Happy Birthday HE Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche!
i thought i'd bring this topic up to the front page to celebrate a great Master who promotes peace and healing and is also a fearless Dorje Shugden practitioner. Although he is blacklisted by the Tibetan Government, this great master can happily come and go to China as he pleases, spreading Dharma to a region that needs it badly. Gangchen Rinpoche has also endorsed the Panchen Lama Gyancain Norbu in China and for me, that's good enough to settle the Panchen Lama controversy.
May HE Gangchen Rinpoche and his students live for a thousand thousand years and continuously turn the Wheel of Dharma throughout the ten directions!
Of note is that Gangchen Rinpoche works very closely with the UN also to promote peace and healing in the world. Ironic isn't it that he has been so mistreated by his own people and ex-communicated from his very own community, but he continues to promote peace, healing and benefit on the largest world stage - with the U.N. which transcends boundaries and reaches out to the WHOLE WORLD. What's the tiny little obstacle that is the TGIE then? Jokes on them really, isn't it? Which goes to show, as ever, that there's no stopping the Bodhisattvas among us, no matter what obstacles they face.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUR EMINENCE! May you live long and always continue to turn the wheel of Dharma!
Happy Birthday HE Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche!
i thought i'd bring this topic up to the front page to celebrate a great Master who promotes peace and healing and is also a fearless Dorje Shugden practitioner. Although he is blacklisted by the Tibetan Government, this great master can happily come and go to China as he pleases, spreading Dharma to a region that needs it badly. Gangchen Rinpoche has also endorsed the Panchen Lama Gyancain Norbu in China and for me, that's good enough to settle the Panchen Lama controversy.
May HE Gangchen Rinpoche and his students live for a thousand thousand years and continuously turn the Wheel of Dharma throughout the ten directions!
Of note is that Gangchen Rinpoche works very closely with the UN also to promote peace and healing in the world. Ironic isn't it that he has been so mistreated by his own people and ex-communicated from his very own community, but he continues to promote peace, healing and benefit on the largest world stage - with the U.N. which transcends boundaries and reaches out to the WHOLE WORLD. What's the tiny little obstacle that is the TGIE then? Jokes on them really, isn't it? Which goes to show, as ever, that there's no stopping the Bodhisattvas among us, no matter what obstacles they face.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUR EMINENCE! May you live long and always continue to turn the wheel of Dharma!
Lama Gangchen’s work is amazing and he's an outcast :-[.
These are the list of projects His Eminence Gangchen Tulku (or his organisation) is engaged in:
• International Medical cooperation to promote Health Projects in Tibet, India and Nepal (including DOT programme and mother and child clinic); int. congress in Beijing, China to promote natural medicines (WHO programs and “Health for All…”)
• Water project in Tibet, China in support of UNEP fresh water campaign
• Planting of trees in Tibet, China in support of Agenda 21 and UNEP “One billion trees for life”
• Children educational programmes in Nepal in support of the decade of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the children of the world
• Healing journeys to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil in support of the Decade of the World’s Indigenous people, to help preserve their environmental, cultural and spiritual traditions
• Schools in Nepal for carpet factory workers in support of ILO convention on child labour
• Revitalisation of rural and alpine cultures such as the Albagnano mountain village in Italy
• Cultural education programmes to promote and sponsor heritage sites such as Lumbini and Borobudur in support of the UNESCO culture preservation campaign.
• Co-sponsored bronze elephant statue placed in United Nations headquarters gardens, gift presented by Kenya, Namibia and Nepal, as a “tribute to the environment and commitment to the preservation of the natural world: forever expressing the hope that all animals and human beings may exist in harmony and peace with nature”
• Support the creation of a permanent Spiritual Forum intended to provide a neutral and democratic permanent space at the global public level, where all those religious institutions and spiritual movements which are willing to join forces with the United Nations in the task of building and consolidating peace around the world could meet and jointly develop useful ways of cooperation
• Founding member of the Provisional Steering Committee and the coalition promoting the initiative for the launch of a United Nations International Decade for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace (2011-2020). [url=http://www.faithdecadeforpeace.net]www.faithdecadeforpeace.net[/url]
Many more of HELP IN ACTION links here:
Long Distance Adoptions of Children in Nepal | Children in Tibet/China | Children in India
Adoption of the elderly and disabled | Adoption of Monks | Work in the field:
[url]http://www.helpinaction.net/english/long_distance_adoptions.htm[/url]
Humanitarian Aid of Emergency Fund | Healthcare Projects | Monasteries | Water Projects in Tibet/China
Educational Projects | Agricultural Development Project:
[url]http://www.helpinaction.net/english/humanitarian_aid.htm[/url]
May His Eminence live long and continue to benefit sentient beings with his secular, medical and spiritual projects.
I did not know about this great Master as I have not even read about him. Thank you for posting this wonderful info here. Now we can all learn more about important valuable Masters who have truly made a difference in our world.
It is too sad that the TGIE do not appreciate him and hence, would not be utilising his amazing skills for the betterment of their own people in general. The selfish acts of the few truly ruin everything for the greater whole, don't they?
Right now there are some monks from Shar Gaden visiting Gangchen Rinpoche in Italy.
They are on an extended tour of Europe and will also be touring the USA soon.
The living Mahasiddha, the Healing Lama Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche is also known as Marco Polo Lama as he is a globe -trotter. If I was the Tibetan Government I will use Gangchen Rinpoche for the Tibetan cause. He is an influence in the United Nations.
I had the opportunity to meet him twice - once in Kathmandu and another time on one of his travels. Each time, his kindness and gentle nature shines through, and on occasion you get a glimpse of the tantric master and yogi that he is.
What nice sharings from everyone about such a wonderful Lama. Thank you for offering your thoughts and experiences with the Medicine Buddha himself! If any else has any encounters or experiences with this or any great lama, please do share. It is very inspiring to people everywhere.
Isn't it such a terrible irony that someone who is doing so much good for the world is on the TGIE's "hit list" and "wanted" lists?
And isn't it an even greater irony that they have literally put a Buddha on their hitlist? As if a Buddha has the karma to be harmed by a few lay politicians! The joke is on them too because with lamas like this, having to "die" for the sake of the Dharma is no problem for them. With full control over their winds, death and rebirth, being on some silly little refugee government's hit-list is no threat at all!
And like the way, good always wins over evil.
That is the thing I find the most perplexing sometimes - Gangchen Rinpoche is recognised for his work towards world peace, what with his forums and his influence in the UN. The Dalai Lama is recognised for his work towards world peace, what with his Nobel Peace Prize and all. What is the difference? I wish some people could look past temporary differences, and focus on each lama's ultimate goal which is (at the risk of sounding entirely beauty pageant) world peace. Surely then the methods would matter less.
I have heard that Lama Gangchen travels the world blessing different locations and energy meridians (?) in preparation for some future time when all this will come to fruition. Does anyone know anything about this please?
I have heard that Lama Gangchen travels the world blessing different locations and energy meridians (?) in preparation for some future time when all this will come to fruition. Does anyone know anything about this please?
From the little I know, energy meridians or sometimes also called power places, as the word described...are highly "charged" with energy. Example would be places like Borobudur and Bodhgaya. These places are marked or identified specifically by enlightened beings (for present and/or future when karma of beings are ripen) and is not a coincidence of that sort to bring about great blessings. Thus, these are perfect places for anyone who wishes to go on pilgrimages.
It was so lovely to read through this thread again, beginning with TK's biography of this great master, and everyone else's comments and information.
The main qualities of HE Gangchen Rinpoche that strike me the most are his scholastic achievements, his tireless humanitarian works and his compassionate healing. All of which are a perfect reflection of his perfect teacher, HH Trijang Rinpoche and his perfect Protector, Dorje Shugden. The Tibetan government in exile has vilified him for his protector practice yet there is nothing that Gangchen Rinpoche does which is not Buddhist in nature, nor does he retaliate. He simply goes about doing his compassionate and humanitarian works to help others all round the world, including China, which is the country most needing Dharma right now.
May this Mahasiddha and his direct students' pure Dharma works flourish in the ten directions.
Gangchen Rinpoche is a Medicine Buddha. He is known to resurrect a person in Nepal after this person was in coma. Italians having witnessed his power immediately whizzed him off to Milan and hence Gangchen Rinpoche began his base there.Not only is Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche a great Master who works tirelessly to spread the Buddhadharma through humantarian works, he is also the holder of an ancient and unbroken lineage of Tantric Master whereby his Ngalso Tantric Self healing which is based on Buddha's teaching is appropriate for the people of our time. As a emanation of Medicine Buddha, it is not a surprise that he can resurrect a person in coma.
It was so lovely to read through this thread again, beginning with TK's biography of this great master, and everyone else's comments and information.
The main qualities of HE Gangchen Rinpoche that strike me the most are his scholastic achievements, his tireless humanitarian works and his compassionate healing. All of which are a perfect reflection of his perfect teacher, HH Trijang Rinpoche and his perfect Protector, Dorje Shugden. The Tibetan government in exile has vilified him for his protector practice yet there is nothing that Gangchen Rinpoche does which is not Buddhist in nature, nor does he retaliate. He simply goes about doing his compassionate and humanitarian works to help others all round the world, including China, which is the country most needing Dharma right now.
May this Mahasiddha and his direct students' pure Dharma works flourish in the ten directions.
Thank you Wisdom Being. I like what you wrote about Gangchen Rinpoche here. I agree with everything you said and I just want to add one more to the list - his incredible courage. Gangchen Rinpoche was one of the very first Lamas to quietly defy the ban on Dorje Shugden for the sake of the survival of the lineage. I am sure, he didn't do this to defy the Dalai Lama or any other Lamas but to safeguard the lineage. He carried on teaching, benefitting and 'healing' the world with his great works with UN and so forth. He doesn't criticized, write letters or even protest the ban but quietly goes about with his Dharma work. Instead, he is put on the top hit list by Tibetan extremists.
In recent times, he has also traveled frequently to China and was one of the first Tulkus to seek the blessings of the Chinese Panchen Lama. For me, this is a great indication that the so-called puppet Panchen Lama is at least an emanation of the Panchen Lama and that he is already beginning to manifest his great works. Gangchen Rinpoche has also been actively promoting Dorje Shugden in China and have just consecrated the large Dorje Shugden statue in Denma Gongsa Monastery. He is performing tremendous works to ensure the future of Buddhism through Dorje Shugden. He has a tremendous courage for Dorje Shugden. Hence, I always delight in reading about him.
To add to the images that tk has already attached to his post about the Healing Lama, I'd like to include this image of Gangchen Rinpoche, unusual as it may be but I like how it captures his peaceful energy so well.
Lama Gangchen Rinpoche
T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen Rinpoche is the holder of an ancient and unbroken lineage of Tantric Masters dating from the time of Shakyamuni Buddha. His “Ngalso Tantric Self Healing” is based on Buddha’s teachings and it has been developed to suit modern people.
At present he has over 100 Inner Peace Education centres and NgalSo Self-Healing Study Groups worldwide.
Lama Gangchen Rinpoche was born in western Tibet in 1941. He was quickly recognised to be a reincarnate Lama healer and was enthroned at Gangchen Choepeling Monastery at the age of five. At the age of twelve he received the “Kachen” degree, which is usually conferred after twenty years of study. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, he studied medicine, astrology, meditation and philosophy at two of the major monastic universities of Tibet: Sera and Tashi Lhumpo.
He also studied at Gangchen Gompa, Tropu Gompa and Neytsong Monastery. He was a disciple of some of the most important Gelugpa Lamas, for example, H.H. Trijhang Rinpoche. In 1963, he went into exile to India where he continued his studies for the following seven years at Varanasi Sanskrit University in Benares. In 1970, he received the Geshe Rigram degree (similar to a Ph.D) at Sera Monastic University situated in South India.
After his graduation, he worked as a Lama healer among the Tibetan communities in Nepal, India and Sikkim, where he cured and saved the lives of many people, and became private physician to the Royal Family. In 1981, Lama Gangchen visited Europe for the first time and in the same year he also established his first European centre: Karuna Choetsok in Lesbos, Greece, where he planted a bodhi tree in the ‘Buddha Garden’ and consecrated what was to become the first in a long line of World Peace Buddha Statues, thankas and images. He later came to live in Italy and is now an Italian citizen.
Since 1982, he has travelled extensively, healing and teaching, leading many pilgrimages to some of the most important holy places of religious and spiritual denominations throughout the world.
For many years, Lama Gangchen has been promoting a very important project: the integration between Tibetan Medicine (a vast treasure for humankind, still unknown to many) with allopathic medicine.
A United Nations Spiritual Forum for World Peace, a solution for the third millennium: a proposal initiated by T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen in 1995, is an open collective project, a full partnership to unite all into one voice, by creating a permanent Spiritual Forum within the existing United Nations structure, to contribute and bring both spiritual and material support to the United Nations.
At the dawn of the third millennium, democracy, human rights, justice and peace have become crucial to address, as we face ever increasing violence, unrest and wars. The present world situation calls for urgent and long term solutions; surely the time has come for this seed to grow and help bring peace to our planet. Numerous spiritual and inter-religious organisations and leaders are actively working for peace worldwide in many different ways. Lama Gangchen appreciates and supports the efforts of all organisations and initiatives towards the one aim of peace, wishing for all to unite in a common forum under the auspices of the United Nations: a gift for world peace in the third millennium.