Established in 1999, Choki Traditional Art School provides a free, full-time education for underprivileged youths interested in learning a selection of Bhutan’s traditional Thirteen Arts and Crafts.
This talk will draw from the contents of the last imperial catalogue of Buddhist works in Tibetan translation, the dkar chag ’phang thang ma, to shed light on the formation and contents of the earliest Tibetan canons.
Raghu Rai (b. 1942) is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who nominated Rai, then a young photojournalist, to join Magnum Photos in 1977.
For those of us who have the privilege and good fortune to have time even to think about Losar, I offer my prayers and aspirations that this Dragon Year will not completely throw us off balance.
To celebrate the Year of the Wood Dragon, Khyentse Foundation is pleased to present our sixth annual calendar to encourage you in your practice throughout the year. This year’s calendar is offered in 28 languages.
“Many dharma friends ask us why Rinpoche wants to translate Tibetan texts into Chinese when the Chinese canon is already so rich. In fact, we realized that nearly 90 percent of the Mahayana treatises and tantric texts had not been translated into Chinese, which is a great pity.”
With mind training at the core, along with a deep connection to sustainability and nature, the children at Blue Lion Preschool are developing an experiential and embodied understanding of the principles central to the Buddhist view.
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche addressed Khyentse Foundation’s Board of Directors regarding the future of the buddhadharma. In particular, he stressed the importance of paying attention to the large numbers of people born in traditionally Buddhist places, including those who have migrated elsewhere.
Land of the Jowos: Buddhist Temples in Mongolia as the Embodiment of Statehood
January 20, 2024
Bymaryann
This talk takes a tour through these monasteries and temples to shed light on the interplay between Buddhism and the state, which led to the proliferation of institutionalized Buddhism in Mongolian lands, and on the impact these processes had on the disintegration of a unified Mongol state.
“... there’s something so magical, something so descriptive—of course descriptive—magical, something so now, here, but there’s a sort of undercurrent of sadness.”
