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Mandarava Retreat Dzamling Gar March 2026

It was a surprising pleasure to awaken each morning to lovely birdsongs and walk through the semidarkness to the Gönpa of Dzamling Gar to begin another day of the Long Life practice of Mandarava, and to feel the presence of our Rinpoche, who 42 years ago in the cave of Mandarava in Nepal miraculously received this terma practice of Mandarava in a series of dreams. 

A Garland of Letters

A Garland of Letters

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.

Poet –  Interview with Jacqueline Gens

Poet – Interview with Jacqueline Gens

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.

Artist in the Community – Ricky Sued

Artist in the Community – Ricky Sued

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].