Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery

Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery

Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery
Information
Tradition/Linage	Tibetan, Gelug
Main School	Vajrayana

Founded	Founded(when)::1996

People


Teacher(s)	BUORG-Names::Names::Ven. Thubten Lhundrup








Contact Infotmation
Address	25 Sandhurst Town Road Myers Flat Victoria 3556 Australia
Country	Australia
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Phone	Phone::03 5446 3691


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TSL Monastery

Since its introduction into Australia, Buddhism has gained wide acceptance as an exceptional philosophy that has brought inner peace, happiness and spiritual direction to the lives of countless people. To help preserve and disseminate Tibetan Buddhist teachings, Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche began establishing a global network of centres called the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. In 1994 Lama Zopa Rinpoche asked Australian Buddhist monk Ven. Thubten Gyatso (Dr. Adrian Feldman) to establish a monastery on land near Bendigo donated by the family of Mr. Ian Green. His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet endorsed the name: Thubten Shedrup Ling, An Oasis for Study and Practice of the Buddha’s Teachings. With the architectural and financial support of Mr. Salim Lee and the support of many individual donors, construction began in 1996. The first monks moved in to Thubten Shedrup Ling in 1997. Thubten Shedrup Ling is the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery to be established in Australia.

Lineage

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, is the head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was born Lhamo Dhondrub on 6 July 1935, in the small village of Taktser in northeastern Tibet. Born to a peasant family, His Holiness was recognized at the age of two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the reincarnation of his predecessor the 13th Dalai Lama, and thus an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion.

Venerable Lama Thubten Yeshe was born in Tibet in 1935. At the age of six, he entered Sera Je Monastic University in Tibet where he studied until 1959, when as Lama Yeshe himself has said, "In that year the Chinese kindly told us that it was time to leave Tibet and meet the outside world." Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, together as teacher and disciple since their exile in India, met their first Western students in 1965. By 1971 they settled at Kopan, a small hamlet near Kathmandu in Nepal. In 1974, the Lamas began touring and teaching in the West, which would eventually result in the formation of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. Lama Yeshe died in 1984.

Osel Hita, recognized as the incarnation of FPMT’s founder, Lama Thubten Yeshe, was in his early life known as Lama Osel. Today he prefers to be called simply “Osel”. Osel is completing a course of Western studies in Europe.

Ven Thubten Gyatso, was ordained by Lama Thubten Yeshe in the 1970s, and was one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is a Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition veteran who has been instrumental in establishing a number of Dharma centres including Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery.

Gyatso is the author of The Perfect Mirror and A Leaf in the Wind. Gyatso regularly teaches and leads retreats at Atisha Centre in Bendigo and is Director of Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery.

Ven. Thubten Lhundrup, was ordained by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 2003 and received gelong vows with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2004. Lhundrup first attended Buddhist teachings with Geshe Doga in 1995 at Tara Institute in Melbourne, moved to Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery in 2002, spent 2005 in Darjeeling, India studying Tibetan language and 2014 in McLeod Ganj pursuing further studies. Lhundrup is the author of Practical Meditation.

Ven. Jampa Choephal, was ordained by Khensur Lobsang Thupden Rinpoche in 2002. Following seven years at Sera Jey Monastery in South India studying Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy, Jampa now lives at Thubten Shedrup Ling and considers it his home monastery.

Ven Lozang Yeshe, was ordained by Khensur Lozang Palden in 2005. Since that time he has resided mainly at Chenrezig Institute in Queensland, engaging in philosophical study and retreat. In 2014 Yeshe visited Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery to help complete the building of the abbot’s residence. Seeing the importance with which the Great Stupa, Atisha Centre and Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery would have for the future of the dharma in Australia, Yeshe decided to stay and make the monastery his home.