Mipham Chokyi Lodro

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Mipham Chokyi Lodro
Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration :
mi pham chos kyi blo gross
Other spellings:
Mipham Chokyi Lodro

Mipham Chökyi Lodrö ( Tib. Mi pham chos kyi blo gros ); (* 1952 in Dêgê , Garzê Autonomous District , Sichuan Province ; † June 11, 2014 in Ulm (Renchen) , Germany ) was the 14th Shamarpa and also known as Künzig Shamar Rinpoche . After the Karmapa, he was the second most important lama of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism . While the Karmapas are dubbed Black Hat Lamas because of their black crown, the Shamarpas are known as Red Hat Lamas.

The second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi , prophesied that "future Karmapas will take shape in two nirmanakaya forms". Later, the third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje presented his high school student Khedrub Dragpa Sengge with a ruby ​​red crown, which was an exact copy of his black crown. The Karmapa explained that they symbolize their identical nature. With that the line of the Shamarpas was born.

Life

Chökyi Lodrö was born on September 22nd (according to other sources on October 27th) 1952 in Dêgê, eastern Tibet. He was a nephew of the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje . In 1956 Chökyi Lodrö was brought to Tshurphu Monastery in Doilungdêqên . In the same year he traveled through Tibet, India and Nepal. Due to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, Chökyi Lodrö fled together with his uncle and other Buddhist teachers in 1959 via Bhutan to Sikkim, where he was finally able to settle in the Rumtek monastery.

According to tradition, when Chökyi Lodrö was three and a half years old, he recognized monks from the Tibetan monastery Yangpachen Monastery , which in earlier times belonged to the Shamarpas. Thereupon he was recognized by the Karmapa as the reincarnation of the Shamarpa. An ordinance of the ruling Gelugpa from 1792, which prohibited the Shamarpa incarnation line, initially stood in the way of an official enthronement of Chökyi Lodro. At the request of the Karmapa, the 14th Dalai Lama gave his initially informal consent to restore the institution of the Shamarpa. In 1958 Chökyi Lodrös was enthroned in Tsurphu. In 1964, Chökyi Lodrö received an audience with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, who was now in exile in India. On this occasion, the political ban was officially ended by the Shamarpa institution. As a result, a second enthronement ceremony was held on May 26, 1964 in Rumtek. Thus Chökyi Lodrö was the first incumbent Shamarpa since Chödrub Gyathso (1741 / 42–1792). Three years later he was officially named the second highest lama within the Karma Kagyu school by the Karmapa.

Chökyi Lodrö received his Buddhist training since the early 1960s. According to the tradition of the Karma Kagyu school, according to which the Karmapas are the main teachers of the Shamarpas, Chökyi Lodrö received all of the Karma Kagyu teachings from Rangjung Ripge Dorje. Tranghu Rinpoche, Kalu Rinpoche , Pawo Rinpoche , Gendün Rinpoche , Ugyen Rinpoche and the 70th Je Khenpo Tulku Jigme Chödra also acted as teachers. In 1979 Chökyi Lodrö completed his Buddhist studies. In 1982 he received ten months of English lessons at the University of California (Berkeley).

Chökyi Lodrö began teaching in 1980. He initially taught in the centers of other Karma Kagyu teachers, such as those of Chögyam Trungpa and Kalu Rinpoche. In 1996, Chökyi Lodrö initiated Bodhi Path , a network of Buddhist centers that prefer a non-sectarian approach to Buddhism and are based on the Mahayana teachings of Atisha .

In the course of his life, Chökyi Lodrö realized several projects. He was responsible for the reprint of Tengyur, a collection of Tibetan commentaries on the Buddha's teachings. Following the wishes of the 16th Karmapa , who died in 1981 , he set up the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (KIBI), where Buddhists from all over the world have been able to study Buddhist philosophy and the Tibetan language in New Delhi since 1990 . In 2005, Chökyi Lodrö founded the Shar Minub retreat center in Kathmandu , which offers space for 20 monks. He also supported the efforts of the lamas in Yangpachen to turn their monastery, which was converted from the Gelugpa school in the 18th century, back into a Karma Kagyu monastery. In 2006 he started building a shedra there, a study center for Buddhist philosophy aimed at ordained Buddhists. Chökyi Lodrö had already founded such an institution four years earlier in Kalimpong , India . After Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche's death in 2003, he completed his stupa project in Benalmádena, Spain . In 2009 Chökyi Lodrö set up the Infinite Compassion Foundation . Since then, this international aid organization has campaigned for the rights of minorities and girls in the Himalaya region, the building of schools, medical care and animal welfare.

Chökyi Lodrö was a major player in the Karmapa conflict within the Karma Kagyu school. While other senior lamas of the lineage, the 14th Dalai Lama and Chinese authorities see Orgyen Thrinle Dorje as the current Karmapa, he in turn recognized Thaye Dorje as the current and legitimate 17th Karmapa. Chökyi Lodrö enthroned Thaye Dorje in 1994 in the KIBI and acted as its main teacher.

On the morning of June 11, 2014, Chökyi Lodrö died of sudden cardiac death at the age of 61 in the Bodhi Path Center Renchen , where he had previously given a lecture course. After his death he was laid out in Renchen for a few days, where thousands of Western Buddhists said goodbye to him. His secondary school student Thaye Dorje personally transported the body to India on June 19, 2014. After further stays in New Delhi and Kalimpong, the remains of Chökyi Lodrös were cremated in Kathmandu on July 31, 2014.

Fonts

Books

  • Limitless awakening. The heart of Buddhist meditation. Joy 2013.
  • The king of wishful prayers. A Commentary on the King of the Ways of Striving for the Perfected Work of the Noble. Joy 2013.
  • A Golden Swan in Turbulent Waters. The Life and Times of the Tenth Karmapa Choying Dorje. Bird of Paradise Press 2012.
  • LOJONG. The Buddhist Path to Compassion and Wisdom. Joy 2010.
  • Buddhist views and the practice of meditation. Joy 2007.
  • Creating A Transparent Democracy. A new model. New Age Books 2007.

Article (selection)

  • A bodhisattva's mindset. Buddhism Today 52 (2012/2013).
  • The meditation on love and compassion. Buddhism Today 49 (2011).
  • The four ways of the wise. Buddhism Today 47 (2009)
  • The Dharma Lineage. Buddhism Today 46 (2009).
  • On the "wings of the mantra" to the Pure Land. The four causes of rebirth in Dewachen. Buddhism Today 42 (2006).
  • Dharma Practice in Modern Life. Buddhism Today 26 (1998).
  • Advice on practice. Buddhism Today 24 (1997).
  • The transmission of Buddhism to the west. Buddhism Today 11 (1993).

literature

  • Douglas, Nik / White, Meryl (eds.): Karmapa. King of those who do . Buddhistischer Verlag 2005. Original title: Karmapa. Black Hat Lama of Tibet . Published by Luzac & Company in 1976.
  • Dronma, Yeshe. The Kunzig Shamarpas of Tibet . Dorje and Bell 1992.
  • Buddhism Today 34 (2014).

Interviews (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Mipham Chokyi Lodro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche; Mipham Chokyi Lodro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tibetan Lama, 14th Shamarpa
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1952 or October 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Derge , Tibet
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2014
Place of death Ulm (Renchen) , Germany