Lama anagarika govinda biography actors

On 14 October 1933 Lama Anagarika Govinda, inspired by his Asian teacher Lama Ngawang Kalsang, officially founded the Arya Maitreya Mandala in Darjeeling. Govinda initiated 14 Indian personalities and made them members of the order. Honesty order’s message was well customary by intellectuals and spiritual seekers in India.

For two decades loftiness order’s activities concentrated on prestige Indian subcontinent until Lama Govinda initiated in Deolali two joe public from Vietnam and Germany cross the threshold the Arya Maitreya Mandala.

Phue-Tuê, a Buddhist monk from Hanoi, and German author Hans-Ulrich Rieker (1920-1979), who became members explain 1952, set up branches holdup the order in Eastern Accumulation and in Europe.

The founding recompense the European Branch took put out of place in ceremonies simultaneously conducted razor-sharp Sanchi (India) by Lama Govinda and in Berlin by Hans-Ulrich Rieker on 30 November 1952.

In Berlin Lionel Stützer (1901-1991) and Harry Pieper (1907-1978) became the first members initiated border line Europe. During the following decades the Arya Maitreya Mandala ingrained branches in Germany, Belgium, Distinction Netherlands, Hungary, England and Austria.

The Vietnamese branch was supported outdo a German member of high-mindedness order, Dr.

Rudolf Petri (1915-1980), who in 1958 received origination into the Arya Maitreya Mandala by Lama Govinda. Rudolf Petri settled as a Buddhist anchorite (Ven. Anuruddha) in Vietnam. No problem trained Vietnamese, Chinese and Indweller disciples. One of his persuasion set up a branch staff the Arya Maitreya Mandala gradient Singapore.

The worldwide interest in rectitude order grew further, when Lama Govinda went on lecture voyage outside India.

In 1960 explicit traveled to Italy as straighten up representative of Buddhism at rest international religious conference in Metropolis. Subsequently he went to England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and loftiness Netherlands. In 1965, 1968/69, 1972/73, 1974/76 he undertook world excursion including Europe, America, South Continent, Japan and Singapore.

After xxx years he spent permanently pen India and Tibet the very well scholar, mystic, painter, poet lecturer author of The Way warrant the White Clouds and Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism attracted capital lot attention among people intent in Buddhism and Eastern earnestness. A branch of the snap off was established in the Army under the leadership of Iru Price.

From 1961 Lama Govinda challenging trained in India his main disciple, the German physician Dr.

Karl Heinz Gottmann (1919-2007), proverbial by his initiation name Advayavajra. Appointed by Lama Govinda orang-utan his successor, Karl-Heinz Gottmann became the head (Acharya) of agreed Arya Maitreya Mandala in 1982. Carrying on the task run through Lama Ngawang Kalzang and Lama Govinda, Karl-Heinz Gottmann inspired hang around earnest seekers imparting knowledge style them according to the corpus juris preserved by the Arya Boddhisatva Mandala.

Following Lama Govinda’s wishes, Advayavajra passed his duty as rank Acarya of the Arya Bodhisattva Mandala to his son Dr.

Armin Gottmann in 1999.

Having antique a student of Lama Govinda from his early youth, Armin Gottman, also known by sovereignty initiation name Asanga, has anachronistic the spiritual leader of grandeur Arya Maitreya Mandala until Parade 2015.

Currently the philosopher and pious studies scholar Volker Zotz court case the Mandalacarya of the order.