{"id":46,"date":"2009-04-06T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2024-10-28T20:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:31:20","slug":"rinpoche-golf-dharma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/?page_id=46","title":{"rendered":"Rinpoche, Golf &#038; Dharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-478\" title=\"Lama Kunga Rinpoche in Golf magazine-Nov 2002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Golf_mag-image.jpg\" alt=\"Lama Kunga Rinpoche in Golf magazine-Nov 2002\" width=\"366\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Golf_mag-image.jpg 523w, https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Golf_mag-image-153x300.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lama Kunga Rinpoche continues to enjoy the game of golf, which, he says, involves both exercise and concentration. And perhaps it&#8217;s a subtle way of teaching Dharma to his golf buddies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Magazine Article<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Rinpoche&#8217;s golf activity was discovered by a local sports writer,\u00a0 his story was profiled in the November 2002 issue of Golf Digest. You may read it here.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/LKR_Golf_11-2002.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK for magazine article 11-2002<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Short Movie<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The magazine article motivated a local filmmaker to create a\u00a0 short film on the uniqueness of a Tibetan Buddhist Lama engaged in golf.<\/p>\n<p>The film won the award for Best Short Documentary\u00a0 at the 2003 Espy sports awards.<\/p>\n<p>The prize-winning film may be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lama Kunga Rinpoche enjoys the game of golf\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rs103H6nuDI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lama Kunga Rinpoche continues to enjoy the game of golf, which, he says, involves both exercise and concentration. And perhaps it&#8217;s a subtle way of teaching Dharma to his golf buddies. Magazine Article When Rinpoche&#8217;s golf activity was discovered by a local sports writer,\u00a0 his story was profiled in the November 2002 issue of Golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19204,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/19204"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewamchoden.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}