The Women's Meditation Tradition in Tibet
Google Tech Talk
June 11, 2010
ABSTRACT
Presented by The Venerable Wangdrak Rinpoche.
The Venerable Wangdrak Rinpoche is a native Tibetan and overseer of Gebchak Gonpa, which is the largest Buddhist nunnery in Tibet. Rinpoche will be speaking about the cultural and spiritual role of women meditators in a tradition that is typically very male-identified. His talk will reveal the rich cultural heritage and important role women play in Tibetan Buddhism and culture.
Wangdrak Rinpoche the third is the reincarnation of Wangdrak Dorje. Along with the Gonpa's founder, Tsangyang Gyamtso, Wangdrak Dorje was instrumental in building Gebchak and was renowned for his total mastery of profound yogas and meditation. The present incarnation holds the Khenpo degree in Buddhist philosophy, and has received a remarkably broad training in the almost all of the traditions.
His Holiness Sakya Trizin formally recognized Rinpoche as the reincarnation of Gebchak Gonpa s Wangdrak Dorje, with an extraordinarily clear prediction letter describing his name, his parents' names, the place and year of his birth, and a unique birthmark on his back. This prediction letter was issued in accordance with the signs he received in meditation. Every detail in the letter proved to be correct. This recognition was also verified by His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa, the head of The Drukpa Lineage, and His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche.At the age of nine he entered Chodrak Gonpa, a monastery of the Karma Kagyu and Barom Kagyu traditions, where he received the traditional training in all ritual practices. At the remote hilltop retreat place of Trachok Gon, he received the experiential instructions from Trachok Karma Tseten, the most renowned Karma Kagyu Dzogchen and Mahamudra lama in the vast provinces of Eastern Tibet. There Rinpoche spent three years in isolated meditation retreat, gaining experience and realization of the instructions he'd received.
Dzongsar College in Derge is where Rinpoche undertook his formal studies in Buddhist philosophy and scripture, and is well-known as the best college in all of Tibet for non-sectarian scriptural study. Rinpoche undertook the entire nine-year course, consistently placing first to third in his class and graduating with the Khenpo degree. From the highly respected Drukpa Kagyu lama Adeu Rinpoche, Wangdrak Rinpoche received all the transmissions of the Gebchak lineage. Rinpoche has been fortunate to receive many great empowerments, from many great lamas. His teachers include Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche, the late Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Dzongsar Khyentse, and others.
When he had completed his studies, Rinpoche returned to Chodrak Gonpa to teach Buddhist philosophy for three years. After moving to teach at a branch gonpa in Nepal, Rinpoche was repeatedly requested by Tsoknyi Rinpoche and the Gebchak nuns to accept formal responsibility for the spiritual and material well-being of Gebchak Gonpa. Along with caring for his students from all over the globe, this is the end to which he continually works.
For more information about Wangdrak Rinpoche and his activities, please visit Rinpoche's official website: www.gebchakgonpa.org
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More and more people are becoming Buddhist. I started to study Buddhism 22 years ago.
I personally know Wangdrak Rinpoche very well and am very happy to see him in the documentary. In fact, I drafted the first ever brochure for fund raising of the nunnery when Wangdrak Rinpoche traveled oversees many years back. This nunnery has very long history of great number of highly realized female practitioners. I thank he google team for their interest and effort into this.
Precious talks.....❤❤❤❤ Question r amazing
Thank you for this video I'm so happy to find it and take inspiration and joy from it.
Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. It helps to understand yourself and others, to be very tolerant. It opens your mind. It brings you stability. Etc.. Etc.....
This was held over ten years ago, I assume. Nowadays probably many more people would have shown up, since in the west we are starting to understand how important the tool of meditation is. It’s the path to attain the ultimate goal of human beings: Enlightenment. The rest of the things are just mundane activities that can be used to transform our minds. The Lama mentions Vajrayana rituals that is a quick path to The liberation of the mind. Secret mantra they call it. Fortunately today we can have access to these techniques in the west ... but we still lack so much faith .... step by step ... :) ... grateful for the video. ❤️🙏🏻🌞
Having had the great good fortune to visit this community some years ago when the abbot, Wangdrak Rinpoche was not present, it is incredibly valuable to have the chance to see this video. I will never forget the great depth and intensity of their practice and genuineness. Nothing like it. Thank you so much. Tsering!!!
Thank you so much for posting this Video. May many, many people have the opportunity to watch this and respond.
Thank you Rinpoche and google... I wish for gender equality for people of all spiritual traditions.
How the man switches between the Tibetan language and English, that's great work, kudos!
thank you for uploading this video
I think we, male Buddhists, should acknowledge & support women more in their pursuit of dharma.
Beautiful talk. Thank you for this.
Wonderful! Very excellent presentation. Thank you.
Really interesting video, thank you for posting it
We can be very thankful to the tibetan Lamas who live now in occident. We can now receive teachings directly from them. These teachings are not anymore for tibetan people only. I am happy to have met this wonderful philosophy. It is a jewel, a precious one.
I would not be surprised if Buddhism becomes the most important religion in the world.
Thank you so much for this video! :D
I do! As so many texts, tantric and otherwise not only emphasize the potential of woman, but give very detailed specifics on how some of the body-specific practices are different, indicating they were thought of and to a significant degree by many masters of old.
WOW! Great!
Great
yes ur right ,,
Does anyone know if Wandrak Rinpoche travels to Europe - or rather where can I find his travel schedule?
You can find rare footage of the tummo demonstration online now
thank you rinpoche you thought, but some thing i would like talk to your guys, because in Tibet, near 800 years before there have nunnery, also this time in Larong Monastery high Nun who is KHANDO RINPOCHE, SHE IS VERY HIGHR TEACHER. EVEN ALL KHENPOS RECEIVE MANY TECHING FROM HER.
Could the nuns have been reincarnated, born in other countries.
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"when things changed"
has "death meditation' screened yet leksangchoezin ?
continue... If there is a way to establish and add this wonderful lineage into the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, it will be like an extra star. But we have to do it in a most possible authentic way like all other practice lineage in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition is done. Is there a way to establish this lineage? According to my limited understanding of Vinaya, i think there is. But, I think, it will need a huge reform and general agreement from all corners. Otherwise, it's not possible.
@bluetree9156
7 жыл бұрын
Thupten Gelek Bumang Can one not build a place and space by its own ....according to its own perceptions...? Why do we always need so much suport by others... to manifest our individual vision for somthing.... ? With no matter what others think or not... Does a haus not start with a very first stone... slowly rised hights? I thought once about somthing like a monastry for females ... in the vallys and more up the man separate... and jet togheder working... One of these... with some support and trust in her own vision... if somoane ready to listen ignoring the apparence....---- and the lineaje ...could begin...I dont know anything about Budhismus... It was a " spontan" ideea... Why just dont you trust yourself... ? And start somwhere... instate to wait others to manifest your vision...If you feel like this... so somthing must have been gived to you ... not without reason... Good luck in your way.... !!!!
I would love to go to this monastery and sit for the rest of this lifetime but I foolishly took out student loans to study biology and, in the process, heard the call of the Buddha. Well, I suppose I just have to make every space a monastery.
where are these nuns located!?
@rajkamald6432
4 жыл бұрын
They are not nuns They are yoginis
Can you rephrase it? Sorry, I don't get it.
Meditation can be silent or can U say mantras and prayers. Buddhism isn't about making everyone all the same or lifeless. It's about unlocking universal qualities of love and compassion that are in all people and allowing them to express these qualities through their own culture and background. Hope that clarifies some things for U.
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Maybe the purpose of the nuns remaining in the boxes is to keep them seated upright in order for the energy to flow better.
@dkipu266
5 жыл бұрын
Julie Meibaum it may be, I sometimes slouch or lean uncomfortably in longer meditation sessions, and have done all sorts of propping and small supports to help keep me at ease for longer meditation sessions. A box just may be the way to go🙂
5:35, in '59 when things euhm changed in Tibet. Why is it she does not speak fully?
@petagonkyi
8 жыл бұрын
+Kim Bunt She is so explicit in expressing the status of Tibetan Nuns but even mention the Chinese genocidal rule.
@sonamwangmo8990
5 жыл бұрын
Wounderfull
@orion588581 - YES
this video is so good but there have litter bit problems his translater the translater he don't know how to said GEZHE DOLMA , ,,, and also have litterbit problem to explaine ,,, the problem is he is not tibetan
open your mind my friend , unfortunatly those things you don t learn them in school or university , in the west we are soooooo far from our own mind , heinstein said the only relegion who will bring support and help to science is budhism , we only use 5 % of our potential with the mind ...so imagine if we train and use it fully ....be well be happy
Why isn't the person talking about the nuns a nun, a female?
Say in 1959 Chinese occupied Tibet not "when things changed in Tibet" Such a statement emboldens and legitimize Chinese occupation and oppression.
who is that translator, He is making his won word, not translating what Rinpoche said... very poor translation!!!!!
Either we need to find a 100% sure gold to install as a gold or we have to produce a 100% sure gold. But we can't just install not 100% sure gold as a gold just because we can't find or produce 100% sure gold. You must study the whole structure of the subject in order to comment on it. Otherwise you will be just spreading misinformation.
@bluetree9156
7 жыл бұрын
Thupten Gelek Bumang the subject is understood by each individuall different...or... missunderstood.... How does 2 person agree on same subjekt even both are corectely study... but they have different perceptions of the same subjekt. ..??! ps: i wanted remain a watscher and not write... but i found your comment to perfekt in its expression...
.....continued So the the lineage of the Fully ordained Bikshuni systematically has to be passed on and carried on by female practitioners. Unfortunately, when Buddhism was introduced in Tibet, we did not have the good fortune to have any female practitioner holding the lineage visited from India to pass on the lineage to a Tibetan female practitioner. I am not sure whether the lineage was still surviving in India around that time. I guess not. If it was, then effort must have been made. Cont.
@bluetree9156
7 жыл бұрын
Thupten Gelek Bumang decode...
...continued Other tradition that claim they have the unbroken lineage have till now failed to prove it convincingly. Unlike boddhsattva practice and mantrayana practice, which can be passed on to individual to individual, Vinaya runs is based on a democratic organization and it involves a whole group like in a constitution to carry out. So issue here is not whether it's permitted or not. The issue is the existence of an authentic lineage. Continue........
@bluetree9156
7 жыл бұрын
Thupten Gelek Bumang whatever passed from individual to individual according to its perception... has more chanse to remain original as that what passed through groups... biger and biger.... Is as in school.... more time... for the individual ... requiere smoll classes.... and " secrets" gived to the right... which innward from past... different then others....even it may look outer as others... Je more shared...to many everywhere... missing the sense of whos realy good for certain " continue" .. and who good for another " continue"... will destroy very smoll esencial secrets of past .. intact... unchanged... etc... I think .. in future . there would be husband- wife " monks" even.... creeating villages.. for keeping the real real in experience to.. ! initialy... i searchead the sound of that " instrument" of prayer... but i dont know its name... so i cant find... I thought it would be heare but is not....( Sorry.. this was a abway from your subjekt... )
you call it heat? ;)
look at the empty chairs at (Materialistic) Google
I agree Kim, is she afraid of offending the Chinese? Does upsetting the Chinese threaten Google's commercial interests? And why all the empty chairs? And why is the Tibetan speaker wearing such a massive (and expensive-looking) watch?
@dekunzan
10 жыл бұрын
yes, of course she is afraid to offend the Chinese, because if she says something about politics, the lama who came from Tibet to this lecture will be in danger when he will go back.
@kunze2264
10 жыл бұрын
Rob ramsey, i wondering some people, why monks or nuns not use well robes and swathes?. they all live in Samsara and use all same things. Dont be look short think
They are not nuns They are yoginis Don't spread misinformation
@woodbirddd
2 жыл бұрын
They are nuns AND yoginis!
@hellboundtruck123
Жыл бұрын
One can be both.
I don't agree. First you have to make it clear what you mean by ordain or ordination. If you are referring to ordination as a spiritual master, i think no other lineage has more qualified and acclaimed female spiritual masters than Tibetan Buddhist tradition do. If you are referring to ordination as a "GEYLONGMA" or fully ordained Bikshuni, then you have to understand that Tibetan Buddhist Tradition is very systematic and it follows the tradition and guide lines by Buddha in very honest sense.
Why are there videos in the TechTalk channel having to do with Mindfulness and meditation? In my mind, these should be moved to the @Google talks channel. Leave TechTalks for technology discussions, please!
As a woman it is not possible to become ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The only tradition that permits this is the Chan (Chinese) Buddhist tradition. It is my understanding that Tenzin Palmo received her ordination in this way. While she did of course undertake the 15+ years of retreat under the tutelage of her Tibetan master, this is not considered an ordination.
She attained jeeva sandhi it is better west people especially corporate companies like Google stay away from Yogi and Yoginis practice
Honestly, I'm not happy with the translator. He is not able translate what Rinpoche is saying and many words are coming from himself (translator).
translation is terrible
If U think all religion is bad then U have a very limited understanding of religion. I would recommend practicing meditation and doing some study of different religions, U'll b surprised by what U find
is this man even asking questions? Divinity, manifestation, Higher, Lower, Vertical Thinking. Seems like just a bunch of jarbled statements, are they even having a conversation? Lol tf is this. We are living inside such a projection. People have been practicing all kinds of things before Buddha even existed. Yet , we, the West, labels everything under 'Buddha' , as if this word, icon , image, has any objective weight. We are looking away from time & space, we have flattened our reality with 2D forms: images, words given objective value. What an illusion, fake reality.
I take it U don't know much about Buddhism
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May westerner research well and become a good practitioner. Not necessarily good Buddhist.
translator not doing a good job