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Getsul vows Kalu Rinpoche in Los Angeles 1988. I returned the vows to Bokar Rinpoche in India in 1996.
Mahayana Sojong with 17th Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje in Bodhgaya 2005(?). I regularly retake the vows, especially on full moon and new moon.
I’ve taken the bodhisattva vow with many teachers. +
Genyen monastic vows for one year 6th May 1993
Bodhisattva vow also the same year. +
lay precepts and Bodhisattva vows (with Tenga Rinpoche, Khandro Rinpoche and Wangchen Rinpoche) +
I also received bodhisattva vows upon taking refuge. +
I have taken the lay precepts and bodhisattva vows on many occasion from 1998 to 2013 (including with Bokar Rinpoché in Mirik in 2001, with HH Dalai Lama in Lodeve in 2000, and almost every year at the Karma Ling Institute from 1999 to 2013). I have lived at the Karma Ling Institute from October 1999 to June 2013. +
Lay Precepts, November 2nd, 2023, with Lama Karma Tartchin.
Bodhisattva Vow, August 29th, 2024, with Jonang Gyaltsab Chokyi Nangwa Rinpoche. +
Yes, I first took the bodhisattva vow in 2011 with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and have renewed it several times. +
Full lay precepts - Tulku Damcho Rinpoche - September 2023
Novice Getsul vows - Tai Situ Rinpoche - January 2024
Bodhisattva vow - Khenpo Lodro Donyo Rinpoche - May 2025 +
I took the Bodhisattva vows with the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa a few years before my first traditional retreat. Later, just before the retreat, we took the lay precepts with Karmapa. I renewed them a few years later with Mingyur Rinpoche and again with Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche during my second retreat. +
Bodhisattva Vow in ceremony led by three lamas: Lama Kathy Wesley, Lama Tom Broadwater and Lama Adam Berner, 7/10/2021
Renewal of Bodhisattva Vow with Khenpo Ugyen, Abbot, at KTD, 8/6/2022 +
I took lay precepts (refraining from killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct, plus refraining from getting heavily intoxicated) along with refuge and bodhisattva vows for the first time with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in May 7, 2020 (online). They were renewed many times in person, as well as tantric vows taken in empowerments, the first being with Lama Tsering Everest in May 21, 2022 at Chagdud Gonpa Odsal Ling. +
Bodhisattva Vow with Khyentse Rinpoche and Chokyi Nymia Rinpoche +
Lay precepts November 2014 - Lama Losang
Bodhisattva Vows October 2024 - Lama Karma Drodhul +
Bodhisattva vows - online with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in march 2019. +
I took refuge again as well as some of the lay precepts with Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the November course in 2015.
I took Bodhisattva vows with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche under the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya in October of 2015. +
in 2010 I took the bodhisattva vow with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. +
The bodhisattva vow +
Formally I have not but everyday I recite the concise Bodhisattva vows, arranged by Chatral Rinpoche in the tradition of Patrul Rinpoche. +
Bodhisattva Vows: 13.10.2024 (Do Tulku Rinpoche)
Lay Vows: 27.5.2025 (Khenpo David Karma Choephel)
Sojong vows (as a part of rabjung): 28.7.2025 (Dorje Lopon Ganden Tsewang) +
I've taken the lay precepts from Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche in 2016, and took Bodhisatva and tantric vows during Chokling Rinpoche's Tukdrub Barchel kunsel 10 days empowerments in 2016 as well, a few months later during the Kalachakra empowerment in Bodhgaya in January H.H the Dalai Lama also gave a formal ceremony where I took both Bodhisattva and tantric vows again. I've renewed these vows on many occasions throughout the years living in Nepal. +
