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In 1999 with Venerable Tenga Rinpoche at Benchen Monastery. +
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I began to study Budddhism with Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche in 1985. +
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. +
In perhaps 2004, when I was perhaps 16, I became interested in Buddhism and started voraciously reading books about the subject, primarily interested in the Zen tradition. At 18, in late 2006, I was introduced to the method of shamatha meditation by a Vietnamese monk at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, in Talmage, California. I first took up a formal practice with the Arcata Zen Group in Arcata, California, where I was attending university following that. Eventually I came to the Tibetan Buddhist (Nyingma) tradition after visiting Chagdud Gompa, Rigdzin Ling, in 2006 and 2007, and that's where my troubles began... +
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. +
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 +
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The first course in the studies of Buddhism I took in 2008 in NY NY. It was a two-weeks course with Geshe Michael Roach. The Dharma teachings penetrated me deeply and influenced my life instantly. I did not specifically had a connection to Ven. Geshe Michael Roach in order to become his student. I continued to study and kept praying to meet the Guru.
In fall 2015 upon my first visit to Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in Woodstock I knew it was my home. I had an audience with Ven. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche and, for the rest of the day, I cried with joy from overwhelming grace. During my next visit couple weeks later I asked and Ven. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche accepted me as his student. +
I started studying Buddhism in 2011, through reading books on my own. I initially gained the interest through observing my father meditate. Through him and my godfather, I began to associate loosely with the Rigpa Sweden sangha, under Sogyal Rinpoche. Later, my interest matured, and at 20 years of age, in 2019, I decided to come to Nepal to study buddhism and tibetan language full time. +
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I start study in Brasil in Chagdud Tulku rinpoche Monastery (Dudjom Tesar), and with Dzongsar Kyentse Rinpoche . Then Phakchok Rinpoche one day come to teach Mahamudra. When i see Rinpoche my heart open in hapiness ,and after i meet Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (2011). The both teacher transforme my mind and my heart and i start pratice the Chokling Tesar. +
I began to study Buddhism in 2007, my final year of undergraduate studies, in which I attended weekly Chenrezig practice under the instruction of my professor's wife, Charlotte Mandel Kelly. She had completed a three year retreat at Kagyu Thubten Choling, as did my professor, Robert Kelly, under the guidance of Lama Norlha Rinpoche. +
I began to study Buddhism when I was a child. My mother was buddhist, and both myself and my brother were raised with Pema Osel Ling as our center, and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche as our Lama. As a young child, the majority of my study was through children's programs at the center with Khenpo Sonam under Rinpoche's guidance. As I got older, I received more of my instruction and teachings primarily from Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. +
1995 with Professor Mark Wallace of Swarthmore College +
I started to study Buddhism in 2003. I met and attended a 4 week retreat with Khenpo Choga Rinpoche in Eugene OR. +
1983 - A student of Tarthang Tulku's, Kip Haahiem, who taught me the Manjusri Mantra and some simple sitting meditation, I then started reading the "Kindly bent to ease us" trilogy by Herbert Gunther. +
b 1963 In 8th grade my sense of renunciation percolated into consciousness. I began having mystical experiences I couldn't explain and read widely trying to figure out what was happening to me. Evelyn Underhill's "Mysticism" and James' "Varieties of Religious Experience" were eye openers but still didn't satisfy. Only when I encountered Huang Po was there a click. During a poetry reading at the public library I had a vision of a perfect blue Buddha in a blue bindu as high as the ceiling but didn't think much about it. I read Dogen Zenji's "On the Merits of Becoming a Monk" and told my thereapist Marion Hendrics (now head of the Focusing Institute who it turned out had studied with Namkhai Norbu) that I was considering becoming a monk and remember her shock.
In college a Chinese translation of Nagarjuna's works into English became my bible and I met Geshe Lhundrup Sopa at UW Madison where I audited part of his intro to Buddhism. But I couldn't find any good books on Tibetan Buddhism and lost interest. Then, on the Student Year in Nepal Program 1985-6, I attended the Kopan Course and stayed after to read in the library where I encountered Longchenpa's "Wonderment" and determined I was a Nyingmapa. I met Sakya Korchak Tulku and began to learn from him spending time almost every day together; later, Thinley Norbu suggested to me that he was likely a Maha Siddha when I expressed qualms about his unconventional behavior. Korchak Tulku had studied under the previous Sakya Trichen, with brothers
Dagchen Rinpoche and Sakya Thrinley (his tutor). I tutored Nerong Tulku who completed a twelve year retreat with one teacher +
My introduction to Buddhism was in July of 2002, when I attended a teaching of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. Since then he has been my primary teacher, and beginning in 2006 I have received teachings and instruction from several other teachers as well, including Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw, H.H. Kathok Getse Rinpoche, B. Alan Wallace, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. +
I first made contact with Buddhism in 1989 when I was in Hong Kong. I was introduced by a friend of mine to a Buddhist study group run by Peter Kedge under the FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition), which was/is ultimately under the spiritual care of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Through this group i was exposed to meditation and Mahayana concepts and motivation. I truly believed that there was no higher motivation on earth than to become enlightened in order to enlighten all mother sentient beings. I am still inspired by this. +
1974 with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa in Kopan, Nepal +
1998 with Lama Yeshe Wangmo (reconized Lama from Dudjom Tersar lineage) +
I have considered myself a committed Buddhist practitioner since taking my first formal refuge vows from Dagchen Rinpoche at Sakya monastery in Seattle 8 years ago. Before then I had mostly read and studied on my own, and been to very informal mindfulness meditation nights with Joel and Michelle Levey.
Since I can remember I was always incredibly interested in the buddhist path and the tibetan tradition specifically. I grew up in different spiritual communities in Seattle, Washington. My parent's were both Hindu devotees of Meher Baba. After their divorce when i was 2 my father had a long string of girl friends, many of whom were Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, so those were my earliest encounters with Buddhist practice and teachers. +
