Nourishing the light of awe and enchantment

Forgiveness as a step towards spiritual transformation

Heather Sanche learns some "yucky" home truths

Celebrating classic and illusory fiction's insights

“Although my view is higher than the sky, My attention to cause and effect is finer than flour.” - Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava)   As our pilgrimage through central Tibet proceeded towards Samye

In September 2014, I traveled to the Tibetan colony of Bir with another photographer, Jagdev Singh. On the one hand, we attended teachings on “The Twelve Nidanas, or Twelve Links of Dependent Arising,

In the second article in this series, I share my personal reflections on my journey to Bangladesh from 25 May–4 June. I have written this as a diary. 26–27 May After an overnight bus ride from Dhaka

It’s been several years since I read Heinrich Harrer’s classic, Seven Years in Tibet (1953).   Amidst Harrer’s dramatic journey through Tibet’s soaring mountain peaks, harrowing political landscape

Since the parasol tree was believed to be appealing to the phoenix, the Chinese people venerated it as an auspicious symbol. There are records dating as early as the Book of Odes. Zheng Xuanjian of th

Editor's note: this film review contains spoilers.---The story takes place in the days of terror in the civil-war-torn Buddhist country of Sri Lanka. Upuli, a woman who is born to an aristocrat

With the 20th Century often characterized by poets and essayists as an era of lost innocence, many in the 21st Century have had the fortune (and this is truly a fortune) to understand that black and w