Loden Sherab Dagyab

Loden Sherab Dagyab Rinpoche, born on 27 July 1940 in Menya, East Tibet, was recognized as the reincarnation of the 9th Kyabgoen of Dagyab at the age of six.

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A member of the Gelukpa lineage, Rinpoche graduated from the Drepung monastic college. He also monastic communities of Nyagre Khangtsen of Gaden and of Ratö monastery. Among his teachers were Trijang Rinpoche and Ling Rinpoche (both tutors of the 14th Dalai Lama).

Exile

In 1959 Rinpoche left Lhasa together with the 14th Dalai Lama to Dharamsala into exile. From 1964 to 1966 he directed the Tibet House in New Delhi, an institute for the preservation and support of the Tibetan culture. At the university's invitation in 1966, he joined Bonn University, Germany, to work as a Tibetologist at its Institute for Central Asian Studies.

In 2004 he founded the Tibet House in Frankfurt, Germany.

Selected works
  • Dagyab Rinpoche, Thomas Lautwein: Achtsamkeit und Versenkung. Lamrin - die tibetische Meditation. 2001, ISBN 3-7205-2264-4 [1]
  • Dagyab Rinpoche, Robert A. F. Thurman: Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture : An Investigation of the Nine Best-Known Groups of Symbols. 1992, ISBN 3-424-01122-3 [2]
  • Problems in the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the West Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Problems of Adoption and Cross Cultural Confusion website, from Tibetan Review, October 1992, pp. 15–17

See also

Wikipedia German - Loden Sherab Dagyab

References
  1. Amazon - Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture
  2. Amazon - Achtsamkeit und Versenkung
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