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 Translator, Teacher, and Director
David Gonsalez has been practicing Dharma for over twenty years and since that time has devoted the entirety of his life to practice, study, translation, as well as hosting and organizing numerous Dharma teachings and events in the Seattle area. He first began studying with Geshe Khenrab Gajam and traveled to Montreal on several occasions to receive teachings. After Geshe Khenrab’s passing David developed a close relationship with several lamas including Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Ribur Rinpoche. Most notably David invited Gen Lobsang Choephel to Seattle on five occasions at which time he received countless empowerments, oral transmissions, and commentaries. David has also received numerous empowerments and teachings from other great lamas such as Lati Rinpoche, Denma Locho Rinpoche, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, and many more.
David has devoted a great deal of the last twenty years to retreat and has completed forty-three fully qualified retreats including subsequent fire pujas. As the translator for Dechen Ling Press these retreats give David a unique opportunity to approach these translations as not only a translator but an experienced practitioner as well assuring the translations are accurate and true to the lineage passed down through Tibetan lamas.
Snow Lion is publishing several of David's books and has most recently published Source of Supreme Bliss and two more are due in 2011.
Now, after Gen Lobsang Choephel's continued requests for over a decade, David has begun to accept the commitment to provide teachings at Dechen Ling.
See Gen Lobsang Choephel's letter of recommendation for David in Tibetan and English translation. |
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Lama Gen Lobsang Choephel was born in 1924. He entered Ganden Khachoe Monastery in Tibet at the age of five. After 31 years at the monastery he escaped for Nepal at the time of the Chinese invasion. He then spent eight years in strict meditation retreat in a small cave high in the mountains on the the Tibetan-Nepalese border 15,000 above sea level. After eight years he left for Dharmasala, India, where he spent another ten years in strict retreat in the mountains above Dharmasala. After his retreat he served as the attendant and scribe for H.H. Trijang Rinpoche, the root guru of H.H. the Dalai Lama, for the next six years.
