Gwangju museum offers glimpse into Asian Buddhism (Ministry of Culture,...
(Source: Ministry of Culture, Sports And Tourism of the Republic of Korea) In the sixth century B.C., a new religion emerged in India amidst a caste-conscious polity with a strict hierarchical social...
View ArticleCollector-Focused Auctions A Magnet For Buyers At Bonhams (Bonhams 1793 Ltd)
(Source: Bonhams 1793 Ltd) Bonhams raises $60,000 for Nepalese charities the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust and Save the Children NEW YORK - Bonhams saw an international community of collectors...
View ArticleA slice of Tibet in Bylakuppe
Peaceful coexistence B V Prakash writes about the Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe, which houses beautifully-designed shrines, and traces its growth as a learning centre and tourist destination Amidst...
View ArticleTibet's Secret Temple opens at Wellcome Collection (Wellcome Trust)
(Source: Wellcome Trust) 19 November 2015 Originally accessible only by boat, the Lukhang, or 'Temple to the Serpent Spirits', was built in the late 17th century, during the reigns of the fifth and...
View ArticleShow provides rare glimpse of Tibetan culture
Legend has it that about centuries ago, Namkhagyan, a master of Tibetan thangka art, suddenly learned how to paint with a pen given by a Buddha in a dream. Later the boy, who used to look after cows on...
View ArticleA Trip to the Mountains
Mara Attacking the Buddha, a copy of a fresco in Tsaparang, Tibet. A six-foot tall sculpture of the Maitreya Buddha catches the eye as soon as one enters the Himalayan Art Gallery inside Mumbai’s...
View ArticleTibet closed to foreigners again but tourism booms
(CNN)China has closed Tibet to overseas travelers from Thursday until the end of March, three travel agents told CNN, but with or without foreigners, tourism to the isolated mountain region is booming....
View ArticleMega theme park to celebrate the heritage of Buddhism
Once upon a time, there lived King Vessantara, who ruled Sivirattha (land of Sivis). A virtuous man, he wanted to attain perfection and so donated all the precious things he had. On learning this, a...
View ArticleSecond Day of Teachings at Vidyaloke (The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) New Delhi, India, 4 February 2017 - When His Holiness the Dalai Lama returned to their family house this morning, Mr and Mrs Analjit Singh, with...
View ArticleAsian Art 15 December 2015 (Artcurial SA)
(Source: Artcurial SA) Artcurial | Press Release: Asian Art | 15.12.2015 PRESS RELEASE 01.12.2015 ASIAN ART - SALE 15 DECEMBER 2015 - Lot 70: Rare small statue of Avalokitesvara and Qilin made from...
View ArticleMeeting with Baltic States Parliamentarians & Continuation of Teachings
Riga, Latvia - Riga's streets were quiet and clear as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove again to the Skonto Hall this morning. After greeting well-wishers and others waiting to catch a glimpse of him...
View ArticleHis Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Visit to Australia Comes to an End (The Office...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) June 15th 2015 Singapore, Singapore, 15 June 2015 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama began the last day of his current visit to Australia in Perth by...
View ArticleInauguration of the New Tashi Lhunpo Assembly Hall and Introduction to...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Tashi Lhunpo, Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, 19 December 2015 - A grand inauguration ceremony was held this morning in full public view on the veranda...
View ArticleEight Verses for Training the Mind and Educating the Heart and Mind (The...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Boulder, CO, USA, 23 June 2016 - After rain yesterday afternoon, the air was fresh and the sunshine bright as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove to...
View ArticleMummified teacher inspires students at Shimla monastery
Away from the hustle bustle of Shimla, a mummified Buddhist teacher continues to inspire scores of Tibetan students at the quaint Thubthen Dorje Drak Monastery, 3 km from the town. Monks at the...
View ArticleGlimpses of Early Buddhist Literature: A humble tribute to His Holiness the...
Writes: NN Ojha Emergence of Gautam Buddha on the spiritual scene more than two and a half millennia ago was a turning point for mankind in more than one ways. He freed religion, (to borrow Tagore’s...
View ArticleCompleting ‘Precious Garland’ Teaching and a Public Talk (The Office of His...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) June 12th 2015 Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia, 12 June 2015 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama reached the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre...
View ArticleLong Life Offering to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Buddhist Holy Day (The...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) November 4th 2015 Theckchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India, 3 November 2015 - The Theckchen Chöling yard and Tsuglagkhang were brightly bedecked with...
View ArticleHis Holiness the Dalai Lama Gives Buddhist Teachings to 50,000 in Tawang
Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India, 8 April 2017 - Despite forecasts of thunderstorms in the vicinity, this morning the sun shone on the distant hills and there were large patches of blue in the skies...
View ArticleInauguration of Seminar on ‘Buddhism in Ladakh’
Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India - For the final engagement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's stay in Ladakh this year, he returned to the Arya Nagarjuna Auditorium of the Central Institute of Buddhist...
View ArticleTeaching ‘The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment’, a Longevity Empowerment...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Thiksey, Ladakh, J&K, India, 11 August 2016 - This morning, the sky was cloudy as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove to the teaching ground at...
View ArticleJangchub Lam Rim - the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment - Teachings - Day ...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Tashi Lhunpo, Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, 28 December 2015 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama came early to the Tashi Lhunpo Assembly Hall this morning...
View ArticleTeaching the 'Commentary on the Awakening Mind' and 'Lamp for the Path to...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Thiksey, Ladakh, J&K, India, 10 August 2016 - This morning, on his way to the teaching venue below Thiksey Monastery His Holiness the Dalai Lama...
View ArticleHamblin & Peterson: Encountering a landmark of Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii
A popular landmark on the Hawaiian island of Oahu is the Byodo-In Temple, located at the foot of the dramatic Ko‘olau mountains near the northeastern town of Kane‘ohe. It stands just off of a main road...
View ArticleVisit to Matho Monastery
Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India - The sun was blazing hot when it broke through scattered clouds this morning as His Holiness the Dalai Lama turned off the main road at Choglamsar and crossed the local...
View ArticleTake me to the cosmic vagina: inside Tibet's secret tantric temple
Lukhang temple is the Buddhist Sistine Chapel, full of stunning murals of body-hopping yogis and the vagina that gave birth to the world. It’s meant for the Dalai Lama’s eyes only – so how did a US...
View ArticleThe Six Paramitas (Perfections)
The Paramitas (perfections) are a guide for the Mahayana Buddhist. They are virtues to be cultivated to strengthen our practice and bring us to enlightenment. The paramitas describe the True Nature of...
View ArticleStart of Teachings Preliminary to the Kalachakra Empowerment (The Office of...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Bodhgaya, Bihar, India, 5 January 2017 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama participated in the preparatory rites for the Kalachakra empowerment again this...
View ArticleSecond Day of the ‘Commentary on Dignaga's 'Compendium of Valid Cognition'’...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Riga, Latvia, 11 October 2016 - The golden early light catching the treetops and steeples of Riga's churches belied the chill in the air this morning...
View ArticleThe 600th Anniversary of the Founding of Drepung Monastery (The Office of His...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Mundgod, Karnataka, India, 21 December 2016 - This day of celebration began early with the rumbling of long horns before His Holiness the Dalai Lama...
View ArticleManjushri Permission and Meetings in Osaka (The Office of His Holiness the...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Osaka, Japan, 13 May 2016 - As it was the final day of the series of teachings he has been giving in Osaka, His Holiness the Dalai Lama today met...
View ArticleLow life
Last week in Ladakh I went panting from one Buddhist monastery to another. Culturally, racially and historically, Ladakh is Tibetan, and the type of Buddhism practised there is Tibetan Buddhism. With a...
View ArticleCelebrating the ‘Day of Miracles’
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India, 12 March 2017 - The sky was a pristine blue as the peaks of the Dhauladhar range glinted in the rising sun this morning as people gathered in the yard of the...
View ArticleAsean One Community
As the ASEAN Tourism Forum rolls out in the Philippines this month, Express TravelWorld explores the myriad tourism offerings of the ten ASEAN nations who have pledged to work together as one...
View Article125 Years of Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago Address: Read Full Text of The...
New Delhi, September 11: Leaders across the political circle paid homage to Swami Vivekananda in the 125th year of his historic address at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago. His Chicago address is...
View ArticleTsongkhapa’s ‘Three Principal Aspects of the Path’
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - The announcement that His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings today were open to the public was made at relatively short notice. Nevertheless, more than 4000...
View ArticleThe Second Day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teaching the ‘Tree of Faith -...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India, 2 June 2016 - This morning His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived at the Tsuglagkhang, greeted those seated...
View ArticleTeaching ‘Stages of Meditation’ and ‘37 Practices of a Bodhisattva’
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India, 13 March 2017 - The Tsuglagkhang, the Main Tibetan Temple, and its surrounding verandas, as well as the courtyard below, were filled with people this morning...
View ArticleHis Holiness the Dalai Lama Teaches the Tibetan Community in Minneapolis (The...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 21 February 2016 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama left the religious institution where he's been staying in Rochester early...
View ArticleThird Day of ‘Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ in Osaka (The Office of...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Osaka, Japan, 12 May 2016 - After several days of cloud and rain, Osaka awoke today to bright sunlight streaming through the windows and bright blue...
View ArticleHis Holiness, the Bill Murray
(CNN)It's your basic Cinderella story. William James Murray was an unknown out of Wilmette, Illinois, just outside Chicago. He is the middle-est of nine children, and his parents, Lucille and Ed, were...
View ArticleTeaching ‘Stages of Meditation’ and ‘Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas’...
Disket, Nubra Valley, J&K, India - His Holiness the Dalai Lama is staying at the Disket Monastery Phodrang. This morning on his way to the teaching ground he stopped to perform a short consecration...
View ArticleResuming the Jangchub Lam Rim - the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment -...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Tashi Lhunpo, Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, 20 December 2015 - When he arrived at Tashi Lhunpo the other day and reached the deep veranda at the top...
View ArticleHis Holiness the Dalai Lama Begins Teachings Requested by the Nalanda Shiksha...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India, 7 June 2016 - A mixed audience of about 7000 awaited His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Tsuglagkhang, the...
View ArticleTeaching Nagarjuna's ‘Commentary on Bodhichitta’ in Strasbourg (The Office of...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Strasbourg, France, 17 September 2016 - Eight thousand eight hundred people gathered today in the Zénith de Strasbourg, an indoor sporting arena and...
View ArticleGiving the Actual Guhyasamaja Empowerment at Gyumey (The Office of His...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Hunsur, Karnataka, India, 11 December 2015 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama's day began even earlier today. He descended to the Gyumey temple at 6...
View ArticleTeaching ‘Precious Garland’, ‘Stages of Meditation’ and ‘37 Practices of a...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) Zurich, Switzerland, 14 October 2016 - The slowly stirring streets of Zurich bore a wintry air as His Holiness the Dalai Lama drove to the Zurich...
View ArticleCan Buddhism Save the World?
The topic of socially engaged Buddhism is complex and very important to the future of the dharma in our troubled, fast-moving and intensely competitive global world. Buddhist scholar Stephen Batchelor...
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