Last Updated on July 25, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Daniel Goleman described superhumans with remarkable brain waves of high-level meditators in the following video:
Is one of these „superhumans“ Lama Pema Wangyal who lives in Switzerland? Pema left the Tibet Rikon Insitute Monastery two years ago after he worked there for 17 years:
According to a video of Sadhguru we can find on YouTube, enlightenment takes 12 years of hardship in India. Pema Wangyal grew up in India. He entered a monastic school at the age of nine. And he came to Switzerland at the age of 29. Which means that he already had spent 20 years in monastries, or was taught in monastries, before he came to Switzerland. And then he taught for 17 years at the Rikon Tibet Institute Monastry:
Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
invites you to visit Pema Wangyal in his newly openen Drukpa Center Kollbrunn near Winterthur:
- “The Venerable Acharya Pema Wangyal, Kagyu, was born in Orissa in 1976 and attended a Tibetan school in Mussoorie.
- As a child, I always told my mother, “I want to enter a monastery.”
- At the age of nine, my mother allowed me to enter the local Buddhist monastery school in Dudul Rabtenling, a Tibetan settlement in Odisha.
- At the age of twelve, I moved to Bhutan to the Ralung Shedrupling Monastery.
- At the age of seventeen, I entered the Thubten Sangag Choeling Monastery in Darjeeling, a training center of the Drukpa Kargyud tradition, to learn classical Buddhist teachings and yogic teachings and practices.
- There, I studied the fundamentals of Buddhist philosophies and practices.
- The renowned yogi and Great Master Umze Sherab Gyatso introduced me to the teachings of Ngondro.
- These teachings form the basis of the retreat offered and are practiced daily. I received the full teachings and empowerments of the Drukpa lineage from
- His Holiness the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, as well as His Eminence Yogi and Master Sengdrak Rinpoche, the present Dharma King of Bhutan,
- His Holiness Jekhenpo Jigme Choedrag, and the late His Holiness Jekhenpo Tenzin Dhondrup.
- I also received empowerments and practices from the Jangter Nyingma school from the late Master Taglung Tsetrul Rinpoche.
- Various Drukpa masters trained me and imparted knowledge and techniques in Buddhist ritual, music, and mandala creation.
- I attended the DKD College at the TSC Monastery in Darjeeling and received instruction in science, English, and Hindi.
- From 1999 until my departure for 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.
- I led the rituals for the Kagyud Relief Fund of CUTS University as a cantor. S
- ince 2001, I have been involved in the Indo-Tibetan Friendship Movement and volunteered in social services.
- From 2006 to 2022, I represented the Kagyu school at the Tibet Institute in Rikon and worked as a meditation master and yoga teacher for over 16 years. I was also the spiritual advisor and counselor for Kagyu Tibetans.
- During my monastic work at the Tibet Institute in Rikon, I studied elementary scientific knowledge for six years and organized and led numerous tours of the Rikon Monastery for companies, school groups, student groups, and organizations.
- In 2017, I studied Sinology and Psychology at the University of Zurich.
- On February 15, 2023, I opened my new Drukpa Kagyu Center in Kollbrunn for the benefit of all interested Swiss citizens, as well as Tibetans who are members of the Drukpa Kagyu.”
https://drukpazentrum.ch/ueber-uns
And would not many highly qualified Swiss:
join the community of „superhumans“, if they would know more about meditation? What is your opinion about this topic? Write it in the comments below.