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I first began studying Buddhism at Naropa University but left university when I found a Palyul Nyingma center in Boulder, Colorado. I received the Ngondro lung which inspired me to apply for workstudy at the Palyul Retreat Center in New York. I spent one month working for the lineage before retreat began. I began receiving instructions, empowerments and vows from the Palyul throneholder HH Karma Kuchen Rinpoche and Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso. My ngondro teachings were from Tulku Ajam and also Khenpo Tenzin Norgay. After that retreat I entered retreat for 11 months, during which I completed the 500,000 and 1.2 Vajra Guru mantras. I did work study again the following year for another month, which included helping finish the Mingyur Dorje stupa under Tulku Sangngag's direction. I then received Tsalung empowerments, and instructions from Tulku Dawa Rinpoche. Two years later I did Thogal I at Palyul Summer Retreat, and this year I am doing Thogal II. +
Study of Buddha-dharma in 1985 at Karme Choling in Barnet, VT during a week-long Vajrayana retreat associated with Johnson State College in Johnson , VT. This required a basic study of Mahayana practice as an introduction to Shamatha/Vipassana meditation. I continued this practice for some years and later studied Vajrayana Practices with Prof. Reginald Ray for 3 semesters at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1995, I entered the Contemplative Psychotherapy program at Naropa Institute, Boulder CO. In 1996 received teachings from Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, and soon after from Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (1996). In 1997 attended a 100-day closed "Maitri Retreat" within the context of the Contemplative Psychology Program Naropa Inst. During the next several years, I received empowerments in: Yeshe Tsogyal, Trekcho, and in the practice of Gesar from Namkha Drimed Rinpoche. Commitments in these practices were fulfilled. Soon after, I received refuge from Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. +
I began to study Buddhism in 1983 as a resident of Karmê Chöling, a practice centre in Vermont. The practice and study curriculum was excellent, under the auspices of Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. I followed the pre-seminary courses, which prepared students for a 3-month, 3-yana Vajradhatu seminary. +
1975 - H.H. Kalu Rinpoche. I received Refuge and Boddhisattva Vows
I didn't get serious about the Buddha Dharma until 20 years later when I had the great good fortune to meet Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and then subsequently my primary root lama, Venerable Sogan Rinpoche +
Previous to actually meeting a teacher I studied and read Buddhist writers for several years. I first studied with a teacher at KKC in Burnaby, BC with Lama Tsenjur. Soon after that I met Kalu Rinpoche in Hawaii who I quickly and strongly developed a རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ connection with. +
I came to Buddhism in 1992 and started to study while I was living in Samye Ling. During this time I attended teachings from HH the Dalai Lama and Tai Situpa Rinpoche. The head monk Tsering Tashi also gave some guidance on the Tibetan alphabet. I also had musical lessons regularly and so can play the Radong, Drums, Kangling and learned to circular breathe. The Sadhanas were taught by Ani Lhamo who is Lama Yeshe Rinpoche's attendant. +
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I started with my late husband, Mike Lewis who died in 2021. We were married in 2015 and began practicing around late 2016 with sutras from the Amitabha Pure Land and Lotus Sutra, those were our first contact with Buddhism and it reduced us both to tears. After Mike died, shortly thereafter I met Lama Karma Tenzin Dorje, also known as Lama Mike Crowley, a karma kagyud lay buddhist lama who gave me my first Upasika and later on Bodhisattva vows in Mount Shasta at his center called Amrita Dzong, were he was a student of Chime Rinpoche, First Kalu Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khentyse Rinpoche. He issued me the initatory name Chime Ja, after his teacher Chime Rinpoche at Marpa House in Wales. He also offered for me to attend 3 yr retreat in England at his home center if I didn't have other options. Later on that year in 2021 I met with Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche at google and attended a lecture with a student of his named Tom. Tom later visited Ser Cho Ling for Nyunges and that is where I met my Precious secondary root guru, Wangchen Rinpoche. I stayed for a total of 18 Nyungnes done non-consecutively, completed my first 8 in the fall of 2023 and completed my first 25 Nyungnes as a Chopon in the temple this year in May. +
Début en 2012 à l'Institut Karma Ling avec Denys Rinpoché comme Maître source
J'ai suivi tout le parcours d'études de Pleine Présence et Dharma Langue (initiations progressives, études des textes de pratique en français et tibétain), retraites de pratique, et pratiques à domicile) et bénévolat au centre
Début des études du tibétain lu écrit et traduction avec Lama Samten et Denys Rinpoché depuis 2017 et je continue actuellement +
I started reading books on Buddhism in the late 1990s, but my encounters with living teachers started in 2000, when I was 25 and living in NYC. I began attending empowerments with visiting lamas, which happened almost every weekend, and eventually found Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche, who was offering a one week lung and teaching on his book The Buddha Path. It met very far out in Brooklyn every evening after the work day, so it was an intensive two week program, but at the end Khenpo Choga asked me to serve as president of the NY center of his Dzogchen Shri Singha association. I accepted, but nothing really came of it. Over the years I saw Khenpo Choga many times in NYC and Seattle and received teachings and personal guidance from him. I still have a copy of The Buddha Path and continue to find it one of the best and most comprehensive practice manuals I know of, even as my dharma affiliations have grown in other directions. +
June 2018, While travelling I ended up at Gomde Pyrenees (GP) as a volunteer, at the start it would of mostly been curiosity based self study and asking senior students of Rinpoche at the center questions informally.
In Sept 2018 Rinpoche came to teach for a few days on Mountain retreat a text by H.H Dudjom Rinpoche, this would of been my first formal Buddhist teaching. +
I began studying Buddhism in 2013 during a study abroad semester at Rangjung Yeshe Institute. This counted toward my undergraduate degree in Philosophy and International Studies at Boston College. When I returned in the Spring of 2014, I began studying Buddhist philosophy and ethics at Boston College with John Makransky. Upon graduation in 2015, I left the U.S. and traveled through some of South Asia participating in Buddhist courses and retreats in various traditions. I quickly landed back at Rangjung Yeshe Institute and within the mandala of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and have been studying under his guidance as both a student and practitioner ever since. My studies and practice have been mostly in Nepal however I have spent extended periods at affiliated retreat centers in Europe and the Americas. +
I began studying and practicing Buddhism in September of 2019 under the guidance of Lama Yeshe Palmo, a graduate of several three-year retreats of Kagyu (now Palpung) Thubten Choling monastery in Wappingers Falls, NY. +
I started to study Buddhism during the Kopan November Class 2018, with Lama Zopa Rinpoche. +
I began to study Buddhism in 2018, when I was traveling in Nepal and attended the Kopan November class. +
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1977, Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche +
I started practicing zen in 2001 with Arnold Shugen Sensei from the Mountains and Rivers Order. Shugen Sensei used to visit the prison and teach Zen Boddhism. Over the years I studied the works of Zen Master Dogen, and many koan cases as taught by the Mountains and Rivers Order`s Abbot, John Daido Loori Roshi, and Shugen Sensei. At the same time, from 2001 to 2008, I took correspondence courses on Buddhism from the Asian Classics Institute. I completed 13 of their 15 courses. I could not finish all 15 courses because in 2008 N.Y.S. prisons banned cassette tapes. These courses covered teachings taught in monasteries of the Gelug Tradition. A great part of these courses was focused on the Lam Rim by Je Tsongkhapa, Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara, Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa, vinaya rules, and on works of several other teachers. +
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. +
I came here with any knowlegde of Buddhism with Lama Tsultrim. I just started one month ago. +
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I received my first Tantric empowerment and meditation instruction from H.H. Sakya Trizin in Germany 2002. In the following 1. years I visited the Sakya Tsechen Ling Center in Strassbourg/France on a regular basis and attended several teachings on basic Buddhist philosophical texts and empowerments by the late Khenchen Sherab Amipa Rinpoche. +
2006 with Taklung Tsetrul Pema Wangyal Rinpoche and Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche, in Portugal. +
