Wisdom Publications has now come out with To Dispel the Misery of the World: Whispered Teachings of the Bodhisattvas , by Ga Rabjampa Ku...

On May fifteenth this year, during the course of a spontaneous teaching at Half Moon Bay, California, Gyatrul Rinpoche made the following...

We take great pleasure in here presenting the Jeffrey Hopkins translation of the Seventh Dalai Lama, Kaysang Gyatso's (1708 - 1757) T...

Those of you who are new to this blog may wonder, "What do rabbits have to do with Buddhism?" Quite a lot, actually, but that i...

His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa's now-famous speech about the role of women in the Vajrayana -- as eloquent, guileless, almost impa...

Nagas are temperamental beings typically associated with water, and to a lesser extent, earth, where in the latter case they bear some re...

In a development likely to have far-reaching influence on the state of English-language Buddhist publishing, Shambhala Publications of Bo...

My Vital Advice   Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Homage to the unsurpassed savior, the Lord of Oddiyana. Now that you've found ...

Saturday, 5 May 2012 at 11:35 EDT in the United States will witness this year's "supermoon," coinciding with a full moon, a...

Ian Thorson, newly-wed husband of Christie McNally -- the well known one-time spiritual companion of  Michael Roach -- has died in a ca...

So, this is the thirty-seventh anniversary of "Black April," the fall (or liberation) of Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City), and like...

According to the Western calendar, today, April 27, 2012, marks the 43rd anniversary of the first-ever performance of the Shower of Bles...

Indian news sources this morning are reporting that all charges against His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa have been dropped by Himacha...

An unprecedented and historic event took place over two days -- Friday, April 20th, and Saturday, April 21, 2012 -- when His Holiness the...

Shenphen Rinpoche has been attacked by two assailants in Slovenia, and is hospitalized at this hour with multiple knife wounds, and a co...

Just the other day, I received a letter from an old friend. I had not heard from her in almost fifty years, but that does not mean she wa...

We begin, innocently enough, with the idea to lay hold of some beads, in order to make garlands for someone special.  She likes red. ...

So, it happened that Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche passed away, twenty-five years ago today, and we all have our memories.  Some younger l...

A resolution introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) expressing concern about the situation in ...