Younghusband concluded that this was a culture that worshiped demons. Jungians may pounce on the concept of shadow, but that too, will often be wide of the mark. Although Tibetans and Jungians both understand such imagery as depicting internal qualities, in this case, it...
If the Tibetans are right about enlightenment, then it’s poor Zen. Taking in impartiality September 30, 2022 “Shift to an identity based on likes and dislikes to one based on impartial, nonjudgemental awareness.” In Buddhist Tantra they explain how to do this. Kadampas call it divine ...
Monday, February 11, marks Losar, the Tibetan New Year, and the start of 2140, the Year of the Water Snake. The new year festivities begin with prayers and good wishes for family, friends, and all sentient beings. Tibetans believe that Shakyamuni Buddha performed miracles during the first ...
The first Tibetans, born of a rock-ogress, are sired by the Bodhisattva Hilumandju. In almost all cases in Western mythology (with the exception of Soslan), the pater is a heavenly force, an anthropomorphic deity, who begets a son by impregnating a stone in place of a goddess or mortal...
re likely to meet in the Great Hall of the People this week are the kinds of Tibetans who call each other “comrade,” speak Mandarin, and point out, as the delegation did on Thursday, that the Tibetan capital has been voted the happiest city in China four times in the last five ...
The Dalai Lama, living in exile in India, did not want any fracturing amongst the saṃgha and presumably the community of Tibetans living abroad. I argue that the perpetual delay on re-establishing gelongma ordination has become a wall or what Ahmed would call, a brick wall, “the inst...
“spiritually”associated with the Kagyupa and Nyingmapa lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.184Many other Tibetan groups associated with Tibetan masters are found through-out Canada; for the most part, these groups are aimed at non-Tibetans.185In Aus-tralia and New Zealand, as in most Western ...
And as soon as you travel outside Lhasa and a few other bigger towns chances are high that you eat and sleep Tibetan, further supporting the lovely Tibetans (and even in Lhasa we stayed in a Tibetan owned hotel). It’s true, the Han Chinese increase in numbers, and the Chinese ...
All nuns had also faced many obstacles before being able to study Buddhist philosophy: many had no nunneries in their native regions, which has led them to move—for some of them far away from their original home; a few Tibetans had been banned from staying in a nunnery since the quotas...
his devotees interpreted this poem as a premonition of his reincarnation in Litang. Consequently, the 7th Dalai Lama (1708-1757) was discovered in the residence of Ren-khang, who would subsequently govern Tibet for five decades. Theoretically, you can visit the residence from 9:30 am to 5 ...