Where did selected Swiss teachers receive their teachings & where do they have their roots?

Last Updated on September 4, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Losang Palmo (Rita Riniker)

  • teaches at Longku-FPMT-Zentrum in Bern, and Laghsam Tibetan Meditation in Zurich, etc.
  • She lived for about 15 years in India at Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, becoming one of the centre’s primary teachers
  • The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama the 14th is in Dharamsala, India as well.

https://lhagsam.ch/visiting-teachers-losang-palmo/

Tenzin Michael

  • who teaches at Laghsam Tibetan Meditation in Zurich, etc.
  • Inspired by the contacts with such spiritual masters like H.H. Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Geshe Ngawang Jangchup, Tich Nath Hanh and others, he decided to dedicate his life to Dharma.
  • Tenzin Michael ordained to become a Buddhist monk in 2004. He spent many years in the Tibetan Buddhist Drepung Monastery in South India and is currently studying Buddhism in the Nalanda Monastery in southern France.

https://lhagsam.ch/visiting-teachers-tenzin-michael/

Diego Hangartner

  • Teaches at Landguet Ried, Felsentor Retreat Center, Center for Mindfulness, Zürich and Roche Pharma Basel, etc.
  • He lived in Dharamsala, India (where also the office of the Dalai Lama the 14th is) for 11 years, learned Tibetan, and studied for 7 years at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in the Tibetan language.

https://www.diegohangartner.org/

The Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MIRS) does not teach

  • The MRIS was founded by Peter Gamma in the year 2020.
  • A main inspiration for the foundation was a PNAS paper of Richard Davidsons group about meditation which was published in 2004:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

  • This study was done on request of the Dalai Lama the 14th.
  • We found the PNAS paper after a poster of the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard with a PhD. in Cellular Genetics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Honggerberg catched our attention.
  • We did some research about Matthieu Ricard who participated in this study and found the PNAS paper which was for us personally revolutionary.
  • Did Diego Hangartner founder of Pharm D. Switzerland hung up the poster with Matthieu Ricard on it there?
  • Diego studied pharmacology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
  • We found the poster which showed Matthieu Ricard on it near the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Zurich ETH Honggerberg.
  • We found further information about the topic meditation in the book “Happiness” written by Matthieu Ricard.
  • The book “Happiness” by Matthieu Ricard has been critizised that Ricard has not written something really new. But for us personally it was new that a PhD. in Cellular Genetics writes books about happiness and meditation.

Matthieu Ricard

  • is a Buddhist monk with a PhD. in cellular genetics.
  • He wrote this book about Happiness on a secular basis on request of the Dalai Lama the 14.th.

The Dalai Lama the 14.th

  • Is said to be currently the most realized living master of Tibetan Buddhism.
  • He often meets with scientists from around the world.
  • He described himself once as: “my body, this person, half Buddhist monk, half scientist”.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  • Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche spent 13 years in solitary retreat before he wanted to stay there for the rest of his life, but was not allowed to.
  • He is said to have spent a total of 20 years of his life in solitary retreat.
  • In the Rigpa Wiki it says that Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was regarded by many as one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of the twentieth century and that he was the teacher of many of the important lamas of today.
  • Some of his students where the Dalai Lama the 14th, Matthieu Ricard, Rigpa founder Lama Sogyal Rinpoche and Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche who is the abbot of the Shechen Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal where Matthieu Ricard lives.
  • According to the Dalai Lama Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was one of his main teachers who was very well built and was always smiling.