A Short Biography of the Venerable

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How can religions help to avoid a nuclear war?

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A Buddhist Perspective on Lucid Dreaming

Tarab Tulku, L.R.G.S, Dr.Phil., is a Tibetan lama, the eleventh incarnation of the Tarab Tulku. Tarab is an abbreviation of the much longer name of a monastery in Tibet. Tulku means "reborn." He has been educated in Tibet at the University of Drepung Monastery, where he received the highest degree, Lharampa Geshe, in Buddhist philosophy and metaphysics, as well as in meditation disciplines (including Tantra). At present Tarab Tulku is the head of the Tibetan section of the Royal Library and of the Tibetan department of Copenhagen University. On the basis of his own profound experience and accumulated knowledge, Tarab Tulku has modified the original Tibetan Buddhist techniques and developed therapeutic methods adapted to Western approaches, still integrating the essence of the esoteric meditation practices of Tibetan Buddhism.

The power of peace

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist Lama and Founder/President of the Mahakaruna Foundation serving Buddhists worldwide, is widely recognized as a meditation master, healer, artist, and Tibetan doctor. Son of the most famous female teacher and renowned psychic in Tibet, Rinpoche came to the United States in 1979, bringing to Western students his professional skills and unique teaching style in the field of medicine, tantra, ritual, painting, sculpture, and traditional folk art. His permanent seat is the Chagdud Gompa in Eugene, Oregon, from which he frequently travels, giving seminars on meditation and Tibetan medicine. He works as a medical consultant in Eugene. He was a featured speaker at the World Peace Assembly held at the Providence Zen Center in 1982, which drew 500 Buddhists and other guests from around the world. He was born in 1930 and grew up in Eastern Tibet, receiving instruction from the great Buddhist scholars and yogis of that time, and spent many years in meditation retreats. In 1959 the Chinese took over Eastern Tibet, ultimately destroying the great monasteries and forcing the lamas to flee or he killed. Chagdud Rinpoche escaped, but without any of his precious Buddhist texts and ritual instruments. For two decades he stayed voluntarily in the Tibetan refugee camps in India, among the poorest of his countrymen, until a group of Americans, attracted to his qualities as a teacher, invited him to the United State