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  • Admin:Pema Nymeyer 2020 Application  + (Not particularly intellectual but with a strong personality and definite "feeling" for the power and importance of practice.)
  • Admin:POL Jacob Braverman 2012 Application  + (Note: Left retreat after death of Lama Tarchin Rinpoche; was given funding for 16 months.)
  • Admin:KL Didier Cavallaro 2010 Application  + (OK candidate Has the feeling of a good me … OK candidate</br></br>Has the feeling of a good meditator with a basic altruistic attitude; established and led a meditation group and is apparently appreciated as a “teacher” but is aware that in order to help others needs a stronger basis in practice and deeper understanding. </br></br>His idea of practice is to become more aware and more appreciative, both within and without. Inspired by the Shangpa Teachings: 5 Golden Dharmas. Enjoys practice, liking deity and protector practices but has learned to appreciate formless practice and understands the two as inseparable. Practice is also about opening the heart.</br></br>Considers his strength in retreat to be his easy going nature and his appreciation of solitude combined with his attitude of determination. His challenge is also his appreciation of solitude as will not be able to flee or escape from conflictual or difficult situations. from conflictual or difficult situations.)
  • Admin:Gerald Prindiville 2022 Application  + (Obviously an excellent candidate for retre … Obviously an excellent candidate for retreat. I wondered about not receiving support from his own community of students. He has been tasked with fund raising for the center and buildings.... usual Tibetan Buddhist funding focus (structures rather than practitioners). Encouraged to reach out for some support. Encouraged to reach out for some support.)
  • Admin:SL Shane Pilossof 2010 Application  + (On practice referred to a Situ R. teaching … On practice referred to a Situ R. teaching on the futile prospect of trying to fill an infinite mind with finite relative matter... As with most here has a very down to earth and sane view of practice. A healthy view of the usefulness of monastic role in Dharma activity. Owns up to a sportsmans competitve spirit and the concomittant tendancy to being judgemental.oncomittant tendancy to being judgemental.)
  • Admin:Nicolas Masoli 2021 Application  + (Religious visa is accorded in US; requires final interview in Argentina. Excellent candidate; connected to personal authenticity as key guide in personal process.)
  • Admin:KTD Karma Chopal 2012 Application  + (Seems to have an honest wish to deepen his … Seems to have an honest wish to deepen his understanding through doing more retreat (rare among Tibetans who have “made it” to the west); and is conscious that in joining the western retreat he will be able to assist his co-retreatants with chanting; music and plastic arts; and possibly with his language and philosophy background.th his language and philosophy background.)
  • Admin:KTC Sarina Straussner 2011 Application  + (Seems to have high degree of selflessness … Seems to have high degree of selflessness in her approach. Down to earth. Spoke very warmly of other women going into retreat. Spoke of developing the tools through practice for being better person; having awareness enough to step out of personal story-line. Inspired by idea of being “spiritual warrior” facing own challenges and working hard. Inspired by idea of working closely with a personal teacher.f working closely with a personal teacher.)
  • Admin:SL Maxamillian Cardale 2010 Application  + (Seems to have some quality of a person who … Seems to have some quality of a person who’se done retreat but spoke almost all the interview about the issues of role... being “groomed” ; filling a functional role in the community... etc. When asked personal questions responded abstractly and conceptually rather than personally. Quality... good listener; easy with others; fault grasping or jealous mind (small issues...). Talked about importance of focusing on the 4 thoughts and getting back to basics.; loved Pagmo Inner practice; would like to focus on few practices rather than doing the full program but has received mixed messages from Druppon Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe R.es from Druppon Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe R.)
  • Admin:KTC Edward Rossel 2015 Application  + (Sharp and intense; obviously anxious about outcome of the interview which I think made him too careful; but good mind and good heart.)
  • Admin:Sreekumar Sukumar 2023 Application  + (Should be a good element in retreat.)
  • Admin:Shelley Jackson 2020 Application  + (Should be an excellent candidate for retreat)
  • Admin:KTC Arek Banasik 2015 Application  + (Strongly self reliant; Shamanic experience opened him to see mind’s fuctioning and potential; then was clearly directed to Tibetan Buddhist path; deeply appreciative of Lama Norlha but without blind follower syndrome. Good candidate.)
  • Admin:Troy Suben 2019 Application  + (The challenge will be moving from a english language - western style of practice to the traditional context. But may very well bring the "process" understanding to those from a traditional background who might otherwise not have any idea.)
  • Admin:KTD Victoria Victore 2015 Application  + (Top applicant.)
  • Admin:SL Stuart Reid 2010 Application  + (Travelled to India at 23 and did a course … Travelled to India at 23 and did a course at Kopan; and also meditated in an Ashram; later wrote to Samye Ling and Rigpa but Samye Ling answered; came here and felt he’d come home. In Kopan discovered a place of quiet that felt very familiar. Seems a natural meditator; speaks of practice in terms of mind and awareness... relaxing so the projections can dissipate.... Considers his main challenge in retreat is the tendancy to try too hard to accomplish the meditation; but quality is a more and more refined ability to catch emerging self-cherishing. No apprehension but a real excitement about getting into retreat. </br></br>Asked Karmapa if he would be more useful to sentient beings as lay or monk... Karmapa said monk! Live of dedication.... Karmapa said monk! Live of dedication...)
  • Admin:DSK Hector Vaquero 2010 Application  + (Very active mind; a bit serious but intelligent and good inquiring mind.)
  • Admin:Jennifer Zhao 2020 Application  + (Very good candidate)
  • Admin:Kevin Miller 2021 Application  + (Very good candidate)
  • Admin:KL Heike Dumjahn 2010 Application  + (Very good candidate. Heike is young, int … Very good candidate. </br></br>Heike is young, intelligent without being intellectual, engaging with a challenging, inquiring self-challenging view of Buddhist practice; hard working and exigent, though admits this exigence can be problematical in interpersonal relations. She had visited Samye Ling and appreciated the female druppon and discussed retreat groups of multi-nationalities. Appreciates the challenge of facing a family crisis during the retreat without being able to leave. Obviously loves practice and is keen to have time to pursue this work seriously (example she gives comparing short and long retreats is the difference between visiting a place as a tourist and moving to live there as she did in Naples, Italy, with all the mundane problems that that entails. Has the presence of a meditator. entails. Has the presence of a meditator.)
  • Admin:Chelsea Treiber 2021 Application  + (Very good candidate. High degree of self awareness.)
  • Admin:Sarina (Shedron) Straussner 2022 Application  + (Very good embodiment of sane practitioner who loves retreat.)
  • Admin:Olga Kukharenko 2019 Application  + (Very good retreat candidate.)
  • Admin:Monika Wysocka 2024 Application  + (Very happy in service role and appreciating the importance of Bodhicitta)
  • Admin:Elizabeth Ferris 2024 Application  + (Very likeable and engaging; kind and resilient; down to earth (Samye Ling - Akong quality?))
  • Admin:KTD Fabian Minor 2015 Application  + (Very strong personality with a lot of dept … Very strong personality with a lot of depth and heart. Easily able to embrace challenges. Admits that anything physical is easy; but the introspective process of facing oneself is most difficult but welcomes this difficulty. Has had a very hard life, and has really come through it well; Hyper sensitive to the difficulties and suffering that is possible in this world, and deeply committed to helping free others from such suffering. A very good candidate.rom such suffering. A very good candidate.)
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