“When one comes to the essence of being,
The shining wisdom of reality
Illuminates all like the cloudless sky.”
- Milarepa
Vajra Mandala
Vajra Mandala is a dharma center with headquarter in Ireland (local center name: Ganden Rimey Choling), which offers authenthic Tibetan Buddhist meditation and enlightenment trainings.
The founding of the center was initiated by Gosia and Jonas Over in 2021 and it is under the spiritual guidance of Lama Glenn Mullin & Lama Jhampa Shaneman.
Our activities and programs mainly focus on international online teaching events via Zoom and our various online teaching platforms as well as on in-person retreats in Europe and America.
About Lama Glenn Mullin
Glenn Mullin is the author of over thirty books on Tibetan Buddhism, many of which have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. His earlier titles focus on the lives and works of the early Dalai Lamas. Other titles of his elucidate practice traditions such as Lam Rim, Lojong, the Six Yogas of Naropa, Kalachakra, and so forth. He has been an international teacher of Tantric Buddhist meditation for the past thirty years. Glenn lived in Dharamsala, India, for fifteen years. There he studied under twenty-five of the greatest masters of Tibet, including the Dalai Lama and his two main gurus, Ling Rimpoche and Trijang Rimpoche.
About Lama Jhampa Shaneman
Lama Jhampa was a monk for 14 years in India and did a great retreat (3 years of retreat) under the guidance of Ling Rinpoche, the Dalai Lamas senior tutor.
He is one of the first western practitioners to be given permission by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to teach all levels of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism and to give empowerments. He has been teaching and leading meditation retreats for more than 30 years.
About Gosia & Jonas
Gosia and Jonas are practicioners of Vajrayana buddhism for over a decade and are living in the south-west of Ireland. Gosia is a sociologist and psychotheraphist and Jonas has an extensive background as trainer for Qi Gong and Tibetan Breath Yoga/ Trul Khor.
Both have authorisation from Lama Glenn Mullin & Lama Jhampa Shaneman to transmit & teach Vajrayana Buddhism and its practices, such as the Six Yogas of Naropa.
Gosia and Jonas are authorized and trained in various aspects of Vajrayana Buddhism, including:
Full teaching authorization in Vajrayana Buddhism, including the authority to give initiations, granted by Lama Jhampa Shaneman and Lama Glenn Mullin.
Completion of Ngondro (Preliminary Practices): 111,000 prostrations, 111,000 Vajrasattva mantras, 111,000 mandala offerings, and 111,000 Guru Yoga recitations.
Initiation lineage: Continuously receiving empowerments and transmissions since 2002.
Teaching experience: Trul Khor (Tibetan Breath Yoga) since 2017; Vajrayana Buddhism since 2021.
Learned, practiced and taught several Buddhist Tantras, such as: Chakrasamvara, Vajrayogini, Yamantaka, Hayagriva, and Kalachakra.
Completion of qualifying retreats (Ley Rungs) for Chakrasamvara, Vajrayogini, Yamantaka, Hayagriva, Kalachakra, and other practices.
Extensive retreat experience, including both intensive solitary retreats and working retreats.
Fire puja rituals with various deities, encompassing the four enlightened activities: pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and protective.
Protector practices: Mahakala and Kalarupa practice, including exorcism rituals.
Divination: Mo divination through Palden Lhamo and Manjushri.
Phowa practice: Transference of consciousness for the deceased.
Chod retreats: Completed multiple retreats in this advanced practice.
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