Category: Articles

  • The Birth of a New World

    How can I speak of hope when so many have died? The tragedy is that those who have passed are all the beloved of someone who lives to mourn them. Many innocent lives cut short. The sun continues to rise. As Francesca Melandri wrote, in A Letter from Italy, “We are witnessing the birth of…

  • Byken Matsukawa

    Personal stories are always interesting, especially when they are within living memory and their veracity hasn’t been eroded through time.  Below is a series of photographs which tells a story about David Russell’s father, Byken Matsukawa, a Japanese national interned in the UK during the second world war.  The photos are preceded by a short…

  • Prayer of Samantabhadra

    Bodhicharya Winter Teaching 2020 – LIVE Teaching by WANGDU on NOVEMBER 26, 2020 in EVENTS, NEWS, RINGU TULKU, TEACHINGS. Prayer of Samantabhadra (Kunzang Mönlam) 14th – 21st December 2020 Daily at 2:30pm (GMT/UTC) Rinpoche has very kindly accepted our request to give a teaching on the ‘Prayer of Samantabhadra (Kunzang Mönlam)’. This direct and important text is not only an aspiration prayer, but also…

  • THE UNIVERSAL WAY OF AVALOKITESVAR BODHISATTVA

    AVALOKITESVAR SHRINE A Place to Pray to and Meditate on the Grace and Great Compassion of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva  The Universal Way of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva- A Public Domain   Translation of Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra Preface The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Chapter of the Lotus Sutra is perhaps one of the most efficacious Dharma Doors ever…

  • MUSHROOMS – च्याउ

    Ingredients 1 cup of mushrooms 4 teaspoons mustard or vegetable oil 1 medium onion 2 garlic cloves 2.5 cm piece of ginger 1/2 teaspoon chili (optional) 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1/2 teaspoon fenugreek seed salt to taste Process Wash the mushrooms 2 or 3 times.  Break into small pieces by hand.  Mix turmeric rubbing with the…

  • SPINACH PAKODA पालक पाकोडा

    Ingredients 2 cups of the leaves of spinach 1 cup of gram flour (besan) 2 green chillis chopped or 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder (optional) 1 large onion finely chopped 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder pinch of asafoetida (hing) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup of water or as required Oil for deep frying Process Wash and clean…

  • IN SEARCH OF MEDICINE, BEYOND CLOUDS

    In NATURAL MEDICINE by Kate Roddick I felt on top of the world, with my letter of introduction to the Dalai Lama, in my pocket, close to my heart, we tickeled tocked, tickeled tocked, into the train station at Patankot. The mist had fallen onto the paddy fields, and plains left to right of the old sleeper…

  • HONEY MORE EFFECTIVE THAN OVER THE COUNTER MEDICINES…

    The following extract concerning the increased use of antibiotics for the treatment of colds and associated ailments is from the magazine Positive News. Honey could offer more effective treatment for some respiratory infections than prescription medicines, according to a study The pharmaceutical industry has developed a host of treatments for sore throats, blocked noses and coughs,…

  • GRATITUDE FOR THE PLANTS

    The more I work with the plants, the more I become eternally grateful for what they give to us. They have an uncanny knack of being in exactly the right place and the right time when you need them. It’s hardly surprising that the Cherokee’s have this Creation belief: “Each tree, shrub and herb, down…

  • HOW WE CAN HELP A DYING ANIMAL

    Dear Friends, Many of us have pets, work with animals and care about their end of life. We asked the following two questions: 1. How can we help a dying animal? 2. How can we help an animal that has died? These two questions have been answered by Ringu Tulku, and Lama Tenkyab from Mindrolling…

  • Black Friday

    When you realize it’s black Friday You are at home doing homework and your pencil snaps so you go to sharpen it but your electric sharpener is broken and  the next day is BLACK FRIDAY!!!!waiting and watching the commercials  and for once excited for the violence to start.Checking the clock every 5 minutes and you…

  • The Buddha and the Scientist

    The physical reality is changing constantly every moment.  This is what the Buddha realized by examining himself.  With his strongly concentrated mind, he penetrated deeply into his own nature and found that the entire material structure is composed of minute subatomic particles which are continuously arising and vanishing.  In the snapping of a finger or…

  • Are We Listening?

    “Hear now this, O foolish people and without understanding, that have eyes and see not, that have ears and hear not”.  Jeremiah 5:21 The year is 2019 and everyone is talking about the environment, especially in the wake of the school strike for climate change, started by the remarkable Scandinavian teenager Greta Thunberg. It seems…

  • Scientific Perspectives: The Heart Sutra and the Atom

    As His Holiness the 14th Dalaï-Lama says, Buddhism is scientific religion. In his first teaching the Buddha explained the universality of cause and effect: “All phenomena arise from causes”[1]. Moreover, he repeatedly asked his followers to make their own opinion, even about his own words. Buddhism considers science as a first step and also as…

  • SPINACH PAKODA

    Ingredients 2 cups leaves of spinach 1 cup of gram flour (besan) 2 green chilies chopped or 1/2 teaspoonful chili powder 1 big onion finely chopped 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder Pinch of asafoetida (hing) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup of water or as required oil for deep frying Process Wash and clean spinach leaves well.…

  • New Day

    Today we cannot do, behave, or think the same way as we did yesterday about tomorrow. Today is truly the first day of the rest of our lives. Yesterday’s actions, habits and strategies will not work the way they work before COV-19. The world is at war with this virus and I’m sure that we…

  • Despatches from The Hill

    An experience of going through coronavirus I had originally been due to be away on retreat for most of March.  It was cancelled as the first wave of international cancellations began.  It was fortuitous, however, I found out, that I had been preparing for a significant retreat for many months.  Because now we were indeed…