Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche memiliki kemampuan yang langka untuk membawakan kebijaksanaan kuno dari Tibet dengan cara yang segar, dan relevan dalam kehidupan modern. Ajaran-ajarannya yang mendalam namun dibawakan dengan ringan, disertai humor dan mudah mengerti membuatnya dikagumi oleh banyak murid-muridnya di seluruh dunia. Apalagi ajaran Rinpoche cukup unik, rajutan antara pengalaman pribadi Beliau dengan Ilmu pengetahuan modern untuk menjelaskan latihan meditasi.
Lahir pada tahun 1975 di perbatasan Tibet dan Nepal di pegunungan Himalaya, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche merupakan salah satu Master Meditasi dengan tingkat pencapaian yang luar biasa, serta disayangi oleh banyak orang. Sejak usia muda, Rinpoche sudah tertarik untuk hidup berkontemplasi. Beliau menghabiskan bertahun-tahun dari masa anak-analnya untuk berlatih meditasi dengan ketat. Beliau sudah mengajar dan menjadi kepala retreat meditasi di India sejak usia 17 tahun. Rinpoche juga sudah menyelesaikan pelatihan yang mendalam dalam ilmu psikologi dan filosofi Buddhis sebelum mendirikan sekolah monastik di kota kelahirannya di India Utara.
Sebagai tambahan dari pelatihan meditasi dan filosofi yang ekstensif dalam tradisi Buddhisme Tibet, Mingyur Rinpoche juga sudah tertarik dengan ilmu psikologi dan neurosains Barat. Sejak usia yang masih muda, Beliau sudah berdiskusi secara berkala dengan seorang ahli Neurosains yang ternama, Francisco Varela, yang datang ke Nepal untuk belajar meditasi dari Ayah Beliau, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Pada tahun 2002, Mingyur Rinpoche dan beberapa meditator senior yang lain diundang oleh “Waisman Laboratory for Braing Imaging and Behavior” di Universitas Wisconsin-Madison, dimana Richard Davidson, Antoine Lutz dan beberapa ilmuwan yang lain memeriksa efek dari meditasi pada otak dari Meditator yang senior. Hasil dari penelitian ini cukup mengejutkan dan dipublikasikan secara luas, termasuk dalam majalah Time dan National Geographic.
Mingyur Mingyur Rinpoche mengajar ke seluruh dunia, pada berbagai pusat meditasi di lima benua. Rasa humor beliau yang spontan telah menarik banyak murid dari seluruh dunia. Buku bestseller beliau: “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, telah masuk dalam daftar New York Times bestseller dan telah diterjemahkan ke dalam lebih dari dua puluh bahasa. Beberapa buku Rinpoche yang terakhir yang sudah diterbitkan antara lain: “Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism”, “Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom”, dan buku anak bergambar berjudul “Ziji: The Puppy that Learned to Meditate.”
Awal juni 2011, Mingyur Rinpoche menyelinap diam-diam dari biaranya di Bodhgaya, India dan mulai menjalani “retreat mengembara” di area pegunungan Himalaya dan dataran India selama 4,5 tahun.
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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche possesses a rare ability to present the ancient wisdom of Tibet in a fresh, engaging manner. His profound yet accessible teachings and playful sense of humor have endeared him to students around the world. Most uniquely, Rinpoche’s teachings weave together his own personal experiences with modern scientific research, relating both to the practice of meditation.
Born in 1975 in the Himalayan border regions between Tibet and Nepal, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a much-loved and accomplished meditation master. From a young age, Rinpoche was drawn to a life of contemplation. He spent many years of his childhood in strict retreat. At the age of seventeen, he was invited to be a teacher at his monastery’s three-year retreat center, a position rarely held by such a young lama. He also completed the traditional Buddhist training in philosophy and psychology, before founding a monastic college at his home monastery in north India.
In addition to extensive training in the meditative and philosophical traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Mingyur Rinpoche has also had a lifelong interest in Western science and psychology. At an early age, he began a series of informal discussions with the famed neuroscientist Francisco Varela, who came to Nepal to learn meditation from his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Many years later, in 2002, Mingyur Rinpoche and a handful of other long-term meditators were invited to the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Richard Davidson, Antoine Lutz, and other scientists examined the effects of meditation on the brains of advanced meditators. The results of this groundbreaking research were reported in many of the world’s most widely read publications, including National Geographic and Time.
Mingyur Rinpoche teaches throughout the world, with centers on five continents. His candid, often humorous accounts of his own personal difficulties have endeared him to thousands of students around the world. His best-selling book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. Rinpoche’s most recent books are Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, and an illustrated children’s book entitled Ziji: The Puppy that Learned to Meditate.
In early June, 2011, Mingyur Rinpoche walked out of his monastery in Bodhgaya, India and began a “wandering retreat” through the Himalayas and the plains of India that lasted four and a half years. When not attending to the monasteries under his care in India and Nepal, Rinpoche spends time each year traveling and teaching worldwide.
