Khenpo Sodargye

Khenpo Sodargye

Khenpo Sodargye (* 1962 in the Kham region , Tibet ) is a Tibetan Lama , Buddhist scholar and translator .

Life

In 1985 he received his ordination at the Larung Buddhist Teaching Institute of the Five Classical Sciences , the world's largest Buddhist academy of its kind.

Khenpo Sodargye not only studied the classics of philosophical literature, but also had access to the multitude of esoteric Tibetan traditions. Eventually he was appointed to a senior position at the institute and became one of its directors. He also served as Jigme Phüntshog's most important translator for the Chinese followers and was commissioned by the Rinpoche to teach them.

Khenpo Sodargye has become one of the most important Buddhist teachers of our time. Today he is best known for his efforts to reconcile Buddhist teaching with the globalized world and to integrate it into modern everyday life.

He has given numerous lectures throughout China and other parts of East, South and Southeast Asia , Australia , New Zealand , as well as in Europe and North America . Most recently, he lectured at the Universities of Beijing, Tsinghua, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of Auckland, Melbourne University, National University of Singapore, National Taiwan University, University of Hong Kong and of the University of Göttingen.

Publications

• Happiness will find you when you are not looking for it
• To Do Is to Gain
• Cruelty Is Youth
• The Cutter-A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
• Always Present
• Everything You Wish

Web links

Commons : Khenpo Sodargye  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Larung Gar Buddhist Academy . Internet Archive. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
2. ^ Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy . Tricycle. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
3. ↑ Speaker Series: Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Meditation in China with Khenpo Sodargye . UVaContemplative Sciences Center. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 15, 2015. 
4. ↑ The hillside homes of Tibetan Buddhists in Larung Gar . The Telegraph. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
5. ^ David Germano: The Leaders of Larung Gar . In: The Tibetan and Himalayan Library . The Tibetan and Himalayan Library. Retrieved July 30, 1999.
6. ^ Goldstein Melvyn: Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet Religious Revival and Cultural Identity . University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California 1998, ISBN 0-520-21131-6 , p. 168.
7. ^ Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy . Tricycle. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
8. ↑ Speaker Series: Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Meditation in China with Khenpo Sodargye . UVaContemplative Sciences Center. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 15, 2015. 
9. ^ Mindfulness and Meditation in the Modern World . Yale. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 15, 2015. 
10. ↑ The Popularity of Tibetan Buddhism in China Today . Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford. Retrieved January 15, 2015.