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As a child starting around 1976 with/in the Vajra Dhatu shanga +
I started to study Tibetan Buddhism in 1987 with Ngakpa Chogyam +
I started practising in 1972 with an informal Zen Meditation group in Montreal. +
2000 - with Tulku Anam Thubten Rinpoche, and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche +
In 1996, when I was a senior in high school, I was introduced to meditaion by Sam Bercholz, a Shambhala Acharia +
Lama Tharchin RinpochŽ, 1998 +
1975 Joen Nakagawa Roshi +
I read various Buddhist books in high school, but I met Lama Tharchin Rinpoche in 1999 and became focused on Vajrayana Buddhist and the Dudjom lineage. +
I read various Buddhist books in high school, but I met Lama Tharchin Rinpoche in 1999 and became focused on V j B ddhi d th D dj li +
I grew up in Eastern Russia in the Buddhist Republic of Buryatia and have always considered myself a Buddhist. In 1993-2000 I worked and studied with a Tibetan doctor in St Petersburg named Tsering Wangyal Bista.
I started to study and practice seriously in the US in 2003 after a retreat with Khenpo Choga. +
It depends. I feel that my father's interest in Eastern philosophy, and my mother's practice of Eastern medicine and Yoga have definitely had a formative effect on me. Furthermore, indirectly, I started studying Buddhism with my mentor Dr. Cohn when I was 16, in year 2005 in high school, shortly after moving to US. He helped lay the foundation for the path, without my being aware of it. Upon his recommendations, I studied and read mindfulness related subjects and authors, including Alexander technique, Daniel Goleman, and Robert Wright. The seeds planted in my midstream are still continuing to ripen today and in the foreseeable future. I engaged in more formal study, first by visiting a local zendo, and after a move a few years later, by becoming a member at the local Phoenix Shambhala center and taking the gradual course curriculum. +
I was born and raised in a Buddhist family in a Tibetan community who followed Nyingma +
I began studying Buddhism and meditating regularly on my own in 2020, and started practicing seriously under the guidance of authentic lineage holders of the Chokling Tersar in 2022. In 2020 I started listening to dharma talks online and doing guided meditations on a regular basis. In the summer of 2022, I participated in the Gomde California Buddhist Studies Summer program led by Lama Tsultrim Sangpo. That summer I also started watching online teachings by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, my primary teacher. I met Phakchok Rinpoche in September 2022 and met Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche in person in August 2023. In the summer of 2022 I started practicing Treasury of Blessings and Tara's Triple Excellence. I began the Tukdrup Barche Kunsel Ngondro in 2023 under the guidance of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Phakchok Rinpoche. +
1997, with GenduÌn Rinpoche +
Juin 1980 avec Guéshé Ngawan Kyenrab +
In 1997 with Lama Denys and Karma Ling Institute (France) +
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I first started to study Buddhism in the fall of 1996 with Lama Inge at the Chagdud Gonpa center in Spokane, WA. +
I first started to study Buddhism in the fall of 1996 with Lama Yeshe Zangmo (Inge Sandvoss) at the Chagdud Gonpa center in Spokane, WA. +
In 2007 I started studying with Sogyal Rinpoche and soon followed the Rigpa study +
I started with 3 Vipassana retreats in Switzerland in 1985-86, with local teacher Walter Klingler and with Mother Sayama, who came all the way from Burma. In 1987 I set out to Asia in search of my meditation teacher and by that time it was clear to me that I seek him or her in the Tibetan tradition. I traveled around for one year and encountered many teachers and finally met my root Lama, Gegen Khyentse Gyatso, at the Monastery of Apo Rinpoche in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India and stayed with him for 7 years. The last two of these seven years was part of a intended 3 years retreat out of which I was however forced due to visa problems. I later spent 3 months at Zen Mountain Center, California, training with Tenshin Sensei in the Zen tradition; in 1998 I went to Japan where trained for one year with Harada Tangen Roshi at Bukkokuji monastery in Obama, Fukui ken. Since my return to Switzerland I predominantly trained under Drikung Kargyud Lamas, predominantly with Garchen Rinpoche. +
