Last Updated on June 2, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Meditation teacher Pema Wangyal from the Drukpazentrum Kollbrunn near Winterthur:
Pema Wangyal‘s biography:
- “I was born in Odisha in 1976.
- During my childhood, I had the desire to become a monk from an early age and often told my mother: I wanted to enter a monastery.
- At the age of nine, my mother allowed me to enter the local Buddhist monastery school Dudul Rabtenling.
- When I was twelve, I moved to the Ralung Shedrupling monastery in Bhutan.
- At the age of seventeen, I entered Thubten Sangag Choeling Monastery in Darjeeling, a training center of the Drukpa Kargyud tradition.
- There I learned the classical Buddhist teachings, yogi teachings and practice, as well as the fundamentals of Buddhist philosophies and practices.
- I have received the full teachings and initiations of the Drukpa lineage.
- From 1999 until my departure to Switzerland in September 2006, I studied the Indian and Tibetan classics of Buddhist philosophy, Sanskrit and English at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, University of Varanasi.
From 2006 to 2022 I was the representative of the Kagyu School at the Tibet Institute Rikon and worked as a meditation master and yoga teacher for more than 16 years.
- During my monastery work at the Tibet Institute Rikon, I studied elementary scientific knowledge for six years and sinology and psychology at the University of Zurich.
- On February 15, 2023, I opened my Drukpa Kagyu Center in Kollbrunn for the benefit of everyone interested.“
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