Category: Reviews

  • DEATH SONG by Malcolm Sutherland

    Deathsong (2015-HD) Director, animator, illustrator, in Montreal, Quebec.  

  • Summer Camp: Portugal

      This was my first Summer camp with Ringu Tulku and I chose to attend for two reasons. The first was the wish to learn how to practice the Ngondro properly and the second because Ringu Tulku has proven to be a good teacher on other Dharma topics. The experience was amazing. The clarity of…

  • Haiku Book Review and Author Interview

    Outside my window is a sweet pea plant.  Today, suddenly it seems, there are only seven flowers, the rest having turned into pods.  Maeve expresses this process of change in one of her Summer haiku: cloudy afternoon my sweet pea flowers becoming peas In these few lines there is a dynamism that paradoxically captures a…

  • The Laughing Policeman

    LAUGHTER THERAPY I used to play this on my grandmother’s wind-up gramophone.  A great start to the day. Yeshe  The Laughing Policeman by Charles Jolly

  • WINTER WALK IN VOGRIE PARK

      This is a film about a Nepalese group foraging in the woods.  An inter-cultural inter-generational project funded by Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Woodland Trust.  The project was organised by Creative Artist Joanne Boyce and workshops run by Monica Wilde, Chief Herbalist at Napiers in Edinburgh.      

  • Bodhicharya Summer Camp

    Bodhicharya Summer Camp 14-20 July 2014 Casa da Torre, Braga, Portugal   The Camp was hosted for the third year running by Bodhicharya Portugal at Casa da Torre, near Braga, from 14 to 21 July. With around 110 participants from 20 different countries, mainly European, the atmosphere was lively, the discussion animated, a chance to…

  • THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

      The Four Noble Truths is the first teaching that Buddha gave after his awakening. It builds the foundation of all Buddhist teachings and defines their purpose: the cessation of suffering.

  • KARMAPA VISIT

    Audience for the Karma Kagyu organisation heads at Kamalashila. Photo: Francois Henrard   For many years Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has worked increasingly  closely with His Holiness the 17th Karmapa and the Indian Government to make way for a visit of His Holiness to Europe to give teachings. Four separate applications were made in the past…

  • A REVIEW OF TAMING THE TIGER BY AKONG TULKU RINPOCHE by GWEN ENSTAM

      Taming the Tiger by Akong Tulku Rinpoche   By taking these teachings to heart, we may re-educate ourselves to develop more compassion and understanding. Thus the value and usefulness of our lives will increase. (pp.84-5)   The first thing you see when you pick up a copy of Taming the Tiger is the cover.…

  • MEDITATION: WHAT’S THE POINT?

  • I CALL YOU LEGENDARY

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  • HEALING, HELPING AND HARMONY

    The three hands on the Bodhicharya Logo represent the three main activities of Healing, Helping, and Harmony. Healing : Buddha Dharma is regarded to be the Science of Mind. There are facilities for the study and practise of Dharma and other ancient wisdoms originating from both Eastern and Western traditions, which provide a basis for…

  • BLUE POPPY

    Blue Poppy from Sitar Rose on Vimeo. Sitar specialises in health, education and the arts and frequently works with sensitive and difficult issues.  After training in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University, she started making documentaries in 1980. Since then she has  researched, directed. filmed and edited her own productions . Fulfilling the Vision is one…

  • FULFILLING THE VISION

    SAMYE LING Fulfilling the Vision from Sitar Rose on Vimeo. Sitar specialises in health, education and the arts and frequently works with sensitive and difficult issues. After training in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University, she started making documentaries in 1980. Since then she has  researched, directed. filmed and edited her own productions . Fulfilling the Vision…

  • A REVIEW OF “NIGHT BOAT”

    Night Boat is the story of Ekaku Hakuin, one of the most influential monks in the history of Zen Buddhism. It recreates his life from early childhood in a small Japanese village through a lifetime of adventures, both physical and spiritual. And Spence spends as much time in the beautiful landscape of Japan – using…

  • FRAGMENTS

        I first met Elisabeth Fraser at a meeting in the Theosophical Society in great King Street in Edinburgh. What the meeting was about and who the speaker was I can’t recall clearly.  Perhaps what was said was uninteresting but more likely unintelligible.  But what I do remember clearly is that I was seated…

  • Tulku : A Film by Gesar Mukpo. Reviewed by Vicki McKenna

     Tulku by Gesar Mukpo is a documentary about his own journey and that of other young western Tulkus who have all been recognised, when children, as reincarnations of Tibetan Lamas. The recognition of western children as Tulkus first started in the mid-1970s and the film explains how this practice has created stability politically and spiritually in Tibetan society for 800…