Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery And Tibetan Centre
Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre is a Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Karma Kagyu school located at Eskdalemuir, Scotland. History Before the present Temple complex was built, Samye Ling centred on just one building, a former Hunting lodge (U.K.), hunting lodge called Johnstone House. In 1965 the Johnstone House Trust was formed with the objectives :to make available to the public facilities for study and meditation based on Buddhist and other religious teaching leading to mental and spiritual well-being: and to provide guidance for those in need of such help: and in particular the utilisation of the property known as Johnstone House, Eskdalemuir, for such purposes. Initially the community there was led there by a Canadian Therevada Buddhism, Theravada monk named Namgyal Rinpoche, Anandabodhi. When the community declined, Anandabodhi returned to Canada; he was subsequently ordained in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition and enthroned as Na ...
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Eskdalemuir
Eskdalemuir is a civil parish and small village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, with a population of 265.General Register Office for Scotland : ''Census 2001 : Usual Resident Population : Eskdalemuir Civil Parish''
Retrieved 2009-11-21 It is around north-west of Langholm and north-east of