Nityananda Institute Sponsors Visit by Lama Wangdu Rinpoche
Nityananda Institute is sponsoring Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche, a member of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, for another visit to the United States. Lama Wangdu will be giving instruction, assisting in translation projects, and performing many rituals during his stay.
(PRWEB) December 16, 2003 -- Nityananda Institute, based in Portland, Oregon,
is sponsoring Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche’s most recent visit to the United
States. Lama Wangdu will be spending the next few months in Portland giving
instruction to and practicing with students at Nityananda Institute. He has been
visiting the United States regularly since 1999.
Lama Wangdu has trained
and initiated Nityananda Institute students in the practice of Phowa and Chöd,
including the accompanying ritual dance (chum), as well as the practice of the
Queen of Great Bliss tsok and sadhana. During his visits to Portland, he has
also assisted in the translation of a number of important texts from Padampa
Sangye and Machig Labdron. Nityananda Institute students are at work on a
documentary about his life and Chöd practice and a book of his teachings on
Chöd.
Lama Wangdu was born in the Dingri region of Tibet, an area
associated with the mahasiddha Padampa Sangye, and the birthplace of the Third
Karmapa Rangjung Dorje. He completed the traditional training in Tibet with his
guru, Nadrag Rinpoche. He was sent on pilgrimage to Nepal in 1957. He eventually
settled in Kathmandu, where he has lived in the Tibetan refugee camp in
Jawalakehl for many years.
Lama Wangdu practices in the Nyingma tradition
of Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the Longchen Nyingthig cycle of teachings, and
is an accomplished practitioner of Chöd. He has studied, practiced and received
initiations from teachers in all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and many of
the most respected members of the Nyingma school: Chatral Rinpoche, Dodrupchen
Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche, and the late Urgyen Tulku
Rinpoche.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently requested Lama Wangdu to
open a monastery in Kathmandu to train practitioners in Chöd. Work is underway,
and Lama Wangdu will open the monastery when he returns to Kathmandu early next
year.
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