Last Updated on July 12, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, the abbot of the Shechen Monastery in Kathmandu said once in a interview, that Brazil has the 12 best football players in the world. And Tibet has the world best spiritual great masters.
Did he also participate in the scientific studies about meditation of Richard R. Davidson?
Daniel Goleman called those long-term practitioners, Olympic level meditators.
Peter Gamma from www.petegamma.org was once in the Hallenstadion Zurich at a talk of the Dalai Lama the 14 th. around 20 years ago. And then he asked himself „why is this guy so happy?“. Today he knows the answer. The Dalai Lama the 14 th filled the Hallenstadion in Zürich with visitors. And there is room for 15 000 people. And so did her with the teachings of the:
Geshe Langri Thangpa’s “Eight Verses of Training the Mind” at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on September 17, 2018.
The Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam has room for 16.000 persons. There are approximately 1,100 Tibetans living in the Netherlands. If all of these visited the Ahoy Arena in 2018, there was still room for around 15.000 non Tibetans who visited the talk of the Dalai Lama the 14 th in 2018. What does make the Dalai Lama the 14 th so attractive as the world champions in football, so that he fills large football states?
He is the spiritual leader of the Olympic level meditators.
Although these “Olympic games” with spiritual great masters in the world did not happen yet, are these filled football states not proof enough that the Dalai Lama the 14. deserves really the title of the “spiritual leader of the Olympic level meditators”?