Hello and many greetings from the blooming Kunsangar South! This early summer we are full on with preparations for our most active season.
Focus
Living Connection with the Teaching
The entire spring in the Gar was marked by preparation for the Teaching of Namkhai Yeshi. It was not just organizing a broadcast, but a real internal tuning.
The Spring/Summer 2025 Program at Merigar West
Merigar is preparing to experience some intense months with a calendar that includes teaching, culture and moments of authentic community sharing.
The Multimedia Archive of the Dzogchen Community
The multimedia archive of the Dzogchen Community, housed at Merigar West, consists of two separate sections: the private archive of the formal teachings of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and the historical archive of the International Dzogchen Community.
Shang Shung Publications Reorganization
The Shang Shung publishing house, founded in 1983 at the request of the Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, has been recently reorganized.
MACO Museum of Asian Art and Culture
The Mirror recently asked us to describe our recent collaboration with the British Museum and their ResearchSpace team and a few of the ways that it will be used to help us to share the Namkhai Collection with our Community members around the world.
Merigar’s Forty Years
In 1981, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, together with the first group of his students, chose a farm in the Amiata area of Tuscany, Italy as the first Gar of the Dzogchen Community. As a result Merigar, the Residence of the Mountain of Fire, was established.
Filling the Second Stupa at Merigar East: Karma Yoga and Practice
At Merigar East, Romania, we are approaching, this summer, the long awaited moment of filling up the second stupa. It is the result of many years’ work.
Artists in the Dzogchen Community – Oleg Troyanovsky
People often have a magical idea of how music is created. Music is remotely reminiscent of language. We pronounce words, express ourselves, we can speak quietly, loudly, softly, sharply. The same applies to music. When some language becomes native to you, it’s easy to compose a poem or begin to write a text, and in the same way you can sit and compose music.
Changchub Dorje by Drugu Choegyal
The portrayal of Changchub Dorje presented in the words below is based on the oral testimony of two yogins of Khampa Gar, the trusted Togden Amtin and Togden A Chös who, having met the Master and received his Dharma teachings, had a samaya connection with him.
Silvia Nakkach: The Space in Between a Cloud and a Sound
If I tell my story from the present time, I sometimes wonder if I am a musician or a sound artist. I feel more like a sculptor that shapes sound molding time in space. It makes sense, my last name Nakkach means artisan, and if I separate the N-from the akkach, it sounds like akash, meaning ‘clear space’, ‘sky’ in Indian Cosmology.
Letters of the Artist
Giorgio Dallorto and his calligraphy art presented by Christian Correnti. “I may have approached calligraphy as a lazy pupil, which over time has become a precious tool for studying and deepening the Practices. Ultimately it has become a belated but profound homage to the great calligrapher and Master who was “the king of the Dharma jewel of the sky”.