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Shamarpa Rinpoche was the emanation of
Amitabha, the
Buddha of Limitless Light: a living example of the appearance of Amitabha in our world in the form of a Mahabodhisattva.
The
Tibetan title of Shamar means “the
lama of the ruby-red crown”, named after the replica of the
Karmapa’s own crown which he bestowed on the
Shamarpa. The successive incarnations of the Shamarpas are also known as the “Red Hat Karmapa”.
Birth and Early life
The 14th Shamarpa was born .
Tantric Buddhism usually refers to a special esoteric school of
Buddhist philosophy, practice, and
art ‘based on treatises known as
tantras’.
It emerged in northeast
India during the fifth or sixth centuries CE and then formed its distinctive features around the seventh century CE. Afterward, it expanded geographically outward to the
Himalayas, East
Asia,
and Southeast Asia.
What Is Tantra?
Countless practices of several Asian
religions have been lumped together by western scholars under the heading "tantra." The .
Drepung Loseling Monastery is located in
Tibetan Colony,
Mundgod,
Karnataka India. There are over 5,000
celibate monks, with around 3,000 at
Drepung Loseling and some 2,000 at Drepung Gomang. Hundreds of new
monks are admitted each year, many of them
refugees from
Tibet.
Drepung in Tibet was modeled after the great
monasteries of Classical
Buddhist India, namely,
Nalanda and
Vikramalashila, and was an institution dedicated to the intense
study of the
traditional Buddhist arts and sciences.
History of Drepung Loseling
Monastery
Drepung .
Buddhism emerged over 2,500 years ago in Northern India. Historians,
religious scholars, and various Buddhist sects debate the actual year of the Buddha’s birth; it may have been as early as 644 BCE or as late as 540 BCE (although some point to other, later dates for his lifetime).
However, it is relatively certain that he was born Prince
Gautama Siddhartha, the son of Suddhodana,
king of the
Shakya tribe, in what is now Nepal. .