Early days of Rinpoche’s life in Naples and his first teachings in the 1970s before the Dzogchen Community was established in Tuscany.
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Building a Guru Padmasambhava Statue
In the spring of 2024 we started fundraising for the construction of a 9.5 meter tall Guru Rinpoche statue, in upper Mustang, Nepal.
Adriano Clemente Presents “The Cuckoo of Rigpa”
An Ancient Dunhuang Manuscript by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. Based on a talk given on 28 September, 2024, in the Merigar Gönpa.
Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism
Alex Studholme reviews Ruth Gamble’s survey and analysis of the Tibetan tulku system and the life and works of the Third Karmapa.
The Evolution of the ‘Merigar Archive’
The ‘Merigar Archive’ is actually the archive of many activities and events that have taken place for over 40 years in the International Dzogchen Community
Khaita Invited to Participate in Tajaraste Festival in Santa Cruz, Tenerife
The Tajaraste Festival presented performances by various folk groups and the Tajaraste Cultural Association. It was a special honor that Khaita was invited to participate in this important Tenerife event as a representation of folk music and dance from Tibet presented by the now well known Atiyoga Foundation and Dzamling Gar Community in the south of the island.
YogAdeje – World Peace 2022
On April 30th, we had the first public event of this kind in the Gönpa of Dzamling Gar, the first of hopefully many to come. It was a collaboration of Atiyoga Foundation, Dzamling Gar, Iskcon and local Yoga instructors in an important event for our Community to welcome everyone into our home! It was a beautiful afternoon and a great success.
Tib Shelf – One Year Anniversary
Tib Shelf’s mission is to help preserve Tibetan literature in all its guises through translating and presenting our publications on our open-access website
Continuing the Dzamling Garden Paradise
It’s not a formal garden with a unity that combines all its parts into one but there are a variety of different spaces so it’s quite nice and very varied.
Kumar Kumari at the Schools of the Amiata Area
Yantra Yoga instructor Dina Priymak shares her experience of participating in the ‘Breathe the Earth’ project, teaching Kumar Kumari, Yantra Yoga for children, at the schools of the Amiata Area.
First Wellbeing Retreat at Dzamling Gar!
It was the first time for us to operate this type of retreat, so it was a bit of trial and error, but everyone’s shining faces and the improvement in dancing made me feel deep joy and very satisfied. I would like to thank Anna Apraksina, the other Vajra Dance instructor, the participants, the Gakyil, all those who helped and especially to our Master. I am so grateful to all of them.
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].