Two Months Pre-Sequel celebration of Vesak 2007
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This will be a event stretching till the Eve of Vesak
There will be alot of Buddha pictures and Venerables introduction starting today
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Homage to Guru Rinpoche ,Padmasambhava
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Homage to the Throneholder of Drikung Kagyu
His Holiness The 37th Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang
The 37th successor of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage and 7th reincarnation of Konchok Rinchen is a manifestation of Avalokiteshvara. His Holiness was born into the well known Tsarong family of Lhasa in 1946. he was recognized at four and a half years of age and formally enthroned in Drikung Thil. His Holiness received different initiations and transmissions of the general Kagyu teachings as well as the unique teachings of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage.
In 1959 Rinpoche had to leave his monastery. His Holiness' family had already fled Tibet for India. His Holiness was adopted by his teacher, Tritsab Rinpoche and he lived in Lhasa. His Holiness attended elementary and middle school and excelled in sports.
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His Holiness The 36th Drikung Kyabgon Chungtsang
His Holiness The 36th Drikung Kyabgon Chungtsang
The first incarnation of Drikung Kyabgon Chungtsang Rinpoche was born in 1595. The 36th successor of Drikung Kagyu Lineage and the 8th present reincarnation of Drikung Kyabgon Chungtsang Rinpoche was born in Tibet in 1942, in the well known Lhagyari family, the lineage of the Tibetan kings.
His Holiness was four years old when he was enthroned at Drikung Thil. His Holiness received all the empowerments and oral transmissions of the Kagyu teachings as well as the teachings of the Drikung Kagyu lineage from his private tutors and a few illustrious teachers.
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His Holiness Pema Norbu Rinpoche is the 11th Throneholder of The Palyul Lineage of Nyingma. He is considered one of the of the foremost masters of the Buddhist tradition of Tibet. Throughout the Buddhist community he is respected for his vast knowledge and accomplishment and for the integrity and strength with which he upholds the Buddhist teachings.
This web page is offered as a resource for information about His Holiness and his work to make available, preserve and promote the spiritual traditions he has mastered
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The Yangsis of HH Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
By Nyingma.com and others
Feb 12, 2007, 21:39
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Two boys have been recognised as the yangsi of HH Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje. Multiple rebirths of great lamas are not all that unusual .
Khyabje Dudjom Yangsi Rinpoche
Kyabje Dudjom Yangsi Rinpoche was born in the Iron Horse Year of the 17th Rabjung Cycle (1990) in Kyegudo (Yuesue County of Qinghai Province in China) to Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's own son, Dola Tulku Jigmed Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and his wife Pema Khandro. Following many auspicious signs including rainbows and there was much speculation as to who this child might be the rebirth of even before he was born. It was the terton and wisdom dakini, Tare Khandro (Tare Lhamo), the daughter of another great terton in Golok, Aphang Terton who first recognised him as the tulku of HH Dudjom Rinpoche. Ven. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche III came to see Yangsi Rinpoche in Kyegudo and gave him the name "Pema Osel" (Lotus Light). While Dzongshar Rinpoche performed important initiations for Dudjom Yangsi Rinpoche, three layers of rainbows appeared above the roof of the house. After receiving a letter from Tare Khandro, His Holiness Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche said he believed the child to be the Dudjom tulku and wrote to HH Dudjom RinpocheÂ’s eldest son, HH Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche who agreed with his view and visited the young tulku in Chengdu, Sichuan to meet Yangsi Rinpoche in 1993. -
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born in 1946 in Thami, in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, not far from the Lawudo cave where his predecessor had meditated for the last 20 years of his life. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is now the Spiritual Director of the Foundation and oversees all of its activities.
" Anybody who dedicates their life to achieving lam rim realizations with the goal to liberate numberless beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and to bring to enlightenment, this is what I regard as the most important thing in the world. "
–Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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His Holiness, Sakya Trizin, is the one of the world's preeminent masters of Tibetan Buddhism, and is the supreme head of the Khon Sakya lineage. Born in Tibet in 1945, His Holiness ascended to the throne of Sakya at the young age of seven, when he was recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Trained since early age of the various teachings of sutra and tantra, His Holiness is widely regarded as an emanation of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. Presently residing in Mussoorie, Northern India, His Holiness travels frequently around the world and is tireless in bestowing initiations and teachings to a growing group of dedicated disciples. -
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, is the head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was born Lhamo Dhondrub on 6 July 1935, in a small village called Taktser in northeastern Tibet. Born to a peasant family, His Holiness was recognized at the age of two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the reincarnation of his predecessor the 13th Dalai Lama, and thus an incarnation Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion.
"When others insult, rebuke and speak unpleasant words to us, although an intolerable pain arises like a thorn at the heart, if we comprehend the teachings then we can recognize the essenceless nature of these words which resemble an echo. So just as when an inanimate object is scolded, we will experience not the slightest mental turmoil. "
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Welcome to the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery website. This Drukpa Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist Nunnery was founded in 2000 for young women from Tibet and other Himalayan regions like Ladakh, Spiti,and Kinnaur. Here the nuns practice meditation and study Buddhist Philosophy, ritual, English and other practical skills.
At present in 2005 there are 35 nuns living and studying at the Nunnery, part of which is still under construction. It is situated about 6 kilometres from Khampagar Monastery, seat of His Eminence Khamtrul Rinpoche, the Spiritual Director of DGL Nunnery, at Tashi Jong in the Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. We hope to eventually train up to 100 nuns, helping them to realise their spiritual potential.
One of the main objectives of this Nunnery in the future is to train a group of nuns in the Togdenma tradition. This precious lineage of spiritually realised yoginis dedicated to enlightenment will be of immense benefit in providing qualified female meditation teachers in the Tibetan tradition.
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The Drukpa (Tib. druk "dragon", pa "person", implicitly, "school") is a major sect within the Kagyupa school of Tibetan Buddhism. Within the Drukpa lineage, there are further sub-schools, most notably the eastern Kham tradition. In Bhutan the Drukpa lineage is the dominant school and state religion.
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The Drukpa school was founded in western Tibet by Tsangpa Gyare (1161-1211) who mastered the Tantric Buddhism practices of the mahamudra and six yogas of Naropa at an early age. As a terton, or finder of spiritual relics, he discovered the text of the Six Equal Tastes, previously hidden by Rechungpa, the student of Milarepa. While on a pilgrimage Tsangpa Gyare and his disciples witnessed a set of nine dragons roaring out of the earth and into the skies, as flowers rained down everywhere. From this incident they named their sect Drukpa. -
Welcome to the site of H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje, the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Karmapa was the first incarnate lama (tulku) in Tibet. The present 17th Karmapa was found and recognized as the genuine Karmapa reincarnation by H.H. Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, second to the Karmapa in the Karma Kagyu Lineage.
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In 1985, a boy named "Apo Gaga" was born into a nomadic family in eastern Tibet. In 1992 that boy was recognized as the Seventeenth Karmapa. His biography can nevertheless properly be said to start some eight centuries earlier, according to the tradition in Tibet that enlightened masters ("tulkus") can reincarnate in order to extend the time in which they can benefit beings.
The 17 Karmapas
(1110-present) The Karmapas have incarnated in this form of nirmanakaya, or manifestation body, for seventeen lifetimes, as of the present, and all have played the most important role in preserving and propagating the Buddhist teachings of Tibet.
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The eminent Mahayana monk of our times
Ven Hai tao is a proponent of Mahayana Revealed teaching
Founded several Buddhist project and
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Gharwang Rinpoche paid a glorious visit to Gandan Thupten Nyalig as invited and returned the offerings he received back to the devotees without slightest pang of attachment. This was the first time such an event ever took place.
Apart from that, Rinpoche made extensive spiritual tours visiting Zurmang Dudtsi Thil, Jakhi Gon, Dogon Phuntsok Ling, Tharthon Gon, Kyarong Gon and Palmea Gon respectively, donating different amounts of money respectively.
With unflinching sincere commitment in the efforts of promoting the precious doctrine of Lord Buddha he provided salaries to those three Dupkang retreat center, of upper and lower shrine of protector for seven years with generosity and ever since then he had paid series of visits there.
Among the numerous visits he had made there, the second visit was in conformity with death anniversary of Zurmang 11th Tenga Rinpoche in 1993 bearing purest motivation to relieve the grief of devotees and the mother of Tenga Rinpoche, who had departed the world in 1992 owing to the exhaustion of the merit of the devotees.
With boundless affection and infinite compassion for the living and welfare of the monks who came to both the upper and lower monasteries from various places with pure purpose of spiritual pursuit, Gharwang Rinpoche gave 300 Yuans to each of them as a warm gesture of encouragement to retain their soaring spiritual commitment forever.
He also donated more than 100000 Yuans to two groups of Zurmang Yu Dok. With deepest sympathy towards the mother and sons of late Tenga Rinpoche over his physical departure, he bestowed presents upon them symbolizing his solidarity.
His third visit there was during the ceremonial enthronement of the reincarnation of Tenga Rinpoche in 1996. RinpocheÂ’s benevolent deeds in Tibet were met with great success and later he returned to Sikkim, India.
Marked by a character of unshakable determination and altruism in both previous lives and the present, Rinpoche has made unsurpassed efforts to propagate and preserve Buddhism. He has compassionately been running and providing all required facilities for two monastic institutions of the Zurmang tradition, one in Tibet and another in Sikkim, India.
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Master Cheng Yen, founder of Tzu Chi Foundation presides over a small Buddhist temple in Hualien, Taiwan and Tzu Chi's worldwide charity program.
Master Cheng Yen's life experiences inspired her to search for a form of Buddhism that would reflect unconditional love through action. Many past incidents shaped her vision and she felt a higher calling. When her father had died of a heart attack, she felt guilty. In his passing, she felt that she had erred in caring for him. Later, at a hospital, she witnessed a penniless, aborigine woman be denied medical attention while bleeding on the floor. Another time, a Catholic missionary said to her, "You Buddhists are a passive group and ignore the needs of others." Master Cheng Yen was determined to serve all humanity. She envisioned a world of kindness, compassion, joy and equality. -
Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese: ThÃch Nhất Hạnh; IPA: [tʰik35 ɲɜt35 hɐʲŋ3ʔ1] listen (help·info) is an expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk. A teacher, author, and peace activist, Nhat Hanh was born in central Vietnam on October 11, 1926. He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. Commonly referred to as Thich Nhat Hanh, the title ThÃch is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan.[1] He coined the term Engaged Buddhism in his book Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.[2]
In the early 1960's, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS) in Saigon, a grassroots relief organization that rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools and medical centers, and resettled families left homeless during the Vietnam War.[3] He traveled to the U.S. a number of times to study and later teach at Columbia University, and to promote the cause of peace. He urged Martin Luther King, Jr. to oppose the Vietnam War publicly, and spoke with many people and groups about peace. In 1967, King nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.[4] Nhat Hanh led the Buddhist delegation to the Paris Peace Talks. One of the best known Buddhist teachers in the West, Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings and practices appeal to people from various religious, spiritual, and political backgrounds. He offers a practice of mindfulness that is often adapted to Western sensibilities.[5]
He created the Order of Interbeing in 1966, and established monastic and practice centers
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Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1952), is a American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, singer-songwriter, band leader, bodyguard, activist, and an active duty police officer in Louisiana. A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an aikido instructor in Japan, before moving to the Los Angeles, California area where, after being noticed by entertainment executives, he made his film debut in 1988. Since this time, Seagal has become a well recognized action star, with his movies earning more than $600-million worldwide.[1]
Seagal has used his fame as an action star to cross over to other industries, as he is also a recording artist and the founder of Steven Seagal Enterprises. In addition to his professional achievements, he is also known as an environmentalist, aikido master (Takeshigemichi), an animal rights activist, and a reincarnated Tulku (Chungdrag Dorje).[2]
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Pema Chödrön (formerly Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, born 1936) is a fully ordained Buddhist nun in the Tibetan vajrayana tradition, and a teacher in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa. The goal of her work is the ability to apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life. She is one of the most successful interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism for westerners, noted for her approachable and down-to-earth teaching style.[citation needed]
Pema Chödrön is a prolific author and has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Australia, and throughout North America. She is resident teacher of Gampo Abbey, a monastery in rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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His Eminence the Sakyong, Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche, is one of Tibet’s highest and most respected incarnate lamas. He is unique in that he bridges two worlds. The eldest son of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who was instrumental in bringing Buddhism to the West, he is the incarnation of Mipham the Great, who is revered in Tibet as an emanation of Manjushri, the buddha of wisdom. He descends from the Tibetan warrior-king Gesar of Ling. He also holds the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the head of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage and is spiritual director of Shambhala, a global network of meditation and retreat centers. He is the lineage holder of Naropa University.
The Sakyong—literally “earth-protector”—is a chögyal—“dharma king”—who holds and propagates the teachings of Shambhala. The first king of Shambhala, Dawa Sangpo, was empowered directly by the Buddha. The Shambhala tradition emphasizes confidence in the enlightened nature of all beings—windhorse—and teaches courageous rulership based ....
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Shunryu Suzuki (â�ľ ¿¡Â¡ Suzuki Shunry¨±, dharma name Shogaku Shunryu) (May 18, 1904 - December 4, 1971) was a Soto Zen priest born in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. Suzuki was occasionally mistaken for the Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki, to which Suzuki would reply, "No, he's the big Suzuki, I'm the little Suzuki."[1]
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On May 18, 1904 Shunryu Suzuki was born as Toshitaka Suzuki at Shogan-ji, a small village Soto Zen temple near Hiratsuka in Kanagawa Prefecture. His father, Butsumon Sogaku Suzuki,
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Seung Sahn
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Seung Sahn Soen-sa (1927-2004) was a Korean Zen Buddhist monk, and the 78th patriarch in his lineage of Korean Zen (or Korean Sŏn) Buddhism.(See Buddhist Patriarch) He was the founder of the Kwan Um School of Zen, an international Buddhist organization and order.
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He was born in Sŭnch'ŏn, North Korea to Protestant Christian parents. In 1944, at the age of 18, he joined the underground Korean independence movement in response to the overbearing Japanese military rule in his homeland. Within a few months he was captured by Japanese soldiers, imprisoned, and barely avoided a sentence of death.
Following World War II, Seung Sahn took up studies in philosophy at the renowned Dong Guk University in Seoul, South Korea. Frustrated with his life and seeing the redundancy of politics and philosophy, he set off into the mountains on a quest for absolute truth. He began the study of many classic Confucian texts, hoping to find the answers he sought in their words. Ultimately these works did not satisfy him. A friend who was a monk studying at a Zen temple in the nearby mountains gave him a copy of The Diamond Sutra, and thus introduced him to Buddhism. Much like the Sixth Patriarch Huineng (or Hui-Neng), Seung Sahn found
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S.E.Trisab Gyabra Rinpoche
So 18.6.und Mo 19.6.2006 Einweihung der Reinen Vision der Achi Chökyi Dölma
und Belehrung zur Achi-Praxis
Achi Chökyi Dölma ist die große erleuchtete Dharma-Schützerin besonders der Drikung-Kagyüd-Linie. Sie ist eine Emanation von Vajrayogini, die die Verkörperung von Weisheit und Mitgefühl aller Buddhas ist. Sie ist die göttliche Mutter der Buddhas und manifestiert sich aus Mitgefühl heraus in der Form der Dakinis der Fünf Buddha-Familien. Um den Wesen im Samsara zu helfen, zeigt sie grenzenlos viele Manifestationen zu verschiedenen Zeiten und in verschiedenen Dimensionen des Raumes. Die Belehrung der Reinen Vision von Achi Chökyi Dölma ist eine Schatz-Belehrung, die der vorherigen Inkarnation von S.E. Trisab Gyabra Rinpoche 1967 inmitten der Kultur-Revolution in Tibet offenbart wurde. In Rinpoches Reiner Vision gab Achi Chökyi Dölma ihm direkt diese Belehrung, die den Fünffachen Pfad von Mahamudra, Ngaden, beinhaltet, dem vollständigen Pfad, der, praktiziert man ihn inbrünstig und voller Hingabe, in einem einzigen Leben zur Erleuchtung führt. Diese Belehrung übertrug Rinpoche dann in einen Text, der von großem Segen für jeden ist, der mit ihm in Kontakt kommt. Rinpoche wird die Einweihung, die Belehrung, die Text-Übertragung (Lung) und die Praxis-Anweisungen für diese Sadhana der Reinen Vision von Achi übertragen.
S.E. Trisab Gyabra Rinpoche ist eine Reinkarnation des zweiten Drikung Kagyüd-Thronhalters Khenchen Tsultrim Dorje (1154-1220), der eine sehr starke Verbindung zu Kyobpa Jigten Sumgön hatte. In der Geschichte der Drikung-Kagyüd-Linie gehört S.E. Trisab Gyabra Rinpoche zu den Lehrern, die die größten Beiträge zur Entwicklung der Linie erbracht haben.In der vorherigen Reinkarnation (1921-1979)war er der Herzensschüler von S.H.Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche und S.H.Drikung Kyabgon Chungsang Rinpoche. Nach deren Tod wurde er zum amtierenden Oberhaupt der Drikung-Kagyüd-Linie. Nachdem die Reinkarnation der beiden gegenwärtigen Heiligkeiten erkannt worden waren, übernahm er die Verantwortung für ihre Ausbildung. Der gegenwärtige Trisab Rinpoche ist die 7.Reinkarnation und wurde 1981 in Indien geboren. Dem Vorbild der großen Meister der Vergangenheit folgend, führte er das Drei-Jahres-Retreat in der Zeit von 1996-1999 durch, um die Aufgaben zu übernehmen, allen fühlenden Wesen zu nutzen. 2001 erhielt er die vollen Mönchsgelübde. Im gleichen Jahr gab S.H.Chetsang Rinpoche bekannt, dass ihn S.E.Trisab Gyabra Rinpoche in der Zukunft in allen Angelegenheiten der Drikung-Kagyüd-Linie vertreten wird.