The Double Dorje: Modern Vajrayana Buddhism.

A bit about kanglings, including tips about forming the mouthpiece. Best seen on video at YouTube.

When Buddhist teachers give teachings to westerners, live interpreting into the main language of the locale is often crucial. It can be done well. But sometimes it is done badly. Here are some of the issues.

#interpreting #buddhism #tibetan

After a masterpiece of a life, Lama Lodro finally left us at the age of 100.

#Lama #Lodro #eulogy #Tibetan #Buddhism #Edgbaston

There have been a depressing number of scandals in major Tibetan Buddhist organizations, particularly (though not only) in the West.

It clearly has systemic roots - can the disease be identified?

PS. How unprofessional! I uploaded the sound file without the delightful music. This is now the correct one.

The podcast will have to take a back seat for some months as I work on a project aimed at publishing biographies of a few of the nuns, and the sometimes heroic journeys they undertook to arrive at the caves above Tsopema (Rewalsar) to live and practise.

A Tsopema Nuns blog gives a few details. It should help to find missing pieces in the jigsaw of names and places.