Category: Articles

  • LIFE AND DEATH

    We Buddhists talk about death a lot. For me, that’s the main attraction – there’s no shying away from the truth in Buddhism. I’ve always known death. I’ve always said that Life is death and death is life. When I was 14 months old, my sister was born terminally ill and died 18 months later.…

  • TECHNOLITERACY

    + I first felt the onslaught of the digital tsunami in my engineering days.  My job as an apprentice toolmaker was to set up capstan lathes in a small factory in Glasgow that made bespoke accouterments for submarines:  salinometers, micro-valves and custom tools for cutting gears.  Crockets was the name of the company. After two…

  • SWEET CORN PUDDING मकैको खीर

    In Nepal, several types of pudding are prepared.  One popular kind of pudding is that made from fresh corn. Ingredients 1 cup of fresh corn 4 cups of milk 1 cup of sugar (honey can be used as a substitute) 1/2 cup of dried fruit 1/2 teaspoon of cardamon 2 tablespoons of grated coconut Process…

  • HARRIET TUBMAN

     A story of overcoming fear in your workplace, and in your heart. Excerpted from Jaiya John’s new book of healing, Your Caring Heart: Renewal for Helping Professionals and Systems. Online where books are sold. Harriet Tubman was a baaad woman. She didn’t play. One story I appreciate telling about her (creatively adapted, of course) is…

  • Game Changing

     Somehow 2016 feels like a game-changer. The fatigue of decades of political non-speak and spin has taken its toll this year with Brexit and Trump. The social scientists at work were wondering what they’d missed in their analyses of the political ailments that returned us to Germany in the 1930s when the news of the…

  • Glesca

    Rouken Glen Boathouse, Glasgow I had a great childhood just outside of the city, Glasgow that is!  Not like the city I grew up in, no it’s now a fabulous bustling town and something to be proud of if you are a Glaswegian… I lived in Orchard Park which is between Giffnock and Thornliebank.  Behind “oor…

  • THE PHOENIX

    I am skiing down through the snow and come across a building called Innovation. I walk through the door, and come across the people at the pay kiosk. I say I have no money with me but I want to meet my other half. They let me go in and I go up the escalator to meet…

  • Quantum Emptiness -The Quantum Illusion-like Nature of Reality by Graham Smetham

    FIST PUBLISHED IN MANY ROADS FOR BODHICHARYA, FEBRUARY 12, 2011    In his book the Dalai Lama has sketched the beginnings of an exploration of the interconnections and parallels between modern Western science and Buddhist metaphysical philosophy.  The Dalai Lama, true to his nature, is extremely humble about Buddhism’s achievement in this area:  “Our explanations and theories…

  • Happy New Year – 2017 from Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

    Circumambulating the freshly renovated Boudhanath stupa I observed thousands of people from all over the world walking around it peacefully with their prayers in heart. This world heritage pilgrimage place was not built by a powerful king, a wealthy sponsor or a teacher with many followers. It was built by a poor and ordinary village…

  • HUMOUR

  • NEPALESE CULTURAL BELIEFS

    MAINLY ABOUT FLORA   The first harvest of paddy is received into the house with due ceremony, with rice, curd and a lighted wick. Fruits and flowers may be stolen but whoever steals a pumpkin will grow a goiter. Don’t point at the fruit in a tree with your finger; the fruit will go bad.…

  • Visiting Borobudor

    At the top of the Stupa, just before sun rise I had been in Indonesia for over a week, starting in the crazed metropolis of Jakarta then moving on to the University town of Yogyakarta. From Yogya I took a Taxi which got me to my hotel in Borobdor in just over an hour. After…

  • HERMIT

    Buddhism has been part of my life since I was a teenager. Now I have just passed my seventieth birthday. In the intervening years, I have been fortunate to study with some of the leading teachers of the age – Chogyam Trungpa, Kennett Roshi, and Thich Nhat Hanh among them. along with some lesser known…

  • Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s Travel Schedule

        https://bodhicharya.org/ringu-tulku/schedule/

  • The Trek to Mount Kailash in Tibet

    The trek to Mount Kailash Tibet May 2002 Mount Kailash is the holiest mountain in Tibet and probably all Asia.  It is situated in the Ngari region of western Tibet, which is one of the highest, loneliest and most desolate places on the planet.  It rises perpetually snow capped 7,500 metres from the high desert…

  • Wild White Horses

      In the Tibetan map of the world, the world is a circle and at the centre there is an enormous mountain guarded by four gates.  And when they draw a map of the world, they draw the map in sand, and it takes months and then when the map is finished, they erase it…

  • Faith and Doubt: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

    The path begins with an investigation of the unreliability of things. Sometimes when we contemplate impermanence and the unreliability of things we feel afraid or insecure.   Question: In my mind my primary deity, Guru Rinpoche, is the only reliable refuge. Is there any difference between Guru Rinpoche and the outer refuge you describe in…