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In 1990 with Lama Seunam (Kagyu Ling) then from 1991 with Guendune Rinpoche. +
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. +
In 1992 WITH KANDRO RINPOCHE and LAMA GUENDUNE +
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1976 First refuge with Trangu Rinpoche in Bodhanath Katmandu Nepal
1978 First extended teachings with Dudjom Rinpoche
1978 Meeting with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Please see details in my dharma curriculum vitae, in attached files. +
1974 - Trungpa Rinpoche (Allen Ginsberg) +
1974 - Trungpa Rinpoche (Allen Ginsberg) +
1974 - Trungpa Rinpoche (Allen Ginsberg) +
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 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 began studying Buddhism at the age of 15, in 2013, with Lama Karma Tartchin, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche's disciple. +
I consider my formal study of Buddhism to have started in 2003 with Geshe Sonam Rinpoche,with whom I studied for four months at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, India.All other formal advanced Buddhist studies have been completed by attending the teachings of my teachers Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche, Pema Wangyal Rinpoche and Rangdrol Rinpoche (see attached Buddhist Studies CV) +
I become a Buddhist student in 2015, under the guidance of Gyalsey Tulku Rinpoche, I studied the book written by Patrul Rinpoche “Words of my perfect teacher". I continued with the "Ways of the Bodhisattva" +
I started on 2009 in Mexico city with Tony Karam at Casa Tibet. +
I started my study of Mahayana Buddhism in 2014, participating in an informal group called "Grupo de Estudos Budistas Bodhisattva" with an instructor from Lama Padma Samten's sangha in Brazil. The study group focused on the Four Noble Truths, Twelve Links of Dependent Origination, Mind Training, Four Immeasurable Qualities, and Six Paramitas. In 2019, I started studying Buddhism more committedly with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and his senior students through Siddhartha's Intent, and one year later, through Ngondro Gar. +
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. +
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 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 began study in the Theravadin tradition with the Buddhist monk Sayadaw U Silananda in 1980, I studied and lived with him for a number of years as well as studying with other Burmese Buddhist monks until about 1995 when I became more seriously interested in Vajrayana Buddhism. I took Vajrayana refuge with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche in 1997, who I studied with until his passing in 2013. +
I attended the Antioch (now Carlton) Buddhist studies program in Bodh Gaya in 2011, after being exposed to it in my university classes. It was there that I met Kyabje Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and my practice began in earnest. +
I began to study Buddhism in the October 2015 when I attended and open retreat with Tsoknyi Rinpoche in Garrison, N. Y. and continued to attend retreats with him throughout the following years. +
