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I started my Buddhist studies in 2005 at Naropa University with Dr. Reggie Ray, in the Shambhala Tradition. I attended 5 dathuns. 1 at Shambhala Mountain Center, and the rest in Crestone Colorado. I took sutrayana of Hinayana and Mahayana at Naropa University. In 2016 I formally have left Dharma Ocean and have now been connected to Vajra Vidya, the Khenpos and ven. Thrangu Rinpoche. +
2000 Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh +
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1967 with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi +
2006, with Lama Lakha Rinpoche, Copenhagen, Denmark +
I grew up in a spiritual community and was exposed to Buddhism via my parents' involvement from the time that I was a child (primarily through Lama Karma Dorje at Kalu Rinpoche's Kagyu Shenpen Kunchab Center in Santa Fe, N.M. and, later, Lama Karma Chodrak at the Kagyu Mila Guru Sangha in Questa, N.M.). My more active involvement in studying Buddhism began in 1995 with Lama Karma Chodrak. +
1999, Tse Chen Ling, San Francisco, California, and Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center, San Jose, California: Ven. Robina Courtin, FPMT staff
2000, Kagyu Droden Kunkhyab, San Francisco, California: Lama Lodu Rinpoche, Lama Jinpa Tharchin +
My first main teacher is Lama Namse Rinpoche from Karma Sonam Dargye Ling monastery which I started to attend in 2003 until now. +
I've first started to study buddhism by myself through books and internet articles at around 11 years old, soon after when I was 12 I started to do regular Zazen practices at a Sōtō Zen-shu center near my house in Porto Alegre, Brasil, called 'Via Zen' under the guidence of resident Nun Shoden. Soon after that I attended short retreats at the center's rural location, 'Vila Zen' one under the guidance of Coen Roshi, the national supervisor of this specific tradition when I was 14 and later another retreat with 'Via Zen' main teacher, Monk Dengaku at 18 years old. It was only when arriving at Kathmandu though at 19 years old that I took formal refuge and started to devote myself basically full time to pratice and study, starting this process under Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche's guidance. +
July 1993 with Geshe Michael Roach and Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Tharchin +
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My studies of Buddha Dharma began about 6 years ago through various teachers online.
A few years later (2022) I met Wangchen Rinpoche +
I started in 1987 at Montreal Dharmadhatu. I studied with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche until 2010. +
