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{{SavedApplication | {{SavedApplication | ||
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|Submissiondate=2024-07-31 | |Submissiondate=2024-07-31 | ||
|Submissionyear=2024 | |Submissionyear=2024 | ||
|page=20240728004017-Ngawang-Senge-Submission | |||
|firstname=Ngawang | |firstname=Ngawang | ||
|lastname=Senge | |lastname=Senge | ||
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|writtentibcomprehension=Near native skills | |writtentibcomprehension=Near native skills | ||
|tibetanrequiredforretreat=Required | |tibetanrequiredforretreat=Required | ||
|tibetanretreatparts=All of my practice texts, prayers, rituals. Commentaries, namtars etc are in Tibetan as was the case during my previous three year retreats. | |tibetanretreatparts=All of my practice texts, prayers, rituals. Commentaries, namtars, etc are in Tibetan as was the case during my previous three-year retreats. | ||
|introbuddhism=I started formally in 1995 with Chagdud Rinpoche at his retreat center in Junction Ciy, CA where I lived for 4 years doing work-study and half-time retreat going through their 4 year Vajrayana, Tsalung, and Dzogchen curriculum. My first empowerments and teachings were the Nyingtik Yabzhi, followed by the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro which I completed by September 1996. Then I received Troma Nakmo, Dudjom Lingpa’s Nang Jang, Yeshe Lama, Rigdzin Sokdrup Tsalung, and Chetsun Nyingtik. I engaged in two six week group retreats each year, 3 months of tsalung, 100 day Chetsun retreat, and a solitary 3 month retreat. After reading Shabkar’s biography and others, it became clear that the way we were being taught and practicing was not how the great masters of the past did. So in August of 99’, I went to Nepal to learn the authentic tradition. | |introbuddhism=I started formally in 1995 with Chagdud Rinpoche at his retreat center in Junction Ciy, CA where I lived for 4 years doing work-study and half-time retreat going through their 4 year Vajrayana, Tsalung, and Dzogchen curriculum. My first empowerments and teachings were the Nyingtik Yabzhi, followed by the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro which I completed by September 1996. Then I received Troma Nakmo, Dudjom Lingpa’s Nang Jang, Yeshe Lama, Rigdzin Sokdrup Tsalung, and Chetsun Nyingtik. I engaged in two six week group retreats each year, 3 months of tsalung, 100 day Chetsun retreat, and a solitary 3 month retreat. After reading Shabkar’s biography and others, it became clear that the way we were being taught and practicing was not how the great masters of the past did. So in August of 99’, I went to Nepal to learn the authentic tradition. | ||
|refugehistory=From Chagdud Rinpoche, in October 1995 I received refuge and bodhichitta vows. | |refugehistory=From Chagdud Rinpoche, in October 1995 I received refuge and bodhichitta vows. | ||
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|offeredservicesdetails=I did translation work for HH Getse Rinpoche, Tulku Sang Ngag and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. And in accordance with the encouragement and direction of many of my lamas, I began to teach, for now focusing on Ngondro (Katok and Longchen Nyingtik), the extensive commentary to the 37 Practices by Dzatrul Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, and the practices of Shamatha and Vipasyana, as well as guiding long term practitioners in retreat. | |offeredservicesdetails=I did translation work for HH Getse Rinpoche, Tulku Sang Ngag and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. And in accordance with the encouragement and direction of many of my lamas, I began to teach, for now focusing on Ngondro (Katok and Longchen Nyingtik), the extensive commentary to the 37 Practices by Dzatrul Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, and the practices of Shamatha and Vipasyana, as well as guiding long term practitioners in retreat. | ||
|othercommunitywork=I built two stupas at Rigdzin Ling from 1995-1996 and helped in the remaining 6 stupas until 1998. | |othercommunitywork=I built two stupas at Rigdzin Ling from 1995-1996 and helped in the remaining 6 stupas until 1998. | ||
I also helped build four retreat cabins and a retreat temple dedicated to Vimalamitra and the Chetsun Nyingtig. | |||
I built a shrine for that temple and did all of the artwork as well as helped build the life-size statue of Vimalamitra. | |||
|retreatduration=6.5 years | |retreatduration=6.5 years | ||
|StartFunding=2025-02-01 | |StartFunding=2025-02-01 | ||
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As I begin to write this, and you ask why you should consider my application. I can think of many reasons why you shouldn't. There are so many deserving new practitioners around the world more deserving of your help. I am someone who although I possess sincere faith, intention and try my best to give rise to bodhichitta, I am full of flaws and short-comings that I directly acknowledge and confess them all, every last one. I have had so many "uprisings" lhong tshad in my life which I did not liberate, so many great challenges in my life of Dharma that truly shook me to the core. Though, I have not abandoned the Dharma, I continue to the best of my ability to address my flaws and short-comings and to develop the principles of a practitioner. | As I begin to write this, and you ask why you should consider my application. I can think of many reasons why you shouldn't. There are so many deserving new practitioners around the world more deserving of your help. I am someone who although I possess sincere faith, intention and try my best to give rise to bodhichitta, I am full of flaws and short-comings that I directly acknowledge and confess them all, every last one. I have had so many "uprisings" lhong tshad in my life which I did not liberate, so many great challenges in my life of Dharma that truly shook me to the core. Though, I have not abandoned the Dharma, I continue to the best of my ability to address my flaws and short-comings and to develop the principles of a practitioner. | ||
I now see how rare and precious this life is. And after having met so many sublime beings and drank their priceless nectar, if I were to die | I now see how rare and precious this life is. And after having met so many sublime beings and drank their priceless nectar, if I were to die without accomplishing the Dharma, what a waste of a precious human birth. For the sake of the Dharma and all beings as limitless as space itself, I must continue to persevere to complete enlightenment and repay the immeasurable kindness of all of my kind gurus. It is easy to write these words, but I sincerely mean every word. | ||
As Tulku Pema Wangyal once told me, the mind of a bodhisattva should be to not simply aspire to do retreat until you die, but to make the firm vow to remain in retreat for as many lifetimes as it takes to become a buddha. Then true and lasting benefit for all beings of the 6 realms will arise ceaselessly. | As Tulku Pema Wangyal once told me, the mind of a bodhisattva should be to not simply aspire to do retreat until you die, but to make the firm vow to remain in retreat for as many lifetimes as it takes to become a buddha. Then true and lasting benefit for all beings of the 6 realms will arise ceaselessly. | ||
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|recom1NameFirst=Dan | |recom1NameFirst=Dan | ||
|recom1NameLast=Attias | |recom1NameLast=Attias | ||
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|recom2Email=carl.land.tattoo@gmail.com | |recom2Email=carl.land.tattoo@gmail.com | ||
|recom2Relate=Dharma friend | |recom2Relate=Dharma friend | ||
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