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Our Lineage Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Rinpoche is the son and heir of the Vidyadhara, the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. His background embraces both Eastern and Western cultures. Born in India, he received spiritual training from his father and other distinguished lamas and received further education and training in Europe and North America. He now travels extensively teaching worldwide, and is married to the Sakyong Wangmo, Khandro Tseyang. "When we talk about enlightened society, we aren't talking about some utopia where everyone's enlightened. We're talking about a culture of human beings who know the awakened nature of basic goodness and invoke its energy in order to courageously extend themselves to others." If you would like to hear a recording of a talk by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, please go here. Visit mipham.com for more information about Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche Sakyong and Sakyong Wangmo at their wedding in Boulder, Colorado
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was one of the most dynamic teachers of Buddhism in the 20th Century. He was a pioneer in bringing the Buddhist teachings of Tibet to the West and is credited with introducing many Buddhist concepts into the English language and psyche in a fresh and new way. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the former supreme abbot of Surmang Monasteries in Tibet, is known as the foremost meditation master and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. In the early 1970s, he founded Naropa University, the first Buddhist-inspired university in North America, along with over 100 meditation centers worldwide and authored two dozen books on meditation, poetry, art and the Shambhala path of warriorship. "The Buddhist tradition teaches the truth of impermanence, or the transitory Read Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's biography on the Shambhala International website.
Trungpa Rinpoche in Boston At Logan airport (recognize the chairs?!)
Acharyas (Senior Teachers) The Acharyas of Shambhala are senior teachers appointed by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. As the Sakyong's representatives, the acharyas, who are empowered to offer refuge and bodhisattva vows, bring the continuity of the lineage into the living teaching environment of local Shambhala centers. Boston has the good fortune to not only host many of the acharyas as visiting teachers, but we are extremely honored to have Acharya Emily Bower and Acharya Adam Lobel live locally.
Acharya Emily Bower
Emily Bower started practicing in the Shambhala community in 1987, the year that Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche passed away. She met Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 1991, when he came to teach in Berkeley, CA, where she was living at the time. She became his student then and has served as his editor for various projects including his first book, Turning the Mind into an Ally. She has studied kyudo with Kanjuro Shibata Sensei and she is a lifelong member of the Dorje Kasung. In 1991, she joined the staff of Karme Choling, where she lived for three years. She currently lives in Boston, MA, and works as an acquiring book editor for Shambhala Publications. She ha been an acharya since 2004.
Shastris Shastris will also support the leadership in Shambhala centres in building comunity and strengthening the vision of enlightened society. We have three shastris here in Boston: Shastri Diana Evans has been a Shambhala Buddhist practitioner and teacher for over 30 years. She was a senior staff member at the Shambhala Mountain Center and then the Director of Practice and Education at Shambhala International for many years under the direction of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. She studies contemplative photography and Chinese brush painting. After teaching English and traveling in China she returned to the Boston in 2005 where she currently lives and works.
Shastri Carolyn Lowery Krusinski began her practice in 1978 where she attended the first Shambhala Training Level I offered in Los Angeles and also met The Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. As a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, she was Warrior of the Center in Boston and teaches throughout the US. She studies traditional Chinese Daoist Arts along with Shambhala Buddhism to bring ancient wisdom to modern life. She is a business executive and coach. Husband Tom and she just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They live in Lincoln, MA with their son Paxton. Shastri Frank Ryan has been studying and practicing under the direction of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche since 1976. He has taught Shambhala Buddhist programs and classes throughout New England, Western Canada, and Ireland. Frank and his family moved to Boston in 1990. -- |
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Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is the head of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, a spiritual and family lineage that descends through his family, the Mukpo clan. This tradition emphasizes the basic goodness of all beings and teaches the art of courageous warriorship based on wisdom and compassion.
In 2010, the Sakyong empowered a group of about 60 teachers in the Shambhala mandala to the new role of shastri. In Sanskrit, shastri literally means "teacher learned in the texts and commentaries". The shastris have been selected from our dedicated senior teachers, as well as from newer, youger teachers and will serve a term of three years. The shastris role is to bring the current understanding of the Shambhala Buddhist vision and teachings to their centers, to be a reference point for questions about the path, and in particular to help establish The Way of Shambhala curriculum as the core path. A major role of the shastri is to personally mentor and strengthen the local teaching mandala. Learn more about meditation and buddhism at shambhala.org
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