All Things Buddhist - Issues, Topics, Teachers, Leaders, Lamas or Rinpoches

Buddhist Women Teachers and Scholars 

Tsultrim Allione and Tara Mandala

Tsultrim Allione has a master’s in Buddhism/Women’s Studies from Antioch University. She is one of the first Western women to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She has been practicing Buddhism for over thirty years and has taught all...

Judith Simmer-Brown Buddhist Scholar

Judith Simmer-Brown has been on the faculty of Naropa University for 27 years and is currently the Chair of the Religious Studies Department. She has a BA from Cornell College, a MA from Florida State University, a PhD from Walden University and is a...

The Men Who Established Tibet House in New York City 

Robert Thurman Buddhist Scholar

Richard Gere Activist and Actor

Special Places to the Buddhist 

Bhutan - A Sweet Little Country

Bhutan is a small country north of Nepal and South of China, and next to Sikkim. It's President's stated purpose is "Gross National Happiness". It is a country where the government and the monestaries share separate wings of the same buildings. I wa...

Create An Asian Garden Paradise

Now is the perfect time of year to design your own Oriental contemplative garden. Create a personal place of refuge in your yard. Add a stream, some flowing water or a Koi fish pond, or simply a lovely garden statue. Let your creative juices flow f...

Mt. Kalaish The Sacred Mountain of Tibet

To Asians Mt. Kalaish is seen as the axis mundi their most sacred mountain. Mt. Kalaish is at the heart of Bonpo, Buddhist and Hindu scriptures. Each holds different beliefs, but the underlying reality is the same. The Hindus believe that Shambu Shiv...

Buddhist Monasteries in Japan

Japanese temples usually follow a naming system which includes "ji" or "tera" or if on a Mountain "dera" or "in". So if one of these is in the word, it is likely to be a temple or monastery. It can be confusing because many temples have more than one...

Buddhist Meditation Practices 

Mantra and Miracles

Generically mantra refers to sacred words or syllables used repeatedly in religious and ceremonial rituals. The term "mantra" is derived from Sanskrit man, "mind," and tra, "to deliver." Thus a mantra can be considered to be a linguistic device for d...

Trul Khor Is Tibetan Buddhist Yoga

Alejandro Chaoul-Reich has studied with Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche who authorized Ali to teach teach meditation and Trul Khor (Magical Movements). I have attended the first two retreats (2006 and 2007) in Crestone, Colorado o...

Religious and Tibetan Chanting Resources

Chanting and the Body The following is a quote from the book titled: Chanting - Discovering Spirit in Sound. It comes with an enclosed CD of chanting. "I believe that one of the reasons chanting has such a powerful effect on practitioners is becau...

Dzogchen Meditation

There are several well known teachers of Dzogchen including Gangteng Rinpoche, Namkai Norbu, Tenzin Wangyal and Lama Surya Das. The Dalai Lama has also written a book on Dzogcehn. The following quote gets at the heart of dzogchen meditation: Quotes fro...

Tibetan Bowls Meditation Concerts

Try this and you will find hearing the Tibetan Bowls to be a profoundly spiritual experience. This beautiful work that is being re-discovered is that of "at-TUNE-ment with Creation." The Tibetan Bowls harmonize, uplift and create deep healing of the...

Feng Shui Came Out of Buddhism 

How Aromas and Feng Shui Can Change Your Life

Have you ever walked into someone's home when they have been baking cookies, or pie or bread? How did you react? Smells are frequently associated with our childhood experiences. What is a nurturing fragrance to you? Did you realize that the use of a...

Various Schools of Feng Shui

Sometimes people get confused by just reading about Feng Shui. Actually you should choose one school of thought and stick to it. Otherwise you can become very disillusioned. So you might want to learn more before you rearrange any furniture or plant...

Rinpoches I Have Personally Studied With 

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Wangyal is a prolific author, he has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Mexico, and North America. He is a teacher at Serenity Rigde, VA, in rural Charlottesville, Virginia. I have studied with Tenzin Wangyal si...

Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche

Khenpo Choga is a 33rd generation lineage holder of the Dzogchen lineage of Buddhism. He is a Buddhist meditation master and scholar from Dzogchen Monastery and Dzogchen Shri Singha Monastic University in Tibet. He currently teaches Dharma and gives...

Teachings On Buddhism from His Holiness The Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the head of the Galugpa order of Buddhism which is one of 4 lineages in Tibetan Buddhism. The others are Kagyu, Sakya, Ningyma, and some people include Bonpo. Dalai Lama is the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. He is believe...

Thrangu Rinpoche

Kenchen Trangu Rinpoche is the ninth incarnation of the Kagyu school or lineage of which Sherap Gyaltsen was the first.  Trangu was born in 1933 in Kham, Tibet.  He was recognized as a Tulku at the age of 4.  He entered Thrangu Monesta...

Some Other Rinpoches I Have Read and Respect 

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Sakyong Mipham, born in 1962, is the son of Chogram Trungpa Rinpoche who established Shambhala Center in Boulder and also started Naropa University. Since his father's passing Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche has established the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya in m...

Namkhai Norbu Tibetan Scholar

Norbu was born in 1938 in eastern Tibet. He was recognized as the incarnation of a great Dzogchen Master when he was 3 years old. He received the traditional education of a reincarnate lama or tulku and studied and practiced with several great master...

Yongdzin Rinpoche- Famous Tibetan Monk

Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, senior teacher of the Bon tradition, was forced to leave his homeland when the Chinese invaded Tibet in the late 1950s. Click to learn more about the history of genocide there. Rainbow Over the Potala Palace Art...

The Karmapa

Karmapa literally means embodiment of the activity of all buddhas. The Karmapa's purpose is to manifest wakefulness and unconditional compassion in a direct, accessible way. Historically, there has been controversy about the famous Buddhist the Karm...

The Life of Sogyal Rinpoche

Sogyal Rinpoche is a Tibetan Dzogchen Lama of the Nyingma tradition. He is the founder and spiritual director of Rigpa-an international network of over 100 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world-and the author of the best-sellin...

More Respected Buddhist Lamas or Teachers 

Lama Khemsar Rinpoche

Lama Khemsar Rinpoche is the founder of the Tibetan Yungdrung Bön Study Centre, in the UK. Rinpoche is a respected teacher of the Yungdrung Bön, a Tibetan Buddhist lineage holder. He is well known for his lively teaching style and sparkling wit. One...

Shakyamuni Buddha

Shakyamuni Buddha was actually a prince named Siddhartha.  The story goes that his father the King kept Siddartha protected from the outside world.  But one day the prince escaped the palace grounds and encountered suffering, old age, sickn...

Lama Surya Das

The name he was given by his American birth parents was Jeffrey Miller. His family was Jewish. After graduating with honors from college in NY, he traveled throughout Europe and the East. He has spent nearly thirty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga...