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== Venerable Gape Lama ==
Preliminaries ([[sngon 'gro]]).


The general outer preliminaries are the [[Four Mind Changings]]: reflections on precious human body, impermanence and death, cause and effect of karma, and the shortcomings of samsaric existence. The special inner preliminaries are the [[Four Times Hundred Thousand Practices]] of refuge and bodhichitta, Vajrasattva recitation, mandala offering, and guru yoga. [[RY]]


== A Brief Biography ==
*[[Torch of Certainty]] (Shambhala Publications),
*[[The Great Gate]] (Rangjung Yeshe Publications).


 
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Gape Lama was born in 1965 and had the good fortune to receive instruction at the age of fourteen on the effects of virtuous and harmful actions by the great yogi Tamga. He completed the four hundred thousand accumulations of the preliminary practices (ngondro) according to the Buddhist [[Yangzab]] terma.
 
His family having long been associated with [[Gar Monastery]] prior to the Cultural Revolution, Gape Lama made great efforts to travel to the Gar Monastery where he received refuge ordination from His Eminence [[Garchen Rinpoche]]. He then received full monastic ordination and the bodhisattva vow from the great siddha [[Karma Norbu]], and was admitted to the Gar Monastery. There, he trained in the ritual practices of the tantras of Old and New Schools and other diverse religious activities. He was selected for special training at [[Hlo Lungkar Monastery]], including the [[Eight Heruka Sadhanas]], the [[Embodiment of the Masters' Realization]], [[Vajrakilaya]], and [[Essence of Great Bliss]]. He served as chant master and, later, as disciplinarian of the Gar monastery.
 
Thereafter, he received teachings from many of the great living Buddhist masters including [[Dzogchen]] [[Trekchod]] and [[Thogal]] from [[Khenpo Munsel Rinpoche]], the entirety of the [[Drikung Kagyu protectors]] and the higher and lower tantra sections from HE Garchen Rinpoche, and received from [[Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok]] his own terma (mind treasure) of the [[Kilaya]] cycle of teachings. At [[Drigung Thil]], he received from [[Drubpon Tendzin Nyima]] some of the profound teachings of the Drikung Kagyu such as the [[Fivefold Mahamudra]] and the [[Six Yogas [of Naropa]]]. He studied the [[Gong Chig (Single Intention)]], [[Essence of Mahayana]], [[The Bodhisattva Way of Life]], and the [[Thirty-Seven Bodhisattva Practices]] with [[Drigung Khenpo Namzig]]. Under the elder Drigung chant master [[Konchog Samten]], he trained in the ritual practices of [[Chakrasamvara]], [[Varahi]], the [[Yangzab]], [[Sarvavid]] and [[Akshobhya]].
 
Thereafter, HE [[Garchen Rinpoche]] asked him to undertake a series of assignments to help reorganize and reestablish Buddhist practice and monastic discipline in monasteries throughout the region – after, in some cases, a twenty-five year breach in the Buddhist practice tradition – including [[Hlo Miyel Monastery]], [[Khargo Monastery]], and later [[Tseri Monastery]] in Sichuan where he reestablished the Great Accomplishment (Drupchen) practice of [[Yamantaka]] and gave other teachings. Then, again at the request of HE [[Garchen Rinpoche]], he served as Lama (religious teacher and minister) for two years at [[Tamgo Monastery]] in Central Tibet, the former dwelling place of [[Chung Dorje Dragpa]], the fourth lineage holder of the [[Drikung Kagyu]]. There, Gape Lama established the summer retreat, set up a yearly teaching schedule, and appointed a chant master, disciplinarian and shrine master.
 
Subsequently, at [[Gar Monastery]], Gape Lama took responsibility for instructing the nuns at the [[Fivefold Mahamudra Meditation Center of Gargon Nunnery]]. In the year 2000 he went to India and received the complete Drikung Kagyu empowerments, transmissions and teachings during the Drigung Snake Year teachings. Thereafter, he went to Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. He then came to America to do a Yamantaka Retreat with HE [[Garchen Rinpoche]], and served as the resident Lama for the [[Mercy and Treasure Buddhist Foundation]] in California. At present, he serves as a Resident Lama and Chant Master for the [[Garchen Institute in Arizona]], as well as continuing to serve as visiting Lama (religious teacher and minister) at the [[Mercy and Treasure Buddhist Foundation]]. HE [[Garchen Rinpoche]] has also requested Gape Lama to serve as Chant Master (religious ritual master) all the [[Gar Buddhist Dharma centers in the West.]]

Latest revision as of 11:16, 11 June 2006

Preliminaries (sngon 'gro).

The general outer preliminaries are the Four Mind Changings: reflections on precious human body, impermanence and death, cause and effect of karma, and the shortcomings of samsaric existence. The special inner preliminaries are the Four Times Hundred Thousand Practices of refuge and bodhichitta, Vajrasattva recitation, mandala offering, and guru yoga. RY

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