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Tibet’s Lelung Tulkus — Shaping Peace for 700 Years

In advance of the 700th anniversary of Tibet’s first Lelung Tulku, Tenzin Wangmo offers an appreciation of the lineage and its current-day incarnation, whose work is decidedly nonsectarian.

Remembering Venerable Shwe Nya War and his Work for Democracy

Political-activist monk Venerable Shwe Nya War Sayadaw, who died in July 2025 after years of imprisonment under Myanmar's military junta, embodied a form of Buddhist nationalism that championed democracy and solidarity with Muslims rather than scapegoating them. Hein Htet Kyaw remembers a monk whose legacy challenges comfortable assumptions about religion, resistance, and belonging.

Why I Ordained — And What It Was Like

Rev. Dr. Aaron Shōken Proffitt shares his experience of tokudo shurai — the ordination training for priests in the Jōdo Shinshū Hongwanji-ha — and learns that "everything is tokudo."

Khanti, or Patience, as Relational Practice

Khanti is one of the parami, and an antidote to anger. How can we bring it to bear in our relationships — meeting conflict, hurt, and intensity directly — without flinching, shutting down, or acting out?

Great Compassion Takes Form

Karen Greenspan takes us to Kathmandu to witness the immersive, nine-day Avalokiteshvara Drupchen ceremony. Featuring photos courtesy of the Drukpa Nuns and photos and video by the author.

84000 opens new gateway to the Tibetan Buddhist canon

At the heart of the new site is an open-access library of thousands of canonical texts, organized according to traditional categories and searchable by topic.

A Bigger Umbrella

Rev. José M. Tirado on working with the spiritual longing “for the complete thing, the practice that would hold all of me, the teacher who would see everything I was bringing and say: yes, this too belongs.”

Is This the Spiritual Awakening that We Seek?

In the introduction from his new book, Loving the World as Our Body: The Nondual Path in a Dangerous Time, David R. Loy asks us to consider what we could have learned from our religions, and how we might bring about what we need today: a spirituality that loves this world.

The Worst of Times, the Best of Times

In this excerpt from Girl in a Box: Seeking Enlightenment as a Tibetan Buddhist Nun, Paldrom Catharine Collins discovers that sometimes it’s bad times that lead to big breakthroughs.

A.I., Yogacara, and the Mind That Was Never Only Ours

AI, writes Rev. Mauricio Hondaku, is not a threat to the dharma, but "a new surface on which the dharma can write itself, provided we bring to its design the same care, depth, and intentionality that the tradition has always demanded of its vessels."

Karmapa Center 16 to hold July consecration ceremony, teaching

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche will lead the ceremony and offer a free public teaching on Guru Rinpoche on Saturday, July 25. These events will take place both onsite at the Center and broadcast live online via Zoom.

El viaje de una traductora hacia la lengua tibetana

Ana Carla Vergara Calvar nos cuenta cómo llegó a dedicarse a la traducción del Dharma —y cómo tú también podrías hacerlo.

How to Train Change Agents

Darcie Price-Wallace on Ven. Dhammananda’s care, collaborative efforts, and inclusive practices for fully ordained Buddhist nuns, novice nuns, and laity.

Satipatthana and the Field of Relationship

Most practitioners, says nico hase, understand the Buddha's Satipatthana Sutta as a framework for individual practice. But the instructions are more layered than that. The Buddha directs attention internally, externally, and both internally and externally. That third mode is almost never emphasized in contemporary teaching — and it maps uncannily onto the actual work of relationship.