Last Updated on December 23, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Following the examples of these self-experienced people who found meditation interesting:
- Diego Hangartner, Swiss meditation teacher
https://ch.linkedin.com/in/diego-hangartner-011ab546
«I completed my studies in pharmacology at the Federal Institute of Technology, (ETH Zurich), specializing in psychopharmacology and addiction. Following my work with an aid project in Nepal, I lived in Dharamsala, India, for 11 years, learned Tibetan, and studied for 7 years at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in the Tibetan language.»
https://www.diegohangartner.org/personal
Diego Hangartner lives in Kusnacht at the lake of Zurich, where many wealthy people live. For instance Tina Turner lived there for many years of her life.
2. Rita Riniker (Losang Palmo) resident teacher of the Longku FPMT Center in Bern
«Ven. Losang Palmo grew up in Switzerland. She took ordination as a Buddhist nun in 1991 with her main teacher, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche. She lived for about 15 years in India at Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, becoming one of the centre’s primary teachers.»:
https://lhagsam.ch/visiting-teachers-losang-palmo/
3. Swiss Zen priest Vanja Palmers spent 10 years in a Buddhist monastery in the US.
https://www.felsentor.ch/vanja-palmers
Vanja Palmers is million heir of the the textile company Calida located in Switzerland.
4. Mathieu Ricard lives since after his PhD. in Cellular Genetics in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Asia
Matthieu Ricard is the son of well known French philosopher Jean-François Revel and painter Yahne Le Toumelin.
5. Jack Kornfied meditated for many years in Asia and lives now in the US
6. Ajahn Amaro lived many years in Asia and is now back in UK
https://www.spiritrock.org/ajahn-amaro
All of these dealed for many years of their life with the topic meditation. But did they only meditate 20 min each day as Richard Davidson does? We suppose that they mediated much longer each day.
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