From July 4th to 10th, monastics and lay practitioners gathered together with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche at Tek Chok Ling Nunnery in Kathmandu to commemorate the first parinirvāṇa anniversary of Venerable Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche.
Traditionally intended to request permission and blessings from the earth in order to create auspicious conditions for building on the land and supporting future beneficial dharma activities, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche presided over a Land Blessing Ceremony in Colorado on February 1st (2025) and visited Nalandabodhi Colorado the next day.
What is the quality of your mind, right now? That was the question Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen posed at the beginning of a weekend teaching on the topic of Mahāmudrā and Bodhicitta at Milarepa’s Yak Horn, our center in Hong Kong.
This is what most deeply resonates with me when I think about sangha,” Nick Vail writes, “the synthesis of voices, dreams, and activities of individuals in a shared ecosystem.
The author shares how practicing shamatha, or calm abiding meditation, and songs of realization, or dohas, help with settling the mind.
A contemplation on the power of art and creativity, and even language itself, to express and signify what is essential and unnameable.
