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In 1996 I started reading about it +
I started to study and practice Buddhism with lama Djinpa in 1.995 +
When I was teenager I started to read and practice the teaching of H.H. Dalai Lama, H.E. Chogyan Trungpa Rinpoche and other Buddhist teachers. +
In 2006 short before moving to Spain I went to a dharma center in Venezuela and got my first Dharma book, then later in the year I started to go to Kalu Rinpoche«s center in Mallorca, doing shine and lhagtong with the sangha members, mainly Mireia and Tonina. The first lama i met in the center was lama Tchoeky in 2007 +
In 1991 I started to study and practice Buddhism with Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche en Sonada +
IN 1999 WITH VIPASSANA GOENKA SYSTEM (THERAVADA BUDDHISM) +
YEAR 2002 WITH LAMA DRUBGYU +
I first began cultivating an interest in the Dharma when I was about 19 years old, after meeting Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche at a small gathering in Louisiana around 2007. I took Refuge and lay vows in 2014 from my teacher Lama Losang and have studied under him since. +
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. +
I began studying Buddhism with Zen Master Seung Sahn (Dae Soen Sa Nim) in 1979. I began to study Vajrayana in 1988 with Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. +
I started studying Buddhism withdisciples of the XVI thKarmapa, Ole and Hannah Nydhal, in 2002 in a Varsovian Diamond Way Center.
This same year I moved to France, where, two years later, I met XVII Karmapa TrinleThayeDorje and continued my buddhist study under his guidance. +
I began studying and practicing Buddhism at the age of 17 or 18 in Diamond Way centers in Poland, where the main lamas are the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Thaye Dorje, and Lama Ole Nydahl. +
I began reading Buddhist books in 1976 - by Thartang Tulku Rinpoche and shortly after by Chogyam Trungpa. In the early 80's I listened to recordings of Sogyal Rinpoche.
The first live teachings were in Ashland, Oregon around 1981-1982 with the Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche on Powa and Six Bardos.
My young daughters and I attended a Green Tara Wang and weekend teachings with Tai Situ Rinpoche in London - around 1986.
This was prior to taking Refuge in 1988. +
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I began in 2006 with Lama Djinpa Tarchin, in Dag Shang Kagyu +
July, 2006 DSK retreat of Lo Djong the royal road of Mahamudra Imparted by V.V. Lama Djinpa +
I learned basic shamatha and vipassana sitting practice in the "Meditation Practicum" class at Naropa University in 2003. I have been studying and practicing in Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche's sangha since 2012. +
I started studying Buddhadharma in the Spring 2011 with Mingyur Rinpoche. I was able to join the last retreat he conducted in Hong Kong before leaving for his wondering retreat. In the same year, I have also met my other Teachers: June 2011 and November 2011 Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (retreats at Gomde UK and Nepal) and in November 2011 I met Tsoknyi Rinpoche at Tergar Osel Ling.
In the same year I started practicing the Joy of Living Programme with Tergar and Tara Triple Excellence with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche's Sangha. This has helped me to establish a regular daily practice right from the beginning. +
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. +
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. +
With Lama Djinpa Tarchin at Dag Shang Kagyü, Spain, in 2009. +
