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About - Spiritual Director
Lama
Choedak Rinpoche
Lama
Choedak Yuthok Rinpoche is the founder of Sakya Losal Choe
Dzong, Rongton Buddhist Training College and most of the Sakya
centres in Australia.
Born
in Tibet, Rinpoche escaped with his parents in the early 1960s
to Nepal where he completed his secondary education.
He
spent 12 years' rigorous training as a Sakya Tibetan Buddhist
monk, several of those under the guidance of His Eminence
Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, one of the finest Tibetan teachers
of this time (b 1920 - d 2007).
In
1980, sponsored by HH the Dalai Lama,
Rinpoche
completed a three-and-a-half year solitary meditation retreat
on the Lamdre Lobshey teachings.
He
has translated for some of the most important teachers of
all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism including the late
tutors of His Holiness.
Lama
Choedak taught and translated at Dorje Chang Institute in
Auckland. He has also helped to design teaching programs for
many Tibetan Buddhist centres in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia
and New Zealand.
Having graduated with a Lit. B. in Asian Studies from the Australian National University, he is working on his thesis for his PhD with the Department of Sociology in Newcastle University on the topic of Hevajra practice.
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"Learning to cherish others will bring me happiness that will last."
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Rinpoche
is one of the few Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Masters living
in Australia.
He has
been teaching meditation in the West for more than 20 years
and has an excellent understanding of the western mind.
His
teachings are lucid, practical, enjoyable and sought after
worldwide.
Rinpoche
is based in Canberra with his wife and three children.
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