About Langri Tangpa Centre

Langri Tangpa Centre is a non-profit organisation. We rely entirely on the support of visitors and members for our financial survival. Our only income is from donations, memberships and a small Dharma Shop selling mostly books. All proceeds from the sale of Dharma books go straight back into our library.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the Spiritual head of the FPMT and of Langri Tangpa Centre. Rinpoche has dedicated his life to bring the benefits of Tibetan Buddhism to the west. His inspired presence and teachings have changed the lives of many thousands of students.

Originally called "Chenrezig City Centre", Rinpoche re-named the centre after Geshe Langri Tangpa, a Kadampa master renowned for his practice of exchanging his happiness for the sufferings of others.

	Inta McKimm started the centre in 1982 and single-handedly ran it for fifteen years. When Inta died in 1997 there was some suggestion to close the centre until things settled down, but Inta's daughter Miffi thought that since Langri Tangpa Centre was her mother's life work, the most important thing was to ensure that it continue.
Miffi Maxmillion and her mother Inta McKimm shortly before she died in 1997.

Many lamas have stayed and taught at the centre, including our founder Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, and Khensur Rinpoche and Choden Rinpoche. Twenty years ago it was Geshe Thinley, Lama Yeshe's brother, who was teaching here on Friday nights to a devoted crowd of around twenty people. Nowdays the centre is literally bursting at the seams. We have over sixty people attending teachings with Geshe Tashi Tsering, and have spread into three rooms (with a live video hook-up and Vietnamese translation as well) to accommodate us all.

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