Chinese 8th, M-T-K 7th. Bird, Zon, Yellow 5. Time change in Oz. Rigpa has this as a naga day, and while it isn't optimal, it won...

As the photo shows, tens of thousands turned out for the empowerment given by Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche at the Royal Bhutan Police grou...

The Fifteenth Anniversary of the California Desert Protection Act is right around the corner. Signed into law on October 31, 1994, the Act ...

Chinese 7th, M-T-K 6th. Monkey, Zin, Green 4. One of the finest days this year to just go out and enjoy yourself. You can devote today t...

The Taliban are blowing up Buddhist statues, destroying Buddhist supports and scriptures every chance they get. This we know. The Taliban a...

Chinese 6th, M-T-K 5th. Sheep, Gin, 3. Today is Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche's birthday. Today also continues October's excellent tr...

Using awareness as the path, no journey is necessary: nothing to pick up nothing to put down, nowhere to go no place to stay. When,...

At the Dharmaling site , they have this cute little animated GIF of a character doing prostrations, together with discussion of the practi...

BBC South Asia is carrying the story of witch beatings in India. Five widows were accused of witchcraft, taken to a public place, stripped,...

The season's first snows have hit Ladakh with uncharacteristic fury. The Manali-Leh National Highway 21 was closed, and it is cold, col...

As regular readers of this blog know only too well, I have reserved the right to occasionally post items of interest to desert dwellers. Fo...

Chinese 5th, M-T-K 4th. Horse, Kham, Black 2. I get the sense that significant events are about to take place (or are taking place right...

Usually, the Western students of the direct manifestation of Padmasambhava, the incomparable Lord of Refuge Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche will ce...

"My perceptions have become like those of a little boy, and I take pleasure in playing with children. But when I come across people w...

With all due respect to the wealthiest Zen monk in the world, Leonard Cohen's A Thousand Kisses Deep , today is somebody's birthday...

I have seen intelligence reports that the Peoples' Liberation Army began operations at precisely 8:10 a.m. From an astrological perspe...

Chinese 4th, M-T-K 3rd. Fire-Snake, Khen, White 1; Solar Earth-Pig, Zon, Black 2.  Water-Water --> Water-Water, Mula, Purvashadha; Su...

Many Buddhist practitioners I have encountered afford absolutely no respect for Buddhist scholars, thinking them meddlers at worst and irr...

Chinese 3rd, M-T-K 2nd. Dragon, Dwa, Red 9. Dragons are real opera singers, you know? Dragon days are no exception. This is a day to enj...

How does that old song go? You don't always know what you've got until it is gone... Several times, we have written about Terton...