Milarepa, founder of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism versus Tenzin Michael, one of the first Buddhist monks who is trained with a brain scanner? – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on March 6, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Milarepa, founder of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism:

Milarepa is generally considered one of Tibet’s most famous yogis and spiritual poets, whose teachings are known among several schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
He was a Tibetan siddha, who was famously known as a murderer when he was a young man, before turning to Buddhism and becoming a highly accomplished Buddhist disciple.
He is generally considered one of Tibet’s most famous yogis and spiritual poets, whose teachings are known among several schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The life story of Milarepa portrays “the rapid method of the Tantric path,” in which liberation is gained in one lifetime.
It describes how Milarepa practiced the generation stage and completion stage, to achieve mahamudra, “spontaneous realization of the most profound nature of mind.”
The acclaimed spiritual poetry of Milarepa is known of as The Hundred Thousand Songs.

Ven. Tenzin Michael ist a Buddhist monk, born in Switzerland who teaches at Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich

After the 2004 PNAS paper by Richard R. Davidson:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

what was striking that we found no long-term mediation studies expept for those published in «Richard Davidson’s Altered Traits».
Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org has now the hypothesis that such long-term studies where performed secretly.

What is striking that Tenzin Michael was ordained to become a Buddhist monk in 2004, this is the same year as Richard Davidsons PNAS paper has been published.

Visiting Teachers Tenzin Michael

At the age of 24, Michael Aegerter visited Asia for the first time and learned Buddhism hands-on in the monasteries of Himalaya.
In the years to follow, he travelled Asia and his interest in Buddhism kept growing.

Inspired by the contacts with such spiritual masters like H.H. Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Geshe Ngawang Jangchup, Tich Nath Hanh and others, he decided to dedicate his life to Dharma.

Tenzin Michael ordained to become a Buddhist monk in 2004.
He spent many years in the Tibetan Buddhist Drepung Monastery in South India and is currently studying Buddhism in the Nalanda Monastery in southern France.

So Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org comes back to the hypothesis that Tenzin Michael could be one of the first Buddhist monks who is trained with a brain scanner.

But what Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org also stroke that Milarepa is known to be the most famous poet from Tibet. Tenzin Michael is currently not the most famous poet from Switzerland. One of most famous Swiss poets was Gottfried Keller. But why is Tenzin Michael not, or not yet a Gottfried Keller? Has this something to do with the gamma waves in his brain, or the intensity of his gamma waves in his brain? If we listen to the life story of Milarepa narrated by Sadhguru and compare it with the live story or Tenzin Michael what can we conclude?

Visiting Teachers Tenzin Michael

Was Milarepa not much more alive than Tenzin Michael if we compare the live stories of those two?

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