Encountering the 16th Karmapa and living Buddhism in the West today [UPDATED...
Shang Shung Publications, an Italian publisher founded around the teachings of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and of other greats from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, has a new book out called The Miraculous...
View ArticleDzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche speaks on Universal Responsibility at Harvard...
Earlier this month, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche gave a one-day seminar on the topic of Universal Responsibility to students at Harvard Divinity School. From the video page: In this one night seminar given...
View ArticleDalai Lama Awakening, a Q&A with Director Khashyar Darvich
Last night I attended a cozy screening of “Dalai Lama Awakening”, an extended director’s cut of the earlier film “Dalai Lama Renaissance.” The film follows forty scholars and intellectuals who were...
View ArticleThe Shugden Cult, Dalai Lama Protests, Race, and Genocide
Last month, when the Dalai Lama was in Oslo on the 25th anniversary of his Nobel Peace Prize, he and supporters were confronted with crowds of protesters calling him, among other things, a False Dalai...
View ArticleHappy Saga Dawa Duchen – Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest day
Saga Dawa is the fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar, this year falling between May 29 and June 27. It is the holiest time of the year for Tibetan Buddhists. The middle of the month, the full...
View ArticleContentious Tibetan Buddhist deity worship discussed in London panel
In what may have been a first-of-its-kind event, representatives of the International Shugden Community joined academics, a Geluk Buddhist monk, and a former member of the New Kadampa Tradition to...
View ArticleDouble Dalai Lama or none: Buddhist leader contemplates ending reincarnations
This week the Dalai Lama is grabbing international headlines and as usual, Stephen Colbert’s commentary is a great one to start with: on point, historically accurate, and highly entertaining. Colbert...
View ArticleDzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche talks about Homosexuality and Buddhism
In this short video the Buddhist teacher and filmmaker, well known for his wit and sense of humor, speaks about the place of Homosexuality in Buddhism. Here is a partial transcript: Just um, this...
View ArticleThe Karmapa is coming to America
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, head of the 900 year-old Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, will begin his 3rd US tour beginning in less than two weeks. His first stop will be at Stanford...
View ArticleUK Tibetan Community issues a statement on Shugden
Partially in response to increasingly vocal protests by Shudgen practitioners, the Tibetan Community UK has issued a statement on what they call the “Cult of Dolgyal Shugden.” You can read more about...
View ArticleDalai Lama in hot water over “sexist” comments – again
In May the Dalai Lama told the UK’s Sunday Times that he might come back as a “mischievous blonde woman” adding that “then her face must be very attractive” or “nobody pay much attention.” That didn’t...
View ArticleDalai Lama leaves Mayo Clinic in good health and good spirits [Video] (UPDATED)
The Rochester Minnesota based Post Bulletin reported today that the Dalai Lama has been released from his stay at the Mayo Clinic, where he had been admitted last week after a routine check-up. He was...
View ArticleShantideva: Buddhism and the delight of solitude
I’ve just completed teaching the Bodhicaryāvatāra (Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life) for the third time in my academic life, which probably makes this the 6th or 7th time I’ve been through the...
View Article5 things we learned (and didn’t) from the Reuters investigation into the...
For students of Tibetan Buddhism the Dorje Shugden issue is a treasure trove: involving a mysterious protector deity, capable of bestowing great wealth and threatening violence to foes, exposing a...
View ArticleReddit’s Buddhism page bans support of the New Kadampa Tradition
The popular Buddhism section of Reddit, known as the front page of the internet, last week banned all content relating to the New Kadampa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This, the editors say, is in...
View ArticleIn power grab from the Dalai Lama, China announces list of “verified living...
In what can only be described as an odd, if not cynical, move by the self-avowed atheist government of China, a new list of “verified living Buddhas” or tulkus, reincarnated Buddhist masters, has been...
View ArticleThe Dalai Lama’s message on Living a Meaningful Life – Tibetan New Year
Speaking from the hospital in Rochester, Minnesota where he is undergoing precautionary prostate treatement, His Holiness the Dalai Lama offered a brief message on the occasion of the upcoming Tibetan...
View ArticleLetting identity arise unimpeded: Buddhism confronting racism
A guest post by Lama Justin von Bujdoss (Repa Dorje Odzer) On April 22nd the 2nd Race and Buddhism Conference will be held at Harvard Divinity School. This is a unique gathering of academics, dharma...
View ArticleTibetan Buddhist nuns make history with Geshema Degrees (Doctorates in...
From the Tibetan Nuns Project: Seattle, WA: Twenty Tibetan Buddhist nuns have just made history, becoming the first Tibetan women to successfully pass all the exams for the Geshema degree, equivalent...
View ArticleTibetan Nun commits suicide as China destroys vast Buddhist religious city
This is Larung Gar a year ago. It is a vast monastic complex in eastern Tibet (in China’s Sichuan Province) housing as many as 40,000 Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns (10,000 being a more likely...
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