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Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism were largely unknown in the West prior to the beginning of the 20th century. [12] The name itself, however, was reported as early as the 17th century, by way of Estêvão Cacella, the Portuguese missionary who had heard about Shambhala (transcribed as Xembala), and thought it was another name for Cathay or China.
Shambhala International (originally named Vajradhatu) is the umbrella organization that encompasses many of the distinct institutions of the Shambhala spiritual community, founded by the students of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Shambhala Training is a secular approach to meditation and a new religious movement developed by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his students. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is based on what Trungpa calls Shambhala Vision, which sees enlightened society as not purely mythical, but as realizable by people of all faiths through practices ...
Mahamevnawa Buddhist Meditation Center of New York, Staten Island; New York Mahayana Temple, Leeds; New York Zendo Shobo-Ji, Manhattan; Palden Padma Samye Ling, Sidney Center; Rochester Zen Center, Rochester; Shi Yan Ming, New York; Vajiradhammapadip Temple, Centereach and Mount Vernon; Village Zendo, New York; Zen Center of Syracuse, Syracuse
In a 1936 interview for The New York Times, Hilton states that he used "Tibetan material" from the British Museum, particularly the travelogue of two French priests, Évariste Régis Huc and Joseph Gabet, to provide the Tibetan cultural and Buddhist spiritual inspiration for Shangri-La. [4] [5] Huc and Gabet travelled a round trip between Beijing and Lhasa in 1844–1846 on a route more than ...
The Ganden Sumtsenling Monastery, also known as Sungtseling and Guihuasi [1] (Tibetan: དགའ་ལྡན་སུམ་རྩེན་གླིང་, Wylie: dga' ldan sum rtsen gling, THL: ganden sumtsenling; Chinese: 松赞林寺, pinyin: Sōngzànlín Sì), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery situated 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city of Shangri-La at elevation 3,380 metres (11,090 ft) in ...
The Tibet Center, also known as Kunkhyab Thardo Ling, is a dharma center for the study of Tibetan Buddhism. Founded by Venerable Khyongla Rato Rinpoche in 1975, it is one of the oldest Tibetan Buddhist centers in New York City. [1] The current director is Khen Rinpoche Nicholas Vreeland, the abbot of Rato Dratsang monastery.
Painting showing the story of the Conversion of the Householder Yasa, who became a mendicant and was established as an Arhat, in the Red Temple in Tsparang, fifteenth century. According to some accounts, Tsaparang was made the capital of the Kingdom of Guge by Namde Wosung , one of the sons of the Langdarma the anti-Buddhist king of Tibet 838 ...