Birgit Schweiberer

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Birgit Schweiberer (born May 4, 1961 in Homburg ) is a German karateka , Buddhist nun and anesthetist .

Life

Birgit Schweiberer is the daughter of the alpine ski racer and surgeon Leonhard Schweiberer and his wife Helgard, née Abel. Her brother is the actor Thomas Schweiberer , her sister is also a doctor.

Schweiberer graduated from the Christian von Mannlich-Gymnasium in her hometown in 1980 and studied human medicine at the Ruhr University in Bochum until 1987 . At the age of 15, she began taking Bernd Hinschberger with the Karate Trek, by 1979 she was national coach Hideo Ochi trained.

After ending her career as a competitive athlete in 1987, she worked for ten years at the University of Munich Hospital , where she worked at the University of Munich in 1988 with a thesis on the subject of immunocytochemical detection of disseminated tumor cells in the bone marrow of patients with breast, colorectal and gastric cancer: phenotypic characterization, in vitro propagation, tumorigenicity .

From 1997 onwards, Schweiberer dealt more intensively with the Buddhist way of teaching. In 1998 she became an ordained nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition ( Getsulma ) and bears the name Losang Drime . From 1998 to 2014 she completed two master's courses under Geshe Jampa Gyatso and Khensur Geshe Jampa Tekchog at the Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa (ILTK) in Pomaia ( Tuscany ), where she also taught as a tutor until 2014. From 2014 to 2018 she completed a baccalaureate course on "Languages ​​and Cultures of South Asia and Tibet" at the University of Vienna. Since 2001 she has been teaching study courses and meditation retreats on philosophical topics of Indian-Tibetan Buddhism at various European Buddhist centers. She has lived in Vienna since 2014 and teaches there at the Panchen-Losang-Chogyen-Gelug-Center (PLC) in Vienna .

Sporting successes (selection)

From 1980 to 1985, Schweiberer was European champion six times in a row and acquired 13 titles at German championships in the individual kata and team. At the 1980 World Championships in Bremen she won the bronze medal, and in 1983 in Cairo she was fourth.

Publications

  • with Cornelia Krause: Sūtra of golden light: the Ārya-Mahāyāna-Sūtra of holy golden light, which is called the mighty King of the Sūtras [translation from Tibetan] . 1996, ISBN 978-3-9810682-2-1

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita Thomas Schweiberer.
  2. ↑ detailed résumé of Birgit Schweiberer, accessed on June 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Our teachers - Dr. Birgit Schweiberer (Losang Drime) . Panchen-Losang-Chogyen-Gelug-Zentrum, Vienna, accessed on June 18, 2013.
  4. ↑ That goes on the way . (PDF; 2.3 MB) Birgit Schweiberer, accessed on June 18, 2013.
  5. ^ History of the DKV . German Karate Association .
personal data
SURNAME Schweiberer, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Losang Drime (nun name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German karateka and bhikkhuni
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg