Gesche Rinpoche Jampa Lodro Dahortsang, the oncle of Loten Dahortsang was one of the great masters of Buddhist Meditation in Switzerland

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

He was the oncle of Loten Dahortsang

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• Gesche Rinpoche was born in Lhasa in 1927.
• His mother is the daughter of a Tibetan magician from Kham.
• He studied the Buddhist scriptures of sutras and tantras with many realized masters of his time including the tutors of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
• Then he escaped into exile to India
• In 1970 he came to Switzerland.
• He initially earned his living as a factory worker in Weisslingen. For seven years he stands on the assembly line full of cheerfulness and hard work.

• Then he meets the well-known psychologist Dora Kalff, a student of C.G. Young. She developed “sand play therapy” and made it known worldwide. Under her leadership, the Buddhist center in Zollikon was founded and Gesche Rinpoche was a teacher at this center.
• He then taught taught Buddhist meditation in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Spain and especially in Italy until his end of his life.
• As a seven-year-old, Loten Dahortsang sah a picture of his uncle taken in the Toscana in Italy, a lama in a purple-red robe with a cat on his lap and incredibly expressive eyes. From then on Loten Dahortsang only wanted to meet his uncle Gesche Rinpoche.
• In 1982, Loten Dahortsangs foster father, Peter Grieder, who initially ran the Grieder fashion house in the city of Zurich and later worked as curator of the monastic Tibet Institute in Rikon, brought Loten Dahortsang to Switzerland.