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| Buddhism in Scotland: Buddhist Temples in Scotland, Scottish Buddhists, Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, Stephen Batchelor | ||
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| 出版日期 | 2010.09.16 |
| 頁次 | 28 |
| 出版者 | Books LLC |
| 出版者網址 | http://booksllc.net/ |
| 出版地 | Memphis, TN, US [曼非斯, 田納西州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Chapters: Buddhist Temples in Scotland, Scottish Buddhists, Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre, Stephen Batchelor, Alex Ferns, Bodhipaksa, Rupert Gethin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre is a Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Karma Kagyu school located at Eskdalemuir, near Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The building that now houses Samyé Ling was originally a hunting lodge. The Johnstone House Contemplative Community was founded there by a Canadian Theravada monk named Anandabodhi. When the community declined, Anadabodhi returned to Canada; he was subsequently ordained in the Tibetan Mahayana tradition and enthroned as Namgyal Rinpoche by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. In 1967, the Theravadins sold the centre to two Tibetan lamas and refugees named Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Akong Rinpoche, who renamed it Samyé Ling. Samye refers to the first Buddhist monastic university in Tibet, while Ling means 'Place'. Trungpa Rinpoche later left and founded further centres in the United States and elsewhere. In 1969, musicians David Bowie and Leonard Cohen were students at Samye Ling. The centre flourished and developed under the guidance of Akong Rinpoche and his brother Lama Yeshe Losal, who serves as both Abbot and Retreat Master. The centre includes one of the first Tibetan temples to be constructed in Western Europe , a large stupa, and accommodation for those taking a range of courses on Buddhism, meditation, spiritual development and art. The main stupa at Samye Ling.Under the guidance of the Tibetan artist Sherab Palden Beru, Samyé Ling has also become a centre for the creation, repair and restoration of thangkas, principally in the Karma Gadri style. Since the 1970s Sherab ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=871983 |
| ISBN | 9781158734832 (pbk); 1158734832 (pbk) |
| 點閱次數 | 471 |
| 建檔日期 | 2010.12.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2010.12.28 |
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