Kalu Rinpoche

The most recently available photograph of Kalu Rinpoche, who is seventeen years old now.

Gesar Flag, Nyingma in America Style

Here is a scan of the original design for the Nyingma "Gesar" prayer flag commissioned by H.H. Tarthang Rinpoche circa the early 1970s. I seem to think this was drawn by somebody named Glen Eddy, but I could be wrong about that. Note the seal of the Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center, at top, center.

Early Dharma Press

Above is not, strictly speaking, the first thing ever published by Dharma Press (now Dharma Publishing), but it is certainly among the first.

This picture by Sherab Palden Beru was published in August 1969, by Tarthang Rinpoche, on an Excelsior hand-powered printing press I helped to buy.

The original was published in the British magazine Middle Way, to illustrate an article by Trungpa Rinpoche.

I had the block done by M&H, in San Francisco. The gold for all of this came from washing dishes for USD $2.00 an hour at the Khyber Pass Restaurant, and whatever I could scrounge.

The signature at the bottom is that of H.H. Tarthang Rinpoche. This picture has survived fires, floods, and other disasters.

For the record, the first thing ever published by Dharma Press was a silkscreen work, and then, after the press was delivered, a little business card with the Seven Line Prayer.

Here is another picture, of Milarepa, by Sherab Palden Beru, done in Scotland circa 1968.

Nyingma Seal, Revisited

Here's another version of the Nyingma seal. You will notice the syllable in the center is "AH" not "OM," and the two-headed "lotsawa" birds are apparently of the same family (rather than two different families).