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|Submissiondate=2026-02-5 | |Submissiondate=2026-02-5 | ||
|Submissionyear=2026 | |Submissionyear=2026 | ||
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|firstname=Fiona | |firstname=Fiona | ||
|lastname=Rose | |lastname=Rose | ||
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National Senior Certificate, Port Shepstone College, South Africa, 1984 | National Senior Certificate, Port Shepstone College, South Africa, 1984 | ||
|cvwork=Assistant Floor Manager / Student Examination support at HvA & UvA (University of Amsterdam) via Randstad Education, Netherlands, 2022-2026 | |cvwork=Assistant Floor Manager / Student Examination support at HvA & UvA (University of Amsterdam) via Randstad Education, Netherlands, 2022-2026 | ||
Volunteer | Volunteer - communications, coordination retreats, website design, treasurer on the board of directors, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrénées, 2018-2021 & 2024. | ||
Caregiver for elderly people living at home, Home-Instead, Amsterdam, 2018-2019 | Caregiver for elderly people living at home, Home-Instead, Amsterdam, 2018-2019 | ||
Freelancer/independent professional artist (autonomous sculpture), yoga teaching, translation services, 2003-2026 | Freelancer/independent professional artist (autonomous sculpture), yoga teaching, translation services, 2003-2026 | ||
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|otherlanguage3=Afrikaans | |otherlanguage3=Afrikaans | ||
|otherlanguage3Prof=Very good command | |otherlanguage3Prof=Very good command | ||
|introbuddhism=My | |introbuddhism=My introduction to Buddhism was at Kopan Monastery in 1989. It was a blessing to receive teachings and empowerments from Geshe Lama Konchog, whose words of wisdom left an immense imprint, and remain with me to this day. Returning to South Africa, I met Ven. Godwin Samararatne who was visiting to lead a month long retreat at Ixopo Buddhist centre. We formed a deeply meaningful teacher-student relationship that spanned years until his passing in 2000. In the Netherlands I studied with Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen, and with Geshe Ngawang Zopa at the Maitreya Institute in Emst. I also received teachings from H.H. Dalai Lama, Tulku Pema Rigdzin Rinpoche, H.E. Garchen Rinpoche, H.E. Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, Tsokni Rinpoche and Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche. In 2009 I met Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and have remained a student in his lineage since. | ||
|refugehistory=I first took refuge in 1989 with Geshe Lama Konchog (1927-2001), and afterwards with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche | |refugehistory=I first took refuge in 1989 with Geshe Lama Konchog (1927-2001), and afterwards with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. | ||
|formalvows=Yes | |formalvows=Yes | ||
|formalvowsdetails=Yes, I formally took the lay precepts and the bodhisattva vow in 1989 with Geshe Lama Konchog. | |formalvowsdetails=Yes, I formally took the lay precepts and the bodhisattva vow in 1989 with Geshe Lama Konchog, and formally renewed them with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. | ||
|ngondrocomplete=Yes | |ngondrocomplete=Yes | ||
|ngondro1=The Four Common Outer Preliminaries | |||
|ngondro1begin=1990-01-01 | |||
|ngondro1end=2015-01-01 | |||
|ngondro2=Refuge & Bodhicitta | |||
|ngondro2begin=1990-01-01 | |||
|ngondro2end=2015-01-01 | |||
|ngondro3=Purification Practice of Vajrasattva | |||
|ngondro3begin=1990-01-01 | |||
|ngondro3end=2023-01-01 | |||
|ngondro4=The Mandala Offering | |||
|ngondro4begin=2011-01-01 | |||
|ngondro5=The Practice of Guru Yoga | |||
|ngondro5begin=2013-01-01 | |||
|ngondronotes=I have completed the Ngondro except for the full number of accumulations of prostrations and accumulations of mandala offerings. | |||
|previousretreatscomplete=Yes | |previousretreatscomplete=Yes | ||
|previousretreatsdetails=1989 - month group retreat, Kopan Monastery, led by Geshe Lama Konchog | |previousretreatsdetails=1989 - month group retreat, Kopan Monastery, led by Geshe Lama Konchog | ||
1990 - months of group retreat - at SYVC Ashram, Canada (in context of undertaking a yoga teacher training). | 1990 - months of group retreat - at SYVC Ashram, Canada (in context of undertaking a yoga teacher training). | ||
1991 - month group retreat led by Ven. Godwin Samararatne, Ixopo Buddhist centre, South Africa | 1991 - month group retreat led by Ven. Godwin Samararatne, Ixopo Buddhist centre, South Africa | ||
1992 - month individual retreat, Nilambe meditation centre, 1992 Sri Lanka, | 1992 - month individual retreat, Nilambe meditation centre, 1992 Sri Lanka, under guidance of Ven. Godwin Samararatne, (also many shorter retreats in later years with Godwin in South Africa, UK, Netherlands & Sri Lanka). | ||
2011 - month individual retreat - Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark - with instruction & blessings of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche | 2011 - month individual retreat - Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark - with instruction & blessings of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche | ||
2012 - 2 month individual retreat - Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark - with instruction & blessings of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche | 2012 - 2 month individual retreat - Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark - with instruction & blessings of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche | ||
2012 - group retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark, led by H.E. Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche | 2012 - group retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark, led by H.E. Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche | ||
2013 - group retreat Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark, led by H.E. Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche | 2013 - group retreat Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Denmark, led by H.E. Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche | ||
2013 - 4 month individual retreat | 2013 - 4 month individual retreat with guidance & blessings of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, at Nagi Gompa, Nepal | ||
2019 - 6 week group retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrénées - led by Drupon Lama Tenzin Sangpo | 2019 - 6 week group retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrénées - led by Drupon Lama Tenzin Sangpo | ||
2020 - 3 month group retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrénées - led by Drupon Lama Tenzin Sangpo | 2020 - 3 month group retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrénées - led by Drupon Lama Tenzin Sangpo | ||
2020 - group retreat (online attendance from home) Garchen Buddhist Institute | 2020 - group retreat (online attendance from home) Garchen Buddhist Institute | ||
2021 - group retreat (online attendance from home) Garchen Buddhist Institute | 2021 - group retreat (online attendance from home) Garchen Buddhist Institute | ||
2021 - 3 month individual retreat at home ( | 2021 - 3 month individual retreat at home (group guidance through zoom meetings, Garchen Buddhist Institute) | ||
2021 - 2 month individual retreat at home ( | 2021 - 2 month individual retreat at home (group guidance through zoom meetings, Garchen Buddhist Institute) | ||
2022 - 3 month Individual retreat at home, ( | 2022 - 3 month Individual retreat at home, (group guidance through zoom meetings, Garchen Buddhist Institute) | ||
2022 - month individual retreat at home | 2022 - month individual retreat at home (group guidance through zoom) Drikung Garchen Institute | ||
2022 - group retreat at Drikung Garchen Institute, Munich | 2022 - group retreat at Drikung Garchen Institute, Munich | ||
2023 - 6 week individual retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrenees | 2023 - 6 week individual retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrenees | ||
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2024 - 3 month group retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrenees - led by Drupon Lama Tenzin Sangpo | 2024 - 3 month group retreat, Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrenees - led by Drupon Lama Tenzin Sangpo | ||
|ynadvstudiesprogs=Yes | |ynadvstudiesprogs=Yes | ||
|advstudiesprogsdetails=I have studied Buddhist courses within the context of a B.A.curriculum at Leiden University. I withdrew from the study after about one year, not completing the degree; | |||
I have studied courses within the F.P.M.T. Basic and F.P.M.T. Masters Buddhist study program, attending these courses in person at the Maitreya Institute in Emst, Netherlands. The advanced courses were taught by Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen & the basic courses were taught by Geshe Ngawang Zopa; | |||
I have also followed the Tara Triple Excellence online program by DharmaSun with it’s structured approach of online recorded teachings & guidance by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Drupon Lama Tenzin Sangpo. | |||
|ynofferedservices=Yes | |ynofferedservices=Yes | ||
|offeredservicesdetails=I was invited by the foundation ‘Dalai Lama Netherlands’ to create & coordinate public screenings of audio-visual material (editing various short films and photographic footage sourced from archives) at the RAI Rotterdam and AHOY Amsterdam arenas during the visits of H.H. Dalai Lama to the Netherlands in 2009 and in 2014; | |||
I volunteered for ‘Dhonden foundation’ (https://dhonden.nl) as a board member, and adapting their website, and working on various fundraising projects - e.g. creating a documentary (interviews with Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen and video footage) about the Ganden Jangtse monastery; helping to coordinate the Lama dance fundraising events at various locations in the Netherlands undertaken by a group of monks from the Tsawa Khamtsen of Ganden monastery in India; | |||
In 2011 I offered to begin the Dutch translation project for DharmaSun of the Tara Triple Excellence online program. I was the project coordinator of the Dutch translation team from 2011 until 2015; | |||
I have volunteered for Erik Pema Kunsang to create transcriptions of teachings that took place at retreats led by Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche at Gomde Denmark (2012, 2013), and have also volunteered doing transcription work for Garchen Rinpoche and for Drikung Garchen Institute; | |||
I volunteered at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Pyrenees in diverse ways since my first visit there in 2017. I helped with maintaining the website, social media posts, communications & fundraising, as treasurer on the board of directors and coordination & management of group retreats from 2018 - 2021, and as a residential volunteer helping with house & retreat management in 2024. | |||
|othercommunitywork=I volunteered for the Dutch Council for Refugees (https://www.vluchtelingenwerk.nl/en) to help refugees settle in their new homes in the Netherlands, providing family, language support and support for social integration. | |||
|retreatduration=36 | |||
|StartFunding=2027-01-01 | |||
|EndFunding=2029-12-31 | |||
|costestimateCurrency=EUR | |||
|costestimate=32250 | |||
|requestedamountCurrency=EUR | |||
|requestedamount=18720 | |||
|othermoney=Personal savings and family donations | |||
|letterofmotivation=The immensity of the endeavor and aspiration to do the three year retreat cannot easily be put into words. | |||
I might begin by touching upon the most essential and extraordinary point: the teacher, and a doubt-free trust in his lineage. Trust is a rare and precious thing. I met Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche in 2009, and although I felt an instant connection to him, our relationship as teacher-to-student has been able to strengthen steadily for a period of 17 years. | |||
My motivation to do the retreat is based entirely on a deep-rooted faith in the instructions that Rinpoche has entrusted to us. I have often heard his heartfelt assertion: “please don’t waste these precious instructions”. This is the core of my motivation and aspiration, and forms my commitment to practice. | |||
Growing up in South Africa, in the unfathomable time of apartheid, my childhood wish was to connect, to not be kept apart, to not bear witness to the stupidity and suffering that racism enforced upon us. In retrospect, I might call the pain of having to grow up in apartheid, one of the first ‘blessings in disguise’ pushing me to leave the country with its division of the world through dark egoistic notions and concepts. | |||
This push led me straight into the lap of my life-long source of refuge, the three jewels. I have never forgotten the descriptive metaphor of a blind turtle that rises up from the depths of the sea: what chance could there possibly be for its head to surface right into the center of a golden ring that happens to be floating upon the vast ocean? | |||
Hearing these words in Nepal at the young age of 22 from my first teacher of refuge, Geshe Lama Konchog, forms round-circle, where past and present motivation merge: to not waste this precious life. | |||
Having witnessed the passing away of many who are dear to me, including both my mother and my sister recently in December, the awareness of impermanence is close to my heart. I look towards the 3 year retreat as a rare opportunity where I can embrace solitude and contemplation without the distractions and entanglements that one has in work and family life. | |||
I wish to wholeheartedly dedicate myself to understanding, experiencing and realizing the cherished instructions and teachings that I have been fortunate enough to receive throughout my life. | |||
I’m grateful for the kindness and supportive encouragement to do retreat that I have received from my family, my husband and two daughters, and have conviction that the merit of practicing in retreat will benefit them and others through sincere love and prayers of dedication. | |||
Rejoicing in the unique and precious opportunities for contemplative retreat that Tsadra Foundation makes possible, I look forward with tremendous hope to your kind consideration of my application. | |||
Sincerely, Fiona Rose | |||
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|AcceptLetterAuthorFirst=Drupön Lama Tenzin | |||
|AcceptLetterAuthorLast=Sangpo | |||
|AcceptLetterPhone=+3725531133 | |||
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|CostLetterAuthorFirst=Mikk | |||
|CostLetterAuthorLast=Tamme | |||
|CostLetterPhone=+3725531133 | |||
|FileHaveEligibilityDocsUpld=2026-03-3_Fiona_Rose_-_Eligibility_Requirements.pdf | |||
|FileHaveCVUpld=2026-03-5_Fiona_Rose_-_CV_Resume.pdf | |||
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|recom1NameFirst=Drupön Lama Tenzin | |||
|recom1NameLast=Sangpo | |||
|recom1Relate=Meditation instructor | |||
|recom2NameFirst=Arjan | |||
|recom2NameLast=van der Meijden | |||
|recom2Relate=husband | |||
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