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Freda Bedi, born in 1911 in England, lived a “big” life. She attended Oxford University, where she met and married Baba Pyare Lal Bedi, who was the sixteenth direct descendant of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion. They moved…
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January-June 2016 When we think of the historic religions of Russia, we probably think of Russian orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam. But what about Tibetan Buddhism? The presence of Tibetan Buddhist practitioners in Russia – primarily from the Gelug tradition –…
Mandala has just published a new ebook called From Warm Heart to Warm Heart: The Transmission of Dharma in the Modern World. The ebook contains seventeen interviews about the transmission of Dharma, published by Mandala between 1982 and 2017. While…
This is a German translation of the article Dieter Kratzer On Becoming a Teacher, published by Mandala online in January 2017. Hier ist eine Übersetzung des Artikels Dieter Kratzer On Becoming a Teacher. Der originale Artikel im Englischen wurde von…
We hear about mindfulness everywhere, it seems. Many of us practice it. But what is it doing? And how does it relate to Buddhist teachings on the emptiness of the self? If both mindfulness and Madhyamaka are methods to transform…
Jacob Sky Lindsley is a graduate of two Buddhist schools in the US, having received a bachelor degree from the University of the West near Los Angeles, California, and a master of arts degree from FPMT-affiliated Maitripa College in Portland,…
In an interview with Mandala now published online, FPMT registered in-depth teacher Dieter Kratzer, 75, talks about his life in the Dharma, and particularly the process of becoming a teacher. Dieter met the Dharma in 1973 and was among the…
Dieter Kratzer is an FPMT registered in-depth teacher who has been teaching the Dharma for forty years. He spoke with Mandala associate editor Donna Lynn Brown about his development as a teacher from the early 1970s to the present day.…
Ven. Tenzin Namjong (Matthew Pasion) was born in 1977 in Hawai’i, USA. He ordained in 2007 and is currently in the tenth year of the geshe studies program at Sera Je Monastery in South India. This interview brings together a…
When did Tibetan Buddhism come to the West? In 1958 Geshe Wangyal established a monastery in New Jersey where several of the first Americans to learn Tibetan studied in the 1960s. Sakya lama Dezhung Rinpoche arrived in the USA in…
“I have had the privilege to serve His Holiness for so long and I know that one of his main focuses is to promote an appreciation of basic human values. He calls it ‘secular ethics,’” Geshe Thubten Jinpa, His Holiness’…
Photo caption: Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, New Haven, Kentucky, May 2015. Photo by Martin Verhoven. In May 2015, Ven. Losang Drimay, teacher and resident at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel, California, was one of 12 Buddhists to…
