Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation
| Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Legal form: | legal foundation under civil law |
| Purpose: | Promoting the arts, science and charity in the spirit of Anagarika Govinda |
| Chair: | Friedhelm Köhler (board member), Volker Zotz (chairman of the board of trustees) |
| Consist: | since 1989 |
| Founder: | Karl-Heinz Gottmann with funds from Li Gotami Govinda |
| Seat: | Munich |
| Website: | www.lama-govinda.de |
The Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation is a non-profit foundation with legal capacity based in Munich , which administers the estate of the German-Indian scholar, author and artist Anagarika Govinda (1898–1985) and operates and promotes cultural, scientific and social areas is working.
history
The foundation was established in 1989 in fulfillment of a legacy of the widow Anagarika Govinda, the Indian artist Li Gotami Govinda (1906–1988), who provided personal means and her husband's material and spiritual inheritance, by the physician Karl-Heinz Gottmann built. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees until 1999, after which the neurologist Armin Gottmann took over this function. The philosopher Volker Zotz has been the chairman of the board of trustees since 2015 . The Board of Trustees appoints a board that is responsible for administrative tasks. Until 2016, the economist Manfred Bues held the office of the Foundation Board, and since then the management consultant and psychologist Friedhelm Köhler has been his successor .
activity
The foundation manages the rights to the literary and artistic heritage of Lama Anagarika Govinda and is dedicated to cultural, scientific and social activities in the spirit of his work, which is shaped by Buddhism , Daoism and intercultural dialogue .
In the cultural field, the foundation stood out by organizing exhibitions, for example in 2016/17 with Tibet's Saxon and Guge - Forgotten Kingdom in Western Tibet in the St. Gallen Historical and Ethnological Museum
As the basis for their exhibitions, the Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation owns numerous works of art by Anagarika Govinda and the materials from his Tibet expeditions, for example to the former West Tibetan Kingdom of Guge , where Govinda and his wife documented temple frescos in minute detail. These drawings “are an important basis for research today. (...) But because the researcher Anagarika Govinda copied numerous murals by hand - there are more than 100 leaves - there are original templates for the reconstruction of the temple. The exhibition clearly shows how Govinda worked and how thanks to him the old monasteries are at least partially visible again. "
For its scientific activities, the foundation maintains the Anagarika Govinda Institute for Buddhist Studies , whose research “takes into account the traditions of Buddhism in Asia as well as the reception of Buddhism in the West.” The Institute is preparing a critical complete edition of Govinda's works.
The foundation's social activities include, among other things, the "promotion of aid and educational projects for Tibetans in India and the provision of study material for prisoners."
Since its inception, the Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation has published books and magazines. With Edition Habermann, she runs a publishing house in which books by Anagarika Govinda, Li Gotami Govinda, Nyanaponika , Karl-Heinz Gottmann , Benedikt Maria Trappen and other authors have been published. The journal Der Kreis , launched by Hans-Ulrich Rieker and Wilhelm A. Rink in 1956 , has also been published by the foundation since it was founded.
The foundation also keeps the memory of Govinda and his wife Li Gotami alive. For example, on the 100th birthday of Anagarika Govinda in 1998, a commemorative publication was published with contributions by Martin Baumann , Hellmuth Hecker , Detlef Kantowsky , Hans Wolfgang Schumann and Karel Werner, among others . As early as 1997 the foundation erected a stupa in Darjeeling as a grave monument for Govinda. In 2018, together with the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture , the foundation erected a monument to Govinda in Waldheim, the town he was born in Central Saxony .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Korn: “The return of someone who has traveled far. An exhibition on Lama Anagarika Govinda will open in the cultural center. He was a scholar, painter - and Waldheimer. ” Sächsische Zeitung of May 21, 2016
- ↑ "The Kingdom of Guge currently in St. Gallen." In: St. Galler Tagblatt of December 29, 2016
- ↑ Roger Berhalter: “The Dalai Lama says thank you.” In: St. Galler Tagblatt of November 24, 2016
- ↑ "Anagarika Govinda Institute. Start of activity. ”In: Der Kreis 275/276 (November 2016), pp. 67–68
- ↑ Birgit Zotz (ed.): A well-traveled man returns. Texts on the burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim 2018 , p. 44
- ↑ Festschrift to commemorate the 100th birthday of Lama Anagarika Govinda . Munich 1998
- ^ André Pitz: "Last rest for Anagarika Govinda in Waldheim." Leipziger Volkszeitung from April 21, 2018