With compassionate prescience, you took rebirth in the West On the very day destruction violated the Tibetan border: You, the fearless sheph...

I'm on my way to release a box full of turtles.

Samye, in the first half of the 20th century.

Every Western Buddhist of the past generation is familiar with the American, Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz, PhD (1878-1965) ( right ). For the...

Padmasambhava's footprint, at Moon Cave. Compare this with the handprint, posted below.

One of my teacher's teachers: Shechen Kongtrul , Pema Drimey (1901-1960)

I saw this on another site, and I thought it was fun. Here is a Recognition Guide to Buddhist Monks. Top row, left to right: Burma, China...

Ordinarily I do not like to post things of a personal nature. Still, there is an exception to every rule. Last night I had a drea...

Here are four different views of H.H. the XVIth Karmapa wearing the Black Crown. The first (black and white) image was taken in Tibet. It i...

Robin Kornman , who is translating the Gesar epic, has the above flag noticed on his website. He calls it Trungpa Rinpoche's "secre...

Here is a lovely, home-sized altar.

Everybody is always telling me how difficult it is to build a Tibetan Buddhist temple in America. Do you think it is easier to build one in...

Here is the crew at H.E. Jamgong Mipham Rinpoche's monastery. They are living only for your happiness. What are you living for?

They even make bumperstickers of these, which may or may not be what the terton Migyur Dorje had in mind, but who knows? Isn't the obje...

H.E. Jamgong Mipham Rinpoche and his wife, Dechen Wangmo

Col. Olcott, and the International Buddhist Flag. Most people (outside of Sri Lanka, where they have statues of him in public places) do not...

Here is a really splendid rupa of Jigme Lingpa.

Terton Sonam Gyaltsen (1856-1926) My teacher often referred to him with the greatest respect.

Thought Transformation in Eight Stanzas By Langri Tangpa Dorje Senge 1. Being determined to accomplish The highest welfare for all bei...

"Altogether we are happy to die. We take our joy along with us. It is unusually romantic to die: Born a monk, Died a king- Such thunde...