
The Medicine Buddha and the Power of Healing
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

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.

This final installment in our four-part series “Approaching Vajrayana”* addresses an issue common to all of Buddhism: how its science is perceived, and how it

Lama Palden Drolma never imagined herself a Dharma teacher. Authorized to teach in both the Karma Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, she

The journey from the touristic bustle of the northern Indian town of Manali into the remote valleys of the Himalayan mountains in northeastern Himachal Pradesh—especially

Maintaining the lineage and legacy of Yeshe Tsogyal