Khunu lama tenzin gyaltsen biography of michael
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He Is My Guru and I Am Going With Him
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Ven. Lobsang Yeshe, Michael Cassapidis, has been a Buddhist monk in Tibetan monasteries for 24 of his 29 years, first at Kopan in Nepal, and then at Sera in south India where he was one of the attendants of Lama Tenzin Osel, the reincarnation of Lama Thubten Yeshe. Now he is translator for Geshe Kelsang Wangdu at Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre in Delhi, India, and will accompany Geshe-la when he comes to the United States to be the resident lama for the three FPMT California centers. Born in London of a Greek father and a Belgian mother, Michael is in fact more Tibetan than anything else: “We Tibetans…” he says. Michael talked to Ven. Robina Courtin about how he became a monk, and of his years with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
The lamas have been like fathers to Michael for as long as he can remember. As vividly as yesterday he recalls the love of Lama Yeshe’s greeting when he entered Kopan at the age of four in 1970, soon after the lamas had established it. “My son is back!” exclaimed Lama, holding Michael to him.
He first met them the year before in New Delhi. His mother, Olivia, was fleeing from her recent divorce with his father Yorgo – “And she was looking for someone
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Stepping Forth: Same Work, New Profession [An Open Letter]
Dear friends,
I would like to start by expressing my deepest gratitude to all of you for continuously supporting me on my path and in my humble activity. Whatever sparks of mindfulness I have been able to ignite in the dullness of my ignorant mind, and whatever benefit came about from my translating and teaching, could only arise in interdependence that includes all of you. I can only hope and pray that going forward, the positive aspects of this interdependence will be strengthened and the negative ones removed.
There will, however, be a large change for me in all of it from today onwards. Today, August 17 — on the auspicious anniversary of Buton Richen Drup (the compiler of the Tibetan Buddhist canon) — I have returned my monastic vows after exactly 9 years and 5 months of monastic training. That means that from here onwards, I am continuing my path in the role of a lay practitioner, translator, and instructor.
I can’t say I am telling you this with a “heavy heart”, but neither would it be fair to say it’s all light and bliss. A momentous decision of this caliber is inevitably accompanied by a lot of mixed emotions. Its root usually lies in the attempts to find compatibility between the way one feels ins
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Renunciation and Longing: The Living thing of a Twentieth-Century Range Buddhist Venerate 9780226816913
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