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78San Francisco Journal, Day Six
7/4/2006 There’s so much trash on the streets, along the curb, that I have to wonder if they actually have street cleaners. This is the downtown area, like the street in front of the hotel. Today I went...
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83The Oldest Buddhist Temple of Tibet
During my first lunch break in Tibet, I wandered down the main street, now called Beijing Road, and entered the first noodle shop I saw, because I certainly didn’t want to spend the entire lunch break...
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64BODHISATVAS and the broken mind
The Bodhisattvas of Tibetan Buddhism have achieved an intimate understanding of the Karmic cycle and there-by the elimination of negative Karma which compels them to help those who's Karma is unbalanced to a...
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76Tenzin Choegyal, the Dalai Lama's Brother
I was with a sangha staying in Dharamsala, India, a Tibetan exile community where the Dalai Lama lives. Our group was split into two guesthouses; the one I stayed at belonged to the local maharaja, and the...
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73Tibet: an extraordinary land and its people
During the many years I lived in South Asia for many years, I was able to spend time in Tibet. It is an extraordinary place, home to many interesting people, and a land of diverse ecosystems. I have been...
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70To kill a fly or not? My friend Anthony Reynolds choses to let live
My very good friend the singer-songwriter and author Anthony Reynolds, whom I have written a hub about before, has recently written a blog at Myspace about how he came to the decision that it was wrong to...
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64Mingyur Rinpoche at Powell's Books
I arrived about ten minutes early for the author event at the Basil Halward Gallery at Powell’s City of Books on Burnside in downtown Portland. Most of the seats were already taken. A few minutes after...
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56San Francisco Journal, Day Three
7/1/06 I unfortunately didn’t get to the Basic Meditation class at the San Francisco Zen Center as planned, because I pretty much got lost after I stepped off the bus at Van Ness Station. It was at...
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71Visit Tibet
How you ever thought about a visit to Tibet? Tibet is a country that many have heard of, but most don't know much about. Tibet is a land of contrasts and its history is both fascinating, and tragic, at the...
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66The Tibetan Nuns Project
The following are photos that I took at the Dolma Ling Nunnery in Dharamsala, site of the Tibetan Nuns Project, which has the purpose of educating nuns on the same level as monks. Tibetan women, including...
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