Neville G. Pemchekov Warwick

Neville G. Pemchekov Warwick ( born in 1932 in the Soviet Union, † 1993 in San Francisco) was a modern interpreter of Buddhism and an important figure of the spiritual movement in California during the 1960s and 1970s. He made the ritual of fire run outside the regions where it was traditionally widespread popular.

Life

Pemchekov Warwick was born in the Soviet Union and " wandered in the 1960s in America. " After John Gordon Melton, he was already in the Soviet Union, a Buddhist education, which by the conditions prevailing in Kalmykia Tibetan Buddhism was possible there. 1940, at the age of eight, he began training after the Japanese tradition of Shugendō. He achieved this in the degree of Sendatsu Dai (大 先 达), "a Great Sendatsu ". A Sendatsu " is someone who is making great progress and precedes the understanding or skills, whether in scholarship, art or religious practice. His exemplary character makes him to be leader and guide for others.

Already in Russia completed Pemchekov Warwick both a medical and a music degree. After his departure from Russia, he became a student of Lama Anagarika Govinda in India and the United States. This took him in 1968 with the name Vajrabodhi initiation into the Order Arya Maitreya Mandala.

Activities

By linking the teachings and practices of Shugendō with the teachings of Lama Anagarika Govinda, Pemchekov Warwick founded in the second half of the 1960s, an organization that he called Kailas Shugendō. The Kailas Shugendō were part of the Order Arya Maitreya Mandala. "Unlike many spiritual groups ' do the people of Kailas Shugendo win no effort trailers. Fact, they discourage would-be converts. They are extremely disciplined, yet they have an overflowing sense of humor. " As Head of the Kailas Shugendō Pemchekov Warwick was the Japanese title Ajari. For this reason, and because he was a doctor of medicine, and he was often referred to as " Dr. Ajari "quotes.

In the Kailas Shugendo Arya Maitreya Mandala fire department of the run were maintained in addition to the usual practices of the Order, including the fire rituals. In the life of Kailas Shugendō also social work and music played an important role. The composer and avant-garde musician Arthur Russell was a pupil of Pemchekov Warwick. He joined the Kailas Shugendō in in February 1969.

Pemchekov Warwick was presented by Samuel L. Lewis the poet Allen Ginsberg. As a musician Pemchekov Warwick had founded the Kailas Shugendō Mantric Sun band. He and the band seemed to Allen Ginsberg's Pacific High Studio Mantras as " Reverend Adjari and Buddhist Chorus ". Pemchekov Warwick was also friends with Jerry Garcia, the band leader of the rock group the Grateful Dead. At a concert of the Grateful Dead on March 24, 1971 in San Francisco were Pemchekov Warwick and members of the Kailsh Shugendo with ritual deposits on the stage, and they showed there among other firewalking.

Pemchekov Warwick maintained close friendships with many exponents of spiritual awakening in the American West of the 1960s, including with Shunryu Suzuki, Alan Watts and the American Sufi mystic Samuel L. Lewis.