I met Shamarpa twice in Karma Kagyud center in Malaysia. the last time i the great opportunity to meet Shamarpa was in 2012 when the HH paid his visit in our center in Kuala Lumpur.
In Kuala Lumpur, we started the Amitabha prayers since June 11th and will continue for 49 days.
I am indeed very sad with his passing, my heartfelt condolences to the lost of a Great teacher/Guru/Mentor.
:(( “Bye Bye” with Amitabha’s smile :))
was the lastest word you’ve pronounced in Karmapa’s Institute one month ago after Mahakala’s prayers.
<3 May you always guide us on the right way of love & wisdom <3
In August 2009 HH Shamar Rimpoche visited the EC in Immenstadt, Germany, and gave a historic teaching on the Great Seal Wishes of the Third Karmapa. We experienced rich, highly intellectual and one-pointed teachings. HH himself expressed this state of simpleness, one-pointedness and of course non-meditation. Happy those who discovered that this was not about the teaching but about the teacher showing the result himself. Thank You very much.
Startling news that H.H. Gyalwa Shamarpa Rinpoche has entered parinirvana at his Dharma Centre in Germany came as a great shock, filling us with sadness. Rinpoche’s very sudden and entirely unexpected passing is a tremendous loss to Buddhism, specifically to the Kagyu Lineage, and to a great many Dharma practitioners everywhere. It is as though the blackness of night has suddenly swallowed up our world.
Our sangha pray that Gyalwa Shamarpa’s enlightened activities and vast aspirations for the benefit of all beings continue to unfold, without interruption, and quickly reach fruition.
We wish to express our deepest condolences to Jigme Rinpoche, to Gyalwa Sharmapa Rinpoche’s other family members and to his extensive sangha.
May the sun of his next incarnation dawn as soon as possible!
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, Phakchok Rinpoche and Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche
June 11 2014
Dear Jigme Rinpoche, Chimey-la and all other family members of Shamar Rinpoche,
I am very shocked to hear about the sudden passing of Shamar Rinpoche. I am so sorry to hear this news.
Shamar Rinpoche and all my family are very close. He was especially close to my father Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Also my grandfather Lama Tashi Dorje feels very close to Shamar Rinpoche and I do as well.
From myself, Pundarika Foundation International and from the Tsoknyi lineage nuns, we send our deepest condolences.
We will all pray for his return.
My deep and respectful wishes,
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Shamar Rinpoche visited Stockholm and Karme Tenpe Gyaltsen for the first time in October 2012 and I was the lucky one to be the photographer. Rinpoche gave us Amitabha iniation and bodhisattva vows… our center was packed and it was a beautiful time. The picture you see is a relaxed moment after the initiation when Lama Chöphel of Yangpachen Europe (Hungary), Shamar Rinpoche and our Lama Tsultim Rinpoche had a good laugh. It is not the best of my pictures – pls see www.ktg.nu for that – but it is a dear picture – so capturing the spirit of the day. Bless you Rinpoche!
I was in Renchen-Ulm for a course with Shamar Rinpoche, the second last.
After I waked up and walk on the terasse, I suddenly look up to the window in second floor.
Rinpoche was standing there an simply smile.
I feel he is the great incarnation of Buddha Amitabha.
The smile was like the description in the meditaion text: he shines like a sun as if there are thousands of suns.
I am a simple person with family. May I have time to improve and continue my practices for the help of other people. In memorie to the great lama shamar rinpoche
In the early 1990es, we were blessed by Shamar Rinpoche’s unannounced, informal visit to Karma Guen. After seeing the future stupa sight and the surroundings of the Center, he did prayers in our tiny meditation hall and gave us a teaching on the Dharma.
Thanks to all of you speaking out her death sentence has been reversed and she and her newborn daughter are said to be reunited with her family in the coming days.
This will not truly be a victory until she has actually been released. We must continue to fight for her and all the women in the world who find themselves under oppression and their human rights being violated.
This wonderful news for Mrs Ibrahim shows when we speak out the world listens.
Shamar Rinpoche
I would like to show my support for Mrs Miriam Yehya Ibrahim of Sudan.
Her wrongful imprisonment and sentence to public whipping and death goes against international standards of Human rights. This is not an internal issue of one country but one that affects all of humanity.
I ask that everyone including world leaders and Nobel peace prize winners to join me in insisting on her right to have control over her own body and demanding her immediate release from prison in order to reunite her with her family.
Shamarpa Rinpoche