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A Trip to Maratika to Meet the Dakini

An account by Cheh Goh of the recent pilgrimage to Maratika in Nepal organized by Shang Shung UK and the MACO Museum.

Modern Gorshey – New Tibetan Dances Collection

Modern Gorshey – New Tibetan Dances Collection

We Khaita teachers, Salima Celeri, Giulia Yangcen Mimaciren and Lena Dumcheva, are very excited to share with you the Modern Gorshey* project: a new collection of contemporary Tibetan dances. This project is our homage to Chögyal Namkhai Norbu’s work on Tibetan songs and dances and a sincere expression of our understanding of Khaita, with the intention of ensuring its infinite future.

Merigar’s Forty Years

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.

Artists in the Dzogchen Community – Oleg Troyanovsky

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 

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

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

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”.