It has been over two years since I started studying Buddhist Philosophy here in RYI. The first thing that caught my attention was the incredible frequency of paradoxes and metaphors
Read MoreLooking back in time, when I first joined RYI in 2017, I remember surrendering myself to what these four years would bring. I was at a very vulnerable
Read MoreI have been introduced recently to the concept of “operative philosophy”, which stands opposite to “speculative philosophy”. Operative philosophy refers to an approach wherein the thinker tries to bring philosophy into one’s own experience. Speculative
Read MoreWhen I started my BA years ago, I thought this time would never come and four years felt like a lifetime. However, now I feel
Read Moreབསླབ་པ་སློབ་པའི་དུས་ནི་རྫོགས། ཁྱེར་རྐྱང་མི་ཚེ་བསྐྱར་དུ་ཚུགས། རང་རང་གཅིག་པུར་གནས་དུས་ལ། ཉོན་སེམས་སྲུང་བ་གཙོ་བོར་བྱ། The time for learning came to an end, And the solo life has started again. While living alone by oneself, The
Read MoreWhen classes moved online in the mid of the Semester around March 23, I faced them with a sense of “powering through.” When the summer program moved
Read MoreI was already resigned to not see much of the sunshine this year, not because my clairvoyance detected the challenging year that the entire world had ahead, but because I decided
Read MoreI am at Utpala Restaurant to pay my course fee for the spring semester. Someone mentions there’s a large gathering at the lha khang
Read MoreI never thought I’d leave Nepal like this. Even though after being in a lockdown for almost half a year, still, when the time of
Read MoreNovember 16, 2020. During the second European lockdown Your are well-known in the French world of Tibetan Buddhism, but maybe not abroad. Could you introduce yourself? Philippe Cornu. I have been a Buddhist, in fact, for forty years, more than forty years. I
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