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Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol) Tibet (1781 - 1851) Timeline Buddhist : Tibetan Poems by Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol) Books - Links |
He entered monastic studies at the age of eight. As a youth, he resisted pressure from his family to marry and devoted himself fully to spiritual practice, taking full ordination at age 21. While still a young man, he became respected for his scholarship. When Shabkar was 25, he took up the life of a wandering pilgrim and hermit, traveling for the next thirty years to sacred sites and pilgrimage destinations. His life as a wandering ascetic and his songs of spiritual insight became widely known, earning him comparisons with the great wandering Buddhist yogi-poet Milarepa.
Shabkar was a renowned teacher and lineage holder of the Dzogchen tradition.
He was also a nature mystic, conversing with sky and mountain and tree, seeing in them embodiments of teachers and fundamental truths. Like St. Francis of Assisi, he is particularly famous for his love of animals. One of his most widely read works is a treatise on vegetarianism.
Poems by Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol)
- A Song by a Yogi in Solitude
- All sounds are the resonance of voidness
- In the retreat hut that is my own body
- My native land is all lands
- One must remain in the vastness
- See how, shaped by the excellence of the path
- Sky empty and luminous
- The mind has neither color nor form
Recommended Books: Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol)
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| This Dance of Bliss: Ecstatic Poetry from Around the World | Songs of Spiritual Experience: Tibetan Buddhist Poems of Insight & Awakening | Rainbows Appear: Tibetan Poems of Shabkar | The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin | Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat |
Related Links
Shabkar, Tibetan Buddhist Hermit
http://www.hermitary.com/articles/shabkar.html
An excellent article outlining Shabkar's life and teachings as a hermit saint.
Shabkar.Org - On Vegetarianism as Buddhist Way of Life
http://www.shabkar.org
A website dedicate to vegetarianism within the Buddhist tradition, taking its inspiration from the vegetarian teachings of Shabkar.
