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17. Karmapa
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
„ Er ist nicht-sektiererisch, so erfüllt er alle Himmelsrichtungen; er ist nicht den einen nah und den anderen fern, so ist er der Schützer aller Wesen. Die Sonne des Buddha-Dharma, die allen Wesen dient, strahlt allezeit."
20. – 22. Juni 08,
Fr. 19.30, Sa. und So. 9.30 – 17.30
Das Lied des Dritten Karmapa:
Die Mahamudra-Aspiration der Wahren Bedeutung
mit Kunga Dawa / Richard Arthure
Dieses Werk des Dritten Karmapa, erläutert die Sichtweise von Mahamudra wie von Dzogchen mit einer Tiefe und Prägnanz, die selten ihresgleichen fand.
Der dritte Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1308 - 1364) ist berühmt dafür, die Mahamudra-Lehren der Kagyü-Linie mit den Maha Ati / DzogChen-Lehren, wie sie vor allem von der Nyingma-Linie gelehrt wurden, vereint zu haben.
„Unsere nicht-existierenden Projektionen werden von uns als
Objekte missverstanden.
Aus Unwissenheit wird immanentes Gewahrsein irrtümlich für ein
Selbst, ein Ich gehalten.
Durch Anhaften an dieser Dualität wandern wir innerhalb von
Samsara umher.
Mögen wir die Wurzel von Unwissenheit und Verwirrung
durchschneiden. ...“
.... der dritte Karmapa Rangjung Dorje
Das Programm wird auf englisch gelehrt und ins Deutsche übersetzt.
Kurskostenbeitrag: Freitag, 19.30: 15 € Sa & So: 60 €
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Kunga Dawa (Richard Arthure) wurde im Jahre 1966 enger Schüler von
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, der ihm den Namen Kunga Dawa ( All-Joyful
Moon) gab und der ihn als ersten westlichen Schüler zum
Meditationsunterweiser ausbildete und ihn zum Dharmalehrer
ermächtigte. Richard Arthure war 1967 Mitbegründer Des
Buddhistischen Zentrums SAMYE LING in Schottland. Mit
Trungpa Rinpoche bereiste er Indien, Sikkim und Bhutan und war in der
Höhle Tagsang dabei, als das Sadhana des Mahamudra offenbar wurde und
beteiligt an dessen englischer Übersetzung. Richard ist Mitbegründer
von Karme Chöling in Vermont USA und lehrt seit vielen Jahren in der
USA und Kanada. Vor kurzem hat er ein traditionelles
Drei-Jahres-Retreat in New Mexico abgeschlossen. Er ist Engländer und
lebt zur Zeit in Santa Fe.
Er ist der Autor des Gedichtbandes " Bone Ornaments and Mirrors".
Bone Ornaments
& Mirrors
VIDYADHARA
CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE
Photo taken by Richard Arthure in 1968 during retreat at Paro Taksang BHUTAN
Traveling extensively throughout North America, Richard has taught Buddhist meditation and conducted Dharma seminars at the Center in Vermont and in Boston, New York, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto and Montreal.
After re-locating to Boulder, Colorado, in 1974 to pursue his own Buddhist practice and study, Richard graduated from the Ngeton School of advanced Buddhist studies (under the direction of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche). Richard has also worked as a teacher, a Realtor, a mediator and an NLP practitioner.Following the death of Trungpa Rinpoche, he continued to receive teachings from many Tibetan teachers, most notably the renowned dzogchen masters Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Gangteng Tulku, and has alternated periods of study and work with extended solitary retreats in the mountains of Colorado and New Mexico.
The Third Karmapa
Rangjung Dorje (1284 - 1339)
“Through your miraculous ability in commenting on the many sutras and tantras,
You reveal the heart meaning to the diverse host of beings,
Vastly propagating the teachings of the great siddhas.
Rangjung Dorje, we supplicate at your feet.”
—from Supplication To The Karmapas
Rangjung Dorje, the Third Karmapa, learnt and mastered nearly all of the Buddhist
teachings brought to Tibet from India
Born to a family of a tantric practitioners of the Nyingma lineage in Dingri Langkor, in the Tsang region of Central Tibet, Rangjung Dorje sat up straight at the age of three and proclaimed that he was the Karmapa. At the age of five, he went to see Orgyenpa, who had prepared for his visit on the basis of a prescient dream. Orgyenpa recognized the child as the reincarnation of Karma Pakshi, and gave him the Vajra Black Crown and all the possessions of the second Karmapa.
Master Of All Buddhist Traditions Of Knowledge 
Rangjung Dorje grew up in Tsurphu, receiving the full transmissions of both the Kagyu and Nyingma tradition. At the age of 18 (1301), he received the preliminary monastic ordination. After a retreat on the slopes of Mt. Everest, he took full ordination, and further broadened his studies at a great seat of the Khadampa lineage. Not content with this, Rangjung Dorje sought out and studied with the greatest scholars and experts of different traditions of knowledge, learning from all Buddhist traditions of the time. By the end of his studies, he had learnt and mastered nearly all of the Buddhist teachings brought to Tibet from India.
Founder Of The Karma Nyingthik
In particular, during a retreat in his early twenties he had the vision at sunrise of Vimalamitra and then Padmasambhava, who dissolved into him at a point between his eyebrows. At that moment, he realized and received all the teachings and transmissions of the dzogchen tantras of the Nyingma lineage. He wrote many volumes of teachings on dzogchen and founded the Karma Nyingtik lineage. Through his mastery of the profound Nyingmapa teachings of Vimalamitra, he unified the Kagyu mahamudra and the Nyingma dzogchen.
At the age of 35 (1318), through visions he received of the "Wheel of Time" (Kalacakra) teachings, he introduced a revised system of astrology, which continues to this day called the "Tsur-tsi" or the Tsurphu Tradition of Astrology, and which forms the basis for the calculation of the Tibetan calendar in the Tsurphu system. He also studied and mastered medicine, which is in part related to astrological studies in the Tibetan system.
Over the course of his life, Rangjung Dorje also wrote many treatises, including the universally renowned Profound Inner Meaning (Zab mo nang don), one of the most famous Tibetan treatises on Vajrayana.
The Karmapa established many monasteries in Tibet and China. He visited China in 1332, where he enthroned his disciple, the new emperor, Toghon Temur. Rangjung Dorje later passed away into parinirvana in China. It is said his image appeared in the moon on the night of his passing.
Among his many
disciples, some of the main ones were Khedrup Drakpa Senge, Dolpopa,
Yakde Panchen, and many others, and in particular the one who was to
become the next lineage holder, Gyalwa Yungtonpa.
Gyalwa Yungtönpa
(1296-1376)
Gyalwa Yungtön Dorje Pal, was born into a family of Nyingma tantric practitioners at Tsongdu Gurmo, in Southern Tibet, in the Wood Snake year. He was named Dorje Bûm. From an early age, he started to study the five sciences and developed incomparable knowledge in sutra and tantra. Most of his studies were at Shalu. He received the Do-gyu-sem-sum, teachings on Mahayoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga of Dzogchen from Zur Champa Senge. He then received the Yamantaka cycle of teachings and abhisheka from Shangpa Shakbum. He studied and practiced hard under many masters and became one of the most respected and renowned teachers of the time.
Gyalwa Yungtönpa made great contributions of material offerings to Sakya, Trophu, Shalu, and Sangphu. At the request of his mother, he accepted a consort and when the first child was born he asked permission from the family and received monastic ordination. He was named Dorje Pal. He then met the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje and received all the key instructions and transmissions of the lineage in full and attained highest realization. He practiced in Tibet and also in Paro, Bhutan for years.
He composed a text differentiating the views of buddhahood in Sutra and Tantra and impressed and outshined many great scholars of the time, such as Yakde Panchen, who became his students. He manifested as a hidden yogi and benefited many sentient beings. At the age of eighty-two, in the Wood Snake Year, he passed into parinirvana with many great signs of realization.