Loden Sherab Dagyab

Loden Sherab Dagyab, Loden Sherab briefly ( born July 27, 1940 in Menya, Eastern Tibet ) is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher (Lama ) and belongs to the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The last name Dagyab, who describes his country of origin, was adopted by him, to have a last name of useful European passports. After 1966 he was over forty years as a research assistant at the University of Bonn.

Tibet

As so-called patrons ( Tibetan Kyabgön ), were designated as Dagyab Rinpoche clergy, which he is assigned, since the 17th century, the religious and secular leaders of the Dagyab region in northeastern Tibet. The Dagyab Rinpoche were among the few highest-ranking lamas, which was officially entrusted to the patronage of the Buddhist doctrine of the Tibetan government. Loden Sherab is currently the only Lama of this rank, who lives in the West. The Dagyab Rinpoche be a tulku ( reincarnated Lama aware ) classified. Loden Sherab is considered among the living in exile in India tulkus than the one who holds the most Buddhist transmissions of the Gelugpa tradition.

As a monk of Drepung Monastery in Tibet Loden Sherab completed at this monastic university of the study of Buddhist philosophy. Loden Sherab was a young man, also a member of the monastic communities of the Ganden Monastery and the Monastery Ratö in central Tibet.

Loden Sherab but was trained not only in the Gelug tradition. He got as many teachings of the Kagyu and Sakya traditions, two other major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Together with his friends Losang Jampa Panglung and a fellow student, who bears the title Gyälzur Rinpoche, he belonged to the closer circle of students of Tibetan scholars who are known with the titles Thrichang Rinpoche and Ling Rinpoche. Both scholars were the official teachers of the current Dalai Lama.

Exile

Loden Sherab escaped in 1959, during the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the uprising of Lhasa, at about the same time as the Dalai Lama to India into exile. Only after his escape from Tibet in exile in India he earned the degree of Geshe Lharampa.

In the Indian exile in Dharmsala Loden Sherab wrote a Tibetan dictionary, which is still used a lot of attention today. After his marriage with the daughter of a Tibetan doctor from Darjeeling in 1966 he took a place offered to him at the Department of Language and Cultural Studies of Central Asia at the University of Bonn and moved to Bonn. In his work as a research assistant, he worked in particular on issues related to Tibetan iconography ( under the direction of Klaus Sagaster ) on Tibetan legal documents (together with Dieter Schuh) and the history of his native country Dagyab ( as an employee of Peter -in-law ). In all of these topics, he was responsible for known tibetologische publications or involved in these. He is the father of two grown children and lived with his family near Bonn.

From 1984, Loden Sherab Dagyab be remembered outside of his university research back to his calling as a Tibetan Buddhist incarnation. As " Dagyab Rinpoche " were and are teaching it in many places around the world. However, its main reference points are still the province Dagyab in eastern Tibet and the exile communities of Drepung Monastery, Ganden and Rato in Mundgod in southern India.

Loden Sherab, 1985 was a spiritual leader of a Buddhist center in Erlangen, later Langenfeld ( Middle Franconia ), which he gave in 1986 the name Choedzong since its founding. 1998, moved its headquarters to Fürth ( Middle Franconia ). Under his care centers emerged and study and meditation groups in Eschbach / Pfalz ( Chöying, 1993-1997), Hanover ( Choling, 1994 ), Frankfurt ( Choedzong, 1996-1998), Bayreuth, Bergisch Land, Berlin, Bingen, Bonn, Dusseldorf, Erlangen, Freiburg, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Cologne, Mannheim, Mainz, Miltenberg, Munich (later Norbu Ling ), Nuremberg, Schweinfurt, Stuttgart. Activities for which he was involved were: Invitations by lamas, monks and Thangkamalern to Germany, interreligious dialogue ( he was for many years editor of the edited by Michael von Brück academic journal "dialogue of religions "), a European meeting of Tibetan Dharma, sponsorships for Tibetans in exile and Tibetan children. Under his spiritual guidance of numerous books and, since 1987, the magazine " Choedzong " were ( later: " Chökor " ) issued.

In the fall of 2005, he opened the Tibet House in Frankfurt am Main, to be conducted in the tradition of the existing Tibet Houses in New Delhi, Barcelona, ​​London and New York as a Tibetan cultural center. Loden Sherabs core concern is mainly the integration of Buddhism in the west here.

Loden Sherab was a founding member of the " Dagyab eV " and still works actively in this club. The Dagyab eV wants to offer people in the Tibetan province Dagyab help in dealing with very elementary problems like education and health care. These include the initiation and continued support of schools for nomadic children, construction and promotion of Tibetan Buddhist art schools ( thangka painting ) and the development of traditional Tibetan medicine schools, so that the residents of Dagyab get an affordable basic medical care. Projects for famous monasteries, apart from earmarked donations, less than 10 percent of expenditures in Dagyab from. The association strives targeted to traditionally neglected groups, such as the nuns.

Works

• The sadhana of the collection rgyd - sde kun btus -. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-447-03109-3.
• The sadhana of the collection sGrub - thabs ' Dod ' jo. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-447-03108-5.
• Buddhist auspicious symbols in Tibetan culture space: An investigation of the nine best-known groups of symbols. Diederichs Yellow Series, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-424-01122-3.
• Buddhist guidance: A Basic Introduction. Choedzong, Langenfeld 1994.
• Buddhism in the West. Texts of S. E. Dagyab Kyabgön Rinpoche. Writings of DBU, Colorful row ( without year )
• Regine Leisner: Dagyab: Where Tibet is still Tibetan. Theseus Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89620-111-5.
• Regine Leisner: Six times Guru Yoga. Choedzong, Langenfeld 1994.
• Thomas Lautwein: mindfulness and contemplation: Lamrim - the Tibetan meditation. Hugendubel, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7205-2264-4.