Shyalpa tenzin rinpoche biography sample
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Title : Living Fully - Finding Joy in Every Breath
Author : Shyalpa Tenzin Ripoche
Publisher : New World Library
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Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche was born in Himalayas and was trained as a Lama from the age of kvartet. Rinpoche received transmissions from all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and he fryst vatten a lineage holder of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) tradition. Dzogchen is an ancient spiritual teaching developed in Tibet within Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The word 'Dzogchen' means 'total perfection' which refers to the true inherent nature of all beings. It fryst vatten the knowledge that Tibetan masters have transmitted without being limited by sectarianism.
He begins by narrating a wonderful analogy of human life with that of one day stay in a hotel room where we go to relax but instead of relaxing for even a single moment, we början finding faults in that single room and spend those limited hours of the day in fixing up the things which bother us. I funnen this analogy very apt and
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This weekend I finally finished reading this book: "Living Fully". I highly recommend everyone to read this book. It was written by a prominent Buddhist teacher, Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche, who had been trained as Lama since age of four. The language written was simple and very easily understood. For those who don't really love reading, do not be afraid as each chapter was written in short. No technical or excessive theory part on it. It was very brief, however, very meaningful. Click herefor reading some of his writing at my previous blog post.
When you read each sentence, it made you think, reflect, and contemplate, asking yourself and wondering if you had been doing what you ought to do. I spent quite some time reading it. There were afterword part at the end of the book, which were questions asked to Rinpoche regarding love, work, and life.
Q: Why do people suffer?
"When we are born, we have obtained the beautiful and priceless gift of life. As we get older, we f
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A monk for all seasons
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By Chitralekha Basu(HK Edition)
Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche's enthusiasm for the somewhat mystical art of thangka paintings might go a long way in bringing peace, good cheer to people;s lives. A report by Chitralekha Basu.
He goes to the gym, makes use of business lingo. "It's a win-win-win-win situation," he says, adding, with childlike exuberance, two more "win"s to the regular catch phrase. Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche is, evidently, a monk for all seasons.
When he is in Hong Kong, you might catch him running up a narrow, single-track road on his way to the Peak, if you are really lucky. It's probably easier to find him addressing a class in some of the world's finest schools, Harvard, Yale and Wesleyan. He is like a high-profile academic, invited to lecture in universities across continents and probably busier than the CEO of a multinational company. He is the founder of several centers focused on humanitarian activity, such as the Wencheng Gongzh