Lodo, Lama

Names

Tibetan: བླ་མ་བློ་གྲོས།
Wylie:

• bla ma blo gros
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Lama Lodu
• Lama Lodro
• Lama Lodo
• Lama Lodö
• Venerable Lama Lodö

Dates

Born: 1942 in Sikkim
Died:

Affiliation

Kagyu - 16th Karmapa, Kalu Rinpoche

Rumtek, Sikkim

Other Biographical Information

Lama Lodö was born in Sikkim, Nepal in 1939. At the age of eight he entered monastery to study the traditional subjects of the Karma Kagyu tradition: reading, writing, religious texts, singing and dancing. At fifteen he met Drupon Tenzin Rinpoche, who was the great meditation master of the The-Yak Monastery and a teacher of His Holiness the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa. With his teacher's blessing, Lama Lodö eventually began traditional three-year retreat. Unfortunately, both student and teacher became ill during this time; Tenzin Rinpoche directly contributed to Lama Lodö's recover, but he died himself.

H.H Karmapa directed Lama Lodö to seek a new teacher in the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche, whom he called the Great Master of this age. Lama Lodö was able to pass his examination and began a new retreat under venerable Kalu Rinpoche. Lama Lodö spent years since then giving instruction in meditation, dharma and Puja. In 1974, H. H. Karmapa and Kalu Rinpoche sent Lama to the West. From 1976, he became a Senior Spiritual Teacher at the Kagyu Droden Kunchab Center in San Francisco. Source

Website: http://www.kdk.org/
Biography
Director of Kagyu Droden Kunchab since 1976 (Founded by Kar lu rin po che)

Main Teachers

• 16th Karmapa
• Kalu Rinpoche

Writings

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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.