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Watch: Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel on Empowerment
Teacher, scholar, and author Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel speaks about the essential purpose of empowerment: to awaken our potential. She begins, Like all things on the Buddhist path, all the rituals, teachings, and practices have to do with awakening your Buddha potential, or clarity of mind. The promise for all this is that we naturally have this wakeful mind but it gets obscured or confused. More » -
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Recalling Khyentse and Trungpa Rinpoches
This comes via the Newsfeed on the Celebrating the Return! website, which contains information on Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche's first visit to the US this August: Image: Karma Dzong newspaper records Khyentse Rinpoche's first visit to the US From the Celebrating the Return! newsfeed: Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s unconventional behavior and experimental methods of communicating the Buddhist teachings have become part of the spiritual folklore of America. More » -
The man who would be king
What does the 17-year-old descendant of Tibetan royalty do during a visit to New York? In "The King and Us," New York Times journalist Dorothy Spears recounts her experience hosting Namgyal Wangchuk Lhagyari Trichen—the descendant of three ruling monarchs of Tibet—at her Manhattan home. Trichen, as he calls himself, was in town for ten days to show his 30-minute film "My Country is Tibet" at schools around New York in partnership with BYkids, an organization that pairs filmmakers with children and young adults to make socially conscious documentaries. More » -
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Dudeism=Buddhism?
What is Dudeism? According to dudeism.com, a website dedicated to deploying the wisdom of The Dude (Jeff Bridges) from the comedy The Big Lebowski, Dudeism is a religion with the following creed: The idea is this: Life is short and complicated and nobody knows what to do about it. So don’t do anything about it. Just take it easy, man. Stop worrying so much whether you’ll make it into the finals. More » -
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Watch: Glimpses of the Drupchen
A short impression of one of the three drupchens at Shechen Monastery that Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche leads each year, via the Mangala Shri Bhuti youtube channel: More » -
Guess Who's Buddhist? Rob Schneider!
You may know him as the goofy sidekick in Adam Sandler's movies, or as the star of lowbrow comedies like "The Animal" and "Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo," but when it comes to his Buddhist practice, Schneider isn't joking. In a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle Schneider spoke about being a Zen practitioner and the middle way: For 13 years I've been into Zen Buddhism; I only understood it a few weeks ago," says Rob Schneider. "The idea is simple: 'Nirvana,' from the Sanskrit, just means 'breathe out.' You get to a place in your life where you go (sighing with great pleasure) 'Aaaahhhh.' Zen Buddhism is a middle way, it's about avoiding conflict. More »
