Rinpoche, could you outline your future teaching plans in the United States and the Pundarika Foundationss role?
Presently I am organizing things so that I’ll have two or three months, maybe more, to come to the United States each year. I’ve been teaching now about nine or ten years and I can see a lot of progress by my students since I began coming here. Somehow I have a very strong karmic connection with this country. In that I agree with the Buddhist view that it depends on karma – the students’ karma and the teacher’s karma. So somehow my karma is not finished in America, so that’s why I like to come and teach. Maybe in the future I will see if I can do more solitary retreat. If I do more practice myself, then naturally it will help those who are receiving teachings from me because I will have something more to offer. It makes me happy to share my knowledge with my students. For the time being, I want to put my energy more into actual teaching of students than in building a big center. It’s not that I’m opposed to having a center – if karma indicated that I would be happy to do so. But I pref
