- Shenphen Rinpoche
Shenphen
Rinpoche (born10 January 1969 inFrance ) is a Tibetan BuddhistLama . He was initially ordained in 1985 at the age of 16 by KyabjeThubten Zopa Rinpoche and later fully ordained byTenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama . Shenphen Rinpoche has been recognised as atulku of Lama Gendun Rabgye, fromKharnang Monastery ,Tibet . [ [http://www.dharmaling.org/content/view/37/37 Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling - Recognition documents] ] [ [http://www.tibetanlama.com/htmls/lama_dtls.asp?Section=Main&ID=276&S_Thought=GELUG Tibetan Lamas detailed biography ] ] .Teachers
Lama Shenphen Rinpoche's first teacher was the
Gelug master Khensur Geshe Tegchok. Other important teachers areThubten Zopa Rinpoche , the 14th Dalai Lama, Gomo Tulku, Lama Gendun Rinpoche, andDilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.Activity
In 1986, Rinpoche was requested to teach others. Since then, he has made efforts to teach.
After a few years in a monastery, Rinpoche studied medicine in Paris at Faculté Libre des Sciences de la Santé. Over the next five years, he engaged in humanitarian activities, mainly in India, but also in Nepal and Russia (for street children). Rinpoche began working with AMCHI Association, an association that organises humanitarian missions.
Between 1998 and 2001, following the request of
Lama Zopa Rinpoche , Shenphen Rinpoche was director of a retreat centre in Greece. In 2000, Rinpoche createdBuddhist Congregation Dharmaling . He then moved to Spain to open a small center, until 2002.Since 2002, Rinpoche is living in
Slovenia permanently as a Slovene citizen, where he opened a Buddhist temple in Slovenia, with a full program of teachings and practice. Rinpoche travels frequently in Hungary, Austria, [http://www.austria.dharmaling.org Dharmaling Austria] France, Romania, and Russia. [http://www.dharmaling.org/content/view/66/69 program]Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has practiced for over twenty years a method combining mantras and meditation, oriented toward healing physical and psychological ailments.
Tradition
Traditionally trained and having received transmissions from various masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in
Dharamsala andSera -Jhe Monastery (India), but also inKharnang Monastery (Tibet), Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has made efforts to teach a Buddhism cleared from cultural, political, and educational impregnations from Tibet.Rinpoche encourages a form of Buddhism more engaged with society, proposing more services to the general public (visits to hospitals, education in school), applying Dharma in everyday life. To that end, Rinpoche has made efforts to adapt — without deteriorating — the Tibetan Buddhism lineage toward the West. This adaptation also includes clothing: Rinpoche has created a more western type of Buddhist uniform.
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External links
* [http://lamashenphen.org/content/view/12/29/ Web site dedicated to Lama Shenphen Rinpoche]
* [http://www.dharmaling.org Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling]
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