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A new dawn of Tulkus
sonamdhargey:
Thank you harrynephew for the interesting post. Yes nowadays we hear and see Tulkus doing things that is totally out of their way and may seem unbecoming and awkward. These beings used modern methods in this modern world to spread the Dharma. Very interesting indeed.
Please enjoy this music video of Gomo Tulku:
http://www.youtube.com/user/gomotulkumusic?feature=results_main
thor:
Before Gomo Tulku, there was Singa Rinpoche, who is probably the first Rinpoche to embrace a singing career as a method to turn the wheel of dharma in recent times. Here's some information about the first rapping Rinpoche and here is some of his work (
Singa ?????- Reincarnation ?? (Vajrasattva Mantra)
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He is barred from Taiwan for acting like a movie star, but that hasn't stopped interest raging over his new hip-hop album
Some monks have their cake and eat it.
A handsome but controversial young Tibetan lama has emerged on the local music scene by releasing his first CD — a collection of rap and hip-hop songs that he claims can help promote Buddhism.
Singa Rinpoche (?????), 30, who is barred from entering Taiwan due to his flamboyant behavior on a visit to the island last year, released the CD — Wish You Well (?????) — on Saturday through Taiwanese Forward Music company.
Since then, several TV channels have been airing the MTV spots promoting Singa's album — showing Singa recording songs in the studio, running in a forest and releasing a bird into freedom.
Wearing his trademark white shirt and blue pants, Singa, 179cm tall and weighing 63kg, shows a natural talent for performing by flashing smiles and making poses, showing off his youth and confidence.
Singa signed a contract with Forward Music last April and began recording at a Beijing studio in July.
"We were surprised by the public response to this CD. It is selling extremely well. We have opened a blog for Singa Rinpoche and within a week, 100,000 people have browsed it," a Forward Music (????) press officer said.
Most of the 12 songs on the CD were written and composed by a Taiwan musician and two were written and composed by Singa.
They are: Reincarnation, Wish You Well, Let Me Take Care of You, Fashion, It's the Light, Girl Quji Zhuoma, Starting to Realize, Leave Love to You, Today, Lama Chino.
In the songs, Singa mixes rap and hip-hop with chants of Buddhist sutras, and switches from Chinese to Tibetan and English.
The songs deal mostly with love, but he also preaches his philosophy. The song Leave Love to You has this rap line: All the pain in this world is caused by seeking happiness for himself/All the joy in this world is caused by seeking happiness for others.
Born in Qinghai Province, China, in 1970, Singa claims a rainbow appeared in the sky when he was born. At 16, a Tibetan monastery confirmed he was the reincarnation of a high lama.
Singa claimed he spent three years studying Buddhism in Nepal, Tibet and Thailand, before traveling around the world to spread Buddhism.
But when he visited Taiwan from February to April last year to promote his book, This Is Me, a living Buddha, he caused controversy because he acted more like a film star than a monk. He wore trendy clothes and received his disciples wearing a shirt and jeans, not the red cloak worn by Tibetan lamas.
Some Taiwan disciples alledged Singa had not finished Buddhist studies in India and had not been ordained, prompting the Interior Ministry to bar him from entering the country for one year.
Cheng Chen-huang (???), a internationally recognized Buddhist scholar, believes Singa Rinpoche has violated Buddhist precepts, or moral codes.
"There are 250 precepts for a Chinese Buddhist and 253 precepts for a Tibetan Buddhist. For a Buddhist, these codes are very important and must be observed," Cheng said.
Agga Wandha, a 59-year-old Burmese monk in Taipei, agreed.
"The essence of Buddhism is to quench desires in order to achieve inner peace. Singa Rinpoche's wearing fashionable clothes and driving fancy cars shows he is feeding these desires," he said.
But Singa Rinpoche's behavior is nothing new to Tibetan Buddhism. Three hundred years ago, the sixth Dalai Lama raised eyebrows because he frequented Lhasa's red light district at night and wrote love poems.
A more recent example is Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche from the Himalayan Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, who directed two films — The Cup in 1999 and Travellers and Magicians in 2005.
Dzongsar Khyentse received world acclaim for his films and continues to travel around the world to preach Buddhism.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtcGJpOEHLc
brian:
New dawn Tulkus indeed they are! I have slight doubt about their actions and behaviours at times during the my early days into Buddhism. As i found out later on and i have gained some knowledge and understand on why there are some who are indulging in intoxications and/or singing. All these looks mundane to me and it seems to me that these Tulkus are similar to runaways. I later found out that there is a major motivation behind all these and became impressed instead of feeling disgusted with them. Their uncalled for actions made big headways to the public and many were become aware of Tibetan Buddhism (!) This is what we call skillful means eh..?
Vajraprotector:
Amazing that new generation of Tulkus like Gomo Tulku, Lama Osel and Kalu Rinpoche are manifesting behaviours resembling the youngster of today. Perhaps that's what will appeal to the young.
However, a pioneer of the past, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, his current reincarnation seemed to be a bit "old school" compared to the Tulkus of the new, although the current Trungpa Rinpoche is a year older than Gomo Tulku.
Choseng Trungpa Rinpoche
The 12th Trungpa Rinpoche
Courtesy of Heleen de Graaf www.tibetreis.com
Choseng Trungpa Rinpoche is the 12th and current Trungpa tülku. He was born on February 6, 1989 in Pawo village, in Derge, eastern Tibet, and recognized by Tai Situ Rinpoche in 1991. He was enthroned a year later at Surmang Monastery at a ceremony presided over by Domkhar Rinpoche, a high Kagyu lama and Choseng's uncle. The monastery's late abbot (and Choseng Trungpa's predecessor), was Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
He has studied the traditions of Surmang under the tutelage of the late Lama Kenla, (1932–2003), and received his early monastic education at the shedra at Palpung Monastery. He studied at Surmang Namgyal-tse until 2008, and currently studies at Serthar Institute.
The name Choseng is a contraction of Chokyi Sengay, which means "Lion of Dharma."
More about the 12th Trungpa Rinpoche
Trungpa XII Rinpoche, is presently continuing his studies at Serta monastery in Golok, periodically visiting Surmang Dutsi Til. He lives in a small house at Serta with two of his brothers and two attendant monks. He will take his seat as abbot of Dutsi Til once the new shedra there is fully in operation.
In September 2010, Trungpa XII Rinpoche recorded a statement in which he thanked those who have supported the rebuilding of the Surmang shedra. He also called for continued study of the teachings of his predecessor, Chogyam Trungpa XI Rinpoche , and requested that the works in English of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche be translated into Tibetan.
In the wake of the tragic earthquake in Jyekundo (Yushu) in April 2010, Trungpa XII Rinpoche spent many days there along with the other leadership of Surmang Dutsi Til. They initially helped search for survivors and subsequently met with and provided financial and food aid to families there. They also performed a number of pujas for the deceased.
12th Trungpa Rinpoche, Aten Rinpoche and monks performing prayers for thet people who died in the Jyekundo earthquake.
Photo by Surmang Khenpo
“I wish our shedra was open right now!”
--Trungpa XII Rinpoche (in a recent comment to the Surmang Khenpo)
Trungpa Rinpoche has spent most of his time recently at Serta Institute in eastern Tibet. Serta is a great institute of dharmic learning established by His Holiness Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok. It is a university for all schools of Buddhist thought in Tibet, with more than 15,000 students. Serta has 40-50 khenpos, including the highly noted Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro and Tulku Tenzin Gyamtso.
The 12th Trungpa Rinpoche, taken at Serta in September, 2010
By Jon Ransohoff.
Along with studying and receiving transmissions at Serta, Trungpa Rinpoche also spends time at Surmang. He continues to learn the dharma traditions particular to Surmang. In September/October of 2009, he studied the Chakrasamvara dance, and will be participating in the annual Chakrasamvara Dance on the 13th, 14th, and 15th days after Losar (Tibetan New Year). Traditionally, the Chakrasamvara Dance at Surmang is led by the current Trungpa Rinpoche, once he has mastered the intricate steps. In addition to performing practices and spending time with the Surmang monks, Trungpa Rinpoche accompanies the monks on visits to local villagers, doing prayers for those who are sick or dying.
Trungpa Rinpoche also spends some time each year with his family in Derge. Sadly, his mother passed away in 2006.
Trungpa XII Rinpoche at the dance leader's place of the annual Chakrasamvara dance at Surmang Dutsi Til,
Photo by Surmang Khenpo, March 2007
Trungpa XII Rinpoche continues to learn the dharma traditions particular to Surmang. Traditionally, the meditational Chakrasamvara Dance at Surmang is led by the current Trungpa Rinpoche, once he has mastered the intricate steps. Trungpa XII Rinpoche has now fulfills this role. This dance ordinarily takes place annually on the 13th, 14th, and 15th days after Losar (Tibetan New Year).
While at Surmang, in addition to performing practices and spending time with the monks, Trungpa Rinpoche accompanies the monks on visits to local villagers, doing prayers for those who are sick or dying.
For more info and biography of the 12th Trungpa Rinpoche, read here: http://www.konchok.org/trungpa.html
Below is a video of the 12th Trungpa Rinpoche:
12th Trungpa Rinpoche (The video's owner prevents external embedding)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUY_zKAWjEU
Ensapa:
--- Quote from: Vajraprotector on August 05, 2012, 08:53:48 PM ---Amazing that new generation of Tulkus like Gomo Tulku, Lama Osel and Kalu Rinpoche are manifesting behaviours resembling the youngster of today. Perhaps that's what will appeal to the young.
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I am not sure about Gomo Tulku's case, but in the case of both Lama Osel and Kalu Rinpoche, their appearance is caused by broken samaya. In the case of Lama Osel, his students worldwide went against his core practice of Dorje Shugden and from there it is very obvious that the result of that action was that Lama Osel does not want to teach them anymore in any way, shape or form, thus he manifested as a film student instead, teaching a completely group of students, completely separate from and inaccessible to FPMT members. In the case of Kalu Rinpoche, he has said in great disappointment on what happened to the monastery in france that his predecessor has built and why did they allow politics to ruin it, and why are there no Dharma masters emerging from it, and that he did not build up his center/monastery for this to happen but to benefit others. This was when he was 18 and still taking the form of a monk and nobody did anything about his declaration after that. From here, it is very obvious that broken samaya can result to the teacher manifesting in a way where he can no longer reach out to his former students.
In Chongyam Trungpa's case, it seems that he prefers to take care of his tibetan students as opposed to taking care of Shambala. This is interesting because in his past incarnation he was more focused to his western students. Perhaps, he feels closer to his Tibetan ones for now as opposed to his western ones. I wonder how Shambala is going to react to this and how are they going to handle this situation as Chongyam Trungpa is still quite close to them (meaning, the samaya is clean) and perhaps, the Tibetans need help to develop their community while Shambala is already very well established, which is why Chongyam Trungpa would like aid to the Tibetan one.
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