Dagpo Rinpoche

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I am happy for Dagpo RInpoche's organisation they use technology to make it easier to spread dorje shudgen.

[Big Uncle]

Dagpo Rinpoche is a High Lama and like all High Lamas, their natural disposition would be to benefit others even if it would inconvenienced them or they would have to endure difficulties for others. Hence, you find great Lamas like these learning new technology and always trying to find new ways to help others on top of the traditional methods they have already employed in the past. Hence, we take refuge with such masters and we give them the highest respects because they embody the teachings and readily gives their knowledge, practices and such to ready recipients. May such Lamas live long to spread the Buddhadharma especially Lama Tsongkhapa's doctrine along with Dorje Shugden practice far and wide. 

[dsiluvu]

This is so cool to see! Great Lamas these days are spreading the Dharma through the modern means and this is definitely something to rejoice it because so many more people can have access and benefit from it. Like this website we have here without dorjeshugden.com I doubt we would be able to connect with so many, learn, exchange points, get updates, the latest info and interesting news on Dorje Shugden so easily. I used to dislike technology/internet but now you just cannot live without it... it has become a part of life.

I can be anywhere in the world and this forum and website keeps me connected to DS 24/7 I guess this is what is means by using samsara's ways to bring the Dharma to the others. Imagine soon we may even get live broadcast streaming of Dorje Shugden teachings and initiations. Much rejoice for Dagpo Rinpoche and the devoted students behind the scene, working hard and setting up and all. Thumbs Up!!!!

[Ensapa]

Here is a nice biography of the current Dagpo Rinpoche:

VENERABLE DAGPO RINPOCHE

     
In Tibetan Buddhism it is the tradition to search for tulku – reincarnations of spiritual teachers who vow to benefit all sentient beings.

In February 1932 Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche was born in the region of Kongpo, in south-eastern Tibet. He was only one year old when His Holiness the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso (1876-1933) identified him as the reincarnation of a late 19th century master, Dagpo Lama Rinpoche Jamphel Lhundrup Gyatso, also known as Bamchoe Rinpoche. At six Dagpo Rinpoche entered Bamchoe Monastery where he was taught to read and write and was versed in the basics of sutra and tantra.

At thirteen he entered Dagpo Shedrup Ling Monastery (aka Dagpo Dratsang) famed for its high educational standards and its strict observance of monastic discipline. This monastery, dedicated to the study and practice of Buddhist philosophy (dratsang), dates from the second half of the 15th c. when it was founded by Je Lotroe Tenpa (1404–78), a disciple of Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), the founder of the Gelug Order of Tibetan Buddhisrm.

When Je Lotroe Tenpa met Je Tsongkhapa the latter gave him a copy of his Great Lamrim and advised him to establish a monastery in the southern region of Dagpo where it would be taught. He did so and by teaching the Great Lamrim extensively from memory to a large following came to be considered an "upholder of the lamrim teaching".

In the monastery classes were given on the five major topics – logic, p?ramit?, madhyamika, abhidharma and vinaya – with special emphasis on the lamrim, the stages of the path to enlightenment. Every year in April a full session was devoted to it and every three years the abbot was required to teach a complete work on it. Due to this, it was widely practiced in the area and the monastery itself was also known as the Lamrim Dratsang (the lamrim monastery).

At Dagpo Dratsang discipline was strictly enforced for all, regardless of one's rank. Initially the young Dagpo Rinpoche was more interested in amusing himself than in studying, much to the despair of his teachers and his predecessor's disciples. One day however he became aware of their disappointment and touched by it, decided to try and meet their expectations. Subsequently he surprised the entire community by memorizing a large number of scriptures in record time. Equally suddenly he began to appreciate dialectical debates when one day he was able to swiftly refute an opponent's argument and win the match by quoting a work he had just memorised.

The book in question was none other than the Precious Garland of Tenets by Konchog Jigme Wangpo (1728–1791), the reincarnation of the great Kunkhyen Jamyang Shepa (1648–1722), a disciple of the fifth Dalai Lama. For Rinpoche this treatise was decisive for several reasons. Not only did it arouse in him an overwhelming desire to further his knowledge in general, it drew him so strongly to this author's works that he began planning a move to where he could study them in depth.

In 1956, as he was reading another work by Kunkhyen Jamyang Shepa, which he had difficulty fathoming, Rinpoche decided to end his eleven-year stay at Dagpo Dratsang and travel to central Tibet. Thus at age twenty-four he joined Gomang Dratsang, one of four colleges of the great monastic university of Drepung, which teaches Buddhist philosophy using the treatises by this master and his successor. At Drepung Rinpoche studied mainly under the great Geshe Ngawang Nyima Rinpoche. As Gomang Dratsang was close to Lhasa and to the other two major Gelug monasteries in central Tibet, Sera and Ganden, he was able to study under and receive transmissions from many other masters as well.

He stayed at Drepung Gomang until the 1959 uprising. Due to the increasing repression by Chinese occupying forces, Rinpoche decided to follow his masters and seek exile in a free country. Eluding mass arrests, he managed with difficulty to cross the Himalayas with his close Dharma friend, Geshe Thubten Phuntsog-la, who had been with him since his years at Dagpo Dratsang.

Soon after reaching India he met academics from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Impressed with his knowledge and open-mindedness, they invited him to France to collaborate on their research and translation work. Thus with His Holiness the Dalai Lama's permission and accompanied by Geshe-la, in 1960 Rinpoche became the first Tibetan lama to immigrate to France. He worked in Paris first with various academics and then at I.Na.L.C.O, a school for oriental studies, where he taught Tibetan language and culture and trained many translators until 1993.

In 1977 Rinpoche finally gave in to his students' repeated requests and his own masters' urging to teach Buddhism and once he started, he never stopped. In 1978 he founded the Tibetan Buddhist centre Guépèle Tchantchoup Ling at L'Haÿ-les-Roses, near Paris. In July 1995 it became the first Buddhist congregation of the Gelug Order to be officially recognized in France and was renamed Ganden Ling Institute for the occasion. It works in collaboration with the Guépèle Institute, a cultural organisation, and Entraide Franco-Tibétaine ("Franco-Tibetan Mutual Aid"), a humanitarian organisation, that supports the elderly, children and monks in Buddhist communities in India.

Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche has created several other Buddhist centres in France and abroad: in Holland, Switzerland and South-East Asia, which he visits frequently. Since he has been living in France for nearly fifty years, he is very familiar with Western mentality and speaks both French and English. He has co-authored many books and articles on Tibet and Buddhism and has often appeared as a guest on radio and television shows.

Rinpoche travels regularly to India to teach in his monastery and to continue receiving guidance from his own spiritual masters. He has over forty, including both tutors of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, as well as His Holiness himself. Under them he has studied sutra and tantra, received numerous tantric initiations and accomplished retreats. Among the masters of his generation still alive today, Rinpoche is one of the few to hold such a large number of teaching transmissions whose lineages go back to their source, Buddha Shakyamuni. In addition he has studied supplementary subjects such as poetry, grammar, history and astrology.

Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche is a spiritual guide whose humility, kindness and infinite patience have always made him extremely accessible and helpful to others. He continually makes the treasures of his tradition available to others in the hope that they may benefit from them. He is a living example of the Buddha's teachings. His great learning along with the depth and clarity of his instructions, which are directly applicable to daily life, attract an ever-increasing following. All those who have had the opportunity to listen to his skilful discourses or ask him for advice, by applying them have found the kind of peace of mind and increased inner resources that only exceptional beings can inspire.

His autobiography, Le Lama Venu du Tibet, has been published in French by Grasset and in Dutch under the title De Lama die naar het Westen kwam. An enlarged version in English is in the process of elaboration.

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Illustrious Lineage

Dagpo Rinpoche's previous incarnations are said to include the main spiritual guide of the Indian sage Atisha, the great Serlingpa of Indonesia and the great 11th-century translator Marpa Lotsawa, one of the pioneers of the Kagyu School of Buddhism in Tibet, as well as several abbots.

Teaching on Rebirth

Rinpoche said that for one to be reborn a human being was indeed very precious and a very rare thing as compared to being reborn into the lower realm such as an animal or an insect. Human beings have virtually unlimited potential of finding solutions to problems. Hence we have a far better capacity to realise happiness than animals.

However, leading a human life is not easy as we still face suffering. To escape from this endless cycle of rebirth, it is important for us to find the root of our sufferings, he said. The root cause is our ego or a very wrong view of ourselves and in order for us to overcome it we have to understand selflessness or the way the self actually exists.

Once you have understood selflessness, you destroy ignorance and achieve enlightenment. As a result you no longer create karma (causes) for rebirth.

So why are monks who are supposedly wise and pure reborn? Why is it that a high priest can even demolish his own head temple?

Rinpoche said that not all monks have achieved a true sense of selflessness. They may have studied (Buddhism) to a certain degree but still do not have a direct realisation of selflessness and as long as you do not have it, you are not free from the cycle of rebirth, he said, adding that one who has achieved selflessness need not be a monk but he or she can be a layperson.

Such people can choose to be reborn as a monk, a layperson or even as an animal to be helpful to others, said Rinpoche with a smile.

To overcome anger, Lord Buddha gave as antidotes three forms of patience: Firstly, being patient in relation to the harm that others inflict upon you by understanding the origins of the harm. Secondly, patient acceptance of adversity as the result of karma, by looking at the brighter side; for as Rinpoche explained, every time you face a problem you are experiencing the result of bad karma which means there is one less to get rid of. Furthermore, we must learn not to exaggerate our difficulties. Thirdly, having the patience to persevere and surmount difficulties that arise in spiritual endeavour only then can we become stronger.

"If we fight the suffering, it might only make things worse for us. Lord Je Tsongkhapa said that if we cultivate patience, our joy will never decline and, in this lifetime, we will constantly be happy. Also, we will be able to close the door to lower rebirth in the next life."

As for the disadvantages of not practising patience, Rinpoche said that anger destroys our virtues. An instance of anger towards a superior being (such as a bodhisattva) can destroy aeons of merit that we have generated in the past through the practice of generosity and patience. And we do not know which person is a boddhisattva as he does not wear a nametag?.

So Rinpoche explained that a harmful person is actually un-free in the sense that he is controlled by his mind and in turn his mind is controlled by his disturbing mental factors. So he is like a slave to a slave! That is why it is incorrect to feel anger towards a person who has harmed us.

[Big Uncle]

Dagpo Rinpoche has many centers across many countries but his principle seat is in France. However, this Lama manifest the appearance that he does not practice Dorje Shugden.

France
Centre Kadam Tcheuling Bordeaux
tél. : +33 (0)5 56 92 63 38 ou +33 (0)5 56 91 34 68
e-mail : [email protected]

kadamtcheuling.site.voila.fr
Institut Kadam Tcheuling Drôme - Ardèche
tél. : +33 (0)4 75 53 52 58
e-mail : [email protected]

Institut Kadam Tcheuling Grand Avignon
tél. : +33 (0)4 90 25 30 24
e-mail : [email protected]

Institut Kadam Tcheuling Méditerranée
tél./fax. : +33 (0)4 91 93 14 43 ou +33 (0)6 12 90 55 31
e-mail : [email protected]

Institut Kadam Tcheuling Royan
tél. : +33 (0)6 66 55 53 10
e-mail : [email protected]
www.ktlroyan.fr.gd

Institut Kadam Tcheuling Vaucluse - Vaison la Romaine
tél. : +33 (0)6 89 50 73 15

Institut Kadam Tcheuling Nantes
tél. + 33 (0)6 04 16 75 55
e-mail: [email protected]
www.evenements-nantes.fr

The Netherlands

Kadam Chöling
tél. : +31(0)2 99 41 42 66
www.kadamcholing.nl
e-mail : [email protected] [email protected]
Malaysia

Kadam Tashi Choe Ling
e-mail : [email protected] ou [email protected]
Study group in Penang
e-mail : [email protected]
Indonesia

Yayasan Suvarnadipa (Surabaya)
tél./fax. : +62 (0)31 568 5297, +62 (0)31 837 6400 ou +62 (0)31 832 3683
e-mail : [email protected] ou [email protected]
Yayasan Serlingpa (Jakarta)
tél. : +62 (0)21 315 0480 / 390 0270
e-mail : [email protected] [email protected]
Kadam Choeling Bandung
tél. : +62 (0)22 911 71016
www.kadamchoeling.or.id
e-mail : [email protected] ou [email protected]
Ubud Buddhist Group Bali
e-mail : [email protected]
India

Study Group Bangalore
e-mail : [email protected]

[Ensapa]

I have also found an interesting snippet on the previous Dagpo Rinpoche, who is also the root Guru of Pabongkha Rinpoche who taught him the Lamrim to the point where Pabongkha became the attained master that we all know him as today. There are also other interesting information about Dagpo Rinpoche worth noting, that he is Survanadipa and Pabongkha was none other than Atisha's reincarnation. I am totally in awe by Dagpo Rinpoche!

The lineage of Dagpo Rinpoche's previous incarnations goes far back into the past.  It includes masters such as the famous bodhisattva Taktungu who at the time of the previous Buddha sold a piece of his own flesh to make an offering to his spiritual master. It also includes the Indian sage Atisha’s main spiritual guide, the great Indonesian master, Suvarnadvipa Guru Dharmakirti (Serlingpa). Atisha travelled thirteen months by sea from India under very difficult conditions to meet Suvarnadvipa in what is now Indonesia, to request him for instruction on generating bodhicitta. Suvarnadvipa Guru passed on to him the lineage of the practice issuing from Maitreya called “the seven-point instruction causes and effect.”

The two teachers, Suvarnadvipa and Atisha, found themselves together again in the same master-disciple relationship in more recent times when Atisha was born as Pabongkha Dorje Chang and received teachings on bodhicitta from Dagpo Lama Rinpoche Jampel Lhundrup (picture left), the present Dagpo Rinpoche’s previous reincarnation.

Another of the better known Tibetan masters in the lineage of Dagpo Rinpoche’s incarnations is the great fifth century translator,  Marpa Lotsawa, founder of the Kagyu Order and famous as the teacher who guided Jetsun Milarepa to enlightenment through very vigorous training. One could also mention Longdröl Lama Rinpoche, an important 18th century meditation master and scholar, disciple of the 7th Dalai Lama, who, like Milarepa, had a difficult time in his youth. After much study and meditation, Longdröl Lama Rinpoche became one of the leading masters of the century, teacher of scholars such as Jigmey Wangpo. A great scholar himself, he wrote more than 23 volumes of treatises. In more recent times we count several abbots of Dagpo Shedrup Ling Monastery among Dagpo Rinpoche’s incarnations.

Despite this prestigious and noble spiritual lineage, the Dagpo Rinpoche of today remains a master whose great simplicity, kindness and infinite patience makes him extremely accessible and allows his numerous following to benefit from his remarkable teachings and skilful spiritual guidance.