Some years ago, I dreamt of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu nudging me to teach the Tawa-Gompa-Chöpa (view, meditation, conduct) triad in Merigar
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Coming Back to Tashigar North
After 10 years, life has brought me back to Tashigar Norte, Venezuela. The place where, at 8 years old, I was already learning the mudras for the Ganapuja.
Summer Update from Kunsangar North
Spring came very early this year, the snow melted quickly, and now the Gar is again covered in green trees. And more and more practitioners are coming to the Gar – some for retreats, some as volunteers or karmayogis, some just to take a break from noisy Moscow.
Art at the Kag Choede Monastery
Through the ripening of karma and by magical synchronistic events, I found myself winning a raffle ticket in February, which would send me to Nepal
How I Met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
Born in China and currently living in England, Red Hardingham had teachers in the Taoist, Theravada, Gelugpa and Pure Land traditions before meeting Rinpoche
Generosity
Thus generosity does not depend on the worth of the offered gift but rather on one’s mind being free of attachment that hinder giving anything internal or external.
Cartoon
Another point of view from the pen of Tenzin Gendun
Merigar, haven of peace
Nadia Gaggioli’s poem inspired by Merigar West from her collection “E sono io ..”
Interview with Tashi Mannox, Calligrapher
You could practice this with something non conceptual, like the perfect circle of enso, any person can load a brush with ink…
Review of The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma
In the history of Indo-Tibetan tantric Buddhism, the figure of the mahāsiddha, or sorcerer-saint, has been a trusted archetype for study and veneration because so many sincere practitioners in India, Tibet, and Bhutan have had access to the visionary opportunity of utpattikrama,….
How I Met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
Poupee Brunatto recounts how she came to meet Rinpoche in 1968 and the first three month retreat with him in Subiaco
Poem for Judy Allan by John Shane
But just as my bodily eyes saw you, Judy, so, too, the deeper ‘I’ of who I really am also saw the deeper ‘you’…..