Art for art’s sake has never been an overriding motivation in Tibetan culture or Tibetan Buddhism. For example, we can understand thangka painting, the sacred art of
As a Nyingma practitioner for the past 23 years, I found Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s How to Enjoy Death to be an eye-opener. Written from a Gelug point
Thangka paintings are Tibet’s most plentiful and portable form of sacred art. Less known and rarely seen are the highly prized appliqué thangkas. In fact, when I
It is a choice to remember life in beautiful ways. Dance is an art made of life itself. The human body as medium contains within
The Medicine Buddha is a healing Buddha from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Many cultures have healing deities or rituals, and the Medicine Buddha is a
Barry Kerzin is a very busy monk with such a demanding schedule that we were lucky to even have time to meet. He is currently
“It is not just some old-fashioned custom to cultivate the foundational practices and tantra before doing Dzogchen. This is not an old custom—it’s the custom. If you
The highest-ranking Buddhist leader of Mongolia, who turns 60 this year, is worried. He is particularly worried about the growing materialism and intensifying activities of
O!! Chatral Sangay, the deathless Padmasambhava,you manifested among us in human formfor the sake of ignorant beings like me.I pray to you in a non-dualistic
On my first day of learning to work with ground mineral paints, I walked to my teacher’s studio through the labyrinth of narrow streets that
Small-town Nebraska is about as far from India as a person can get, but for Buddhist scholar and acharya Judith Simmer-Brown, who grew up there,
Meditation is like dancing inasmuch as the experience is entirely individual. The body becomes the laboratory for energetic exercises, and the embodiment of prescribed shapes.
