Two DHE root tormas.

OM KURUKULLE HRI SVAHA The Seed Mantra of Kurukulle

My Life's Defining Moment Some 40 years ago I was digging around in the basement of the Durant Library at the University of Californ...

Here is a remarkable--and very early--photograph of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, from the collection of the late Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.

Here is a rare photograph of the Derge Royal Family, from the collection of the late Urgyen Rinpoche. The 18th century queen of Derge, Quee...

In 1992, I was visiting Taiwan and a Kagyudpa friend of mine asked, "Have you heard? There's a big controversy at Rumtek." Thu...

H.H. XVIth Karmapa's "Dream Flag," which is now justly famous in Tibetan Buddhist circles. H.H. Karmapa said that wherever it ...

Trakpu Khyaltse Torma Lha Drup Lha Torma Khandro Thuk Thik Torma Wang Po Je Torma Chime Tsog Thik Torma Troma Torma Torma offerings for the ...

In July 1999, a Japanese research team accidentally located a 9th century Sanskrit manuscript of the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra in the Potal...

A Sung dynasty potrait of Vimalakirti in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Dr. Herbert V. Guenther passed away 11 March 2006, at the age of 88. He was extraordinarily kind to Tarthang Rinpoche, when they were both t...

Samantabhadra and consort.

A rare tangkha of Jigme Lingpa , from a prospectus by Tarthang Rinpoche.

Padmasambhava, the Rainbow Body.

Longchenpa and Jigme Lingpa

H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, in an early photograph.

H.H. the XVIth Karmapa. This is the first image of him I saw in this lifetime. Later, we met in person. His Holiness is an indescribably com...

The Kongtrul of Shechen, one of my teacher's teachers.

The map to Tsering Jong, Jigme Lingpa's Home

It does not take as much as people suppose to raise a Tibetan structure. You can do it if you have a plentiful supply of stones, grave...