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Sandra is a long-time BSWA member who enjoys holding space for group meditations. She has led the Spiritual Education Group at BSWA and Mindfulness Meditation sessions at her workplace. She also enjoys bringing people together for a good yarn and has suppported the Kalyana Friendship Group at BSWA. These days she collaborates with others at the Buddhist Council of WA and volunteers at Sakyadhita Australia Perth Chapter. Credits: - Thank you to Tour Leader Vikas Kumar and all the team at Ekno Travels who made our journey possible. - Unless otherwise noted, this shared collection of photographs was supplied by Vikas Kumar, Helen Richardson, Sharon Thrupp, Kathy Uno, Deanne McKenzie, Sandra Henville and Venerable Thubten Chokyi who travelled together from 1 – 15 June 2025, to the place mapped in this presentation. - Maps produced using ESRI © OpenStreetMap contributors - Videos of chanting nuns at Dormaling Nunnery and traditional Tibetan dancers near Norbilingka and were recorded by Sandra Henville 10 June 2025 - Vicki Mackenzie (1998) Cave In The Snow, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998 - Khyentse Norbu (2000) The Cup Film Release date: 20 April 2000 (Australia); Director: Khyentse Norbu, Producers: Raymond Steiner, Malcolm Watson - Geleck Palsang (2022) Amala - The Life and struggle of Dalai lama's sister (2022) Director: Geleck Palsang. https://youtu.be/nkkb7hkRRCY?si=qbrfcR0MSBY_O-F9 - Tenzin Yankyi (2025) Golden Flowers of Dhamma. Director: Tenzin Yankyi 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IftsyDwFk - Presentation compiled by Sandra Henville Every year, the monastic community (Monks and nuns) go on a three month retreat called the “Rains Retreat” from mid July to mid October. During this period, they do not visit our centres for teachings as it's a time for deepening their own practice. While the monks and nuns are away, we will have some interesting guest speakers coming in to give the Friday Night talk. Dust in Our Eyes 2025 (Rains Retreat Speakers' Series 2025) Hear stories of everyday dhamma as told by monastics and lay practitioners from various Buddhist traditions. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thebuddhistsocietyofwa BSWA teachings are available: BSWA Teachings BSWA Podcast Channel BSWA DeeperDhamma Podbean Channel BSWA YouTube  

བོད་པའི་བུ་མོ་ཞིག་ལ་སྐྱེ་དངོས་བཟོ་རྩལ་རིག་པའི་ཆེད་ལས་རྩེ་ཕུད་ཀྱི་གཟེངས་རྟགས་ཐོབ་པ། The post བོད་པའི་བུ་མོ་ཞིག་ལ་སྐྱེ་དངོས་བཟོ་རྩལ་རིག་པའི་ཆེད་ལས་རྩེ་ཕུད་ཀྱི་གཟེངས་རྟགས་ཐོབ་པ། appeared first on vot.

“Be with awareness. Let thought and emotion come and go. Don't fight or follow. That's how you find freedom.” What if true freedom isn't about controlling your mind, but remembering the awareness that's always been there? In today's episode of Soul Talk, I sit down with beloved Tibetan meditation master and best-selling author Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche for a soul-stirring conversation on inner peace, joy, and transformation, even in the midst of life's greatest storms. Born into a lineage of Tibetan masters, Mingyur Rinpoche has spent decades teaching the power of awareness and compassion. But it was during a near-death experience, alone, sick, and penniless on the streets of India, that he had a profound realization: beyond fear, beyond suffering, is a pure, unshakable presence we all carry inside. Together, we explore the real meaning of enlightenment, how to deal with fear, desire, and difficult emotions, and why your thoughts are not who you are. Rinpoche shares simple yet radical practices to help you access peace in everyday life, from letting go of the past to navigating addiction, conflict, and uncertainty. This episode is an invitation to return to your true nature. To live from the “inner sky” that remains untouched by life's turbulence. And to remember that even in the darkest moments, you are never truly lost. Tune in and learn how to access lasting inner peace, transform emotional patterns, and reconnect with the unshakable awareness within you. Timestamps:  (00:02:30) - Cultivating joy in times of global chaos (00:05:50) - How to start changing yourself (00:08:00) - What is awareness? (00:12:30) - Becoming free from thought and emotion (00:13:03) - Working with desire and addictive patterns (00:17:40) - Mingyur's near-death experience and what he learned (00:24:30) - What is enlightenment, really? (00:26:00) -  How to love what seems unlovable (00:33:30) - How Mingyur handles conflict with difficult people (00:34:40) - Making aligned decisions in life (00:36:30) - Karma, destiny, and how to change your future (00:38:15) - AI, consciousness, and the mind (00:40:30) -  Final words of wisdom to help us stay grounded Some Questions I Ask: How do we find joy when the world feels like it's falling apart? What's the first step to changing ourselves when we feel justified in our pain? Are all desires bad, or can some be useful? How can we move beyond the fear of death? What does it really mean to be enlightened? How do we love people who hurt others? Is there such a thing as destiny, and how much control do we have? In This Episode You Will Learn:  A powerful way to anchor yourself in peace, no matter what chaos surrounds you.  How to connect with your true self through short, daily moments of awareness. The surprising truth about thoughts and emotions, and why they aren't who you are. A mindful method for transforming addictive urges and unhealthy habits. Why enlightenment isn't magical powers, but recognizing what's already within you. A radical perspective on loving difficult people and seeing their basic goodness. How to reshape your destiny by what you choose in the present moment.    LINKS   YONGEY MINGYUR RIPONCHE'S URL:   https://tergar.org/yongey-mingyur-rinpoche   Get in Touch: Email me at kuteblackson@kuteblackson.com Visit my website: www.kuteblackson.com   Resources with Kute Blackson: Kute's Life changing Path to Abundance & Miracles : https://www.8levelsofgratitude.com   Free masterclass: Learn The Manifestation secret to Remove Mental Blocks & Invisible  Barriers to Attract The Life of Abundance You Desire. REGISTER NOW : https://www.manifestationmasterclassonline.com                  

China is building the largest power plant the world has ever seen, in a very remote corner of Tibet. But the $167 billion hydropower dam has environmentalists and neighboring countries concerned. On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host Menaka Doshi speaks to Bloomberg’s Dan Murtaugh about the engineering and geopolitical challenges, and the impact construction will have on the country’s economy.Read more: Xi Ties His Legacy and China’s Economy to $167 Billion Dam Further listening: China's Plans to Make AI a UtilitySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

རྒྱ་གཞུང་གིས་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མི་མཐོ་རིམ་མི་སྣར་དམིགས་པའི་ཁ་པར་སྤྱི་འབྲེལ་རིམ་པའི་འཇབ་རྒོལ་བྱས་པ་ཤེས་རྟོགས། The post རྒྱ་གཞུང་གིས་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མི་མཐོ་རིམ་མི་སྣར་དམིགས་པའི་ཁ་པར་སྤྱི་འབྲེལ་རིམ་པའི་འཇབ་རྒོལ་བྱས་པ་ཤེས་རྟོགས། appeared first on vot.

China is building the largest power plant the world has ever seen, in a very remote corner of Tibet. But the $167 billion hydropower dam has environmentalists and neighboring countries concerned. On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host Menaka Doshi speaks to Bloomberg’s Dan Murtaugh about the engineering and geopolitical challenges, and the impact construction will have on the country’s economy.Read more: Xi Ties His Legacy and China’s Economy to $167 Billion Dam Further listening: China's Plans to Make AI a UtilitySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Discover the hidden world of sound inside a coastal cave, where ocean waves crash against stone and meditation music flows like water. This immersive binaural soundscape combines ambient layers, Tibetan bowls, and angelic tones to guide you into a deep state of rest and reflection. Perfect for meditation, sleep, or unwinding at the end of the day.   Liking, sharing, and subscribing to Your Sleep Guru® Podcast makes a real difference. These simple actions help the podcast reach a wider audience by informing platforms that the content is valuable and worth recommending. As an independent production, it doesn't rely on paid ads or big marketing teams. Instead, it grows organically through genuine listener support. Every like, follow, and share helps the podcast stay visible, reach new audiences, and continue offering calming, nature-based content to those who need it.   Shop Your Sleep Guru Podcast exclusive T-shirts and caps HERE, created especially for you!  

RUMOURS OF XI JINPING'S UPCOMING REBUKE JUST LIKE HIS FATHER: 1/8 The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of XI Zhongxun, Father of XI Jinping Hardcover – 3 June 2025 by  Joseph Torigian  (Author) https://www.amazon.com.au/Partys-Interests-Come-First-Zhongxun/dp/1503634752/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 1949 XI ZHONGXUN China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one Cf the most powerful individuals inCtheCworld--and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than seven decades. He worked at the right hand of prominent leaders Zhou Enlai and Hu Yaobang. He helped build the Communist base area that saved Mao Zedong in 1935, and he initiated the Special Economic Zones that launched China into the reform era after Mao's death. He led the Party's United Front efforts toward Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese. And though in 1989 he initially sought to avoid violence, he ultimately supported the Party's crackdown on the Tiananmen protesters. The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a sweeping story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People's Republic of China and a deeply personal story about making sense of one's own identity within a larger political context. Drawing on an array of new documents, interviews, diaries, and periodicals, Joseph Torigian vividly tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands. Through the eyes of Xi Jinping's father, Torigian reveals the extraordinary organizational, ideological, and coercive power of the CCP--and the terrible cost in human suffering that comes with it.

EVEN MORE about this episode!What if stress could be your doorway to enlightenment? Join us for an inspiring conversation with mindfulness pioneer Laurence Bibas, as she reveals how meditation can do more than just relax you—it can awaken your inner light. After a life-shifting loss, Laurence turned to mindfulness and Tibetan Buddhism, discovering a path to profound self-connection, joy, and spiritual empowerment.Together, we explore how tuning into the body's subtle signals can unlock emotional healing and lasting transformation. Learn how simple shifts in awareness, like using an “activation phrase,” can rewire your inner dialogue and break free from the pressures of perfection and self-judgment.If you're ready to move beyond coping and step into clarity, presence, and purpose—this episode is your gateway. Don't miss this soul-stirring journey into the power of mindfulness to heal, elevate, and liberate.Guest Biography:Laurence Bibas is a pioneer of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in France, with over 25 years of experience in Tibetan meditation and other wisdom traditions. A passionate speaker and author of Manuel de Mindfulness and Ne s'attendre à rien, être prêt à tout, she shares an authentic and joyful path to self-awareness. Her latest book, The Great Return to Self, invites readers to reconnect with the deep beauty of their innate nature.Episode Chapters:(0:00:01) - Exploring Enlightenment and Joyful Scouting(0:15:10) - Discovering Mindfulness and Inner Peace(0:34:33) - Uncovering Inner Wisdom and Spiritual Growth(0:49:31) - Body Wisdom and Healing Meditation➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan YouTube➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan Español YouTube➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan Português YouTube➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan Deutsch YouTube➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan Français YouTube✏️Ask Julie a Question!

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In this episode I host a dialogue between Lama Glenn Mullin and Oded Rahav about the magic of the Dead Sea. Oded shares how he fell in love with the Dead Sea, the power of story and the arts in communicating important messages, and why he believes water is a sacred medium. Glenn reveals the power of sacred places and how they are formed through a combination of geomantic features and human spiritual activity. Glenn and Oded explore the history of the Dead Sea region, trace 10000 years of Western mysticism, and discuss how the area may hold the keys to peace in the region. … Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep317-dead-sea-magic-lama-glenn-mullin-oded-rahav Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. … Topics include: 00:00 - Intro 00:47 - Oded's world record swim to save the Dead Sea 03:10 - The political complexity of the Dead Sea swim 04:11 - Falling in love with the Dead Sea 05:51 - Meeting Glenn Mullin 06:52 - How to build trust 08:08 - The powerful energy of sacred places 11:03 - The impact of humans on the earth 11:37 - Glenn talks about the Dead Sea 13:02 - How to relate to sacred places 14:19 - A great healing sea 14:55 - The Dalai Lama's prophecy 15:39 - Saving the Dead Sea 16:48 - A potential peace initiative 18:45 - A million signatures 19:29 - Water is a scared medium 20:24 - Dead Sea stories 22:08 - Biological attributes of the Dead Sea 23:05 - Dead Sea is vanishing 23:38 - 4 main threats to the Dead Sea 27:55 - Water treating 28:55 - Practical solutions to political problems 30:03 - Power places and pilgrimage 32:03 - Magic of the Dead Sea 34:49 - Twin rivers and other initiatives 36:49 - Incentivising capitalism 38:00 - Poems about the Dead Sea 39:34 - Glenn's history with the Dead Sea 40:27 - Arts initiatives 41:02 - More Dead Sea poetry 41:39 - 10000 years of Western mysticism 42:14 - Glenn's message to listeners 43:36 - Oded's invitation to listeners 45:41 - Geomancy vs human mystical infusion in creating sacred places 49:01 - Why save the Dead Sea? 50:04 - A future-oriented perspective 52:03 - How change happens 56:41 - Meditation caves next to the Dead Sea 57:34 - Meditation caves around the world 01:01:03 - Tibetan medicine and healing retreats 01:03:09 - Oded's documentary 01:04:33 - Rheumatism and skin …
 Previous episodes with Lama Glenn Mullin: - https://www.guruviking.com/search?q=glenn%20mullin 
 Find out more about Lama Glenn Mullin: - http://www.glennmullin.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/Maitripa.Glenn Find out more about Oded Rahav & the Dead Sea Guardians: - https://deadseaguardians.org/team/
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Magdalena Maria Turek is an independent research scholar. She received her PhD from Humboldt University, Germany, and was a Research Fellow with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies at the American Council of Learned Societies, USA. Her research examines how contemporary reiterations of Tibetan Buddhist orthopraxy, local narratives, and religious historiography shape Buddhist identities among Tibetans in China and the diaspora. She just published Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet: Saint Making and Ascetic Performance (Routledge, 2025), a fascinating ethnography of the meditation school of Lapchi in Kham, which is in Eastern Tibet in modern day Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai Province. This is a relatively modern hermitage founded by a charismatic ascetic master named Tsultrim Tarchen, and populated by various nuns and monks who are studying meditation under Tsultrim Tarchen. Her book explores the rise of Tsultrim Tarchen, the activities practiced by the students there, and the how their contemplative practices and ascetic regimes allow for self-formation and empowerment on the part of the meditators, participate in ethno-religious revival, and articulate a counter-cultural position against Chinese domination of Tibetan culture. I found this book rich with ethnographic detail about the various nuns and why they were there. It was able to help me understand modern Buddhist practices on their own terms, but also how they relate to broader social and historical forces. It's very readable, but also deeply researched both in the field and in terms of the theoretical literature.  Note: Early on in the podcast, we mention a film made by some traveling companions of Dr. Turek's around the same area she did fieldwork. The film was not made by Dr. Turek and does not reflect her views, but gives a sense of the area where she did her fieldwork. The link to the trailer can be found here. Kate Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming. She recently published Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford University Press, 2025). Her other work can be found on her personal website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

བདུན་ཕྲག་འདིའི་བོད་དོན་གསར་འགྱུར་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས། ༢༠༢༥།༠༧།༢༥ Tibet This Week (Tibetan)-July 25, 2025 ◆ སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ལ་དྭགས་ཟངས་དཀར་ནང་གི་མཛད་འཕྲིན་སྐོར། ◆ རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་བོད་ཁམས་དཀར་མཛེས་ཁུལ་བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་དུ་མཆོད་རྟེན་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་བརྒལ་བ་གཏོར་བཤིག་བཏང་སྟེ་གནས་ཚུལ་ཕྱིར་བསྒྲགས་ལ་དམ་བསྒྲགས་ཤུགས་ཆེ་བྱེད་བཞིན་པ། ◆དཔལ་ལྡན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལ་ Legion of Honour ཞེས་ཧྥ་རན་སིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཆེ་བསྟོད་གཟེངས་རྟགས་ཐོབ་པར་དགའ་བསུ་ཞུས་པ། ◆དཔལ་ལྡན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ཡུལ་གྲུ་ཁག་ནས་བཞུགས་སྒར་དུ་ཤེས་ཡོན་བལྟ་སྐོར་དང་རིག་གཞུང་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ཐོག་ལ་ཕེབས་པའི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྣམས་དང་ཐུག་འཕྲད། ◆བོད་མི་མང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་དགེ་བཤེས་ཨ་ཀྲོང་རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ལགས་དང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཚེ་བརྟན་ལགས་རྣམ་གཉིས་ནས་རྒྱ་གར་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ཁུལ་གྱི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ས་བགོས་ཕྱོགས་བསྐྱོད་ལེགས་གྲུབ་ཟིན་པ། ◆ རྒྱ་ནག་གི་རྒྱལ་ས་པེ་ཅིང་དུ་ཚོགས་པའི་ཡུ་རོབ་མཐུན་ཚོགས་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་དབར་གྱི་ཆེས་མཐོའི་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཐེངས་ ༢༥ པའི་ཐོག་ཡུ་རོབ་མཐུན་ཚོགས་ནས་བོད་ནང་གི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་གི་གནས་སྟངས་ལ་ཐུགས་འཚབ་གནང་བ། https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDorrxcmhCU&list=PLCuAfgwBJqs1UnOfTOgTnHnrTrt_o84Xv https://ghoton.net/ https://hhthedalailama90.net/

Cultural Genocide, Ecocide and the Geopolitics of the CCP's Water Industrial ComplexDiscussion with Dr. Lobsang Sangay on the repressive occupation of the CCP in Tibet and the utilization of tightly controlled tourism to obfuscate it. We discuss the cultural genocide that has and is taking place, including the destruction of religious sites and compelling children to go to boarding school to Sinicize the next generation of Tibetans. We also discuss the CCP's commission of ecocide in Tibet from its rapacious extraction of critical minerals and other elements. Additionally, we discuss the environmental, human rights and geopolitical issues concerning the CCP's dams in Tibet, including building the world's largest dam. We also discuss the impact of climate change on the Tibetan plateau, the Tibetan government in exile and how governments in exile can retain democratic structures.For More Info: http://thegravity.fm/#/episode/66

Magdalena Maria Turek is an independent research scholar. She received her PhD from Humboldt University, Germany, and was a Research Fellow with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies at the American Council of Learned Societies, USA. Her research examines how contemporary reiterations of Tibetan Buddhist orthopraxy, local narratives, and religious historiography shape Buddhist identities among Tibetans in China and the diaspora. She just published Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet: Saint Making and Ascetic Performance (Routledge, 2025), a fascinating ethnography of the meditation school of Lapchi in Kham, which is in Eastern Tibet in modern day Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai Province. This is a relatively modern hermitage founded by a charismatic ascetic master named Tsultrim Tarchen, and populated by various nuns and monks who are studying meditation under Tsultrim Tarchen. Her book explores the rise of Tsultrim Tarchen, the activities practiced by the students there, and the how their contemplative practices and ascetic regimes allow for self-formation and empowerment on the part of the meditators, participate in ethno-religious revival, and articulate a counter-cultural position against Chinese domination of Tibetan culture. I found this book rich with ethnographic detail about the various nuns and why they were there. It was able to help me understand modern Buddhist practices on their own terms, but also how they relate to broader social and historical forces. It's very readable, but also deeply researched both in the field and in terms of the theoretical literature.  Note: Early on in the podcast, we mention a film made by some traveling companions of Dr. Turek's around the same area she did fieldwork. The film was not made by Dr. Turek and does not reflect her views, but gives a sense of the area where she did her fieldwork. The link to the trailer can be found here. Kate Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming. She recently published Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford University Press, 2025). Her other work can be found on her personal website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Magdalena Maria Turek is an independent research scholar. She received her PhD from Humboldt University, Germany, and was a Research Fellow with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies at the American Council of Learned Societies, USA. Her research examines how contemporary reiterations of Tibetan Buddhist orthopraxy, local narratives, and religious historiography shape Buddhist identities among Tibetans in China and the diaspora. She just published Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet: Saint Making and Ascetic Performance (Routledge, 2025), a fascinating ethnography of the meditation school of Lapchi in Kham, which is in Eastern Tibet in modern day Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai Province. This is a relatively modern hermitage founded by a charismatic ascetic master named Tsultrim Tarchen, and populated by various nuns and monks who are studying meditation under Tsultrim Tarchen. Her book explores the rise of Tsultrim Tarchen, the activities practiced by the students there, and the how their contemplative practices and ascetic regimes allow for self-formation and empowerment on the part of the meditators, participate in ethno-religious revival, and articulate a counter-cultural position against Chinese domination of Tibetan culture. I found this book rich with ethnographic detail about the various nuns and why they were there. It was able to help me understand modern Buddhist practices on their own terms, but also how they relate to broader social and historical forces. It's very readable, but also deeply researched both in the field and in terms of the theoretical literature.  Note: Early on in the podcast, we mention a film made by some traveling companions of Dr. Turek's around the same area she did fieldwork. The film was not made by Dr. Turek and does not reflect her views, but gives a sense of the area where she did her fieldwork. The link to the trailer can be found here. Kate Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming. She recently published Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford University Press, 2025). Her other work can be found on her personal website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

Magdalena Maria Turek is an independent research scholar. She received her PhD from Humboldt University, Germany, and was a Research Fellow with the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies at the American Council of Learned Societies, USA. Her research examines how contemporary reiterations of Tibetan Buddhist orthopraxy, local narratives, and religious historiography shape Buddhist identities among Tibetans in China and the diaspora. She just published Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet: Saint Making and Ascetic Performance (Routledge, 2025), a fascinating ethnography of the meditation school of Lapchi in Kham, which is in Eastern Tibet in modern day Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai Province. This is a relatively modern hermitage founded by a charismatic ascetic master named Tsultrim Tarchen, and populated by various nuns and monks who are studying meditation under Tsultrim Tarchen. Her book explores the rise of Tsultrim Tarchen, the activities practiced by the students there, and the how their contemplative practices and ascetic regimes allow for self-formation and empowerment on the part of the meditators, participate in ethno-religious revival, and articulate a counter-cultural position against Chinese domination of Tibetan culture. I found this book rich with ethnographic detail about the various nuns and why they were there. It was able to help me understand modern Buddhist practices on their own terms, but also how they relate to broader social and historical forces. It's very readable, but also deeply researched both in the field and in terms of the theoretical literature.  Note: Early on in the podcast, we mention a film made by some traveling companions of Dr. Turek's around the same area she did fieldwork. The film was not made by Dr. Turek and does not reflect her views, but gives a sense of the area where she did her fieldwork. The link to the trailer can be found here. Kate Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming. She recently published Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford University Press, 2025). Her other work can be found on her personal website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Next Monday, July 28, 2025, is Chokor Duchen, the Great Holy Day of Turning the Wheel of Dharma, commemorating the first public teaching of the Buddha Shakyamuni, the Four Truths of Noble Beings.In a live recording from Chokor Duchen 2024, Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite us to delve into this living practice of praise and grateful respect to the Buddha. We invite you to incorporate into your practice to start your day on Monday and all four great Holy Days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar that celebrate the life of the Buddha.A pdf of the text for the practice is available on our website at https://www.prajnafire.com/resources THE PRAJNA SPARKS PODCAST CELEBRATES ITS FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY TODAYTO ALLOW TIME AND SPACE TO DISCERN WHERE TO TAKE THE PODCAST GOING FORWARD WE WILL BE ON HIATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICESTAY TUNED, AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!#buddha #buddhashakyamuni #buddhanature #Mahamudra #buddhism #buddhistmeditation #tibetanbuddhismResources for this episode⁠⁠⁠⁠Make a dana offering⁠⁠⁠⁠PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.Learn more about the integrative dharma practice of ⁠⁠⁠⁠listening, contemplating, and meditating ⁠⁠⁠⁠from Prajna Rising, our online journal.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/3xRySck⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PUBLISHED ARTICLES⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.prajnafire.com/media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Prajna Fire on Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://prajnafire.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee RatnaFOLLOW US⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Global Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and ZopaLama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Book Online at Prajna Fire⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check us out in the media ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.prajnafire.com/mediaEMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.comFIND US on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Prajna Fire website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.prajnafire.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@karmayeshechodron⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@karmazopajigme⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.shivgauree.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

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This week we talk about the PKK, Turkey, and the DEM Party.We also discuss terrorism, discrimination, and stateless nations.Recommended Book: A Century of Tomorrows by Glenn AdamsonTranscriptKurdistan is a cultural region, not a country, but part of multiple countries, in the Middle East, spanning roughly the southeastern portion of Turkey, northern Iraq, the northwestern portion of Iran, and northern Syrian. Some definitions also include part of the Southern Caucasus mountains, which contains chunks of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.So this is a sprawling region that straddles multiple nations, and it's defined by the presence of the Kurdish people, the Kurds, who live all over the world, but whose culture is concentrated in this area, where it originally developed, and where, over the generations, there have periodically been very short-lived Kurdish nations of various shapes, sizes, and compositions.The original dynasties from which the Kurds claim their origin were Egyptian, and they governed parts of northeastern African and what is today Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. That was back in the 8th to 12th century, during which Saladin, who was the sultan of both Egypt and Syria, played a major historical role leading Muslim military forces against the Christian Crusader states during the Third Crusade, and leading those forces to victory in 1187, which resulted in Muslim ownership of the Levant, even though the Crusaders continued to technically hold the Kingdom of Jerusalem for another hundred years or so, until 1291.Saladin was Kurdish and kicked off a sultanate that lasted until the mid-13th century, when a diverse group of former slave-soldiers called the mamluks overthrew Saladin's family's Ayyubid sultanate and replaced it with their own.So Kurdish is a language spoken in that Kurdistan region, and the Kurds are considered to be an Iranian ethnic group, because Kurdish is part of a larger collection of languages and ethnicities, though many Kurds consider themselves to be members of a stateless nation, similar in some ways to pre-Israel Jewish people, Tibetan people under China's rule, or the Yoruba people, who primarily live in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, but who were previously oriented around a powerful city-state in that region, which served as the central loci of the Ife Empire, before the Europeans showed up and decided to forcibly move people around and draw new borders across the African continent.The Kurds are likewise often politically and culturally powerful, and that's led to a lot of pushback from leaders in the nations where they live and at times operate as cultural blocs, and it's led to some very short-lived Kurdish nations these people have managed to establish in the 20th century, including the Kingdom of Kurdistan from 1921-1924, the Republic of Ararat from 1927-1930, and the Republic of Mahabad, which was formed as a puppet state of the Soviet Union in 1946 in northwestern Iran, following a Soviet push for Kurdish nationalism in the region, which was meant to prevent the Allies from controlling the region following WWII, but which then dissolved just a few months after its official formation due to waning support from the Kurdish tribes that initially helped make it a reality.What I'd like to talk about today is the Kurdistan Worker's Party, and why their recently declared ceasefire with Turkey is being seen as a pretty big deal.—The Kurdistan Worker's Party, depending on who you ask, is a political organization or a terrorist organization. It was formed in Turkey in late-1978, and its original, founding goal was to create an independent Kurdish state, a modern Kurdistan, in what is today a small part of Turkey, but in the 1990s it shifted its stated goals to instead just get more rights for Kurds living in Turkey, including more autonomy but also just equal rights, as Kurdish people in many nations, including Turkey, have a long history of being discriminated against, in part because of their cultural distinctiveness, including their language, manner of dress, and cultural practices, and in part because, like many tight-knit ethnic groups, they often operate as a bloc, which in the age of democracy also means they often vote as a bloc, which can feel like a threat to other folks in areas with large Kurdish populations.When I say Kurdish people in Turkey have long been discriminated against, that includes things like telling them they can no longer speak Kurdish and denying that their ethnic group exists, but it also includes massacres conducted by the government against Kurdish people; at times tens of thousands of Kurds were slaughtered by the Turkish army. There was also an official ban on the words Kurds, Kurdistan, and Kurdish by the Turkish government in the 1980s, and Kurdish villages were destroyed, food headed to these villages was embargoed, and there was a long-time ban on the use of the Kurdish language in public life, and people who used it were arrested.As is often the case in such circumstances, folks who support the Kurdish Worker's Party, which is often shorthanded as the PKK, will tell you this group just pushes back against an oppressive regime, and they do what they have to to force the government to backtrack on their anti-Kurdish laws and abuses, which have been pretty widespread and violent.The PKK, in turn, has been criticized for, well, doing terrorist stuff, including using child soldiers, conducting suicide bombings, massacring groups of civilians, engaging in drug trafficking to fund their cause, and executing people on camera as a means of sowing terror.Pretty horrible stuff on both sides, if you look at this objectively, then, and both sides have historically justified their actions by pointing at the horrible things the other side has done to them and theirs.And that's the context for a recent announcement by the leader of the PKK, that the group would be disarming—and very literally so, including a symbolic burning of their weapons in a city in northern Iraq, which was shared online—and they would be shifting their efforts from that of violent militarism and revolution to that of political dialogue and attempting to change the Turkish government from the inside.Turkish President Erdogan, for his part, has seemed happy to oblige these efforts and gestures, fulfilling his role by receiving delegates from the Turkish, pro-Kurd party, the DEM Party, and smilingly shaking that delegate's hand on camera, basically showing the world, and those who have played some kind of role in the militant effort against the Turkish government, that this is the way of things now, we're not fighting physically anymore, we're moving on to wearing suits and pushing for Kurdish rights within the existing governmental structures.The founder of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, got in on the action, as well, releasing a seven-minute video from prison, which was then broadcast by the PKK's official media distribution outlet, saying that the fighting is over. This was his first appearance on camera in 26 years, and he used it to say their effort paid off, the Kurds now have an officially recognized identity, and it's time to leverage that identity politically to move things in the right direction.Erdogan's other messages on the matter, to the Kurdish people, but also those who have long lived in fear of the PKK's mass-violence, have reinforced that sentiment, saying that the Kurds are officially recognized as a political entity, and that's how things would play out from this point forward—and this will be good for everyone. And both sides are saying that, over and over, because, well, child soldiers and suicide bombings and massacres conducted by both sides are really, really not good for anyone.By all indications, this has been a very carefully orchestrated dance by those on both sides of the conflict, which again, has been ongoing since 1978, and really picked up the pace and became continuous and ultra-violent, in the 1980s.There was an attempted peace process back in the 20-teens, but the effort, which included a temporary truce between 2013 and 2015, failed, following the murder of two Turkish police officers, the PKK initially claiming responsibility, but later denying they had any involvement. That led to an uptick in military actions by both groups against the other, and the truce collapsed.This new peace process began in 2024 and really took off in late-February of 2025, when that aforementioned message was broadcast by the PKK's leader from prison after lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish DEM Party worked to connect him and the Turkish government, and eventually helped negotiate the resulting mid-May of 2025 disarmament.Turkey's military leaders have said they will continue to launch strikes against PKK-affiliated groups that continue to operate in the region, and the PKK's disarmament announcement has been embraced by some such groups, while others, like the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is tied to the PKK, but not directly affiliated with them, have said this truce doesn't apply to them.Most governments, globally, have heralded this disarmament as a major victory for the world and Turkey in particular, though the response within Turkey, and in Kurdish areas in particular, has apparently been mixed, with some people assuming the Turkish government will backtrack and keep the DEM Party from accomplishing much of anything, and worrying about behind-the-scenes deals, including a reported agreement between Erdogan's government and the DEM Party to support Erdogan's desire to transform the Turkish government into a presidential system, which would grant him more direct control and power, while others are seemingly just happy to hear that the violence and fear might end.Also notable here is that a lot of Turkey's foreign policy has revolved around hobbling and hurting the PKK for decades, including Turkey's initial hindering of Sweden's accession to NATO, which was partly a means of getting other nations to give the Turkish government stuff they wanted, like upgraded military equipment, but was also a push against the Swedish government's seeming protection of people associated with the PKK, since Sweden's constitution allows people to hold all sorts of beliefs.Some analysts have speculated that this could change the geopolitics of the Middle East fundamentally, as Turkey has long been a regional power, but has been partly hobbled by its conflict with the PKK, and the easing or removal of that conflict could free them up to become more dominant, especially since Israel's recent clobbering of Iran seems to have dulled the Iranian government's shine as the de facto leader of many Muslim groups and governments in the area.It's an opportune time for Erdogan to grab more clout and influence, in other words, and that might have been part of the motivation to go along with the PKK's shift to politics: it frees him and his military up to engage in some adventurism and/or posturing further afield, which could then set Turkey up as the new center of Muslim influence, contra-the Saudis' more globalized version of the concept, militarily and economically. Turkey could become a huge center of geopolitical gravity in this part of the world, in other words, and that seems even more likely now that this disarmament has happened.It's still early days in this new seeming state of affairs, though, and there's a chance that the Turkish government's continued strikes on operating PKK affiliated groups could sever these new ties, but those involved seem to be cleaving to at least some optimism, even as many locals continue hold their breath and hope against hope that this time is different than previous attempts at peace.Show Noteshttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/heres-what-to-know-about-turkeys-decision-to-move-forward-with-swedens-bid-to-join-natohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_PKK%E2%80%93Turkey_peace_processhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%932015_PKK%E2%80%93Turkey_peace_processhttps://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/05/turkey-pkk-disarm-disband-impacts?lang=enhttps://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pkk-claims-deadly-suicide-bombing-turkish-police-stationhttps://web.archive.org/web/20161016064155/https://hrwf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Child-soldiers-in-ISIS-PKK-Boko-Haram%E2%80%A6.pdfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Partyhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/jul/11/kurdistan-workers-party-pkk-burn-weapons-in-disarming-ceremony-videohttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/18/turkiye-pkk-analysis-recalibrates-politicshttps://time.com/7303236/erdogan-war-peace-kurds/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/unidentified-drone-kills-pkk-member-injures-another-in-iraqhttps://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unidentified-drone-kills-pkk-member-injures-another-near-iraqs-sulaymaniyah-2025-07-19/https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2025/7/11/why-has-the-pkk-ended-its-armed-strugglehttps://archive.is/20250718061819/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-07-17/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-the-possible-end-to-turkeys-kurdish-problem-could-become-israels-turkey-problem/00000198-1794-dd64-abb9-bfb5dbf30000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kurdish_dynasties_and_countrieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Kurdish_nationalism This is a public episode. 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ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༧ཚེས་༡༩ དང་ ༢༠ སྟེ། ཉིན་གཉིས་རིང་མཱེ་སོར་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ Kalamandiraས་གནས་སུ་རྒྱ་གར་ཡུལ་མི་དང་བོད་མི། ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་མི་རིགས་སོགས་སྟོང་ཕྲག་བརྒལ་བ་འདུ་འཛོམས་གནང་སྟེ་བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་སྟོན་ཞིག་ཟབ་རྒྱས་ངང་འཚོགས་གནང་སོང་། དེ་ཡང་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ཡོངས་ཁྱབ་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་གནང་བ་བཞིན་བོད་མི་གནས་སྡོད་ས་ཕྱོགས་ཀུན་ལ་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་དང་བསྟུན་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་ཞེས་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུ་དང་ཞུ་མུས་ཡིན་པ་བཞིན། དུས་སྟོན་དེ་ཡང་འདི་ག་རྒྱ་གར་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་སུ་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ཁྱབ་ཁོངས་སུ་གཏོགས་པའི་ཀོ་ལེ་གྷལ་དོན་ལྡན་གླིང་གཞིས་ཆགས་དང་། ཧུན་སུར་རབ་རྒྱས་གླིང་གཞིས་ཆགས་། སྦེལ་ཀོབ་ལུགས་བདེ་གཉིས་བཅས་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་གཞིས་ཆགས་ཆེ་ཁག་བཞི་ཐུན་མོངས་ནས་གོ་སྒྲིག་གནང་བ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་འདི་ག་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་ལ་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གི་ཚོགས་མི་ཀོ་ལེ་གྷལ་དོན་ལྡན་གླིང་གཞིས་འགོ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཚེ་རིང་ལགས་ནས་ངོ་སྤྲོད་གནང་སོང་། ཉིན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་དུས་སྟོན་ཐོག་སྐུ་མགྲོན་དུ་ JSS ཧིན་རྡུའི་བླ་ཆེན་ H.H Jagadguru Sri Sri Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Mahaswamiji མཆོག་དང་། H.H Jagadguru Sri Sri Dr. NirmalanandathaMahaswamiji མཆོག ཀར་ན་ཏྲ་ཀ་མངའ་སྡེ་གཞུང་གི་ནང་སྲིད་བློན་ཆེན་སྐུ་ཞབས་ Shri G. Parameshwara མཆོག སྤྱི་ཚོགས་བདེ་དོན་བློན་ཆེན་ Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa མཆོག་སོགས་གནད་ཡོད་ས་གནས་དཔོན་རིགས་དང་ཆོས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་དབུ་ཁྲིད། བོད་མིའི་དགོན་སྡེ་ཁག་གི་མཁན་པོ་དང་ས་གནས་འགོ་འཛིན་སོགས་ཆེད་ཕེབས་གནང་སོང་། སྐབས་དེར་སྐུ་མགྲོན་རྣམས་ནས་༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་རླབས་ཆེན་གྱི་མཛད་འཕྲིན་ཁག་ལ་རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རངས་ཞུ་བ་མ་ཟད་ཁོང་ནི་འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེའི་དེད་དཔོན་དང་ཀུན་གྱི་དད་མོས་གནང་སའི་ཆོས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་དབུ་ཁྲིད་ཅིག་ཡིན་པར་གསུང་གནང་སོང་། ནང་སྲིད་བློན་ཆེན་མཆོག་ནས་དེ་སྔ་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་སྲིད་བློན་ནེ་རུ་ནས་ད་ལྟའི་སྲིད་བློན་མོ་རྡི་བར། བོད་མི་ཚོར་རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་ནས་རོགས་སྐྱོར་གནང་ཡོད་པ་བཞིན་དེ་སྔ་མངའ་སྡེ་སྤྱི་ཁྱབ་བློན་ཆེན་སྐུ་ཞབས་དམ་པ་ S.Nijalingappa ནས་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་བོད་མི་གཞིས་ཆགས་ཁག་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་རོགས་རམ་གནང་བ་བཞིིན་རྒྱ་གར་ནི་བོད་མི་ཚོས་སོ་སོའི་ནང་ལྟ་བུ་ཡིན་པ་ཚོར་དགོས་པ་གསུངས་བྱུང་། དུས་སྟོན་འདིའི་དམིགས་བསལ་ལས་རིམས་ཤིག་ནི་དྷ་ས་བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་གི་ངེས་སྟོན་པ་དགེ་བཤེས་ལྷག་རྡོར་ལགས་གདན་ཞུ་གནང་སྟེ་མེངྒ་ལོར་དུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་གསུམ་དང་ལྷག་པར་དུ་མེ་སོར་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ནས་དུས་སྟོན་ལ་ཤེས་ཡོན་སྡེ་ཚན་ཁག་འདྲ་མིན་ནས་ཕེབས་པའི་སློབ་ཕྲུག་དང་མི་མང་ལ་༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་དམ་བཅའ་བཞིའི་ཐོག་ལ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་གཏམ་བཤད་དང་བགྲོ་གླེང་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད། བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་སྟོན་དེའི་ཐོག་ཆོས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་དོན་དང་། དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་བཞེངས་ཚུལ་སོགས་གཞིས་ཆགས་དགོན་སྡེ་ཁག་ནས་གཟིགས་འབུལ་དང་། འགྲོ་ཕན་བོད་ཀྱི་སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང་ནས་བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པ། གཞན་ཡང་ལྷ་འབྲི་དང་སྐུ་འདྲ། ཆས་གོས། རིག་གཞུང་འཁྲབ་སྟོན། ༸རྒྱལ་བའི་མཛད་འཕྲིན་ཀྱི་སྐུ་པར་འགྲེམས་སྟོན། […] The post རྒྱ་གར་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་སུ་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་གོ་སྟོན་དང་བསྟུན་བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་སྟོན་ཞིག་གོ་སྒྲིག་གནང་བ། appeared first on vot.

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འདི་ལོ་སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་དང་བསྟུན། བོད་མི་སྤྱི་དང་ལྷག་པར་དད་ལྡན་མང་ཚོགས་རྣམས་ནས་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་དང་ཞུ་མུས་ཡིན་པ་ལྟར། Empowering the Vision འམ་ན་གཞོན་ནུས་སྤེལ་ལས་གཞི་ཚོགས་པས་ Invest in the Future མ་འོངས་པར་མ་རྩ་འཇོག་ཅེས་པའི་ལས་གཞི་ཞིག་དབུ་འབྱེད་གནང་འདུག་པ་དང་། དེའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་གཙོ་བོ་ནི་བོད་པའི་ཚོང་པ་གསར་རྙིང་དང་མ་རྩ་འཛུགས་མཁན་བར་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་ཆེད་དུ་སྡིངས་ཆ་ཞིག་བསྐྲུན་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་རེད་འདུག དེ་ཡང་འདི་ཚེས་ ༡༦ ཉིན་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྡི་ལི་རུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་ India International Center རྒྱ་གར་རྒྱལ་སྤྱའི་ལྟེ་གནས་ཁང་དུ་དབུ་འབྱེད་གནང་འདུག་ཅིང་། གཙོ་བོ་ད་ལྟའི་ཆར་བཙན་བྱོལ་ནང་བོད་པའི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྣམས་ལ་བསམ་བློ་གསར་གཏོད་ཀྱི་ནུས་པ་རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་ཕྱིན་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་དང་། སྤྱི་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་བོད་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གནས་སྟངས་དེ་བཞིན་ཡར་རྒྱས་ཕྱིན་བཞིན་ཡོད་སྟབས། མ་རྩ་དགོས་མཁན་རྣམས་ལ་མ་རྩ་མཁོ་སྒྲུབ་དང་། མ་རྩ་འཇོག་མཁན་རྣམས་ལ་དེ་ལྟ་བུའི་སྡིང་ཆ་ཞིག་བསྐྲུན་པ་པའི་བརྒྱུད་བོད་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་ཁུལ་རང་ཁ་རང་གསོ་ཙམ་མ་ཟད། ཕྱི་གསལ་ནང་གསལ་དང་། འགན་འཁུར་ལྡན་པའི་འབྲེལ་ལམ་གོང་ཐོར་བརྒྱུད་བོད་མིའི་ཚོང་པ་ནང་ཁུལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་དང་། ཡིད་ཆེས་ལྡན་པའི་ཁོར་ཡུག་ཞིག་བསྐྲུན་བཅས་ཀྱི་དམིགས་ཚད་བཟུང་ཡོད་པ་རེད་འདུག འདི་གའི་གསར་འགོད་པས་གནད་དོན་དེ་འབྲེལ་ན་གཞོན་ནུས་སྤེལ་ལས་གཞི་ཚོགས་པའི་འགན་འཛིན་ཚེ་རིང་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལགས་སུ་བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུས་སྐབས་ཁོང་གིས། སྤྱིར་བཏང་ཉེ་ཆར་གློ་བུར་དུ་ཨ་རིའི་རོགས་དངུལ་མེད་པར་གྱུར་དུས། བོད་པའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་དཀའ་ངལ་ཆེ་ཆུང་ལ་ལྟོས་མེད་མང་པོ་ཞིག་དཀའ་ངལ་ནང་ལྷུང་ཡོད་སྟབས། མ་འོངས་མི་གཞན་ལ་བརྟེན་མ་དགོས་པར་རང་ཁ་རང་གསོ་ཡོང་རྒྱུ་དང་། ལས་གཞི་དེ་བཞིན་ཐེངས་མ་དང་པོ་ཆགས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་སྐོར་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་གནང་བྱུང་། རྩ་བའི་འདི་ཚེས་ ༡༦ ཉིན་ལས་གཞི་དེ་འབྲེལ་མཛད་སྒོ་ཞིག་ཚོགས་འདུག་པ་དང་། སྐབས་དེ་དུས་སྐུ་མགྲོན་གྱི་གཙོ་བོར་ལྡི་ལི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་གཅོད་འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་ལགས་དང་། ཚོགས་པ་དེ་གའི་མ་དངུལ་དོ་དམ་པ་དང་སྤྱི་འཐུས་དབུ་དཀར་ཚང་གཡུ་སྒྲོན་ལགས། དེ་བཞིན་ལས་གཞི་དེ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་བོད་པའི་ཚོང་པ་རྣམས་པ་ལྷན་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད་འདུག་ཅིང་། སྐབས་དེར་ལྡི་ལི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་གཅོད་འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་ལགས་ཀྱིས། ལས་གཞི་གང་འདྲ་ཞིག་སྤེལ་གྱི་ཡོད་ནའང་དཀའ་ངལ་ཆུང་ཚགས་རྣམས་ལ་གཡེང་ནས་མ་བཞུགས་པར་ཕུག་རྒྱང་རིང་པོར་དམིགས་ནས་འབད་བརྩོན་མུ་མཐུད་གནང་རྒྱུ་གལ་ཆེན་ཡིན་པའི་ནན་བརྗོད་གནང་འདུག The post བོད་པའི་ཚོང་པ་གསར་རྙིང་དང་མ་འཛུགས་གནང་མཁན་བར་འབྲེལ་ལམ་གྱི་ལས་གཞི་དབུ་འཛུགས། appeared first on vot.

ཨ་རིའི་རྒྱལ་ས་ Washington DC ནང་དུ་ཡུལ་དེའི་ས་གནས་འདྲ་མིན་ནས་ཕེབས་པའི་བོད་མི་ན་གཞོན་ ༡༢ ཙམ་ལྷན་འཛོམས་ཐོག་བོད་དོན་ཞུ་གཏུགས་དང་གྲོས་ཚོགས་སུ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འཚོལ་ཐབས། ཁྲིམས་བཟོའི་བརྒྱུད་རིམ་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་འགོ་ཁྲིད་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་ཕུལ་བཞིན་འདུག དེ་ཡང་ཨ་རིའི་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྦ་ཤིང་ཊོན་ཌི་སིར་ཟླ་བ་འདིའི་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༡༢ ནས་དབུ་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས་སང་ཉིན་བར་ཁྱོན་གཟའ་འཁོར་གཅིག་གི་རིང་བོད་རིགས་ན་གཞོན་གྱི་འགོ་ཁྲིད་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་ཞིག་འཚོག་བཞིན་འདུག་པ་དང་། ཟབ་སྦྱོང་དེའི་ཁྲོད་བཀའ་བློན་ཁྲི་ཟུར་བཀྲས་མཐོང་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མཆོག་གིས་གཙོས་པའི་ལྟེ་གནས་ཁང་དེའི་གཙོ་འཛིན་ཟུར་པ་སྐུ་ཞབས་ John Ackerly ལགས་དང་ལྟེ་གནས་ཁང་གི་ཉམས་ཞིབ་འགན་འཛིན་བུ་ཆུང་ཚེ་རིང་ལགས་བཅས་ཀྱིས་ཨ་རིའི་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་འགྲོ་ལུགས་དང་ཕྱི་འབྲེལ་སྲིད་བྱུས་གཙོས་པའི། མ་འོངས་འགོ་ཁྲིད་གནང་ཕྱོགས་དང་དེ་བཞིན་བོད་དོན་ཞུ་གཏུག་བྱེད་ཕྱོགས་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཐབས་བྱུས་འདྲ་མིན་སྐོར་ཟབ་ཁྲིད་གནང་འདུག ཟབ་སྦྱོང་གོ་སྒྲིག་གནང་མཁན་གྲས་སུ་ཡོད་པ་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་བོད་དོན་ལས་འགུལ་ཁང་གི་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་དང་འབྲེལ་འདྲིས་འགན་འཛིན་ཚེ་སྦྱིན་མཁའ་འགྲོ་ལགས་སུ་བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུས་པར་ཁོང་གིས། ལྟེ་གནས་ཁང་དེས་ལོ་ལྟར་ཨ་རིའི་མཐོ་སློབ་ཁག་གི་བོད་རིགས་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྣམས་ལ་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་དེ་འདྲ་ཞིག་གོ་སྒྲིག་གནང་དོན་གང་ཡིན་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཐད་ལ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་གནང་པ་དང་འབྲེལ། སློབ་མ་ཚོའི་ངོས་ནས་ཨ་རིའི་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་དང་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འགྲོ་ལུགས། དེ་བཞིན་བོད་ཕྱི་ནང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་སོགས་རྒྱུས་ལོན་གཏིང་ཟབ་ཡོང་ཆེད་དོ་དབྱིངས་ཆེན་པོ་གནང་གི་ཡོད་པ་གསུངས་སོང་། ཁོང་རྣམས་ནས་འདས་པའི་ཉིན་གྲངས་བཞིའི་རིང་ཨ་རི་རྒྱལ་ས་ཝ་ཤིང་ཊོན་ཌི་སིར་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་ལྟ་ཞིབ་ཚོགས་པའི་རྒྱ་ནག་ཐོག་གི་འགན་འཛིན་ Maya Wang ལགས་དང་འགན་འཛིན་ཟུར་པ་ Sophie Richardson ལགས། རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་བོད་དོན་ལས་འགུལ་ཁང་གི་སྲིད་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ལམ་འགན་འཛིན་ Franz Matzner ཧྥརེནྫ་མཱཛནར་ལགས། དེ་བཞིན་བྱང་ཨ་རིའི་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་ལས་ཁང་གི་དྲུང་ཆེ་དང་རྒྱ་རིགས་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་པ་སོགས་དང་ཐུག་འཕྲད་ཀྱིས་ཞུ་གཏུགས་གནང་ཕྱོགས་དང་བོད་ནང་གང་བྱུང་བཞིན་པ་བཅས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་བཀའ་བསྡུར་གནང་བ་མ་ཟད། ཨ་རིའི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་སུ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་ཀྱིས་གྲོས་ཚོགས་གོང་འོག་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ལས་བྱེད་ཁག་གཅིག་དང་ལྷན་དུ་ཚོགས་འདུ་འཚོགས་པ་དང་གཞན་ཡང་ཁ་སང་ཕྱི་དྲོར་ཁུལ་དེའི་མངའ་སྡེ་ཁག་གཅིག་ནང་ལས་སྣེ་འདྲ་མིན་གཉེར་བཞིན་པའི་བོད་མི་ན་གཞོན་ཁག་ཅིག་དང་ལྷག་པར་ Human Rights First ཞེས་པའི་ཚོགས་པའི་གཙོ་འཛིན་ཨ་རིའི་བོད་དོན་དམིགས་བསལ་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་པ་ཟུར་པ་ལྕམ་སྐུ་ UZRA ZEYA ལགས་བཅས་དང་མཇལ་འཕྲད་གནང་འདུག རྩ་བའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་བོད་དོན་ལས་འགུལ་ཁང་ནས་ལོ་ལྟར་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུ་བཞིན་པའི་བོད་མི་ན་གཞོན་འགོ་ཁྲིད་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་དེ་ཐོག་མ་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༡ ནས་གནང་འགོ་བཙུགས་པ་དང་། ཐེངས་འདིའི་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་ཐོག་ཨ་རི་ནིའུ་ཡོག་དང་སི་ཡ་ཊལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། དེ་བཞིན་ Connecticut བཅས་ཨ་རིའི་མངའ་སྡེ་འདྲ་མིན་བདུན་ནས་ཁྱོན་བོད་རིགས་ན་གཞོན་ ༡༢ མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་འདུག་ཅིང་། ཁོང་རྣམས་ནས་སང་ཉིན་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་གི་ཉིན་མཐའ་མར་ཨ་རིའི་ཕྱི་སྲིད་ལས་ཁུངས་སུ་བསྐྱོད་དེ་ཨ་རིའི་རྒྱ་གར་དང་འབྲུག་གི་ལས་དོན་ཐོག་གི་དྲུང་ཆེ་གཞོན་པ་ལྕམ་ Bethany Poulos Morrison བྷེ་ཐ་ནི་པོ་ལོ་སི་མོ་རི་སོན་ལགས་དང་། ཨ་རིའི་མང་གཙོ་དང་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང་། ངལ་རྩལ་ལས་དོན་ཐོག་གི་དྲུང་ཆེ་གཞོན་པའི་ལས་རོགས་ལྕམ་སྐུ་ […] The post ༢༠༢༥ ལོའི་བོད་རིགས་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཀྱི་འགོ་ཁྲིད་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་འགྲོ་བཞིན་པ། appeared first on vot.

བོད་པའི་སློབ་གྲྭ་ ༡༩ ནས་མཉམས་ཞུགས་ཐོག་སྐབས་ ༨ པའི་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ཚན་རིག་དང་རྩིས་རིག་ཁོར་ཡུག་བཅས་ཀྱི་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་དབུ་འཛུགས། The post བོད་པའི་སློབ་གྲྭ་ ༡༩ ནས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་ཐོག་སྐབས་ ༨ པའི་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ཚན་རིག་དང་རྩིས་རིག་ཁོར་ཡུག་བཅས་ཀྱི་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་དབུ་འཛུགས། appeared first on vot.

བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་སྤེན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག་འདི་ཚེས་ ༡༠ ནས་དེ་རིང་ཚེས་ ༡༧ བར་ཨོསྟྲེ་ལི་ཡཱའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་དུ་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཕྱོགས་ཕེབས་ཐེངས་གཉིས་པ་གནང་ཡོད་པ་དང་འབྲེལ། Newcastle བོད་རིགས་མང་ཚོགས་ལ་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་བའི་ཁྲོད། གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཚོས་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་སྦྱོང་སྤྱོད་གནང་དགོས་གལ་ཡིན་པ་མ་ཟད། ཨ་རིའི་གཞུང་གིས་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་བའི་བོད་དོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་སྒྲིག་ལྟར་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཞན་དག་ནང་དུའང་དེ་འབྲེལ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཡོང་བའི་འབད་བརྩོན་གནང་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་གསུངས་འདུག དེ་ཡང་འདི་ཚེས་ ༡༣ ཉིན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་སྤེན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག་ Newcastle ནང་དུ་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་ཕེབས་འབྱོར་བྱུང་ཡོད་པ་དང་། སྐབས་དེར་ཁོང་གིས། བོད་མིའི་ལས་འགན་དང་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་ཀྱི་རིན་ཐང་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལ་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་བའི་ཁྲོད། ནང་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པ་ཤེས་པ་ལ་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་ངེས་པར་དུ་ཤེས་དགོས་གལ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། བཀའ་འགྱུར་དང་བསྟན་འགྱུར་དེ་དག་བོད་སྐད་ནང་བཞུགས་ཡོད་སྟབས། བོད་པ་སྤྱི་དང་ལྷག་པར་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཚོས་རང་གི་ཕ་སྐད་ཐོག་སྤོབས་པ་སྐྱེས་དགོས་པ་དང་། བོད་མིའི་ངོ་བོ་དང་ཆོས་རིག དེ་བཞིན་རིན་ཐང་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་ཀྱི་གཞི་རྩ་ནི་སྐད་ཡིག་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་བྱ་རྒྱུ་གལ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན་པའི་དྲན་སྐུལ་གནང་འདུག དེ་བཞིན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་དེ་སྔོན་ཁོང་ཚོགས་གཙོ་ཡིན་པའི་དུས་སྐབས་དུ་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་བོད་དོན་འཐབ་རྩོད་དེ་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་ཙམ་མིན་པར་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ཆོས་རིག་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་བྱ་རྒྱུ་དེ་ཉིད་བོད་མིའི་རང་དབང་འཐབ་རྩོད་ཀྱི་ཆ་ཤས་གལ་ཆེན་ཞིག་ཡིན་པའི་སྐོར་ལ་བཀའ་སློབ་སྩལ་བ་ལུང་འདྲེན་གནང་འདུག་པ་མ་ཟད། མགོན་པོ་༸གང་ཉིད་མཆོག་གིས་༸སྐུའི་ཡང་སྲིད་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་ཐོག་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནས་དོ་སྣང་ཆེ་ཆེར་བྱེད་བཞིན་པ་དེ་ནི་བོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་། དེ་བཞིན་ངོ་བོ་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལ་ངོས་འཛིན་དང་ཆེ་མཐོང་ཟབ་པའི་རྟགས་མཚན་ཞིག་ཡིན་སྐོར་གསུངས་འདུག ལྷག་པར་ཨ་རིས་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་བའི་བོད་དོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཁྲིམས་སྒྲིག་ལྟར་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཞན་དག་གི་ནང་དུ་བོད་དོན་ཁྲིམས་འཆར་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཡོང་སླད་འབད་བརྩོན་འགྲོ་མུས་ཡིན་སྐོར་གསུངས་འདུག་ཅིང་། དམིགས་བསལ་བོད་མིའི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་ཚོས་བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ལ་ཐུགས་སྣང་གནང་དགོས་པའི་དྲན་སྐུལ་ཐོག དབུ་མའི་ལམ་དང་རང་བཙན་འཐབ་རྩོད་པ་གཉིས་ཀ་རྡོག་རྩ་ཆིག་སྒྲིལ་གྱིས་བོད་དོན་རྩ་དོན་ལ་ཞབས་འདེགས་ཞུ་དགོས་པའི་སྐུལ་འདེབས་གནང་འདུག ཕྱོགས་མཚུངས་འདི་ཚེས་ ༡༤ ཉིན་ Queensland མང་ཚོགས་ལ་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་བའི་ཁྲོད། བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་ངོས་ནས་མ་འོངས་ཡིག་འཇོག་ཉར་ཚགས་དང་ཁུངས་བཙན་ཆེད་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་ལོ་མཇུག་ཏུ་མགོན་པོ་༸གང་ཉིད་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གྲོས་ཆོད་དང་ཡོངས་ཁྱབ་བསྒྲགས་གཏམ། གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཡིག་ཆ་སོགས་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག་བྱ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་སྐོར་གསུངས་བ་མ་ཟད། མང་ཚོགས་ལ་ད་ལྟའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ས་བབ་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་ཁོར་ཡུག་དང་འབྲེལ་ནས། རྒྱ་ནག་ནང་དུ་ཆབ་སྲིད་འགྱུར་བ་དང་། སྲིད་འཛིན་ཞི་ཅིན་ཕིང་གི་དབང་ཆ་ཤོར་རྒྱུའི་གནད་དོན་ཐད་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་དོགས་སློང་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པར། འགྱུར་བ་དེ་དག་ལ་གཞིགས་ཏེ། རྒྱུན་གནས་དང་དོན་ཕན་ལྡན་པར་ཡུན་རིང་གྱི་བོད་རྒྱའི་དཀའ་རྙོག་སེལ་ཐབས་ཕྱོགས་ལ་འབད་དགོས་པའི་དྲན་སྐུལ་གནང་སོང་། མ་ཟད་སྐབས་ ༡༦ པའི་བཀའ་ཤག་གི་ངོས་ནས་དབུ་མའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཐོག་ཆོད་སེམས་བརྟན་པོ་ཡོད་པ་དང་། མིང་དོན་མཚུངས་པའི་རང་སྲིད་རང་སྐྱོང་རྩོད་ལེན་བྱེད་པ་དེས་བོད་འདི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ནས་རང་བཙན་གཙང་མའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་མ་ཡིན་པ་མ་རེད་ཅེས་གསལ་སྟོན་གནང་འདུག དེ་བཞིན་ Brisbane ནང་གི་མང་ཚོགས་ལའང་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད། རྩ་བའི་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་ཚེས་ ༡༥ ཉིན་ Canberra ཁེན་བྷེ་རཱ་དང་། ཚེས་ ༡༦ ཉིན་ Melbourne […] The post ཨ་རི་བོད་དོན་སྲིད་བྱུས་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་སྒྲིག་ལྟར་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་གཞན་གྱི་ནང་དུ་འབད་བརྩོན་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་གསུངས་འདུག appeared first on vot.

Audrey Hsieh (Here Today, Mixtape) and Alonzo Bodden (Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Who's Paying Attention) headline this Tibetan tale about two family members who are rewarded appropriately by a stone lion, one for her generosity and one for his greed.

The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva is a Root Tantra of the Space Section first translated into Tibetan in the 8th Century by Vairochana Rakshita, a famous translator during the early period of Buddhism in Tibet. This tantra is one of a handful of the earliest translations of Ati Yoga teachings into the Tibetan language, where they were preserved long after the originals disappeared in India, possibly during the Islamic invasions. Vairochana did not attribute these Ati Yoga source texts to himself, but rather to Garab Dorje, who was revered as a full emanation of Vajrasattva in human form. Vairochana's translations stand on their own as jewels of Wisdom, the core teaching being always the same: the luminous, natural, non-dual mind of Great Perfection itself. Reading: excerpts from the full tantra. Compiled by Yeshe Donden (Roger Calverley) integrating various contemporary English translations.

༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་ནས་ལ་དྭགས་ཁུལ་གྱི་བོད་མི་རྒན་རྒོན་རྣམས་ལ་དམིགས་བསལ་མཇལ་ཁ་བཀྲིན་བསྩལ་བ། The post ༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་ནས་ལ་དྭགས་ཁུལ་གྱི་བོད་མི་རྒན་རྒོན་རྣམས་ལ་དམིགས་བསལ་མཇལ་ཁ་བཀྲིན་བསྩལ་བ། appeared first on vot.

རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྡི་ལི་རུ་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་འཕགས་བོད་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་མཐུན་འགྱུར་འོག་རྒྱ་གར་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པའི་རྩིས་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༥།༢༠༢༦ ལོའི་ཚོགས་འདུ་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་དེ་བསྐོང་ཚོགས་གནང་འདུག་པ་དང་། ཚོགས་འདུ་དེའི་ཐོག་ཧིན་བོད་གཉིས་ཀྱི་འབྲེལ་ལམ་གྱི་གལ་གནད་སྐོར་གླེང་སློང་དང་། ལྷག་དོན་དུ་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པས་ལས་འགུལ་གང་འདྲ་ཞིག་སྤེལ་རུང་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་མཉམ་ཞུགས་ཇེ་ཤུགས་ཆེ་རུ་གཏོང་དགོས་པའི་སྐུལ་མ་གནང་འདུག དེ་ཡང་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་དྲ་གནས་ཐོག་གནས་ཚུལ་སྤེལ་བར་གཞིགས་ན། འདི་ཚེས་ ༡༢ ཉིན་ལྡི་ལི་འཕགས་བོད་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་ལས་ཁང་གྱི་མཐུན་འགྱུར་འོག་ལྡི་ལི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་ཁང་དུ། བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་མགྲིན་ཚབ་པ་བསྟན་འཛིན་ལེགས་བཤད་ལགས་དང་། ལྡི་ལི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་གཅོད་འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་ལགས་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གཙོས་རྒྱ་གར་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པ་སྡེ་ཚན་ནང་མའི་ཚོགས་མི་ ༡༣ ཙམ་ལྷན་ཞུགས་ཐོག་ཚོགས་འདུ་ཞིག་འཚོགས་གནང་འདུག སྐབས་དེར་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་མགྲིན་ཚབ་པ་བསྟན་འཛིན་ལེགས་བཤད་ལགས་ཀྱིས། སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་བྱམས་དང་སྙིང་རྗེའི་བཀའ་སློབ་རྣམས་རྒྱ་གར་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་ཁྱབ་སྤེལ་ཤུགས་ཆེ་གཏོང་དགོས་པའི་གལ་གནད་དང་། བོད་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་དེ་བོད་མི་ཁོ་ན་མིན་པར་འཕགས་བོད་གཉིས་ཀའི་སེམས་འཚབ་བྱ་ཡུལ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་ནན་བརྗོད་དང་འབྲེལ།  བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པ་ཁག་གིས་ལས་འགུལ་ནང་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་ཇེ་ཤུགས་ཆེ་རུ་གཏོང་རྒྱུའི་ཐོག་འབད་བརྩོན་གནང་དགོས་པའི་སྐུལ་མ་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད་འདུག མ་ཟད་ལྡི་ལི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་གཅོད་འཇིགས་མེད་འབྱུང་གནས་ལགས་ཀྱིས། ཧིན་བོད་གཉིས་ཀྱི་འབྲེལ་ལམ་གྱི་གལ་གནད་དང་རྒྱ་གར་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པའི་སྡེ་ཚན་ནང་མ་ཡིས་བོད་ནང་གི་གནས་སྟངས་སྐོར་གོ་རྟོགས་སྤེལ་རྒྱུར་ནུས་པ་གང་ཡོད་སྤུངས་བཞིན་པ་གསལ་སྟོན་གནང་བ་མ་ཟད། ཚོགས་མི་རྣམས་ནས་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་བཞིན་པའི་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་ཞེས་པའི་ལས་འགུལ་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་དང་སྐུལ་འདེད་གནང་དགོས་པའི་འབོད་སྐུལ་ཡང་གནང་འདུག འདི་གའི་གསར་འགོད་པས་གནད་དོན་དེ་འབྲེལ་ལྡི་ལི་འཕགས་བོད་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་འགན་འཛིན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ལགས་སུ་བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུས་སྐབས་ཁོང་གིས། ཚོགས་འདུ་དེའི་ཐོག་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བ་རྣམས་ནས་གཙོ་བོ་མ་འོངས་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་ཕྱོགས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ལས་དོན་ཐོག་གྲོས་བསྡུར་ལྷུག་པོ་བྱུང་བ་མ་ཟད། ལྷག་དོན་དུ་ཟླ་བ་རྗེས་མར་རྒྱ་གར་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚོགས་ཆེན་ཐེངས་ ༨ དེ་ཚོགས་གཏན་འཁེལ་ཡོད་སྟབས་དེའི་ཐོག་ལ་གྲོས་བསྡུར་བྱུང་ཡོད་སྐོར་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་གནང་སོང་། གཞི་རྩའི་ཚོགས་འདུ་དེ་འགོ་འཛུགས་མ་ཞུས་ཉིན་གཅིག་གོང་སྟེ། འདི་ཚེས་ ༡༡ ཉིན་རྒྱ་གར་བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པ་སྡེ་ཚན་ནང་མའི་ཚོགས་མི་རྣམས་ལྡི་ལའི་ Constitution Club of India ཞེས་པའི་ཚོགས་ཁང་དུ་འཕགས་བོད་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་ལས་ཁུངས་དང་བོད་དོན་ལས་འགུལ་བསྟི་གནས་ཁང་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་གོ་སྒྲིག་གནང་བའི་བོད་ནང་གི་བཅའ་སྡོད་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ནང་བོད་ཕྲུག་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གནས་སྟངས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་སྙན་ཐོ་འདོན་སྤེལ་སྐབས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་འདུག་ཅིང་། ཉིན་རྒྱབ་ལྡི་ལི་བོད་ཁང་གིས་གོ་སྒྲིག་གནང་བའི་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩིའི་མཛད་སྒོར་ཕེབས་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད་འདུག The post བོད་དོན་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ཚོགས་པས་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་མཉམ་ཞུགས་ཇེ་ཤུགས་ཆེ་རུ་གཏོང་དགོས་པའི་སྐུལ་མ་གནང་འདུག appeared first on vot.

༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དྭགས་པོ་རིན་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལ་ཕརན་སིའི་ Legion of Honour ཞེས་པའི་གཟེངས་རྟགས་འབུལ་གཏན་ཁེལ་བ། The post ༸སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དྭགས་པོ་རིན་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལ་ཕརན་སིའི་ Legion of Honour ཞེས་པའི་གཟེངས་རྟགས་འབུལ་གཏན་ཁེལ་བ། appeared first on vot.

སྐབས་ ༧ པའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་དབུ་མའི་ལམ་མི་མང་ལས་འགུལ་ཁང་གི་རྒྱུན་ལས་གསར་བསྐོ་དང་འབྲེལ་ཚོགས་ཆེན་ཐེངས་དྲུག་པ་མཇུག་བསྒྲིལ། The post སྐབས་ ༧ པའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་དབུ་མའི་ལམ་མི་མང་ལས་འགུལ་ཁང་གི་རྒྱུན་ལས་གསར་བསྐོ་དང་འབྲེལ་ཚོགས་ཆེན་ཐེངས་དྲུག་པ་མཇུག་བསྒྲིལ། appeared first on vot.

Born in 1962, Malcolm Smith was raised in Western Massachusetts. Captivated by the sound of Tibetan ritual music in 1984, he began his study of the Dharma. He met his first formal teacher, H. H. Sakya Trizin, in 1989. He studied Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan language under the guidance of Khenpo Migmar Tseten for the next five years at Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1990 Malcolm travelled to Nepal to receive lamdré from the late H. H. Sakya Dagchen.He received his first Dzogchen teachings from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu in 1992. In 1993 he met his second Dzogchen teacher, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, receiving important transmissions. During this year he entered a three-year solitary retreat. In 1998 he met H. H. Penor Rinpoche and received the complete empowerments of the mahayoga section of the Nyingma Kama as well as teachings on the Namchö preliminary practices. In 2001, he met his third Dzogchen teacher, the late Kunzang Dechen Lingpa, from whom he received the Nyinthig Yazhi in its entirety, as well as the formal Ngakpa empowerment in 2004. He met his fourth Dzogchen teacher, H. H. Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, in 2001, from whom he received the entire transmission of the Gongpa Zangthal in 2010, as well other transmissions. He received the transmission of the Seventeen Tantras from Khenpo Tenzin Thinley in 2012 and again from Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche in 2022. Since 2018, he has been studying under Khenchen Namdrol Tsering of Namdrol Ling MonasteryIn addition, Malcolm has received Sakya, Kagyü, and Nyingma teaching cycles from many other lamas.Malcolm Smith was awarded the title of acarya by Khenpo Migmar Tseten of Sakya Institute in 2004. In 2008 Malcolm was granted the title of lama by Lama Ngawang Tsultrim, abbot of Dhongag Tharling. In 2009 Malcolm graduated from Shang Shung Institute of America as a doctor of Tibetan medicine, completing an internship in Xining, in the Amdo province of northeast Tibet.Since 1992 Malcolm Smith has worked on a wide variety of texts for Sakya, Drikung Kagyü, and Nyingma groups, as well as medical and astrological texts.Thank you to all the listeners who are supporting the show. If you would like to support the show with a monthly donation please visit our website somaticprimer.com, or at our online learning platform on Patreon.Support the show

After years of debate, the Dalai Lama has decided he will reincarnate. China, however, is determined that it, not Tibet's government-in-exile, will decide who his successor should be. Time is on Beijing's side. The country's rapid economic development, as well as its severe suppression of dissent, have won over significant numbers of Tibetans to its side. The Tibetan diaspora in India, meanwhile, is in decline, with numbers of young people chosing to make their future in the West.   https://theprint.in/opinion/security-code/dalai-lama-succession-china-tibet-control-future/2680567/

Today’s podcast begins with some exciting and helpful updates (0:18), followed by a little bit of China/Asia/US news with Marco Rubio here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (10:43). Then, after a short word about how impressed I am with our missionary friends here in Bangkok (21:08), we have a lengthy testimony time as I share a series of updates and stories from 22 years ago this week (24:00), followed by our Pray for China segment (and even more stories) right up to the end. (47:59) Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow and/or message me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I post (among other things) daily reminders to pray for China.You can also email me @ bfwesten at gmail dot com or find everything we are involved in at PrayGiveGo.us! First, a few quick updates: Pray4China.us is now an alternative to our usual domain: PrayforChina.us Chinacompass.vip takes you to our podcast home page on the Fight Laugh Feast network website: https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/the-pub/podcasts/30293 PrayMo.org is Missouri’s dedicated Pray for China link. Please contact me if you want one for your state! (ie, OKSisterState.com) Not the Bee Makes My Point from Last Week https://notthebee.com/article/china-says-the-dalai-lama-must-follow-chinese-law-if-he-wants-to-reincarnate Rubio meets China's Wang Yi in Malaysia as trade tensions deepen https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/us-china-marco-rubio-wang-yi-meeting-asean-trade-tensions-5232851 A True Tale of Two Teenagers and Two Tibetan Towns https://chinacall.substack.com/p/a-true-tale-of-two-teenagers-and Pray for China cities of the week: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-july-13-19-2025 Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. Don’t forget: Follow @chinaadventures on X, and find everything else @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few!

Seriah is joined by Brennan and Saxon for A WanderingThe Road episode. Topics include tech issues, Seriah's recent poltergeist incidents, kundalini energy, strange experiences with the perception of “energy”, a knock on the inside of Seriah's eyelids, the infamous 3 knocks, sensory deprivation tanks, a yoga studio with stereo Tibetan singing bowl sounds, stereo backpacks, Seriah's level stress and poltergeist activity, PK energy and stress, the movie “Final Destination: Bloodlines” movie and a real disaster, actor Tony Todd and his final scene, the band “Drama Scream” and a weird experience, owls in upstate New York, bizarre owl experiences, Seriah's 8 owls in a particular tree, bird watchers, Randomnautica experiences, Brennan's short stories for his “Fear Daily” podcast, an electrical power station disguised as a house, Randomnautica directing a user to a traphouse / drughouse, Seriah's liminal life, ultraterrestrial beings afraid of humans, a DMT trip encountering a defensive being, Paratopia Oculus, Jeff Ritzmann and Jeremy Vaeni, a shroudman encounter, electro-magnetic fields interfering with communication with the Other, chronic cell phone usage, misperceptions of asbestos and lead and the implications of modern technology, the crisis of concentration, the 2017 film time-travel movie “Curvature”, acoustic strip headphones, different ways of watching films, the possibility that ultraterrestial/Other beings are unable to communicate with humans, Harry Houdini, dreams of deceased loved ones, the video game analogy, a dark take on that idea, experiences and the brain filtering, NDEs and their consequences, Cherylee Black, intelligence civilization and morality among animals, morals vs /and/with religion, moral relativism and moral absolutes, and much more! This is an absolutely fascinating conversation!Recap by Vincent Treewell of The Weird Part PodcastOutro Music is Pleasure Void with Bell Jar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate Adie introduces stories from China, Kenya, Australia, Bolivia and the USA.Sichuan province in China is home to a long-standing Tibetan resistance movement. While Beijing views Tibet as an integral part of China – the allegiances of many Tibetans living in China lie with its exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama - voicing support for him can lead to arrest or prison. Laura Bicker visited the town of Aba, where she met monks practicing their faith under heavy surveillance.Youth led protests erupted again in Kenya this week, with many young Kenyans angry at the lack of good job opportunities in the country - more than 30 people died in the demonstrations, and over 500 were arrested. Anne Soy has been following the story in Nairobi.The small Australian town of Morwell will be returning to some form of normality this week, following the conclusion of the trial of Erin Patterson who was found guilty of murdering three of her relatives and attempting to kill another after serving them Beef Wellington laced with toxic death cap mushrooms. Katy Watson reflects on how the town was transformed by the visiting media circus.Bolivia was once seen as an economic miracle, thanks to its huge natural gas reserves. But the energy exports on which the country once thrived have fallen sharply in recent years, pushing many people into poverty. Carolyn Lamboley reveals how the country's economic woes are now affecting people from all walks of life.And finally, we're in the Zion National Park in Utah where Stephen Moss tells the story of the conservation campaign that helped bring the Californian Condor back from the brink of extinction.Series Producer: Serena Tarling Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill & Katie Morrison Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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Ian Green first met the Dalai Lama in the late 1970s, when he shared with the Tibetan spiritual leader an idea to build a Buddhist monastery in Australia. Now, the Chairman of The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, located in the outskirts of the regional town of Bendigo, Green recalls his first encounter with the Lama vividly. SBS Nepali spoke to Green about his decades-long connection with the Dalai Lama and his thoughts on the ongoing question of who the Dalai Lama's successor might be on the occasion of the Lama's 90th birthday on Sunday, July 6. - तिब्बती धर्मगुरु दलाई लामाले आइतवार, ६ जुलाई २०२५ मा आफ्नो ९०औँ जन्मोत्सव मनाएका छन्। योसँगै उनका उत्तराधिकारी को हुन्छन् भन्ने प्रश्न पनि धेरैको रहेको छ। मेलबर्नबाट करिब दुई घण्टाको दुरीमा रहेको भिक्टोरियाको रिजनल शहर बेन्डिगोभन्दा केही पर रहेको ‘द ग्रेट स्तूपा अफ युनिभर्सल कम्प्यासन'का प्रमुखका साथै, दलाई लामा इन अस्ट्रेलियाका पूर्व प्रमुख पनि रहेका इयन ग्रिनसँग एसबीएस नेपालीले गरेको कुराकानी सुन्नुहोस्।

Vulture and New York Magazine film critic Bilge Ebiri returns to discuss Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning mood piece Little Buddha, a rich and evocative story of an American family who travel to Bhutan after learning their son may be the reincarnation of the spiritual leader of a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks. The film also chronicles chapters in the life of Siddartha (played by Keanu Reeves) who rejects his life of sheltered privilege after learning of human suffering in order to seek a path of spiritual enlightenment. Exhibiting Berolucci's customary visual richness - emboldened by breathtaking images from Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro - and an otherworldly emotional frankness, Little Buddha conjures the sensation and grandeur of a personal spiritual awakening. We discuss the career of Bertolucci and his "Eastern Trilogy" beginning with 1987's Best Picture winner The Last Emperor, in which Bertolucci's fascination with the spiritual and cultural practices of the Asian continent became a personal endeavor into a deeper understanding of his own artistic ethos. Then we unpack the splendid uncannines of Little Buddha and how Bertolucci's directorial mastery allows for a film of constant settling and de-escalation to feel thrilling and proulsive through it's evocation of a preternatural emotionality. Finally, we discuss the west's fascination with the Tibetan independence movement in the 1990s and the American films it inspired during the decade.   Follow Bilge Ebiri on TwitterOrder Little Buddha on 4K or Blu-ray from Kino LorberGet access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish

As the Dalai Lama turns 90, the question of who will succeed him is reigniting tensions between Tibet and China. We speak with Sherap Therchin of the Canada-Tibet Committee about why this could lead to two rival Dalai Lamas—and what that means for Tibetan identity, faith, and global politics.

The Dalai Lama has spent almost his entire adult life as a refugee from his homeland of Tibet. Fleeing Chinese persecution in the 1950s, he has built a nation in exile, striving to preserve Tibetan culture as not just the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, but as a global ambassador for his people's cause.But he knows a transition is coming. On his 90th birthday this week, the Dalai Lama announced plans for how his successor will be chosen after his death. Since that successor will be a child, that means years of power vacuum that China is almost certain to capitalize on, including attempting to name a rival Dalai Lama of their own.Mujib Mashal is the South Asia bureau chief with the New York Times. He explains what's at stake for the people of Tibet — and Asian geopolitics more broadly — in the coming power struggle when the Dalai Lama passes on.For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

Chokgyur Dechen Zhikpo Lingpa (1829-1870) was born in Sangyel, at the base of the sacred mountain Namkhadzö in the province of Nangchen, Kham. He was a contemporary of and collaborator with the Dzogchen masters of the Rimé movement, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Jamgön Kongtrul. Chokgyur Lingpa was a tertön or "treasure revealer". Regarded as one of the major tertöns in Tibetan history, his termas are widely practiced by both the Kagyu and Nyingma schools. Chokgyur Lingpa was someone who the majority of masters accepted upon simply hearing his name and connecting with his teachings, without any dispute or effort of their own.

In this soul-deep conversation on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty is joined by Dr. Lori Joan Swick—author, spiritual scholar, and dream researcher—for an exploration of dreaming as a sacred and mindful practice. Lori shares insights from her book Dreaming—The Sacred Art, revealing how dreamwork can serve as a powerful spiritual discipline and tool for self-awareness, creativity, and healing. This episode delves into the intersection of ancient traditions, modern neuroscience, and personal experience to reframe dreaming not as random mental noise, but as profound inner guidance. About the Guest:Dr. Lori Joan Swick holds a Ph.D. in religion and philosophy and has dedicated her life to elevating women's spiritual voices. She is the bestselling author of The Sculptor and the Saint and Dreaming—The Sacred Art. A passionate advocate of sacred dreamwork, Lori blends academic rigor with intuitive wisdom to help others understand the transformative power of the dream world. She also hosts the video blog How Women Initiated the World's Religions. Key Takeaways: Dreams are not random; they are messages from the subconscious and soul. Mindful dreaming can be developed through intention, lucid awareness, and journaling. Eastern and Indigenous traditions view dreams as extensions of waking life—tools for healing and insight. Lucid dreaming, long explored in Tibetan practices and by Western scientists like Stephen LaBerge, bridges mysticism and neuroscience. Dream recall improves with focused attention and morning reflection. Patterns in dreams often point to emotional truths or guidance. Connect with Lori Joan Swick:Website: www.lorijoanswick.comFacebook & Instagram: Lori Joan Swick   Want to be a guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life? DM on PodMatch:DM Me Here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/avikTune to all our 15 podcasts: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-network/healthymindbyavikSubscribe To Newsletter: https://healthymindbyavik.substack.com/Join Community: https://nas.io/healthymind Stay Tuned And Follow Us!YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@healthymind-healthylifeInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/healthyminds.podThreads – https://www.threads.net/@healthyminds.podFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/podcast.healthymindLinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/reemachatterjee/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/avikchakrabortypodcaster #podmatch #healthymind #dreamwork #luciddreaming #mindfulness #HealthyMindByAvik #MentalHealthAwareness #SpiritualHealing #ConsciousLiving #DreamInterpretation #InnerWisdom

Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben, trying to get settled here in Malaysia! Follow and/or message me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I post (among other things) daily reminders to pray for China.You can also email me @ bfwesten at gmail dot com or find everything we are involved in at PrayGiveGo.us! World's Highest Bridge https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/china-worlds-tallest-or-highest-bridge-set-to-open-1.500184059 China Train Enthusiast Breaks Record https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/6/chinese-train-enthusiast-rides-rails-for-over-5000-km-in-24-hours-to-break-record BBC visits heart of Tibetan resistance as Dalai Lama-China Showdown Looms https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y772jlpgzo Pray for China cities of the week: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-july-6-12-2025 Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. Don’t forget: Follow @chinaadventures on X, and find everything else @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few!

After being passed by the Senate, President Trump's bill returns to the House. We speak to rural healthcare provider Karen White on its possible impact on healthcare for poorer people. Also in the programme, the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has confirmed that he will have a successor; renewed talk about a ceasefire in Gaza; and the composer who has written a piece of music based on the movements of moths.(Photo: The U.S. Capitol building in Washington; Credit: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

Our guest argues that looking back on those who came before us can help us understand who we are and why we do the things we do. Plus, a very special request from Dan. Spring Washam is a well-known teacher, author, and visionary leader based in Oakland, California. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment and her newest book, The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based meditation practices to diverse communities. She is one of the founding teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, located in downtown Oakland, CA and has practiced and studied Buddhist philosophy in both the Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism since 1999. In this episode we talk about: How Spring came to write about Harriet Tubman's life Her work with plant medicine and the shamanic tradition The dream and the “conversations” Spring had with Tubman Why we are all so interested in ancestry How we can deepen our relationship with our ancestors Family Constellation Therapy as a modality for doing ancestry work Spring's own family history Why she is still processing the experience of writing her book about Harriet Tubman What she means by the “inner underground railroad” and how it is alive today And, how, in the inner underground railroad, freedom equates to nirvana  Content Warning: mentions of suicide This episode originally aired in February 2023, and we're re-airing it today for two reasons: first, because it's awesome; and second, because Spring needs help.  A few months ago, Spring was hit by a delivery truck while crossing the street in Atlanta. She suffered extensive injuries and has been largely unable to work since then. As a result, she's been experiencing some financial distress between her mounting medical bills and her inability to be fully employed.  We've teamed up with the meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman to start a GoFundMe page to help Spring raise a little bit of money. Jack, Trudy and Dan have all contributed. If you can make a contribution, please do. No amount is too small.  You can find the GoFundMe here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-spring-washams-healing-journey   Related Episodes: The Dharma of Harriet Tubman | Spring Washam Spring Washam, ‘What Was Creating All This Suffering?' Everything You Wanted To Know About Meditation Retreats But Were Afraid To Ask | Spring Washam (And Dan's Close Friend, Zev Borow)   Join Dan's online community here Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok Subscribe to our YouTube Channel To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/10HappierwithDanHarris.