Will Pema Wangyal from Tibet be able to make a living from in Switzerland as the founder of a meditation center in Kollbrunn?

Last Updated on May 12, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

• Christian Kelter is community leader and deacon of the holy Spirit community in Hünenberg ZG::

Why will the Meditation Research Insitute Switzerland (MRIS) will be a failure? – for instance because only the authors of «Altered Traits» are currently able to make money out of a daily meditation practice of 20 min?

• The holy Spirit community in Hünenberg ZG is funded from Church taxes:

Why will the Meditation Research Insitute Switzerland (MRIS) will be a failure? – for instance because only the authors of «Altered Traits» are currently able to make money out of a daily meditation practice of 20 min?

• There were over 6,000 monasteries in Tibet.
• However, nearly all of these were destroyed.
• Most of the major monasteries have been at least partially re-established, while many others remain in ruins.
• Tibetan Buddhism has four major schools, namely:
• Nyingma (8th century),
• Kagyu (11th century),
• Sakya (1073),
• and Gelug (1409).
• Whe have the Catholic Church in Switzerland.
• We have the Protestant Church in Switzerland
• These two institutions have been established since hunderts to thousand of years.
• In Switzerland the best known place for Tibetan Budhhism is the Rikon Tibet Institute Monastry.
• It was founded in 1968

Pema Wangyal lived there for 17 years as a Buddhist monk and was trained and educated there:

• Pema Wangyal has moved out recently of the Tibet Institute in Rikon Monastry and opened a meditation center:

• But is this not very difficult for someone like Pema Wangyal from Tibet to make a living from in Switzerland as the founder of a meditation center?

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