Incense holder

The Tibetan lineages are fascinating. I stayed in the Tibetan Monastery in Bodhgaya and was able to study with Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche (Dzogchen Lineage - i.e. Tibetan Zen) for some months.
Then the Dalai Lama train came to town and i was able to study with him for a month.

I am the bearded thing in white hanging out with other western monks and a nun in Bodhgaya (c. 1995)
in India

My true Path was always Rinzai Zen though, so i wrote to about 40 monasteries in Japan looking for one that would take me. 1 wrote back, it was a training Monastery and the rest rolled on from there.

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