Supporters can meet the people they sponsor – children, monks, the elderly – and get to know the Himalayan countries from a different perspective
Supporters can meet the people they sponsor – children, monks, the elderly – and get to know the Himalayan countries from a different perspective
“If we don’t take an interest in translations, there cannot be a continuation of the Teaching”. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, 1981
Would you like to spend some months in an environment of practice, sun, sea with the possibility to work online or dedicate your time to a retreat?
Remember that Painters are members of an ancient cult. They worship the Sun. And they understand that the light of the sun is an analog of the luminosity of the enlightened mind in the space of nature, just as Picasso understood that the bull fight was an ancient Sun cult sacrifice ritual, the deep metaphor is there, waiting to be seen.
An excerpt from ‘The Luminous Necklace of Pearls’ by Iacobella Gaetani introducing the life and poetry of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu’s elder sister
To celebrate the twenty years of our garden of Infinite Bliss, we had the great honor to welcome Prima May, International Teacher of the International Dzogchen Community, for the Vajra Dance in May 2018.
It was decided to hold a retreat in a coastal resort town called Jurmala, on the Baltic Sea beach, in a former military sanatorium. The sessions took place in the so-called Winter Garden.
After traveling to Japan, I understood that paper could become anything, shelter, doors, balloons, and scrolls. Drawings and writings, ideas, thoughts and images from the 9th century can be here with us in the present, because of paper as their vehicle.
It’s now 25 years on and my work has helped to powerfully engage diverse communities in addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time, including; intercultural relationships, changing values across the generations, public and private violence, trafficked women, changing futures for indigenous people, mental health, addiction, the asylum seeker story and the potential of an intercultural world. One of my performances ‘Journey of Asylum – Waiting’ was published in an anthology of plays about asylum seekers.
Losar poem by Jacqueline Gens with artwork by Ingmar Pema Dechen
The official inauguration of the Museum of Asian Art and Culture (MACO) began in the Conference Room of the Arcidosso Castle on December 10, 2016
Promoting Harmony Through Singing and Dancing