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Visit by Lama
THE renowned Tibetan Lama Jhado Tulku Rinpoche will give share his teachings in the Buddhist centre of Buddhist centre in El Campello for two days.
Jhado Tulku Rinpoche, one of the most renowned lamas of the Gelug lineage and also an excellent trainer in the Gelug monastic system, will make an official visit to El Campello In April.
poche is highly regarded for his ability to engage Western students.
In addition to these qualities, Rinpoche is also well known and loved for his kindness and gentle temperament," says Jessica Pastor, director of the Centre.
A ‘mini train’ will be laid on to ferry participants and their companions between the different sites, and the Local Police will establish a traffic cordon to guarantee safety around the different venues. This will also be the first edition of the games to be organised with sustainability in mind, with organisers reducing the use of paper and singleuse plastics and enabling online inscriptions for participants.
For further information and to inscribe, visit https://www.macma.org/ esports/minijocsolimpics
It will be one of the four stops of his first tour of Spain, which also includes Pamplona, Granada and Madrid.
The Tibetan monk, one of the main religious figures in Buddhism after the Dalai Lama, wants to get to know personally the Buddhist Centre that operates in Ruperto Chapí street. This is the Nagarjuna Centre, which has moved to El Campello after operating since 1996 in the capital of Alicante.
Renowned for his sharp intelligence and dynamic teaching style, Jhado Rin
Khensur Jhado Tulku Rinpoche was born in 1954 to a nomadic family who lived in the Namtso Lake area, 220 kilometres north of Lhasa, Tibet. At the age of three, he was recognised and appointed the sixth incarnation of the abbot of Jhado Monastery.
After fleeing Tibet in 1959, he lived briefly in Nepal. He spent several years in northern India, where he completed his basic studies of Tibetan by reading, writing and reciting Buddhist texts.
Rinpoche took the vows as a novice monk from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1964 and the vows of full ordination from the former Ling Rinpoche in 1973.
