Bodhi Path
Bodhi Path (in English "path to awakening") is an international organization of Buddhist centers of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, founded by Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö .
History and background
Starting with Natural Bridge Virginia, the first Bodhi Path Centers emerged in North America at the end of the 1990s, founded by Künzig Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö , the second highest teacher of the Karma Kagyu tradition. As a result, an international network of non-profit Buddhist communities developed rapidly, which currently includes more than 35 groups in America, Asia, Australia and Europe. The first Bodhi Path Center in Germany was established on March 5, 2006 in Renchen-Ulm near Baden-Baden. It was a member of the German Buddhist Union (DBU) until July 2, 2019 and is the headquarters of Künzig Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö, in Europe. In addition, there are currently other Bodhi Path centers in Bregenz, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Fulda, Innsbruck, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Rostock and Zurich in German-speaking countries. The Bodhi Path Centers are part of a network of around 900 Karma Kagyu Centers in 62 countries, which recognize the Karmapa candidate Trinle Thaye Dorje as head of the Karma Kagyu tradition in the conflict over the successor to the 16th Karmapa .
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Bodhi Path Centers follow a curriculum set out by Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö . It is characterized by the focus on a Western-oriented lay Buddhism with a Mahāyānist character, which claims to introduce practitioners systematically and step-by-step to selected practices of Tibetan Buddhism. According to the curriculum, avoidance of the ten negative actions, developing the bodhisattva attitude of love and compassion, and mindfulness meditations are emphasized first. The focus is on the Kadam teachings of Atisha imparted by Gampopa , such as the 7-point mind training. Buddhist philosophy and meditation are taught by Tibetan and Western rinpoches , khenpos and lamas , predominantly from the Karma Kagyu tradition, who were authorized by Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö to teach according to his curriculum of the Bodhi Path centers.
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- Melton, J. Gordon: Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions . Gale, 2009. A copy of the article can be found here
- An answer to a question raised about Bodhi Path
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric D. Curren. Buddha's not smiling. Alaya Press, 2006, 89
- ↑ http://www.bodhipath.org/centers/
- ↑ Status: 01/2015
- ↑ http://www.kagyu.net/
- ↑ CURRICULUM ( Memento from July 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://newsage.de/index.php/archives/spiritualitaet/auf-das-wesentliche-zentrieren