Jewel Lamp: A Praise of Bodhicitta
I spent last week in Sydney receiving teachings from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen’s Jewel Lamp: A Praise of Bodhicitta For those who couldn’t make it, His Holiness’ teachings are available to watch online via YouTube: (you might spot me in the crowd ~25-35…
Jade Buddha
Wow… a blog free week… I’d better get back into it… Pictured above is the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace on stage at HH Dalai Lama’s Awakening the Mind teachings in Sydney, December 2009 I’ve had some interesting ideas for posts… stay tuned… I’ll be back 🙂
Happy New Year!
By now it should be the Iron (Metal) Tiger year, all around the globe, so Happy New Year… 2137 on the Tibetan calendar [yeah, all you Gregorians are like, 127 years behind the times… :)]. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama gave a New Year’s Address in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh,…
Kundun Tweets
The Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama joined twitter this morning, and they are following me. (I’d better watch what I tweet 🙂 ) http://twitter.com/OHHDL UPDATE: Apparently not the real OHHDL… 🙁 UPDATE #2: The real Dalai Lama is now on Twitter @DalaiLama.
BoingBoing: Tibet: trilogy of silent films from the 1940s, with a young Dalai Lama.
(Source: Boing Boing) From the BFI National Film archive, via YouTube: “Tibetan Scenes was made by Tsien-Lien Shen in the early 1940s – he was resident Chinese Commissioner in Lhasa from 1942-47. The colour film records many of the ceremonial events that took place in Lhasa, including the New Year…
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy welcomes HH Dalai Lama at the official opening of Lerab Ling
I watched this live with Edgar Meyer, Patrick Prouheze and the Armidale Rigpa Sangha.