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Another interesting person. Holy ...! check him out
Gurudas Sunyatananda (Francis-Maria Gianmichael Salvato)

"I'm a work in progress!I am a non-theistic, Franciscan-Buddhist monk. In the Buddhist world, I am more commonly known as Dharmacharya Gurudas Sunyatananda. Among Reformed and Progressive Catholics, Quakers and Congregationalists, I am known as Archbishop Francis-Maria (Gianmichael) Salvato."
http://www.facebook....5600#!/punkmonk

KHENPO! :/
"Khenpo Gurudas Sunyatananda (known in contemplative Catholic circles as Archbishop Francis-Maria of the Immaculata) is a non-sectarian contemplative monk and dharma teacher, ordained in the Buddhist and Eastern Catholic traditions, and best known for his pioneering efforts to bring the dharma of Buddha and Christ to a postmodern audience, in a contemporary, non-theistic and non-religious context, as he believes both Buddha Sakyamuni and the Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef (Jesus the Nazarene) intended.
Author of more than six hundred articles, and several books, including such classics as The Dharma of Compassion - One Monk's Reflections on the Teachings of the Enlightened & Anointed Ones, and Awakening: Living the Dharma of Compassion, he is respected as an authority on interreligious and interspiritual dialogue, social justice, peace and contemporary Buddhism.
Khenpo Gurudas Sunyatananda, known simply to his students as Servant-Father or Khenpo (a Tibetan word for abbot or leader of a monastic community), presently resides in the oldest inland city in the United States, historic Lancaster, and presides over the Centre for Integral Buddhism. "
http://vimeo.com/punkmonk

LAMA!
"Lama Gurudas Sunyatananda (1963-) AKA Gianmichal Salvato AKA Francis-Maria Salvato claims to be a theologian, philosopher, teacher and postmodern Buddhist monk; he is the founder of the alleged cult "Contemplative Monks of the Eightfold Path."
Born Frederick Robert Salvato, on 16 February 1963 to Hungarian-Slovak and Italian parents, he grew up in the Greater Philadelphia area, and later moved with his family to Central Florida. Among his siblings are singer/songwriter and record producer, Frank Salvato II.
In late 2007, Lama Gurudas Sunyatananda founded the Lojong Monastery and Lojong Institute.
He presently resides in South Central Pennsylvania."
http://wikibin.org/a...-salvato-3.html

http://dharmadudeunp...om/lineage.html
http://orderofcompassion.com/

his teacher: Tenzin Yangchen, Ma Jaya Bhagavati
http://www.kashi.org/majaya/

Here is some information on this man - I will be happy if anyone can supply some reliable information:
http://tenparinpoche...ss.com/aliases/

This is his blog - seems rich with information, but in the light of the abovementioned ... maybe the information supplied here is disputable?
http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.com/

Any comments please?

"If we can attain nondual, nonconceptual awareness in meditation, we are engaged in profound political activity, . . .
While our nondualistic, nonconceptual meditation is purifying our own obscurations and afflictions and thereby transforming our personal experience of others, it is also becoming a spark of buddha activity in those others. As our meditation becomes effective, the attitude of others towards us begins to change, and they themselves begin to turn inward and to search with greater conscientiousness through the stuff of their own minds and lives for spiritual solutions to their own problems. And as the power of our meditation increases, this effect reaches ever-widening concentric circles of sentient beings with whom we have karmic interdependence, which in this day and age includes not only our immediate family and friends, working associates, and local communities, but also everyone with whom we are connected through all the media of our lives.

--from The Ninth Karmapa's Ocean of Definitive Meaning by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, edited, introduced and annotated by Lama Tashi Namgyal "

What is the Difference between Theravada and Mahayana with regards to Meditation, Doctrine - Dhamma/Dharma and Discipline - Vinaya?

Another one is "Tshong Tulku" (Pavel Hanč), saying about himself: "I am a tulku, buddhist, meditator, photographer and philosopher." After being asked his Tulku credentials, he removes one from his friends.

Prosim za nasvet.
Koristim zdravilo iz sintetičnih hormonov, ki mi ne pomaga v celoti, ne odpravi vseh simptomov. Obstaja zdravilo iz naravnih hormonov (svinjski), in je veliko bolj učinkovito, pa tudi brez posebnih stranskih učinkov. Zdaj pa ne vem, glede na vse ostalo, vegetarjanstvo, meditacija.....