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Wisdom #1 – 1983 By Lorraine Pearce Lama Yeshe emerged from his plane in Lhasa last September and for the first time in 23 years breathed the crisp mountain air of Tibet. Traveling alone and in lay clothes, for Lama…
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October-December 2011 FPMT HISTORY Big Love , the long-awaited authorized biography of Lama Yeshe, provides an intimate portrait of not only FPMT’s founder, but of the earliest students that placed their trust in him. This excerpt is taken from the…
October-December 2011 YOUR WORDS By John Stuart Coming from Nepal Driving along a narrow muddy track through stunningly steep river valleys, following the contours as they open onto the plateau, an open boundless expanse, the Himalayas suspended above, whispy white…
January / March 2010 By Jane Marshall Southern Tibet in 1987 during Kushok’s last trip home The Beginning of the End The Final Kyirong Years Kyirong, Tibet to the borderlands of Nepal 1959 Heinrich Harrer, author of Seven Years in…
June / July 2008 TIBET In a brave and landmark address to their own government, twenty-nine leading Chinese academics, writers, jurists and human rights activists from Beijing, Shangdong, Sichuan, Gansu, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hubai and Inner Mongolia have devised a list…
TIBET June-July 2008 On March 10, 2008, what began as a peaceful protest against Beijing’s hardhanded policies in Tibet ended in violence and with the deaths of both Tibetans and Chinese. The aftermath of this event has had devastating consequences…
TIBET June-July 2008 The events of March 10, 2008 marked a significant day for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It brought back the same feeling of anxiety and fear which he had experienced when tensions, which began to escalate in…
ACTIVISM August-September 2008 By Rebecca Novick “If we serve sentient beings by engaging in political activities with a spiritual orientation, we are actually following the bodhisattva’s way of life.” – HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA I met my lama at…
TIBET December 2002-February 2003 English-born Frances Howland, a health care provider who works at the American Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal for six months a year, also spends part of each year working in Tibet. She tells of her work with…
TIBET December 2002-February 2003 While the Chinese believe that Tibet has been part of China since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Tibet has a recorded history of statehood that goes back to 127 B.C. After centuries of history, studded with wars…
TIBET December 2002-February 2003 While exiled Tibetans are scattered across countries and continents, much of their culture is being preserved by the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, in Dharamsala, India. Guy Brooksbank reports. For a nation never before having a need to consciously…
By Ribur Rinpoche Translated by Fabrizio Pallotti Renowned historian, biographer and yogi, Ribur Rinpoche (1923-2006), had a close relationship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama who has described to him, with typical humility, many of his inner realizations. But first,…