Basking Under the Dharma Sun “Buddhist Studies? Wow, so interesting. Where?” starts the familiar drill.“In Nepal,” I reply.“Oh!!…..where in Nepal?”“In Kathmandu.”“Oh okay….is it in the main
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Read MoreLearning how to unlearn My father once told me that the majority of the people who seek spirituality have had some kind of bad experience
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Read Moreརི་རྒྱལ། – The Glorious Mountains ཨའ་རི་རྒྱལ་ཡའ་རི་རྒྱལ་ལྷུན་པོ། ཁྱེད་ནི་ས་གོ་ལ་ཡི་རྒྱན་ཆ་ཡིན་ལ། ཁྱེད་ནི་ཧིན་ཏུ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ཁ་གཏད་ཡང་ཡིན། ཁྱེད་ནི་གཏེར་རིགས་ཀུན་ཀྱི་བང་མཛོད་ཡིན་ལ། ཁྱེད་ནི་རྩེ་ཤིང་སྟོང་གི་བཤམ་ཁང་ཡང་ཡིན ཁྱེད་ནི་མཛོ་གཡག་ལུག་གི་ལྷ་ཡུལ་ཡིན་ལ། ཁྱེད་ནི་འགྲོ་བ་མི་ཡི་དཔུང་གཉེན་ཡང་ཡིན། Ah’ mountains yeah, the spontaneous mountains! You are the ornament of the earth, And
Read MoreColloquial Tibetan Is Fun I have taken colloquial Tibetan I this semester, thinking that it would complement
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