do sadhana.
I am so happy for you. I love the photos. Is this the house you dreamed of and where you wanted to retire? I wish it for you.
May your happiness be forever and without limitations –
Knut Eggers
Tsem Ladrang in Kathmandu is definitely heaven-like!
Wow. Rejoice !! Supreme Devotion towards VY ! Im delighted !