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Geshe Jumpa Tinley is in touch. Representative of Geshe Jump Tinley: “It's all lies

Recently, with the release of my new book "Shamatha and Mahamudra", all my students had a good theoretical basis for the development of unidirectional concentration. Now I would like members of all my centers throughout Russia to get together once a week and develop one-pointed concentration - to meditate on the development of shamatha. In general, you can gather in the centers 2-3 times a week, but one of these meetings must be devoted to the development of concentration. At the beginning of the session, read a prayer and then proceed to meditation. Then discuss how your meditation went, what the object of meditation is, what difficulties you are facing, etc. In this way, people will develop. In addition, remember what the mistakes of meditation are and how they are eliminated. This is important for everyone to remember. So in any area: if you do not know the mistakes, then you will not make progress. Therefore, in order to achieve development in any area, you first need to know what mistakes lie in wait for you and what are the antidotes to eliminate these mistakes. And further, if you gradually eliminate these mistakes - at first the gross, then the average and at the end the most subtle, then you will achieve the necessary progress. So for many years I have been telling you, "Don't meditate too much." Now I say: "Meditate! For this you have all the necessary theory."

Also, in addition to collective practices in the center, engage in the development of concentration in everyday life. Then intensive meditation on Lake Baikal will become more effective for you.

So, get ready!

On Wednesday, I met with scientists from the Novosibirsk academic town, and they told me that there is a special device that can assess whether a person has the ability to concentrate. For me, such a device would be very useful, I would like to check who has great potential for the development of unidirectional concentration.

We also discussed the construction with the scientists special house for scientific research mind on the territory of the Baikal meditation center. I told them my point of view that at the present time scientists have already come to all possible discoveries in relation to matter and now science is at an impasse. "Now you would like to study Mars, Jupiter, etc. If you discover anything in this area, that's good, but if not, that's okay. These planets are extremely far from you. But as far as the mind is concerned, we all use it. we just need time in this area of discovery, "I said.

Science has very little idea of what the mind is. Many scientists think that the mind is the brain, but this is a very poor understanding of the mind. I gave them an example that electricity it is not a computer. If the current runs out, the computer becomes dead. And in exactly the same way, the brain is like a computer, and without the current of consciousness, the brain is dead. So I told them with one hundred percent certainty that the mind is not the brain. If the mind develops, then the brain develops as well. "So, do research, analyze and you can discover a lot of useful things for human society." Scientists would like to do this kind of research and collect more information about what changes in the body and brain can lead to meditation.

In August of this year, the attention of the Buddhist community in Buryatia was attracted by a strange message that came from the shores of Lake Baikal. Tourists filmed a very strange ritual taking place on the shore of the lake. A crowd of dancing people ran behind the car driving along the shore; the man who got out of the car, who lay down on the inflatable sailor, was lifted by the people and carried into the water. “And it all ended again by running after the car! What is it? Sect? What drives these people? Why do they idolize this teacher so much? " - the blogger in the Buryat community "VKontakte" "Anonymous 03", who published the photos of the action, wondered.

Soon, a number of publications appeared in the local press about an unknown "sect" allegedly operating in the republic, but they were followed by refutations written by supporters of the Geshe. Jumpa Tinley- the founder of the Buddhist centralized religious organization "Je Tsongkhapa". It is this organization that owns a meditation center on the shores of Lake Baikal, where in the summer of this year. Under the leadership of Jump Tinley, traditional teachings on Lamrim (spiritual practices aimed at achieving the Buddhist "Awakening" - "NGR") took place, which confused the witnesses of what was happening. The development of history has raised a number of questions about how Buddhist spiritual structures exist and interact on the territory of modern Russia.

In particular, who actually represents the Dalai Lama Tenzina Gyatso, the spiritual leader of the followers of the Tibetan tradition, on the territory of Russia? Jampa Tinley calls himself his spiritual representative, whose students attracted the attention of tourists on Lake Baikal. He first arrived in Russia in 1993 - this is reported by him short biography on the website of the Spiritual Center of Lama Tsongkhapa, founded by him in Moscow about 20 years ago. In the same year, according to the website, Geshe Jampa Tinley was appointed as the spiritual representative of the Dalai Lama in Russia. However, the honorary representative of the leader of Tibetan Buddhists in Russia is Shadzhin Lama (President of the Buddhist Association of Kalmykia) Telo Tulku Rinpoche (Erni Ombadykov). And this information requires clarification.

The history of the Dalai Lama's representation in Russia after the collapse Soviet Union pretty confusing. In 1991, immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Dalai Lama visited the Buddhist regions of Russia - Buryatia, Kalmykia and the Aginsky Buryat Autonomous District (which in 2008 became part of the Chita Region and the Trans-Baikal Territory, having lost the status of a subject of the Federation). After that, in 1992, Tenzin Gyatso visited Kalmykia twice (in 1992 and 2004) and once - Tuva (also in 1992). During the first of these trips, Telo Tulku Rinpoche, a Kalmyk born into a family of immigrants in the United States, arrived in Russia for the first time with the head of the Buddhists of Tibet. The next year he was elected the supreme lama Kalmykia.

The activities of Geshe Jampa Tinley are more connected with another Buddhist republic within Russia - Buryatia, in which the Baikal Meditation Center is located. As well as Telo Tulku Rinpoche, he was born outside of Russia - in the South Indian Mysore. For 20 years he has been organizing Buddhist communities in different cities of Russia: Moscow, Ulan-Ude, Elista, Kyzyl, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Irkutsk, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Sochi and others. At the moment, the organization has 22 centers. In 2013, they were merged into Je Tsongkhapa, named after the Tibetan Lama, the founder of the Gelug school of Buddhism. Thus, both representatives of the Dalai Lama are not natives of Russia, which does not make the issue clearer.

“There is indeed some confusion on this issue. Venerable Geshe Tinley was the spiritual representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Russia, the CIS and Mongolia from 1993 to 1998, the administration of the Lama Tsongkhapa Center told NGR. - After the end of the 5-year term, he remained a cultural advisor for two years. After 2000, the Venerable Geshe Tinley did not hold any posts in the Central Tibetan Administration. Then a number of other people were representatives of His Holiness in Russia (not spiritual, but simply representatives who headed the Center for Tibetan Culture and Information). And at the beginning of 2015 Telo Tulku Rinpoche was already appointed an honorary representative of His Holiness in Russia and Mongolia and remains so to this day. However, since the venerable Geshe Tinley was the first and, in fact, the only spiritual representative of his Holiness in Russia, he is sometimes still called that. As for the structure of the spiritual representation of His Holiness and relations with other Buddhist organizations, it would probably be better to address this issue directly to the representation itself. "

However, Telo Tulku Rinpoche informed the "NGR" about Tinley's violation of monastic vows, thereby confirming the information that Tinley's followers had previously denied in the Buryat press. In his opinion, Jampa Tinley appointed himself as the spiritual representative of the Dalai Lama. “Geshe Jampa Tinley was indeed sent to Russia by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the 1990s, but not as a“ spiritual representative ”, but as a junior secretary,” Telo Tulku Rinpoche commented on the situation to NGR correspondent. - His functions included lecturing on Buddhism and assisting in the restoration of Buddhism in traditional Buddhist regions, which was necessary after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some time later, Geshe Jampa Tinley asked to be granted the status of “spiritual representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama,” referring to the fact that otherwise it would be difficult for him to carry out the functions assigned to him. He received neither a positive nor a negative response from the Tibetan government, however, on his own initiative, he began to use the title he had invented. After some time, his term of service as a junior secretary expired, he was not asked to continue working in this post, but he himself did not show interest in this. After that, he began to act as an independent Buddhist teacher. He was indeed a Buddhist monk, but later broke his vows and is no longer a monk and has nothing to do with the representation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Russia. "

One of the largest Buddhist associations in Russia is the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia (BTSD) with its center at Ivolginsky Datsan in Buryatia. In Buryatia, there is a regional centralized religious organization "Maidar". In 1993, the Russian Association of Diamond Way Buddhists of the Karma Kagyu tradition was registered, which united more than 80 Russian and Ukrainian communities professing Diamond Way Buddhism. Since 1991, the Association of Buddhists of Kalmykia, headed by Telo Tulku Rinpoche, has been operating as a centralized religious organization. The Center for Tibetan Culture and Information and the Save Tibet Foundation in Moscow also operate under his spiritual guidance.

The majority of Buddhist organizations in Russia, therefore, represent ethnic or regional associations of believers. However, with "Je Tsongkhapa" things are a little different. Jampa Tinley himself is a supporter of the so-called "non-sectarian" approach to Buddhism, which refuses to divide it into schools and concentrates the teaching on the "Three Foundations of Lama Tsongkhapa's Path." This “out-of-school” approach makes it an effective missionary strategy.

A few days ago, one of the subscribers of the popular public "Anonymous 03" published a video of a very strange ritual on the shore of Lake Baikal.

Residents of Buryatia reported about the possible appearance in the republic of another sect, the founder of which people called "Teacher". According to the anonymous author, the crowd obeyed an unknown man who encouraged them to dance, and they obeyed him implicitly.

Later, Vostok-Teleinform news agency reported the name of the so-called teacher. According to their version, it turned out to be Geshe Jampa Tinley, a representative of the traditional Buddhism of the Gelug school.

Meanwhile, earlier Geshe Jampa Tinley had gelong status, he could not drink or have women. However, he broke this vow. The Dalai Lama found out about this and at one of the events he publicly tore off his yellow Gelong robe as a sign that he had shamed his title. Thus, then he strongly discredited himself, - the publication reported.

On this occasion, a representative of the Je-Sankapa religious organization, which is headed by Geshe Jampa Tinley, turned to our editorial office to comment on the event that was captured on camera on the shore of Lake Baikal.

An All-Russian meditation retreat was held at Lake Baikal. The video that was posted is a picnic. Yes, someone was running after the car, but you know, in Buddhism there is a concept of devotion and respect to a spiritual mentor, - commented a representative of a religious organization.

They also answered us about breaking a vow:

This is all a lie!

In this regard, we turned for a comment to the committee on interethnic relations and the development of civil initiatives under the administration of the head and government of Buryatia. And that's what they answered there.

Any religious organization operates within the legal framework. There is a law according to which every citizen has the right to choose his faith and form of behavior - worship, vows, etc., - answered Mikhail Kharitonov, deputy head of the administration of the head of the republic for the development of civil society. - Organizations can be recognized as destructive if their activity is extremist. But in order to name a religious organization as such, serious expert work is required, and in the future everything will be decided by the court. Judicial practice shows that such processes are taking place. One of the last -

The Venerable Geshe Jampa Tinley was born on June 5, 1962 in Misora (southern India) to a family of Tibetan refugees. After leaving school, he entered the Central Tibetan Institute in Varanasi, after which he received a Shastri (Bachelor's) degree in philosophy, Sanskrit, Tibetan and English languages... Since 1984, he has worked as a translator for Tibetan teachers for about five years at the Dorjechang Buddhist Institute in New Zealand. At the age of 25, Geshe Tinley was ordained and became a monk. In 1993, after a three-year retreat in the Dharamsala mountains, at the request of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Geshe Tinley went to Russia to take up the post of His Holiness's spiritual representative. In February 1994, at Sera Monastery (South India), he successfully passed the exam for the title of Doctor of Buddhist Philosophy (Geshe).

Over the years of his activity in Russia as the spiritual representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and then the adviser for cultural and religious affairs of Tibet, Geshe Tinley contributed in every possible way to the revival and development of Buddhism in the traditional regions of its spread (Kalmykia, Buryatia, Tuva). Over the years, he also began to have more and more students in the European part of Russia and in a number of cities in Siberia, as a result of which Buddhist Centers were also formed in them.

Geshe Tinley travels tirelessly throughout Russia lecturing on Buddhist philosophy and practice. The teachings of the Venerable Geshe Tinley are based on indigenous Buddhist texts, authentic primary sources - "Abhidharmakosha", "Abhisamayaalamkara", "Madhyamikaavatara" and others. As a staunch follower of the tradition of the greatest teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, the founder of the Gelug school Lama Tsongkhapa, Geshe Tinley gives his students detailed and comprehensive teachings on the stages of the path to Enlightenment (Lamrim), paying particular attention to the Three pillars of the path, without which it is impossible to achieve Buddhahood - renunciation. bodhichitta and the cognition of emptiness. In addition to his philosophical knowledge, Geshe Tinley also gives practical instructions on Buddhist meditation based on his own rich experience in meditative retreats; collective and individual retreats according to Lamrim and the preliminary practices (ngndro) take place under his guidance.

The Venerable Geshe Tinley is the spiritual director of many Russian Buddhist Centers of the Gelug tradition, including the Moscow Buddhist Center of Lama Tsongkhapa, the Green Tara Center in Ulan-Ude, the Asanga Center in St. Petersburg, the Chenresi Center in Elista, the Manjushri "in Kyzyl, the Tara Center in Omsk, the Atisha Center in Irkutsk, the Maitreya Center in Novosibirsk, the Tushita Center in Ufa, the Phuntsog Chopel Ling Center in Rostov-on-Don and others. For his noble work to revive and strengthen the foundations of Buddhist Teachings, the Venerable Geshe Tinley was awarded high state awards of the republics of Kalmykia and Tuva, and was marked with an honorary diploma from the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia.

Geshe Jampa Tinley is the author of the books “Living Philosophy and Meditation of Tibetan Buddhism” (1994), “Buddhist Instructions” (1995), “Towards the Clear Light” (1995), “Shamatha” (1995), “Death. Life after death. Phowa "(1995)," Tantra - the path to awakening "(1996)," Sutra and tantra - the jewels of Tibetan Buddhism "(1996)," Wisdom and compassion "(1997)," Comments on the brief practice of Yamantaka "(1998), "Mind and Emptiness" (1999), "Bodhicitta and the Six Paramitas" (2000), "Preparatory Practices of Ngndro" (2004), "Purification of the Mind" (2007), Lojong (2009) and others. Je Tsongkhapa Publishing House prepares for the publication of a number of new books by Geshe Tinley, based on the material of his lectures, unique and valuable for every Buddhist practitioner.

The Venerable Geshe Tinley is a highly qualified master of Buddhist philosophy and meditation. The line of succession of the teachings transmitted by him, without interruption, stems from the Buddha Shakyamuni himself and includes such great mentors of India and Tibet as Padmasambhava, Atisha, Milarepa and Lama Tsongkhapa. His direct teachers are the living as well as the already departed outstanding spiritual masters of our time: His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Geshe Navang Dargye, Panor Rinpoche, Geshe Namgyal Wangchen, etc.

Despite his extensive activities in the transmission of Buddhist teachings, Geshe Tinley repeatedly conducted many months of meditation in retreat, being a true example of a Buddhist philosopher and yogi.

The Venerable Geshe Jampa Tinley is one of the few outstanding Buddhist teachers residing in Russia. For many years, he systematically and consistently transfers to his students all the wealth of Buddhist philosophy and practice, giving detailed instructions on all aspects of Buddhist teachings, teaching the complete Teachings of Sutra and Tantra. Geshe Jampa Tinley is one of the most important Buddhist teachers in modern Russia.

The Venerable Geshe Jampa Tinley was born on June 5, 1962 in Misora (southern India) to a family of Tibetan refugees. After leaving school, he entered the Central Tibetan Institute in Varanasi, after which he received a Shastri (Bachelor's) degree in philosophy, Sanskrit, Tibetan and English. Since 1984, he has worked as a translator for Tibetan teachers for about five years at the Dorjechang Buddhist Institute in New Zealand. At the age of 25, Geshe Tinley was ordained and became a monk. In 1993, after a three-year retreat in the Dharamsala mountains, at the request of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Geshe Tinley went to Russia to take up the post of His Holiness's spiritual representative. In February 1994, at Sera Monastery (South India), he successfully passed the exam for the title of Doctor of Buddhist Philosophy (Geshe).