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In 2015 I started to study Buddhism in Khenpo Sodargye's Ngondro class.
Please see details in my dharma resume. +
In 2009 I discovered the teaching of the Buddha in Southeast Asia (Laos), and studied the book “what the Buddha taught” by Walpola Rahula
Since 2015 I am a resident-student, karma yogi and project manager at Karma Ling Institute (France) :
I graduated the Shedra Rimay’s intensive study and practice program both in “Dharma Diploma” and “Contemplative sciences” with distinction (Rinpoche courses)
I am the Communication and Dana manager of the Rimay Community +
I received my first Tantric empowerment and meditation instruction from H.H. Sakya Trizin in Germany 2002. In the following 1½ 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. +
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 started on 2009 in Mexico city with Tony Karam at Casa Tibet. +
In 1978 when I was sixteen years old, in my home town Wuppertal in Germany there was a Tibetan Buddhist Karma Kagyu center wher I started studying and attended seminars and empowerments from the previous Ven. Kalu Rinpoche, Ven. Tenga Rinpoche, Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche, Ven. Tulku Urgyen and Ven. Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche as well as Ven. Tai Situ Rinpoche and other highly regarded teachers. +
I started in Feb 2015. I started practicing and learning officially through Dharma Ocean teachings and online courses. Mostly with Neil Mcinley at Dharma Ocean. I had 2 Meditation Instructors at Dharma Ocean who supported me in my beginning practice; Justin Duituri and Katheryn Walker. I also connected with Shambhala, Tsultrim Allione Group practice in Boulder and Vajra Vidya in Crestone CO.
Later I came to connect with Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu Groups In 2017 in Questa and Santa Fe NM. +
I have met the Dharma on June 2018 at Palpung Sherabling Monastery, place which I visited with the intention of getting in touch and know more of Tibetan Medicine.
But after hearing the four thoughts that turn the mind to the Dharma, by talking to a stranger at a common area in the monastery, I felt such a strong devotion towards the teachings of the Buddha, that I was compelled to stay there and start studying and practicing Buddhism.
I did this by joining the Joy of Living Programs composed by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and, two months later, after completing the level 1 of his program, I personally attended to a live teaching of the level 1 and 2, and had the good fortune to meet Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
From that point onwards, I have kept practising regularly, and a sense of devotion and motivation to live a life in accordance with the precepts of the Dharma and my lineage have only increased further and further. +
My first live teaching was with Lama Lekshe Dorje in Bekescsaba(Hungary), in june 2017, after that I started to listen to his recorded teachings from summer of 2017. Continuous online/live(skype) weekly teachings with Lama Lekshe Dorje since october 2017. I met him for the first time in 2009 while I was working for his cousin. +
Jigme Tromge Rinpoche 2011 +
In 2007 I started to go the Shangpa Dharma Center in Mallorca and practiced with the sangha members and visiting lamas. Then I went to India and practiced under the guidance of Khenpo Choeying. Back in Spain I practiced under the guidance of Lama Djinpa, and soon I started to go to Pullahari. +
I have started to study Buddhism in the year 1990 with Tulku Urgyen and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. I have also received teachings from Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche, Nyushel Khen Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche and Trulshig Rinpoche. I have also also studied with Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and also received many teachings from Khenchen Tranghu Rinpoche. +
I never study Buddhism, all I know now I start to study one month ago. I came here with any knowlegde of Buddhism with Lama Tsultrim. +
I came here with any knowlegde of Buddhism with Lama Tsultrim. I just started one month ago. +
I started the Buddhist path in 2017, after attending Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche's fall seminar in Nepal.
For many years before, I was navegating different knowledge and practice traditions: Western Psychology, a hindu tradition (the Art of Living), new era psychology (Louise L. Hay) and Antroposophy (through Waldorf Pedagogy). None of them satisfied me as they could not address my deeper existential questions.
Ever since I entered the Temple in Ka-Nying Sherab Ling, in Kathmandu, and attended Rinpoche's teachings, I had the feeling of finally finding the "planet" I belonged to.
Rinpoche accepted me as a student and sent me off to the Pyrénées to serve and to start my path after offering me genuine instructions and guidance, a real Refuge. +
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 grew up with a strong influence of Toho no Hikari, a Japanese sect based on Kanzeon Bosatsu, Ooshin Miroku and Amaterasu pure land practices. Through my strong connections with Japanese Martial Arts in High School I started practicing Buddhist Zen Meditation.
To reconnect with my Comechingon blood I started to travel around South America, learning from Pemones, Machiguengas and Cocamillos. Where I was trained in the medicine path, through the traditional fasting for 5 years. Living in the Jungle after several indications I was told my path was that of the Budha.
In 2015 I got married, and my partner agreed it was time to go India to find a root guru. I had received Vajrayana teachings before but I consider that it was in 2016 at Lapchi with Nyanyod resident Lama when I seriously started studying buddhadharma. I knew I needed to engage in gradual studies; Prof. Elias Capriles was the instructor that hooked my mind into Santi Maha Sangha Base studies. +
I met Buddhism in 2015 during a trip in Singapore. I visited the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and they gave me a small book "Just be good", explaining the basis of Buddhism. Then I looked for Ajahn Brahm -who wrote the foreword- on the Internet and found many interesting talks about dharma applied to everyday life. In 2016 I came to Shangpa Karma Ling (close to where I was living in France) for the first time for a weekend to discover meditation. Then I started practicing meditation on a daily basis and progressively got interested in the Buddha teachings. So I came back regularly to Shangpa Karma Ling for seminars with different lamas, and particularly with my root lama, Denys Rinpoche. +
I started the study and practicing Buddhism in 2004 when I was 24 years old. I was on an independent study project through my university, one where I was able to study and do retreats in both Thailand and India. Here I was introduced to Vipassana at Wat Pa Nanachant in Thailand. After completing a couple of retreats, I then learned the basics of Mahayana and Vajrayana in Dharamsala, India through Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and HH the Dalai Lama. After returning to the states, I began studying and practicing in the Theravada tradition through Insight Meditation Society teachers Rodney Smith, Heather Martin, and Joseph Goldstein. I was also the President of my university's mindfulness club for students. Here I hosted weekly mindfulness meditation groups. +
- 2005 until 2008 Sogyal Rinpoche in Lerab Ling, helping to build the Temple and during the 3-Year Retreat
- 2008 till date Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche +
