Sylvia Wetzel

Sylvia Wetzel ( born July 5, 1949 in Wolfach in the Black Forest) is a Buddhist feminist who has brought in Germany in Buddhist circles at a high level of awareness, as it conveys the themes of Buddhism, meditation and spirituality as a woman for women.

Life and work

Sylvia Wetzel studied from 1968 in Heidelberg Political Science and Slavic Studies. During this time she was also politically active, especially early on in the women's movement. Your first encounter with Tibetan Buddhism they had in 1977 in Dharamsala. She was a student of Thubten Yeshe and later of Zopa Rinpoche ( Gelug ). Other Buddhist studies from a variety of Buddhist schools of thought they had at Prabhasa Roshi Dharma, Ayya Khema, Akong Rinpoche, Rigzin Shikpo (Michael Hookham ). She is since 1984 a member, staff member and advisory board of the German Buddhist Union ( DBU) and was from 1985 to 1993 whose spokeswoman. Sylvia Wetzel meditation courses, lectures, writes books on Buddhism and is considered a pioneer of a feminist approach to the interpretation of the Buddhist teachings. Your lectures she practices mainly from Germany and Spain.

The International Buddhist Women's Association Sakyadhita was founded in 1987 in the wake of the historic first nuns conference in Bodhgaya ( North India ) of the initiator and participants of this meeting, including those from Germany by Ayya Khema, Sylvia Wetzel and Jampa Tsedroen ( Carola Roloff ) and Karma Lekshe Tsomo (USA), the Bhikkhuni Kusuma (formerly Dr. Kusuma Devendra, Sri Lanka) and Bhikkhuni Dhammananda (formerly Dr. Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, Thailand).

Works

  • The Bodhisvattra vows. - Arnstorf: Aryatara -Inst, 1981.
  • Women love one another, men also: Tantra 2001 - Niedertaufkirchen. Connection media, 2000
  • The Green Tara: feminine wisdom, Principles of Buddhist Tantra (together with Lama Thubten Yeshe ) - Munich: .. Diamond Verl, 2001 - ISBN 3-9805798-2-4
  • The heart of the lotus: Women and Buddhism. - Frankfurt / M.: Fischer paperback Verl, 2000 - ISBN 3-596-14254-7, expanded edition 2010 Edition Stone Rich - ISBN 978-3-942085-02-1. .
  • High as the sky, deep as the Earth: Meditations on Love, Relationships and work. - Munich: Dtv, 2000 - ISBN 3-423-34103-3.
  • Light life: practical meditations on love, relationship and work. - Berlin: Theseus Verl, 1999 - ISBN 3-896-20188-3.
  • Words work wonders: Talking with heart and mind. - Berlin: Theseus Verl, 2007 - ISBN 3896203290.
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