Trijang rinpoche biography of martin luther

Read this wonderful description of the legendary Lama Yeshe according to his student Champa Legshe. To me it is such a wonderfully apt description of this great Mahasiddha of the Gaden Tradition. I love the description and wanted to share with you. Do read through it and let me know what you think please by posting in the comments.

Lama Yeshe was one of my heroes when I was growing up. I wanted to be a combination of him and His Holiness the Dalai Lama when I grew up, I used to think as a young child. I love Lama Yeshe, his unconventional style, his warmth, his attainments, his love and his humanity. What an attained being Lama Yeshe is.

Lama Yeshe was so unconvential, different and not the normal conservative Tibetan lama. He appealed to thousands because of his open-minded, accepting, unstuffy attitude and genuine human care to his students. I like this picture so much as it exemplifies the wonderful warm methods that Lama Yeshe always did for the sake of his students. He would just get close to them on their level according to their culture. He really wanted to understand them. His get-close-to-your-student-in-their-activities kind of thinking brought so many to the sacred Dharma…I love and respect you so much Lama.

Sincerely,
Tsem Rinpoche

Lama Yeshe, a Milestone in my Life

– Some absolutely personal remarks by Champa Legshe

*** To be, or not to be? What a stupid question! ***

Due to an intensive talk in 1982 (the above photo was shot just after the talk), and similar previous meetings in the mid-seventies, Lama Yeshe kindly invited me to his Tushita Monastery in Dharmsala, Northern India, to stay there for a couple of months to get in close contact with me. Following my story and various experiences very carefully, he suspected that I might be a Tibetan tulku or a special bodhisattva emanation and suggested to put me under his personal wings for a while, to find out. At this time it wa

Dear Blog friends,

This letter says it all. I am blogging it here for one reason and one reason only: TO SHARE WITH YOU THE GREATNESS OF DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AND THE SAINTLY MONK THICH NHAT HANH.

I do not need to write too much only just read the letter, contemplate and be moved as I am. Today this letter touched my heart as I type tears stream down my face in gratitude to Dr Martin Luther King for being such an exceptional human being and who continues to inspire although he has physically left us. He recognizes another powerful soul like himself in Ven Thich Nhat Hanh. It is always beautiful to see one spiritual being rejoicing in the deeds of another. One spiritual being praising another. Please share this with everyone you know. I offer my humblest gratitude to Dr King for what he stands for. I offer my respects to Ven Thich Nhat Hanh for practicing Dharma in an age where materialism is the new religion.

Tsem Rinpoche

Gentlemen:

As the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of 1964, I now have the pleasure of proposing to you the name of Thich Nhat Hanh for that award in 1967. I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize than this gentle Buddhist monk from Vietnam.

This would be a notably auspicious year for you to bestow your Prize on the Venerable Nhat Hanh. Here is an apostle of peace and non-violence, cruelly separated from his own people while they are oppressed by a vicious war which has grown to threaten the sanity and security of the entire world.

Because no honor is more respected than the Nobel Peace Prize, conferring the Prize on Nhat Hanh would itself be a most generous act of peace. It would remind all nations that men of good will stand ready to lead warring elements out of an abyss of hatred and destruction. It would re-awaken men to the teaching of beauty and love found in peace. It would help to revive hopes for a new order of

Jo Marie Galt, 71, died in Santa Cruz, US, on September 1, of cardiac arrest resulting from various contributing health factors.

By Elaine Jackson

Jo Marie Galt (Jody) was loved by her Dharma family at Vajrapani Institute where we met in the late seventies and early eighties. She is remembered as always being the first one to volunteer for the hard jobs with a smile and determination. She will be deeply missed.

Jody was born on March 31, 1951, in Missouri, but most of her childhood, which she described as really difficult, was spent in Spokane, Washington. She was fourteen when her mother took her own life. Then, at sixteen, Jody ran away from home making strong prayers for answers.

Traveling in Mexico, Jody met Jim Ezell, her first husband and father of her daughter, Alicia, who was born in May, 1970. After Jody and Jim separated, Jody settled in Selma, Oregon where, together with Andy Robbins, she built a log cabin. It was here that their son, Ben, was born in 1978.

Jody had prophetic dreams. She described one dream where a book fell from the sky with one word on the page: “Vipassana.” She had no idea what that meant but became curious, went to the library, and began to read Dharma books.

In May 1980, Lama Yeshe led a Chenrezig retreat at Grizzly Lodge near Mount Shasta. It was sponsored by Vajrapani Institute. Jody sold her trailer to raise money to attend that course. It was there that she met Diney Woodsorrel and George Galt. After that course, Jody and her family moved to Berkeley.

Judy Weitzner recalled, “When Jody and Andy moved to the Berkeley Dharma House just after Grizzly Lodge, Jody was invaluable in her efforts to keep things organized. She was an exceptionally hard worker and contributed with cleaning and cooking. She attended many teachings and classes. Geshe Thardo was the resident teacher, but Lama Yeshe, Lobsang Chonjor, and Zong Rinpoche, as well as others, al