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Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has practiced for over twenty years a method combining mantras and meditation, oriented toward healing physical and psychological ailments.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} |
Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has practiced for over twenty years a method combining mantras and meditation, oriented toward healing physical and psychological ailments.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} |
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Under his French alias of Ronan Chatellier, Rinpoche also provides his completely different background as a medical assistant and security guard, in an advertisement on a security personnel employment site. Dated 2012, his detailed CV, apparently posted by himself in search of employment, makes no reference to any kind of training or interest in Buddhism, nor to his role as Lama Shenphen Rinpoche as described above and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chatellier |first1=Ronan |title=Search Close Protection missions, protection of humanitarian or diplomatic missions |url=https://www.closeprotectionworld.com/members-looking-for-work/66964-search-close-protection-missions-protection-humanitarian-diplomatic-missions.html |website=Close Protection World |publisher=CP World |accessdate=3 August 2018 |date=19 June 2012 |quote=e.g., 2001: volunteer in children hospital for street children, St-Petersburg, Russia; 2003: volunteer in an orphanage, St-Petersburg, Russia. 2004-2012 : President of the Foundation MIR, Ljubljana, Slovenia... responsible of the security department of the Foundation MI; Computer security; Protection of premise, persons, and events}}</ref> |
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Shenphen Rinpoche (born 10 January 1969 in France), also known by his birth name of Ronan Chatellier, is a French-born Tibetan Buddhist Lama. He was initially ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1985 at the age of 16 by Kyabje Thubten Zopa Rinpoche and later fully ordained by Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama. Chatellier has been recognised as the tulku of Lama Gendun Rabgye, from Kharnang Monastery, Tibet.[1][2][citation needed]
Teachers
Lama Shenphen Rinpoche's first teacher was the Gelug master Khensur Geshe Tegchok. Other important teachers are Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, the 14th Dalai Lama, Gomo Tulku, Lama Gendun Rinpoche, and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.[citation needed]
Activity
In 1986, Rinpoche was requested to teach others in France. Since then, was requested to teach in many other countries.[citation needed]
After a few years in a monastery, Rinpoche studied medicine in Paris at Faculté Libre des Sciences de la Santé.[citation needed] Over the next five years, he engaged in humanitarian activities, mainly in India, but also in Nepal and Russia (for street children).[citation needed] Rinpoche created AMCHI Association, an association that organises humanitarian missions.[citation needed]
Between 1998 and 2001, following the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Shenphen Rinpoche was director of a retreat centre in Greece.[citation needed] In 2000, Rinpoche created Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling. He then moved to Spain to open a small center, until 2002.[citation needed]
Since 2002, Rinpoche is living in Slovenia permanently as a Slovene citizen, where he opened a Buddhist temple in Slovenia,[3] with a full program of teachings and practice.[citation needed] Rinpoche travels frequently in Hungary, Austria,[4] France, Romania, and Russia.[5][citation needed]
Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has practiced for over twenty years a method combining mantras and meditation, oriented toward healing physical and psychological ailments.[citation needed]
Professional Background
Under his French alias of Ronan Chatellier, Rinpoche also provides his completely different background as a medical assistant and security guard, in an advertisement on a security personnel employment site. Dated 2012, his detailed CV, apparently posted by himself in search of employment, makes no reference to any kind of training or interest in Buddhism, nor to his role as Lama Shenphen Rinpoche as described above and elsewhere.[6]
Tradition
Traditionally trained and having received transmissions from various masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Dharamsala and Sera-Jhe Monastery (India), but also in Kharnang Monastery (Tibet), Lama Shenphen Rinpoche has made efforts to teach a Buddhism cleared from cultural, political, and educational impregnations from Tibet.[citation needed]
Rinpoche encourages a form of Buddhism more engaged with society, proposing more services to the general public (visits to hospitals, education in school), applying Dharma in everyday life.[citation needed] To that end, Rinpoche has made efforts to adapt — without deteriorating — the Tibetan Buddhism lineage toward the West.[citation needed] This adaptation also includes clothing: Rinpoche has created a more western type of Buddhist uniform.[citation needed]
Legal Problems and Public Record in Slovenia
From 2012 onwards, Slovenian newspapers have reported on problems Ronan Chatellier (a.k.a. Shenphen Rinpoche) has experienced with the authorities and others in that country. Allegations of sexual misbehaviour have been made against him as well as of taking a loan of €90,000 from a student who was a Buddhist nun against assurances that were not fulfilled, and using the funds for his personal ends. It is also reported that he is alleged by the Slovenian police to have staged two phoney knife attacks against himself in Slovenia and of giving false testimony in order to have an excuse not to return to Slovenia to face legal charges made against him in the courts. These reports also say that he has pleaded medical reasons for not being able to travel to Slovenia to face the charges, while failing to provide medical certificates to substantiate this.[7][8][9]
Having thus quit Slovenia to live in his native France again, on social media and elsewhere Chatellier has strenuously denied as false and slanderous all such allegations. Concerning Masa Gedrih a.k.a. Tenzing Wangmo, the Buddhist nun who, it is alleged, was persuaded to sell her flat and hand over the proceeds to him, he has issued his own 'Public Statement' portraying her as bitter and vengeful and accusing her of telling lies and slandering him. At the same time he acknowleges that she sold her flat in order to loan him the proceeds of €90,000, and that he used her money for his own purposes including covering his personal living costs and feeding his children. He also makes it clear, in this public statement, that, despite her requests to repay the loan, he has no intention to repay until he is legally obliged to do so which will be in 2032.[10]
References
- ^ Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling - Recognition documents Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tibetan Lamas detailed biography
- ^ http://www.dharmaling.org/en/ljubljana-center Temple in Ljubljana
- ^ http://www.austria.dharmaling.org Archived 2007-07-30 at the Wayback Machine Dharmaling Austria
- ^ http://www.dharmaling.org/en/program program
- ^ Chatellier, Ronan (19 June 2012). "Search Close Protection missions, protection of humanitarian or diplomatic missions". Close Protection World. CP World. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
e.g., 2001: volunteer in children hospital for street children, St-Petersburg, Russia; 2003: volunteer in an orphanage, St-Petersburg, Russia. 2004-2012 : President of the Foundation MIR, Ljubljana, Slovenia... responsible of the security department of the Foundation MI; Computer security; Protection of premise, persons, and events
- ^ Celec, Bostjan (2 December 2017). "He is ill-treated for the court, but he travels around the world (using Google Translate)". Slovenske Novice. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ Various reporters. "Search Keyword: Ronan Chatellier". Slovenske Novice. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ Furlan, Mojca (14 December 2016). "Former Buddhist leader Ronan Chatellier pronounces illness" (using Google translate)". Dnevnik. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ Chatellier, Ronan. "Response to article in Slovenske novice on 20th of June 2017". Dharmaling Buddhist ongregation. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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