Question: What is the relationship between karma and destiny? Answer: Do we shape destiny by clinging to a long-stored visualization, or is...

Question: You mention abortion. What is the Buddhist view of contraception and abortion? Answer: That is simple. Sentient life begins when...

Question: The Buddha Fa people believe the practice of healing is wrong, and their leader says he will withdraw his protection if people pr...

This post inaugurates a new series, wherein I publish questions and responses to questions that have been posed by readers, attendees at lec...

By an early autumn morning’s rainbows reprised in the rainbows of midsummer’s late afternoon— one in perfect happiness, the other in perfect...

A comfortable village was there until the soldiers passed through, leaving only a small house for the nurse sent ahead to betray the land. A...

On this, the tenth day of the lunar month, I dedicate the Guru Rinpoche puja to the welfare of all sentient beings and His Eminence the Twel...

In private emails with several interested parties, we've been hashing over the question of how to finance Tibetan Buddhism in the decade...

Update: Someone kindly wrote to tell me that this image is by Cynthia Moku, who I seem to recall once lived with Lama Lodru, in San Francis...

If the United States Dep artment of St ate, in its leg ally m and ated report on religious freedom ( see below ), offici ally informs Congr...

TIBET The United States recognizes the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan autonomous counties and prefectures in other provinces to ...

Suddenly, the fire is 93% contained, at a revised total of a little over 14,000 acres. Rather singularly, a hail storm m ateri ali z ed out ...

http://nyenoona.wordpress.com/ This is a personal web log with a Buddhist perspective that I tend to enjoy reading. Perhaps you will enjoy i...

One of H.H. Penor Rinpoche's monks, a young man named Karma Yolmo, urgently requires a kidney transplant as a matter of life or death. A...