Lama Gyurme 是一个出生在不丹的僧人。 1952年,在Lama Gyurme 四岁的时候,他被送进了寺院接受僧人教育。Lama Gyurme 剃度后开始云游四海,到处求学,他所经之地有西晋、印度等等。也正是从游学的时候开始,Lama Gyurme 对宗教音乐产生了浓厚的兴趣。1974年,Lama Gyurme 移居到法国居住并主持了巴黎The Kagyupa佛院。1982年,Lama Gyurme 在移居法国35年后,他又接过了主持诺曼底佛院的重任。在宗教音乐史上,Lama Gyurme 做出的贡献是不可估量的。
Lama Gyurme (born in 1948), or Lama Gyourmé, is a Buddhist Bhutanese monk and musician.
He has lived in France since 1974, and he is the director of the Kagyu-Dzong center in Paris and, since 1982, the Vajradhara-Ling center in Normandy.
Born in Bhutan in 1948, he was entrusted by his family at the age of four to the monastery of Djang Tchub Tcheu Ling in Bhutan where his interest in sacred music appeared quickly. At the age of nine, he became a permanent resident of the monastery where he received Buddhist teachings, completed by an initiation to traditional arts, including music.
At the age of 20, he followed his first spiritual retreat of three years, three months and three days, necessary to the formation of Lama, at the monastery of Sonada in India of which the director is Kalu Rinpoche. During this retreat, he was given the title of "Oumze" — master of music — by Kalu Rinpoche. After a stay at the monastery of Rumtek in Sikkim, he fulfilled his religious education in Bhutan before obtaining his diploma of teacher of the Kagyupa tradition that was given to him by the 16th Karmapa.
In 1995 and in 1998, Gyurme went on a pilgrimage to Tibet and visited the 17th Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje in the monastery of Tsurphu. He presented him his project of construction of the Temple for Peace.
Gyurme also participated in the music of the 1999 film Himalaya'.