Last Updated on January 3, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
“Since leaving the Tibet Institute in Rikon in 2023, Pema Wangyal often sits in his home in Kollbrunn and prays for the whole world.
Pema Wangyal sleeps behind a gray curtain in a corner of his meditation center – in about six square meters. His bed: 90 by 200 centimeters. His wardrobe: a red hard-shell suitcase. His office: a printer and a bedside table with a computer screen, next to it a few prayer beads, a cell phone charger cable and the mail from the last few days.
The 47-year-old is a Tibetan Buddhist monk. In 2006 he came to Switzerland on behalf of the Tibetan government in exile and lived in the Tibet Institute in Rikon for almost 17 years; he moved out last spring in 2023. Since then he has been getting by with meditation and yoga classes in his center near Kollbrunn train station and struggling with worldly life.”
Original Text: Roger Meyer, Züri-Ost:
https://zueriost.ch/gesellschaft/2023-10-30/er-wohnt-auf-sechs-quadratmetern