Karma Samphel Ling


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Karma Samphel Ling - Buddhadharma Center - Vienna
The Abode of the Flourishing Bhodhimind of the Karmapa Tradition.

Karma Samphel Ling
Seilerstätte 12, Top 28
1010 Wien

0043/(0)680/3249491
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www.karma-samphel-ling.at



Tradition:
Karma Samphel Ling is a Buddhist center of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Head of the Karma Kagyu tradition are the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje, the 14th and Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chokyi Lodro. The spiritual leadership of Karma Samphel Ling is Khenpo Rinpoche Chodrag Tenphel.

What is it about the group?
Karma Samphel Ling emerged from a group of highly practicing Buddhists. We want to re-enable those interested in Buddhism and facilitate entry into the Buddhist path. By the presence of Khenpo Rinpoche Chodrag we can also offer a way for those who have a deep interest in Buddhist studies, contemplation and meditation and want to develop through Buddhist practice. The focus is on the teachings of the Karma Kagyu tradition. Goal of the Buddhist path is to recognize the Buddha nature. On the way, the focus of practice is on the one hand, developing compassion, a loving and attentive mind, and on the other hand, wisdom, understanding and recognizing the true nature of things beyond dualistic clinging.

Activities and practice Specials Weekly Meditations:
Tuesday 19.00 Uhr: "Compassion and wisdom in us expose", The 7-Point Mind Training. For newly interested: easy come, sniff and get involved!
Thursday 19.00 Uhr:
Meditation on Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion more practice days and retreats according to the program

Courses:
Introduction evening seminars for beginners and for more practicing. Ongoing program of study Chodrag Khenpo Rinpoche.

Special activities:
We organize for our members and people interested in Buddhism Buddhist pilgrimage tours to India and Nepal. Once a year we organize the trip to the "Kagyu Monlam" in Bodhgaya, India. Ordained and lay practitioners of the Karma Kagyu tradition of reciting a week under the direction of Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje auspicious wishing prayers.

Biographies

The 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje, the current head of the Karma Kagyü lineage was born in Kham (Eastern Tibet) on Mai 6th, 1983. Even as a child, he said that he was the Karmapa and in 1994 was formally recognized by H.E. Shamar Rinpoche as the legitimate reincarnation of the Karmapa according to the 900-year-old tradition of the Karma Kagyü transmission lineage.
In the same year, Karmapa escaped to India with his family, where he was enthroned by Shamar Rinpoche soon after his arrival. Since then, the Karmapa has received a complete traditional education and advanced training in Buddhist philosophy and meditation as well as in western academic fields of knowledge. Hence, for example, he speaks English fluently and thus has access to our modern world in a direct manner too. Currently he is living in Kalimpong in Northern India, where he is completing his spiritual and worldly training as well as planning and carrying on his activities for the benefit of all sentient beings. More about him and the tradition of the Karmapas may be found on his website:
www.karmapa.org

The 14th Künzig Shamar Rinpoche (also called Shamarpa) is the second highest lineage holder of the Karma Kagyü lineage after the Karmapa. Shamar Rinpoche was born in 1952 in Derge in Eastern Tibet. At the age of four he was recognised as the incarnation of the 13th Shamarpa by H.H. the 16th Karmapa (1924-81).
After the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese, both of them fled and Shamarpa lived and studied under the Karmapa's guidance at the seat in exile of the Karma Kagyü lineage in Rumtek (Sikkim, India) where he was also enthroned in 1964. Since the death of the 16th Karmapa, Shamar Rinpoche has started numerous helpful activities, such as the foundation of the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (K.I.B.I.) as a centre for studies in New Delhi as well as other meditation centres. He travels a lot to transmit the authentic Buddhist doctrine by giving teachings and empowerments to interested people as well as practitioners. More about Shamarpa on his website:
www.shamarpa.org

Khenpo Chödrak Tenphel Rinpoche was born in Kham (Eastern Tibet) in 1950. After an adventurous escape from the Chinese invaders, he started his Buddhist studies at Rumtek monastery under the direction of H.H. the 16th Karmapa. At the age of 26 and after completing a 12-year education in Buddhist philosophy, epistemology, linguistics and dialectics, he was awarded the title of Khenpo (great scholar) of the Karma Kagyü lineage.
In the following years, Khenpo Rinpoche continued to immerse himself into his studies and practice of Buddhist instructional texts. Subsequently, he taught at the Nalanda Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Rumtek for many years and later also at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute in New Delhi, where he also came into contact with Western students on a broader basis. Since the 1990s, he also taught at Buddhist centres in Europe and the USA as well as South East Asia. Khenpo Chödrag Rinpoche is one of the teachers of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa. He lives in Vienna (Austria).