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My Life and Lives was first published in 1977, and a second edition was published in 1991. The book focuses primarily on Rato's years in Tibet, before the Tibetan diaspora, which began in 1959. It gives a detailed first-person account of life in Tibet's great monastic universities. The book was awarded Amazon "Best Book of 2014" status. [1]
Kyabchen Dedrol, (born 1977 སྐྱབས་ཆེན་བདེ་གྲོལ། 加布青·德卓), is a Tibetan contemporary writer. [1] [2] [3] Born in Chukhama, Chokho (ཁྲོ་ཁོ་ཆུ་ཁ་མ།), a nomadic community in Amdo in the 1970s, Dedrol is the co-founder and editor in chief of Butter Lamp (མཆོད་མེ་བོད་ཀྱི་རྩོམ ...
Tuiwa (Chinese: 推瓦村; pinyin: Tuīwǎ Cūn; Tibetan: མཐུད་བ་གྲོང་ཚོ་, ZYPY: Tüwa Chongco) is a village located in Daglung [] Town, Nagarzê County, Shannan, Tibet, located at the northeast shore of Lake Puma Yumco. [2]
Rinpoches's village celebrated the various festivals including Saka Dawa, Lama Tsongkhapa Day, Jan chub cho je (celebrating the founder of Sera Monastery), Monlam and Losar (Tibetan New Year). Rinpoche was a little boy of about three when his first spiritual teacher, Kushog Gyalden Rinpoche cut his hair and gave him the name in religion ...
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]
19 AD — Tu Shan wanders from village to village in China preaching Taoist philosophy. He is approached by the Emperor of China's men who want him to serve in the emperor's court. He refuses and begins to travel westward, eventually arriving in Tibet. 279 AD — Hanno and Rufus' estimation of the time of Rufus' birth.
In the Life of Yeshe Tsogyel, Padmasambhava predicted that Yeshe Tsogyel would be reborn as Machig Labdrön; her consort, Atsara Sale, [2] would become Topabhadra, Machig’s husband; her assistant and another of Padmasambhava’s consorts, Tashi Khyidren, would be reborn as Machig’s only daughter, and so on.
His father was Lama Tashi Tenzin of Urgelling, a descendant of the treasure revealer Pema Lingpa, and his mother was Tsewang Lhamo, a Monpa woman from a royal family of Bekhar Village. [ 3 ] The Dalai Lama was therefore a Monpa by ethnicity, born in "Monyul" [ a ] at Urgelling Monastery , near Tawang [ 4 ] and Tawang Monastery in the ...