Aerial view of Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, dated July 2015. From rfa.org Recent media reports indicate that more than a thousand male and female Tibetan monastic have been expelled from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, reputed to be the largest...

The Shugsep nuns hold a special puja for help to repair the leaking water system. Image courtesy of the TNP The Tibetan Nuns Project (TNP), a US-registered charity based in Seattle and in the Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh,...

Kirti Rinpoche during a long-life ceremony at Kirti Jepa Dratsang in Dharamsala, 2016. Image courtesy of Kirti Getsa Tsokpa In his foreword to the book Three Lives in One Lifetime: An Interview with Kirti Rinpoche Lobsang Tenzin Jigme Yeshe...

Thupten Jinpa. From youtube.com The Tergar Meditation Community, founded by the revered meditation teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, has announced that it will host a free webinar on 15...

There is no Buddha in the mountains At a quiet late-night hour in the summer of 1236 CE, the Year of the Monkey, when the palace guards were few and drowsy, Trần Thái Tông, the king of Đại Việt,...

Celebrating the legacy of Guru Padmasambhava. From sambadenglish.com More than 1,200 Buddhist monks from 17 countries gathered in the eastern Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) to participate in the first-ever Guru Padmasambhava chanting program, which took place from...

https://youtu.be/tvkWImB_xgs In 1913, a young Pakistani farmer, Mohammad, stumbled on a remarkable discovery while digging up soil to build a new house. As he unearthed a stone face with distinctly Greek features, he had no idea that he had...

Great prayer festival at the Kirtighar Samyeling. Image courtesy of the author A Great Prayer Festival (Tib: སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ།, monlam chenmo) dedicated to the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was held at Kirtighar Samyeling, a branch of...

Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi, Ugyen Tenzin Jigme Lhundrup. From shechen.org Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling in Boudha, Kathmandu, established by the esteemed scholar, teacher, and terton of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991), has published a public...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, southern India, on 5 January. From dalailama.org In a public message posted on his official website, His Holiness the Dalai Lama expressed sadness over the deadly earthquake that struck a high-altitude...

Images courtesy of the author “Tear my skin, drink my blood, eat my flesh, chew my marrow, lick my brain, end up my dot.” I was sitting next to Baba-ji, listening to him in a cloud of sacred smoke...

Image courtesy of Tergar International The Tergar Meditation Community, founded by the revered meditation teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, has announced that it will host a free webinar on...

Larung Gar Buddhist Academy. From tibet.net Recent media reports indicate that China is strengthening its military presence at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, reputed to be the largest center of Tibetan Buddhist study on the world. Security measures at the...

Images from khyentsefoundation.org Khyentse Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by the revered Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and author Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, has announced that it has begun accepting applications for KF Scholarship funding for Buddhist studies scholars. The application...

From aljazeera.com The atmosphere in Syria has undergone a striking transformation in recent weeks. The unexpected flight of former president Bashar al-Assad and the swift end to more than half a century of the al-Assad family’s rule has stirred...

Participants of the 21st Biennial Conference of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB). Image courtesy of INEB The 21st Biennial Conference of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), jointly organized with and hosted by the socially engaged...

Tharlam Dolma Changra, education minister of the Central Tibetan Administration. From tibet.net Tibetan communities worldwide celebrated the 35th anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Nobel Peace Prize with events and festivities beginning on 8 December. Celebrations took place...

In May 2024, I delivered a presentation to the Swedish Bhutan Society and assembled friends in dance, anthropology, museum exhibition, ethnographic research, remote exploration, and the fine arts. The talk, “Mystical Dances in the Kingdom of Bhutan,” was in...

His Eminence Chöje Ayang Tulku Rinpoche (1942–2024). From ayangrinpoche.org The widely revered senior Tibetan lama, His Eminence Chöje Ayang Tulku Rinpoche, a Drikung Kagyu lama of the Nyingma and Drikung lineages and renowned phowa master, died in Mysore, Karnataka,...

https://youtu.be/UEHS7b8ioAA Ian Baker’s incredible life story reads like an Indiana Jones movie. Consider this script for a film: in his formative years, practically still a teenager, he meets his Buddhist master, his “Merlin,” in Tibet, and enters into a...

Prof. Suniti Kumar Pathak. From bilkulonline.vom The renowned Buddhist scholar and professor of Indology Suniti Kumar Pathak died at his residence at Avanpalli in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India, on 5 December. He was 101 years old. Prof. Pathak was...

It is said that in ancient India, under royal patronage, there were debates between people about the theory of different creeds. The debates were held at such high stakes that you would not want to be the loser. Those...

The essence of Buddhist practice is not so much an effort at changing your thoughts or your behavior so that you can become a better person, but in realizing that no matter what you might think about the circumstances...

From vaticannews.va Buddhist and Catholic leaders gathered at Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimonmangklararm Ratchaworamahawihan, one of Bangkok’s most renowned Buddhist monasteries, to honor the life and legacy of the late Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, prefect of the Dicastery for...

Pal Thubten Shedrub Ling. From shedrub.org The esteemed Tibetan Buddhist teacher and Dzogchen adept Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche marked the festival celebrating the Buddha’s return to the human realm after entering Tushita by leading the formal inauguration of Pal Thubten...

About a half-hour drive outside of Bhutan’s warm and sun-drenched winter capital Punakha lies Dorangthang Nunnery, near the village of Lobesa. The land belonged to the renowned Lama Sonam Zangpo (1888–1982), a direct disciple of the Tibetan master Togden...

From tnp.org The Tibetan Nuns Project (TNP), a US-registered charity based in Seattle and in the Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, India, is seeking to provide the Buddhist nuns of Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in...

In this series, Johan Nilsson takes a look at the international nexus of Shin Buddhist leaders around the world. In his first entry, he spoke to Clement Tan of Singapore about establishing a Shin Buddhist center in the city...

Bhikkhuni Dhammadinna presents a rigorous, historical-critical case for transcending sectarian boundaries within and across Buddhist traditions while treasuring our inheritance from the ancient past. The first in a series of conversations. AI-generated image of a sangiti in the early...

From deseret.com US-born Buddhist lama Jalue Dorje, who has been recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of an esteemed spiritual leader, recently celebrated his 18th birthday with a dual-purpose event at the Tibetan American Foundation...