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Our Lineage Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche Rinpoche is the son and heir of the Vidyadhara, the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. His background embraces both Eastern and Western cultures. Born in India, he received spiritual training from his father and other distinguished lamas and received further education and training in Europe and North America. He now travels extensively teaching worldwide. "When we talk about enlightened society, we aren't talking about some utopia where everyone's enlightened. We're talking about a culture of human beings who know the awakened nature of basic goodness and invoke its energy in order to courageously extend themselves to others." Visit mipham.com for more information about Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the former supreme abbot of Surmang Monasteries in Tibet, is known as the foremost meditation master and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. In the early 1970s, he founded Naropa University, the first Buddhist-inspired university in North America, along with over 100 meditation centres worldwide and authored two dozen books on meditation, poetry, art and the Shambhala path of warriorship. "The Buddhist tradition teaches the truth of impermanence, or the transitory nature of things. The past is gone and the future has not yet happened, so we work with what is here -- the present situation. This actually helps us not to categorize or theorize. A fresh, living situation is taking place all the time, on the spot. This noncategorical approach comes from being fully here, rather than trying to reconnect with past events. We don't have to look back to the past in order to see what people are made out of. Human beings speak for themselves, on the spot."
Read Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's biography on the Shambhala International website. Acharyas (Senior Teachers)
The acharyas of Shambhala are senior teachers appointed by Sakyong
Mipham Rinpoche. As the Sakyong's representatives, the acharyas, who
are empowered to offer refuge and bodhisattva vows, bring the
continuity of the lineage into the living teaching environment of local
Shambhala centres. Victoria has the good fortune to host many of the
acharyas as visiting teachers, and we are extremely honoured to have a
special ongoing relationship with Acharya Jenny Warwick. Victoria
Shambhala Meditation Centre also hosts ongoing programs using the video
and audio tapes of Acharya Pema Chödrön. Jenny Warwick
In the early 70's, along with a handful of young families spread over two mountain valleys in Southeastern British Columbia, Jenny and her husband Paul launched the Kootenay Dharma Study Group. She first heard Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching in 1973 on a set of tapes from the seminar called Tibetan Buddhism and American Karma and was powerfully drawn to his wisdom and ordinariness. In 1976, Jenny attended the first West Coast Meditation Instructors training seminar in Berkeley. Later that year she went to the Land of Lakes Seminary where the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, as we know them, were arising and manifesting. In 1980 the Vidyadara asked her to move to Canada to be the Ambassador of the Vancouver Dharmadhatu. In addition to teaching and presiding over the centre, she began to officiate at weddings. This continues to be a great delight for Acharya Warwick. Teaching Shambhala Culture at the 1983 Seminary inspired a deep interest in the cultural history of enlightened society and its vision for social change. As Executive Director of Karme Choling from 1985-90 she presided over the development of new buildings, new programs, and the phenomenal cremation event of the Vidyadara. Jenny moved to the Northwest in 1990 where she settled in Bellingham, WA. She co-directed Warriors Assembly in 1995 at Shambhala Mountain Centre. She teaches Shambhala Training and the Sacred Path of the Warrior programs, Shambhala Buddhist weekends, and gives vows and lungs. The Sakyong formally invested Acharya Warwick at the 2003 Vajra Assembly at Shambhala Mountain Centre where he gave her the name Hum Wangmo. Find out more about Jenny Warwick on the Shambhala International website.
Pema Chödrön
"Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy."
Acharya Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun, resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, and the author of such popular books as The Places That Scare You, When Things Fall Apart and Start Where You Are. Her life experiences as wife, mother, and school teacher, and her years of study and practice with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche uniquely empower Pema to speak to Westerners, both Buddhists and non-Buddhists. For more information on-line, visit Pema's website or find information about her books. |
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Sakyong
Mipham Rinpoche is the head of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, a
spiritual and family lineage that descends through his family, the
Mukpo clan. This tradition emphasizes the basic goodness of all beings
and teaches the art of courageous warriorship based on wisdom and
compassion.
Chögyam
Trungpa Rinpoche was one of the most dynamic teachers of Buddhism in
the 20th Century. He was a pioneer in bringing the Buddhist teachings
of Tibet to the West and is credited with introducing many Buddhist
concepts into the English language and psyche in a fresh and new way.
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