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Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Dharma Bum Life Program

Posted by The Dharma Bums

Six Paramitas, eight weeks, twelve Dharma Bums, and a summer’s vow to explore how to weave Dharma practice into our everyday lives. The Second Annual Dharma Bum Life Program brings together twelve San Diego residents from a variety of backgrounds for eight weeks of meditation and community service.

Between July 1 and August 31, participants meet twice a week to meditate, plan community service projects, and discuss how to live a simple life in a fast-paced American culture. In addition, participants attend four meditation and work retreats at various Zen centers and cultural Temples in southern California. Read More »

Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche arrives in Croatia

Posted by Mangala Shri Bhuti

After days of moist heat and and humid air, the skies opened up and cool summer rain descended on a parched city. A small caravan of cars adorned with Dilho Khyentse flags made its way through downtown traffic toward the airport.

About twenty people were at the Zagreb airport to greet and receive Khyentse Yansgi Rinpoche, Rabjam Rinpoche, and the party with khatags in hand all aglow. It was a historic moment in Zagreb, Croatia, where dharma is beginning to truly blossom. Yangsi Rinpoche greeted everyone warmly and seemed quite at home. Two days of teachings and wangs to come….

Buddhist king and queen expecting first child: Birth to take place at IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS

Via Shambhala International

The king and queen of Shambhala, the hereditary sovereigns of the legendary Himalayan kingdom, are expecting the birth of their first child in August in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and his queen, the Sakyong Wangmo Khandro Tseyang, are holders of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, whose forefather was the Tibetan king, Gesar of Ling, hero of the epic story told in song and dance throughout Asia.

The couple have decided to have the birth in their adopted home of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — the spiritual capital of the worldwide Shambhala community. Read More »

Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi begins tour of the West

Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche at Lerab Ling in France

Photo: Elea Sevestre

Posted by View Magazine

Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche has begun his first visit to the West with a fortnight of celebrations in France.

Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche, who turned 17 last month, is taking part in a two-month tour of Europe and North America to mark the centenary of the birth of Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, his previous incarnation.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was one of the great spiritual figures of the last century. He was the teacher of many of the Tibetan masters teaching around the world today, and Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche has been invited to teach and give empowerments at some of the centres that they established. Read More »

The Great River of Blessings

The Sakyong Foundation is pleased to announce it is hosting The Great River of Blessings, a new downloadable book by Walker Blaine. This book is an account of the Rinchen Terdzö that was conferred by His Eminence Tertön Namkha Drimed Rinpoche on the Kongma Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in the winter of 2008-2009. The Rinchen Terdzö is a three-month-long presentation of some of the most vital practices and instructions held by the Nyingma lineage. For more information or to download the book, go to The Sakyong Foundation. The e-book is offered free of charge with a request that people donate to humanitarian work in Asia.

Ajahn Amaro heads back to England

From the Ukiah Daily Journal

Ajahn Amaro, the founding abbot of California’s Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in Redwood Valley, will be moving to England this month to fill the role as abbot of Amaravati Monastery near London.

Since moving to Redwood Valley in 1996, Amaro has been generous in sharing the teachings of the Buddha with our local community. He has offered many classes, guided meditations, and daylong mini-retreats at the monastery as well as at Yoga Mendocino in town. Larry Restel, an investment adviser from Ukiah, first met Amaro in 1990 in England: Read More »

“Dueling Dalai Lamas”? China ups the ante on reincarnation within Tibetan Buddhism

The New York Times reports:

Reincarnations of Tibetan spiritual leaders, including the Dalai Lama, must be approved by the Chinese central government, a senior Communist Party official said. The remarks were among the clearest indications yet that China will appoint a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama after the current Dalai Lama dies, setting off a struggle with exiled leaders of the Chinese territory over Tibetan Buddhism.

Click here to read the full Times report.

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