Friday, September 30, 2005

Chatral, Dudjom and Dilgo Khyentse, Rinpoches

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This is one of the most famously copied pictures in India and Nepal, yet rare to find in high quality. It was also a rare occasion to have ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Rubin Museum of Art September 29 was SOLD OUT

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Blazing Splendor Book Reading event on Thursday, September 29, 2005 in New York City at 7:00pm at the Rubin Museum of Art was SOLD OUT See t...
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Monday, September 26, 2005

The Big White Gompa in Boudha, ca 1978

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Many of you have been to Boudha and visited the Great Stupa and taken a round of the various monasteries. But where did the lamas come from ...
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Sunday, September 25, 2005

Lachab - Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's monastery in Nangchen

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Lachab Jangchub Nordzin Choling was and still is the main monastery of Samten Gyatso and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in Nangchen. Even though Tul...
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Recent holder of the Hearing Lineage

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One of the more outstanding masters in recent times was Khenpo Ngawang Palzang of Khatok, usually known as Khenpo Ngakchung. Several of Tul...
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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Young Lamas Home School in Dalhousie

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The British woman Frida Bedi arranged in the early 1960s for many of the young tulkus -- recently arriving from Tibet and Kham -- to continu...
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Friday, September 16, 2005

Rare snow at Nagi Gompa

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After spending a couple of years in Sikkim and in the mountains of Nepal, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was asked by the 16th Karmapa to take resid...
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Tulku Rabsel Dawa - Brilliant Moon

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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche first appears in Blazing Splendor as one of the teachers of Tulku Urgyen's uncle, Tersey Tulku, who received the...
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Thursday, September 08, 2005

A talk on the life of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in Halifax, Canada

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Talk by Erik Pema Kunsang & Marcia Binder Schmidt co-authors of Blazing Spendor: The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche will give a talk o...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Tokden-meditators in Nangchen

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Many of the stories in Blazing Splendor mention the tokden style of meditator in Nangchen. Often they are monks who during long retreat...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

The sublime shape of human existence

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As a humerous touch, I add a link where you can stay fit while reading Blazing. http://www.trackyourdiet.com/Books/reviews/9627341568/defaul...

Dudjom Rinpoche - flanked by Dordrak Rigdzin and Minling Chung

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One of the greatest masters of recent times, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, was seen by many of his contemporaries with the pure perception of see...
Sunday, September 04, 2005

Short biography of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, for the web

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In all these postings, which are meant to celebrate the life and lineage and teachings of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, I see that various places n...
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Saturday, September 03, 2005

Samye - early photo of the Glorious and Spontaneous Fulfillment of Boundless Aspirations

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It was in the Year of the Ox when King Trisong Deutsen, who had reached the age of twenty, gave rise to the thought of practicing the h...
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First book-signing in the US

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Last night we -- Danny, Tara, Marcia and I -- read from Blazing Splendor and shared some memories at Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Massachuse...
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Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) announces Blazing Splendor

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Sept. 29 Readings from the newly published Memoirs of the Dzogchen Yogi Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche with Daniel & Tara Goleman, Mingyur Rinpoc...
Thursday, September 01, 2005

1976 in Boudha, Kagyu Lamas

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The time is 1976. The place is the roof of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery in Boudha. The occasion is the transmission of the Treasury of th...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Drukchen Rinpoche’s monastery

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Recently I came across this tiny photo on the Internet of Drukchen Rinpoche’s monastery in Tibet, too late to be included in Blazing Splendo...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Tricycle Web Exclusive: The Nunnery of the Yoginis

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THE MEDITATING NUNS My father once brought me along when he went to teach at a huge convent, with 13 retreat centers spread across a mounta...
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Color poster of the cover of Blazing Splendor

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A lot of people have asked me to get a copy of the cover with the amazing photo of Fortress Peak, the hermitage of Samten Gyatso and Tulku ...
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