The Chap lived up to its namesake a bit last month when  Lama Drupon Thinley Ningpo Rinpoche, who teaches at Drong Ngur Jangchubling Buddhist Center in Wesley Chapel welcomed a revered master of Tibetan Buddhism. Head of the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness, The Drikung Kyabgӧn Chetsang participated in special ceremonies ahead of his two-year silent meditation retreat.

“This very well might be his last trip to the United States,” co-organizer Donna Ray told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...