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With Lama Djinpa Tarchin at Dag Shang Kagyü, Spain, in 2009. +
My first main teacher is Lama Namse Rinpoche from Karma Sonam Dargye Ling monastery which I started to attend in 2003 until now. +
I started practicing Buddhism in 2013, and in 2014 I met Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche who came to Romania and followed Him. +
February 2009 took refuge with Lama Karma at KTD NY March 2009 became a member of Dallas KTC and began studying Lama D. Dorje January 2010 attended first of 12 Ngunge under Lama D.Dorje 2010 received permission to do Ngundro as well as Medicine Buddha empowerment & Green Tara January 2011completed 10 personal retreat at KTD, continue weekly practice with Dallas KTC (Chenrizik),attended CHOD practice October 2012 traveled with Lama D.Dorje for public teaching at KTD as well as daily practice with Dallas KTC ,shrine set up and helping new members and first time guest of the center January 2013attended Losar with Dallas KTC as well as weekly Chenrizik practice with Dallas KTC March of 2014 Hosted the honorable Khenpo Kather at Dallas KTC as well as attended one week teach of Blue Bunny retreat June 2015 received permission to do pre-retreat in perp for 3 year retreat August 2016 attended the pre-retreat. +
I began in 2006 with Lama Djinpa Tarchin, in Dag Shang Kagyu +
My father introduced me to Buddhism when I was a child and taught me meditation when I was 16 +
In 2010 by volunteering at Ratna Ling and Odiyan retreat centers for about a year. We did vigorous physical work in a book bindery as a "skillful means" during the day and were introduced to Buddhist meditation and philosophy at in classes at night. +
I started my Buddhist studies in 2005 at Naropa University with Dr. Reggie Ray, in the Shambhala Tradition. I attended 5 dathuns. 1 at Shambhala Mountain Center, and the rest in Crestone Colorado. I took sutrayana of Hinayana and Mahayana at Naropa University. In 2016 I formally have left Dharma Ocean and have now been connected to Vajra Vidya, the Khenpos and ven. Thrangu Rinpoche. +
I become a Buddhist student in 2015, under the guidance of Gyalsey Tulku Rinpoche, I studied the book written by Patrul Rinpoche “Words of my perfect teacher". I continued with the "Ways of the Bodhisattva" +
I discovered Meditation in 1999 in Montreal within the Shambhala umbrella and under the leadership of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. At the time both the Buddhist and the Shambhala paths were available and I quickly gave a priority to the Buddhist one. +
In 1987 when i was at university i read "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" and felt inspired to go to Brussels Samye Dzong for the first time.
My very first real teaching was an explanation of the Ngondro by Lama Guendune Rinpoche in 1988 just after I took refuge. +
In perhaps 2004, when I was perhaps 16, I became interested in Buddhism and started voraciously reading books about the subject, primarily interested in the Zen tradition. At 18, in late 2006, I was introduced to the method of shamatha meditation by a Vietnamese monk at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, in Talmage, California. I first took up a formal practice with the Arcata Zen Group in Arcata, California, where I was attending university following that. Eventually I came to the Tibetan Buddhist (Nyingma) tradition after visiting Chagdud Gompa, Rigdzin Ling, in 2006 and 2007, and that's where my troubles began... +
I started to study Buddhism by myself in 1986 at the age of twelve. Met Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 2001 and received teachings from him, for the first time in Tibetan Buddhist tradition. From 2003, I studied and practiced under Khenpo Sangpo Rinpoche (sangye.org). I received teachings and instructions from him on many occasions, both publicly and privately. Met Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche in 2008 and benefitted from many of his teachings and instructions. I studied in Namdrolling Shedra in India for two years (2013 - 2014). In 2017, I met H.E. Garchen Rinpoche, who touched my heart in the most profound way, and whom I consider as my main root guru. His instructions and blessings have benefited me in the most incredible ways. I have studied with several other teachers in those years in between 2001 and 2019 - as described in my dharma resume. +
From childhood, my parents took me to teachings with Tenga Rinpoche whenever he visited Denmark, and some of these teaching sessions were directed at children. They also brought me to teachings with other masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions. When I finished my high school studies in 2008, I took the Bachelor degree in Buddhist Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University. I also completed the BA and MA in Tibetology at Copenhagen University. I studied one academic year in the monastic university of Namdrolling, South India, and studied and translated texts of the Kagyu tradition with Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen, two months every summer of 2015-2019. I have also studied several other, shorter courses in Tibetan Buddhist topics with teachers of the Nyingma, Sakya, and Kagyu traditions. +
The first course in the studies of Buddhism I took in 2008 in NY NY. It was a two-weeks course with Geshe Michael Roach. The Dharma teachings penetrated me deeply and influenced my life instantly. I did not specifically had a connection to Ven. Geshe Michael Roach in order to become his student. I continued to study and kept praying to meet the Guru.
In fall 2015 upon my first visit to Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in Woodstock I knew it was my home. I had an audience with Ven. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche and, for the rest of the day, I cried with joy from overwhelming grace. During my next visit couple weeks later I asked and Ven. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche accepted me as his student. +
2013
June Attended Drupchen 1 week practice retreat with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche +
I spent many years "searching" and from the age of about 16 began reading basic books with references to Buddhism, or by Buddhists who had published popular texts for Westerners. I practiced Yoga and Tai Chi and learned some basic meditation from those. After living in California for a few years I began to meet actual Buddhist practitioners and some teachers. I attended a "Cultivating Mindfulness" Retreat with Thich Nhat Hahn, at the Mt. Madonna Center in Watsonville, California in April 1989. Friends invited me to hear Tai Situ Rinpoche, and a few years later another friend introduced me to Lama Tharchin Rinpoche (even before Pema Ösel Ling was founded) and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in around 1993. I was completely captivated by Dzongzar Khyentse Rinpoche, but he has a way of disappearing and I did not know what to do. I was distracted by worldly things until 2003 when I met Lama Dawa Rinpoche and Khandro Kunzang. Lama Dawa placed my feet firmly on the Vajrayana Path. +
I started with 3 Vipassana retreats in Switzerland in 1985-86, with local teacher Walter Klingler and with Mother Sayama, who came all the way from Burma. In 1987 I set out to Asia in search of my meditation teacher and by that time it was clear to me that I seek him or her in the Tibetan tradition. I traveled around for one year and encountered many teachers and finally met my root Lama, Gegen Khyentse Gyatso, at the Monastery of Apo Rinpoche in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India and stayed with him for 7 years. The last two of these seven years was part of a intended 3 years retreat out of which I was however forced due to visa problems. I later spent 3 months at Zen Mountain Center, California, training with Tenshin Sensei in the Zen tradition; in 1998 I went to Japan where trained for one year with Harada Tangen Roshi at Bukkokuji monastery in Obama, Fukui ken. Since my return to Switzerland I predominantly trained under Drikung Kargyud Lamas, predominantly with Garchen Rinpoche. +
I was born and raised in a Buddhist family in a Tibetan community who followed Nyingma & Kagyu lineages. In Tibetan Children's Village school in India, we received instruction in Buddhism.
In the U.S., I have studied primarily with Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche and Tulku Orgyen Phuntsog Rinpoche of the Nyingma school. I have also received teachings and practice instruction from Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, and Sangyum Kamala Rinpoche (consort of Chatral Rinpoche). +
When I began my Religious Studies degree in college, I quickly became most interested in Buddhism and focused my studies there and on the countries and cultures where the dharma took hold. Later, my formal Dharma studies began in spring of 2000 when I travelled to Dharamsala, India for the wedding of a dear friend and met Chamtrul Rinpoche. I felt an instant connection with him and began attending his daily classes as well as teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the 17th Karmapa and other teachers in the area. That started yearly visits to India, to Dharamsala or Bodh Gaya until 2006, for study and practice under Chamtrul Rinpoche’s guidance. I met Khentrul Rinpoche in 2005 when he was teaching in Louisiana. Because of the complications that arose after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, I stopped visiting India regularly and began more serious study under Khentrul Rinpoche’s guidance. With him my practice grew and I moved to Katog Rit'hrod in 2010. +
