Stories

"My visit to Nepal" by Atul

Updated on 30 November 2011
I would like to share with everyone my visit to Sambodhi Dharma Sangha on 1st August :). This has been a truly memorable experience of my life. I had been following Buddha Boy stories in the news for a long time, but always was only excited and never imagined that I was going to have Bhagwan's Loving and Compassionate hand on my head so early in my life...
 

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"My first journey to Sambodhi Dharma Sangha" by Kim

24 November 2011 / Updated on 24 November 2011
"My first journey to Sambodhi Dharma Sangha" by Kim One evening after dinner in October 2005, I was lying on the couch watching CNN news. On the screen came a story about a 15-year-old boy from Nepal who had been meditating under a tree for 6 months without any food and water. People were calling him Buddha Boy...
 

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Sakura’s Journey

12 November 2011 / Updated on 23 November 2011
A note from LTJ/Jyampa Dolma:
Sakura lives in Teshikaga, a very rural area in Hokkaido, Northern Japan.
These are her messages recording not only her first trip to Nepal to see Dharma Sangha, but her first trip abroad ever. Sakura and I have been close friends for almost 15 years. We “spiritually” grew up together, coincidentally reading the same books in our respective languages...
 

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My ordination

26 February 2011 / Updated on 23 November 2011
My ordination This is just my story on how I decided to become a monk under The Most Venerable Dharma Sangha. It wasn't my intention to do so in the beginning. I didn't have any great meditations or see him in dreams. But like most of the people I met, I felt like there was a connections and I had to see for myself if there was any validity to all these crazy feelings I was having...
 

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Promise to grow a forest

2 November 2010 / Updated on 4 December 2011
When I was in school, on one geography lesson the teacher gave us the task to prepare a report on any country. We had to choose country by ourself. Most of my classmates made reports on well-known countries (England, Germany, USA etc.). There are about two hundred countries in the world, and for some unknown reason I chose Nepal. That time I knew nothing about this country: not even where it is located, or the name of its capital or that this is the birthplace of Siddhārtha Gautama...
 

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