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  • GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES:  हरियो पातदार तरकारी

    GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES: हरियो पातदार तरकारी

    For this dish various leafy vegetables are fried in clarified butter (ghiu) or oil in their own juice.  The heat is raised at the end of cooking to impregnate the aroma and taste of the various spices. INGREDIENTS. 2 cups of green leafy vegetables.  Cut into pieces at random. 2 Tablespoons oil. 1/2 tablespoon parsley…

  • New Year Message from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

    New Year Message from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

  • Online Bookshop

    Skip to content   Welcome to our online book shop Below are all our books which are available to purchase for customers based in the EU and UK. Customers based in the USA will find most of our book catalogue for sale here on the Bodhicharya North America website. Customers in the rest of the world will…

  • To Feed or Not to Feed the Birds in Cold Weather

    To Feed or Not to Feed the Birds in Cold Weather

    It’s an age-old question — to feed or not to feed birds in fall and winter.  Some people believe that feeding wild birds can cause more harm than good, like preventing timely migrations, or causing birds to depend on feeders rather than foraging food. The truth is these are myths and feeding birds is beneficial…

  • MAGGY JONES: 31/05/41 ~ 28/09/24

    MAGGY JONES: 31/05/41 ~ 28/09/24

    To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great…

  • POTATOES WITH BLACK PEPPER: काली मिर्च संग आलु

    POTATOES WITH BLACK PEPPER: काली मिर्च संग आलु

    COOKING TIME: 15 minutes 6 medium potatoes 1/4 teaspoon crushed chilies 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup of water 2 – 3 tablespoons of lemon juice Baghaar (बघार:  the method of tempering whole spices in hot fat, like olive oil or ghee allowing them to bloom, infusing their flavors into the fat…

  • THE COST OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: Filipe Valente Rocha

      Nearly 50 years ago I drove through France where  I experienced idyllic rustic evenings and a blue sky above the horizon.  The agronomic engineer driving me looked with concern at the size and strength of the stems of wheat: “Look!  By this time the wheat should be bigger and, above all, stronger.  We will…

  • AFTER  DEATH,  CHÖD  AND  SPARE-PART  SURGERY

      I broke my back and spinal cord in a mountaineering accident and, unfortunately, was paralysed as a result. Along with the kidney donation, I added to my will that I wish to bequeath my body to science; and there is just a hope that by examining the break in my back something might be…

  • Lorna & Bill & the Samye Ling Archives A Tribute

    I first met Lorna Watson at Johnstone house, in the old shrine room of Samye Ling Monastery in Eskdalemiur, Southern Scotland. It was 1987 and Akong Rinpoche was beginning to formalise his Tara Rokpa Therapy Process:  we were both part of a group that spent three days in retreat with Rinpoche and Edith Irwin, completing…

  • Cauliflower Leaves with Potatoes

    Cauliflower Leaves with Potatoes

    Cooking time:: 15 – 20 minutes leaves of 1 cauliflower ( chopped fine) 1 medium potato (peeled and chopped into 8 pieces) 1 teaspoonful of coriander powder 1/4 teaspoonful of chopped chillies 1/4 teaspoonful of turmeric 1 teaspoon of amchoor 1/2 teaspoon of salt Bahhgaar (Whole spices are browned in hot oil or ghee before…

  • Sir Nicholas Winton

    Sir Nicholas Winton

    What seemed so poignant to me about the film Schindler’s List was the cool, unabbreviated examination of man’s inhumanity to man in the context of the holocaust. The story concerns the relocation of the Polish Jews from Krakow in late 1939, shortly after the beginning of the second world war. (Such a momentous faux pas…

  • Anne Katrin Voss: Interview

      Michele Can you tell us about yourself and briefly about your background in education? Anne Katrin Well, a lot of people ask me why I usually wear orange or purple clothes and a lot of people ask me whether I had been an Osho follower: I never was actually. As you can see behind…

  • A Sea Change

    A Sea Change

    Fife Shipyard used to be one of the greatest boatbuilders in the world. I believe it’s still there at Fairlie – just a way south of Greenock on Scotland’s west coast. In 1929 they built their most successful racing yacht, a classic metre-class boat, Caryl, the only British metre-class yacht to race against the Yanks…

  • Edinburgh Festival 2023

    Edinburgh Festival 2023

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  • Falafel

    Falafel

    INGREDIENTS 650g canned chickpeas, drained 1 red onion, chopped 3 garlic cloves, crushed 100g wholemeal bread 2 small red chillies 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tbsp chopped coriander, plus extra to garnish 1/4 cup of yoghurt 100g fresh wholemeal breadcrumbs vegetable oil for deep frying salt and pepper to taste TO SERVE tomato and cucumber…

  • Free School Opens in Delhi:  Good News Network

    Free School Opens in Delhi: Good News Network

    A Dehli police officer who managed to crawl his way out of the city slums as a child is now giving back to poor children who live the lifestyle of skipping school and working odd jobs. With his free school, when class is in session in the parking lot of the famous Red Fort, Than…

  • WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER

    WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER

    A Buddhist Peacemaker Born in Vietnam in 1926, Thich Nhat Hanh has been a peacemaker since his ordination as a Buddhist monk at the age of 16. During the Vietnam War, he helped villagers who were suffering as a result of bombing. He opposed his government’s policies and as a consequence was exiled from his…