In 1995, I happened to pick up a Japanese translation of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu’s book “Wisdom of Dzogchen” and thought I wanted to meet him in my lifetime.
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The Origins of the Game Calacò
A group of practitioners from Sardinia, Italy, recount how Rinpoche created the card game Calaco while on holiday in Cala Corallina in 1995
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
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”.
The New Dzamling Gar Moon Garden
Alix de Fermor, designer and creator of the new Moon Garden at Dzamling Gar, Tenerife, talks about the inspiration for the garden and its many exotic plants
Will Beauty Save the World? – Lidiya Dzhebisahvili’s Story
In our ‘Community Artists’ feature Crimean chödma and self-taught jeweller Lidiya Dzhebisashvili talks about her creative path on her spiritual voyage.
Serenity in the Storm – Crossing the Portal
Present world circumstances are painful, a huge amount of suffering is being experienced by those who have lost their relatives, their friends, and by all