Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Rinpoche Wanggyel ( Tib: bstan 'dzin dbang rgyal rin po che, * 1961) ( German spelling: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche) is the author of works on Dzogchen, yoga of dreams and lucid dreams. He is the founder and director of the Institute Ligmincha and several Chamma Ling -called centers devoted to the study and practice of the Bon tradition.

Biography

Tenzin Wanggyel was shortly after the escape of his parents before the Chinese invasion of Tibet in Amritsar, India. His father was a Lama of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, and his mother was a practitioner of the Bon tradition. After the death of his father, his mother remarried a lama in the Bon tradition. By the age of 10 years Tenzin Wanggyel a Christian school, his parents left him in the Bon monastery Menri à Dolanji (India) to enter, where he was ordained a monk.

He received both Bon and by masters of Buddhism teaching. His principal teachers were Lopön Tenzin Rinpoche and Namdag Lopön Sanggye Tenzin Rinpoche, who saw the rebirth of Khyung Tul Rinpoche, a renowned meditators and scholars in it.

At the age of 16 years Tenzin Wanggyel joined the monastic Dialectical school. There he began his career as a teacher. At the age of 19 years he was director of the school and held this position for four years.

In 1986 he received the degree of Geshe. At the same time he was hired at the Library of Tibetan Archives and ( Master ) works in Dharamsala and selected by the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatsho to represent the Bon school in the Assembly of Delegates of the Tibetan government in exile.

In 1989, Tenzin Wanggyel went to Merigar in Italy, at the invitation of the community Chögyel Namkhe Norbu. Since 1991 he has lived in the United States. He holds numerous courses starting in Europe and America.

Bibliography (selection)

German

  • Exercise at night. Tibetan meditations in sleep and dream. Goldmann Verlag, 2008.
  • Enlightenment in his sleep. The Tibetan art of dream yoga. Econ, 2003.
  • With Theo Kierdorf and Hildegard Höhr: The short path to enlightenment. Dzogchen Meditation according to the Bon teachings of Tibet. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main, 1997
  • The healing power of Buddhism. Living in harmony with the five elements. Goldmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-21975-9.

English

  • By Anne C. Klein: Unbounded Wholeness: Bon, Dzogchen and the Logic of the Nonconceptual. Oxford University Press, 2006
  • The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York. (1998)
  • Wonders of the Natural Mind. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York. (2000)
  • Healing with form, energy, and Light. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York. (2002)
  • Tibetan Sound Healing. Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado. (2006)
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