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1994, with Lama Michael Conklin & Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche +
1993 with Lama Michael +
I began to study Buddhism in depth during a 10-day Way of the Bodhisattva Retreat with Khenpo Lodro Namgyal at Pullahari Monastery in March 2011. I continued my studies with Tenga Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and teachers at Tushita Meditation Centre. In 2014, I moved to Portland, Oregon where I began to attend Kagyu Changchub Chuling, which is now my home sangha. +
1974 With Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche +
1997 Self-study, 2001-present Lamas Pema and Yeshe in Ashland OR, 2011 Lama Tara in Victoria, BC Canada by phone and at retreats. +
In 1987 when i was at university i read "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" and felt inspired to go to Brussels Samye Dzong for the first time.
My very first real teaching was an explanation of the Ngondro by Lama Guendune Rinpoche in 1988 just after I took refuge. +
Lama Norlha Rinpoche starting in 2006 under PTC’s Dharma Path Program and also attending teachings and empowerments given by him. +
When I began my Religious Studies degree in college, I quickly became most interested in Buddhism and focused my studies there and on the countries and cultures where the dharma took hold. Later, my formal Dharma studies began in spring of 2000 when I travelled to Dharamsala, India for the wedding of a dear friend and met Chamtrul Rinpoche. I felt an instant connection with him and began attending his daily classes as well as teachings with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the 17th Karmapa and other teachers in the area. That started yearly visits to India, to Dharamsala or Bodh Gaya until 2006, for study and practice under Chamtrul Rinpoche’s guidance. I met Khentrul Rinpoche in 2005 when he was teaching in Louisiana. Because of the complications that arose after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, I stopped visiting India regularly and began more serious study under Khentrul Rinpoche’s guidance. With him my practice grew and I moved to Katog Rit'hrod in 2010. +
I first began studying Buddhism in 1992 as a college student after choosing Religious Studies as my major, being drawn particularly to Buddhism and Hinduism. My teachers often had Tibetan monks and lamas visit our classes, as well as other Buddhist scholars and authors. Later in 2000, I visited India for the wedding of close friend and founder of a large non-profit in Dharamsala, India. The wedding was preformed Lobsang Gyatso Rinpoche (now Chamtrul Rinpoche) who I had an instant close connection with. I visited him daily for teachings for the remainder of that six-week trip. During that time, I took refuge with him and afterwards visited yearly for continued teachings and practice, for the following 5 years, staying for 3-6 months at a visit. During those visits I did ngondro, visited Bodh Gaya, and assisted Chamtrul Rinpoche with organizing teachings, as well teaching English to his attendant. At Chamtrul Rinpoche’s home that I first met his cousin, Khentrul Rinpoche, my root guru. +
From childhood, my parents took me to teachings with Tenga Rinpoche whenever he visited Denmark, and some of these teaching sessions were directed at children. They also brought me to teachings with other masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions. When I finished my high school studies in 2008, I took the Bachelor degree in Buddhist Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University. I also completed the BA and MA in Tibetology at Copenhagen University. I studied one academic year in the monastic university of Namdrolling, South India, and studied and translated texts of the Kagyu tradition with Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen, two months every summer of 2015-2019. I have also studied several other, shorter courses in Tibetan Buddhist topics with teachers of the Nyingma, Sakya, and Kagyu traditions. +
At the ROKPA Cardiff branch in Wales of Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, UK in 2002. I started attending meditation classes on Samatha meditation and Chenrezig practice, and attended other classes after gaining further interest through reading and speaking with others. +
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. +
Previous to actually meeting a teacher I studied and read Buddhist writers for several years. I first studied with a teacher at KKC in Burnaby, BC with Lama Tsenjur. Soon after that I met Kalu Rinpoche in Hawaii who I quickly and strongly developed a རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ connection with. +
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1989 Lama Tsedrub Tarchin Rinpoche +
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. +
2004 - Ulkraine, Lviv, tradition of Trungpa Rinpoche, Shambhala-Buddhist lineage. +
I started in the summer of 2009, when I was living at a monastery in Nepal. It was with Karma Chakme Rinpoche. +
While in high School, I started to read the Zen master's stories and poems. In 1994, Mr. Gu, Yao Lun, the chairman of Funtastic International Inc., taught me the Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva Pūrvapraṇidhāna Sūtra. Since 1998, I started to recite Sūtra, such as Sad-dharma Puṇḍárīka Sūtra, Vimalakirti Sūtra, Diamond Sūtra, Heart Sūtra, the books of Dalai Lama, Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and so on. Since 2000, I have been following Garchen Rinpoche and receiving his teachings and empowerments at Garchen Institute in Arizona, and different cities in US, Germany, and Taiwan. During 2005-2017, I received the Longchen Nyingtig Ngondro teachings and empowerments from Tulku Nyima Gyaltshen Rinpoche in China and Tibet. Under the guidance of Tulku Nyima Gyaltshen Rinpoche, I finished the 4 and half months Common Ngondro retreat and Uncommon Ngondro. I have completed about 7,000,000 accumulations of Guru Yoga. +
I was introduced to Buddhism by a Hollow Bones Zen teacher in 2015, named Sean Hearn. I was just drawn to the meditative presence he exuded and quickly fell in love with the practice. He led a group that I went to weekly, as well as guided me through the Hollow Bones Mondo Zen koans. Through him I met my teacher Darlene Tataryn, and through her my teachers Lama Sidney McQueen -Smith and Lama Rodney Devenish. +
1993, with GenduÌn Rinpoche +
