Introduction to the Unity in Duality Education
The Unity in Duality Education is based on Rinpoche's genius lifework, which His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been highly praising by telling in the big University Monasteries last year that he reckons Tarab Rinpoche to be one of the greatest Buddhist Scholars and Masters of our time. Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this newsletter, His Holiness recently told in public that we should know that late Tarab Tulku Rinpoche was not a normal Lama, he was a very special being and that it was a great tragedy for all of us that Rinpoche should die so early, as Rinpoche's teachings are most important for us in this time. And also because of that His Holiness promised on his own accord that he would do all that is in his power to find the new incarnation, so that Rinpoche can continue the unfoldment of Buddhism-for-our-time.
Tarab Rinpoche has been using his life to detect and draw out the universalities from the Sutras and from the Tantras, in respect to the analysis of the mind and phenomena in their mutual interrelationship. He has as well drawn out the universalities in regard to the methods for developing ourselves personally as well as spiritually, which he managed to present in a way that take us beyond the cultural and religious boundaries.
Tarab Rinpoche has been doing this work for different reasons. One of the main reasons was that he saw that Tibetan Buddhism is a carrier of very ancient knowledge deriving maybe 5.000 years back in time, both in respect to the heritage from the Indus Valley as well as to the shamanistic traditions, many aspects of which are no longer available as a living tradition in other places than within the Tibetan culture. Rinpoche was not of the opinion that Tibetan culture as such necessarily would survive the changes of meeting with Chinese and other modern cultures; however, Rinpoche thought it would be important for the future if we could extract the universalities, as that would allow this ancient knowledge to fit into any modern culture, despite its cultural and religious belief systems and would in this way assure its survival as a living tradition the best way possible.
Also His Holiness has recognized the same. When Rinpoche invited His Holiness to the Tendrel / Unity in Duality Conference in Munich in Oct. 2002, on learning what Tarab Rinpoche has been doing all these years in western exile, His Holiness expressed his gratitude to Rinpoche telling that he (His Holiness) had been looking for a Tibetan Lama that would develop a modern approach like Tarab Rinpoche has developed, but now he (His Holiness) realized that it was only Tarab Rinpoche who was able to do this, as no one else has his deep and broad knowledge / insight capacities as well as such investigative curiosity implying detachment from dogmatism of any kind that would allow for this new and modern unfoldment, still being in accord with the ancient knowledge.
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H.H. the Dalai Lama & Ven. Tarab Tulku
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