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The Thubten Dhargye Ling Buddhist Center was founded in 1978 by Geshe Gyeltsen at the "urging of his students," according to the Los Angeles Times. [2] The center, which was originally located in Los Angeles, relocated to its present location in Long Beach, California, in 1996. [2] Geshe Gyeltsen died at the center in February 2009 at the age ...
A Tibetan Buddhist Monk meditating using chanting and drumming. The 14th Dalai Lama defines meditation (bsgom pa) as "familiarization of the mind with an object of meditation." [141] Traditionally, Tibetan Buddhism follows the two main approaches to meditation or mental cultivation taught in all forms of Buddhism, śamatha (Tib.
A Joint Biography of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1935 to 1974. Paine, Jeffrey. Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West. Norton, 2004. Chapter two discusses the influence of Lama Yeshe and the FPMT. Willis, Jan. Dreaming Me Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Lama Yeshe was her teacher. She talks a lot about him in this ...
[1] [4] Death rites are generally the only life cycle ritual that Theravāda Buddhist monks get involved in and are therefore of great importance. A distinctive ritual unique to funeral rites is the offering of cloth to monks. This is known as paṃsukūla in Pali, which means "forsaken robe". This symbolises the discarded rags and body shrouds ...
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཟོད་པ་, Wylie: Thub-bstan Bzod-pa; born Dawa Chötar, 3 December 1945 – 13 April 2023) was a Tibetan Buddhist lama in the Gelug school. He is known for founding the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon. [1]
[32] Continuing this task, a new book entitled Modern Buddhism: The Path of Wisdom and Compassion was released in January 2010, and its oral transmission was given by Kelsang Gyatso at the Fall 2010 NKT-IKBU Festival. [33] Kelsang Gyatso did not made any public appearances between October 2013 and his death in September 2022.
Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987), formally named the 11th Zurmang Trungpa, Chokyi Gyatso, was a Tibetan Buddhist master and holder of both Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He was recognized by both Tibetan Buddhists and other spiritual practitioners and scholars [3] [4] as a ...
Ken McLeod (born 1948) is a senior Western translator, author, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. He received traditional training mainly in the Shangpa Kagyu lineage through a long association with his principal teacher, Kalu Rinpoche, whom he met in 1970. McLeod resided in Los Angeles for many years, where he founded Unfettered Mind. [1]