Petersen, O.

Petersen, O. on the DRL

Authors of English Works

Oliver Petersen

English Phonetics	Oliver Petersen
Sort Name	Petersen, Oliver

Dates

Birth:	1961

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Biographical Information

Oliver Petersen, born in 1961, is a teacher of Buddhism at the Tibetan Center eV, Hamburg, which is under the patronage of the Dalai Lama. He has been working there since 1980. Between 1983-1999 he was ordained as a Buddhist monk and disciple of Geshe Thubten Ngawang. Today he leads meditation seminars and study courses for the center and works as a speaker, translator and in interreligious dialogue. Oliver Petersen holds a master's degree in Tibetology, religious studies and philosophy and has trained in gestalt therapy. (Source Accessed Feb 18, 2021)

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The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.