Lama Jampa Thaye
Karma Thinley Rinpoche bestowed upon him innumerable initiations, transmissions and instructions from the Kagyu, Sakya, Nyingma and Kadam traditions. In particular, he received from Rinpoche the famous collection of vajrayana initiations known as the One Hundred Sadhanas of Bari Lotsawa, the complete cycle of Konchog Chindu and various works on Kagyu philosophy. From H.H. Sakya Trizin, Lama Jampa has obtained many initiations and transmissions from all four sets of tantras, most notably the Thirteen Golden Dharmas, Lamdre Tsokshe, the esoteric teachings of Vajrayogini and the One Hundred Sadhanas of Narthang. One of the great Western dharma teachers is my dharma regent, Lama Jampa Thaye. We have opened many dharma centres in Great Britain and he has been giving teachings all over Europe. He is not only a great scholar, but also a great dharma practitioner. Karma Thinley Rinpoche, Millennium Letter , Toronto 1999.
A third master who was particularly important in Lama Jampa's education was Ngor Phende Shabdrung Rinpoche (b. 1934), from whom he received numerous initiations, textual transmissions and instructions, such as Vajrayogini, Vajrapani and White Tara. Having completed the Kagyu Mahamudra preliminaries by 1975, Lama Jampa went on to complete the retreats of Konchog Chindu and Amitabha. Some time later he accomplished the retreats of Vajrayogini and White Tara from the Sakya tradition. In 1977, Lama Jampa was appointed by Karma Thinley Rinpoche as his dharma-regent and subsequently in 1988 given the authority to bestow vajrayana initiations. He maintains a busy annual programme of teachings, initiations and personal interviews at the request of his students. Lama Jampa Thaye is the author of various works including the Sakyapa treatise, Rain of Clarity (2006), and the Karma Kagyu historical work, Garland of Gold (1990). His books and essays have been translated into German, Polish and Bulgarian. He holds a doctorate from the University of Manchester for his work on Tibetan religious history. He currently lives in Bayswater, London with his family. I would like to commend Lama Jampa Thaye for the unflagging enthusiasm and effort that he has devoted to the noble cause of making the dharma available to all those who have an interest in it, and encourage him to continue his good works. H.H. Sakya Trizin in his foreword to Rain of Clarity, March 2005. |
Lama Jampa Thaye is a scholar and meditation master trained in the Sakya and Karma Kagyu traditions of Buddhism. Born in England in 1952, he became a student of Karma Thinley Rinpoche at the age of 20 and met his other principal teacher, H.H. Sakya Trizin, a year later. From these two teachers and a number of other masters he has received an extensive range of contemplative and philosophical teachings.
