{"id":29,"date":"2013-04-08T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tibetculture.lu\/v2\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2023-06-28T20:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:28:38","slug":"lama","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/lama\/","title":{"rendered":"Lama Jigm\u00e9 Namgyal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lama_photo-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Lama Jigme Namgyal\" class=\"wp-image-55 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lama_photo-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Lama_photo.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Lama Jigm\u00e9 Namgyal was born into a nomad family in Golog, in the eastern part of Tibet, where he studied Buddhism from a young age. His root teacher was Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, with whom he studied at the university of Serthar Larung Gar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">After consulting his teachers, Lama Jigm\u00e9 Namgyal decided to leave Tibet for Europe. This was a huge step, since he didn&#8217;t speak any European languages, nor did he know anything about European culture. While working to earn his living here, he quickly learned English and gained insight into the culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">He founded the Tibetan Cultural Centre in Luxembourg and another centre in Rotterdam (Phuntsok Ch\u00f6 Ling).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Apart from being a teacher of meditation, Lama Jigm\u00e9 has much experience in spiritually accompanying the dying and is also deeply interested in interreligious dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Through his pithy sense of humour, he is able to connect with his Western audience in an open and direct way. He has the unique gift of communicating an experience beyond words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lama Jigm\u00e9 Namgyal was born into a nomad family in Golog, in the eastern part of Tibet, where he studied Buddhism from a young age. His root teacher was Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, with whom he studied at the university of Serthar Larung Gar. After consulting his teachers, Lama Jigm\u00e9 Namgyal decided to leave Tibet for Europe. This was a huge step, since he didn&#8217;t speak any European languages, nor did he know anything about European culture. While working to earn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetculture.lu\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}