A group of practitioners from Sardinia, Italy, recount how Rinpoche created the card game Calaco while on holiday in Cala Corallina in 1995
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Yoga Kids Summer Camp 2025: Yoga & Art
From late June through August, Dzamling Gar for the second time vibrated with the joyful energy of children for the second annual Yoga Kids Camp
Commemorating the Passing of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
On September 27, 2025, many people around the world mark the 7th anniversary of the passing (Parinirvana) of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
Heart Advice from Changchub Dorje
The Heart Advice from the Tibetan meditation master Nyakla Jangchub Dorje: A Concise Teaching on Seeing, Deepening, Responding and Arriving according to Dzogpa Chenpo Kadak Trekcho.
Dzogchen Artist Frederica Henrieta Hegedus
My name is Frederica Henrieta Hegedus and I paint and design jewelry. I come from the city of Košice in Slovakia, which is where I was born, however, I feel like a citizen of the Earth.
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.