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Lama Yeshe Jinpa〔Robertson, Blair Anthony, ‘Dual life disrupted when therapist dons monk's robes...’, Sacramento Bee, May 1, 2007, http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=9,4052,0,0,1,0〕 is an American Lama and contemporary Buddhist teacher who teaches regularly throughout Northern California. He is often invited to teach throughout the United States〔f. Light, Melanie Noel, ‘Buddhism & Psychotherapy: Conversing Candidly with Lama Jinpa (Stephen B. Walker)’, Karma Corner, February 12, 2008, http://sacramento.downtowngrid.com/blogs/view/post/365〕 and occasionally travels to India. He co-founded Lion’s Roar Dharma Center in Sacramento, CA, which is an urban meditation center. Lama Yeshe Jinpa, also known as Stephen Bryant Walker, is also a licensed psychotherapist at Middle Way Health, a complementary health clinic he founded in 2000. There he facilitates a series of workshops he created called Middle Way Training,〔e. Friedrich, Keleigh, ‘Do I know you?: Religious leaders discuss losing loved ones to dementia and Alzheimer’s’ Sacramento News & Review, April 4, 2008, http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/do-i-know-you/content?oid=645573〕 based on a book called ''Something So Obvious'' 〔e. Friedrich, Keleigh, ‘Do I know you?: Religious leaders discuss losing loved ones to dementia and Alzheimer’s’ Sacramento News & Review, April 4, 2008, http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/do-i-know-you/content?oid=645573〕 that he is co-authoring with Melanie Noel Light. ==Background/Dharma history== Born Stephen Bryant Walker in 1953 in Bronxville, New York, - a suburb of New York City just north of the Bronx - Lama Yeshe Jinpa then spent most of his younger years in Scarsdale, New York. When he was 11 his father committed suicide, sparking an introspection and search for answers. His grandmother’s library, which consisted of books on Buddhism, provided a starting point for his spiritual quest.〔e Friedrich, Keleigh, ‘Do I know you?: Religious leaders discuss losing loved ones to dementia and Alzheimer’s’ Sacramento News & Review, April 4, 2008, http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/do-i-know-you/content?oid=645573〕 He was also becoming accustomed to Asian cultures since the family was involved in trading with the Far East and oriental objects were commonplace around the house. A Sacramento Bee article dated May 1, 2007 describing his upbringing, the trauma and subsequent interest in Buddhism sparked a lot of interest from the community regarding what he went through.〔Robertson, Blair Anthony, ‘Dual life disrupted when therapist dons monk's robes...’, Sacramento Bee, May 1, 2007, http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=9,4052,0,0,1,0〕 When Lama Yeshe Jinpa was 12 his mother re-married and moved the family out to Colorado, which eventually proved influential in his existential and spiritual search. At age 15, a family vacation to Japan gave him a taste of Buddhist temples and meditation styles, and in high school, he had an influential teacher who assigned Buddhist readings.〔Friedrich, Keleigh, ‘Do I know you?: Religious leaders discuss losing loved ones to dementia and Alzheimer’s’ Sacramento News & Review, April 4, 2008, http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/do-i-know-you/content?oid=645573〕 During his freshman year (1971) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Lama Yeshe Jinpa met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He then attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where he was influenced by professor and Zen Buddhist Steven Rockefeller. From 1975 to 1980, Lama Yeshe Jinpa joined the Buddhist Studies program at Naropa University in Boulder.〔Robertson, Blair Anthony, ‘Dual life disrupted when therapist dons monk's robes...’, Sacramento Bee, May 1, 2007, http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=9,4052,0,0,1,0〕 In 1977, as part of his studies at Naropa University, Lama Yeshe Jinpa did Zen training with Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi before helping him establish a Boulder Zen Center in 1978. While Lama Yeshe Jinpa didn't finish the program, he did become an educated yogi with help from teachers like Reginald Ray, PhD and Judith Simmer-Brown, PhD. Lama Yeshe Jinpa met and married his first wife in Boulder with whom he had two children. They moved to Los Angeles, Fresno, and then Nevada City, California, where he met Geshe Losang Gyatso - nicknamed Geshe Yadron - from Sera-je Monastery. Geshe Losang Gyatso was to become his ‘heart’ or main teacher, and Lama Yeshe Jinpa received Dharma transmission from him in 1995. Together they founded Lion's Roar Dharma Center in Sacramento, California and Lama Yeshe Jinpa studied with him until Geshe Losang Gyatso’s death in 1998 in Carmel, California. In 1992 Lama Yeshe Jinpa graduated from the Professional School of Psychology in Sacramento. In 2000 he became a licensed psychotherapist and set up his psychotherapy practice in Sacramento.〔Robertson, Blair Anthony, ‘Dual life disrupted when therapist dons monk's robes...’, Sacramento Bee, May 1, 2007, http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=9,4052,0,0,1,0〕 In May 2005 he became an ordained Buddhist monk at the Sera-je Monastery in India and was given the name Yeshe (primordial awareness) Jinpa (generosity),〔Ted Cox, ‘Simple enough: The Venerable Choden Rinpoche visits Sacramento to invoke the Healing Buddha’, Sacramento News & Reviews, June 11, 2009, http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/simple-enough/content?oid=1008962〕 before returning to the states to teach Dharma and continue his therapy practice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yeshe Jinpa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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