"Choeyang started to smile when she was passing the Tibetan flags  and somehow, her smile never left her beautiful face... ."...

Three young artists in Russia -- known by the collective name Pussy Riot -- have been tried and are now awaiting sentencing on a charge o...

In addition to our outdoor stupas, we also have an indoor stupa project here, in the manner of a "stupa room." Seen here, in th...

Little Stinker has been moved out of triage to Intensive Care. He has a lavender bed to roll around, a jump step to reach his water and f...

Through the incredible kindness of a Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar reader, who drove eight hours down to the desert to fetch me, I was ...

New flags for Padmasambhava's Birthday, for Khandro-la Those whose pleasure is like heaven Are destined to be open and lovely. My...

Today is the tenth day of the sixth Tibetan month: Padmasambhava's Birthday according to the Lama Gongdu terma. I guess it would not ...

Shambhala news outlets are reporting the sudden death this morning of Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche , 57, of an apparent heart attack, at Melb...

So, today we celebrate and attempt to recognize the first turning of the Wheel of the Dharma. What we are trying to recognize is not some...

Chokhor Duchen -- one of our wonderful "ten million days" -- falls on Monday, 23 July 2012. So, what are we celebrating? Ch...

She has never known a moment without pain. At eight, her leg was crushed in an avalanche and had to be crudely amputated in the field. ...

"Though I've entered the path of the Dharma, I haven't put a stop to my erring ways. Though I've entered the door of the ...

Comes now great, good fortune in which we may all rejoice. His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama has enthroned former New York photograp...

"Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destruc...

Happy Birthday to  His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet

This blog's editor, Tenpa Rinpoche, was taken by ambulance to an area hospital Monday night. He was admitted to the Cardiac Unit, where ...

Tragically, Bhutan's centuries old Wangduephoedrang Dzong is no more: it has been totally destroyed by fire. However, due to the qui...

In what is being described as a "major cultural loss" to the Kingdom of Bhutan, the Wangduephodrang Dzong -- one of the oldest...

The first day of the fifth Tibetan month this year was Wednesday, the 20th of June. This was the Summer Solstice; although, according to ...

This photograph, memorializing June nineteenth's historic, first-time meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Ky...