ollaimh Wrote:
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> good question,it's a long time ago, i may be
> confusing the washington university translators,
> one of whom i knew well with another translation
> group. now that you mention it. i'll have to ask a
> friend who might know to be sure. the translator
> i knew was leon hurvitz who unfortunately died
> over ten years ago--maybe twenty years now. (i'm
> getting old) he worked with denchen rinpoche a
> lot. someone should know.
>
> dudjom rinpoche had a reputation for strictness in
> observance of rules for behavior, and thought
> little of most free wheeling western teachers
> students and tibetans who abbetted them. however
> you may know more about him than i do , except
> chat from leon hurvitz which is fifteen to twenty
> years old. leon knew all the tibetan translators.
>
>
> as far as corruption in tibetan buddhism. i don't
> think policing it or reform is likely.\
I don't know about "free-wheeling Western teachers" nor about Tibetans who abet them. I wonder if Dudjom Rinpoche was naive about his own colleagues; people like Trungpa--Tibetan teachers who thought nothing of making a mockery of Buddhism for their own aggrandizement and cheap thrills. Some of the teachers under Dudjom Rinpoche's authority at some of his centers were outrageous.
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> good question,it's a long time ago, i may be
> confusing the washington university translators,
> one of whom i knew well with another translation
> group. now that you mention it. i'll have to ask a
> friend who might know to be sure. the translator
> i knew was leon hurvitz who unfortunately died
> over ten years ago--maybe twenty years now. (i'm
> getting old) he worked with denchen rinpoche a
> lot. someone should know.
>
> dudjom rinpoche had a reputation for strictness in
> observance of rules for behavior, and thought
> little of most free wheeling western teachers
> students and tibetans who abbetted them. however
> you may know more about him than i do , except
> chat from leon hurvitz which is fifteen to twenty
> years old. leon knew all the tibetan translators.
>
>
> as far as corruption in tibetan buddhism. i don't
> think policing it or reform is likely.\
I don't know about "free-wheeling Western teachers" nor about Tibetans who abet them. I wonder if Dudjom Rinpoche was naive about his own colleagues; people like Trungpa--Tibetan teachers who thought nothing of making a mockery of Buddhism for their own aggrandizement and cheap thrills. Some of the teachers under Dudjom Rinpoche's authority at some of his centers were outrageous.