4th in a series of Podcast Interviews with Santi Maha Sangha Teachers
4th in a series of Podcast Interviews with Santi Maha Sangha Teachers
From October 13th to 19th, 2025, the IT teams of Merigar West and Dzamling Gar gathered at Dzamling Gar for a week of collaboration and technical work, joined by our Austrian sound engineer, Philip Zauner.
We are delighted to announce a retreat with Namkhai Yeshi from 20–27 August 2026 at Merigar East, where we will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of our beautiful Gar.
Happy holidays from The Mirror team!
Although the Merigar East Gar remains in “hibernation” during the autumn-winter months, the practice is keeping active with both online and onsite programs.
This wonderful structure was designed and created in all its finest details – each with its own precise meaning – from the mind of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
‘Artists in the Dzogchen Community’ features the fascinating story of American painter and sculptor Marsha Klein.
Jacqueline Gens is working on a website called Language in the Sky which will offer a number of features as a virtual home for poet practitioners. The next round of events will focus on the Poetry of Witness in collaboration with poet and Tibetan translator, Constance Wilkinson relevant to current events happening in the world now.
Then I started to discover playing music. The plays I did were always closely related to music, in fact we did an Rock Opera with friends and great musicians in 1983. But I was always on the other side, directing, staging, or writing. When I turned fifty, my friend Marisa gave me an acoustic guitar and from that moment on I began to study guitar, then sax, then piano and finally the bandoneon [ed. a type of concertino].
A photographic exhibition by Enrico Dell’Angelo at Merigar West, Italy, 13 March-1 May, 2022, part of the activities of the “Seeds of Awareness” project
Larisa Rozhnova, thangka painter and traveller from Russia, shares her story of meeting with Rinpoche and speaks about her artistic path.
The fifth biography in Our Master’s Masters regards the third son and student of Adzom Drugpa, an author of several important commentaries and treatises