The old house where I live in Vermont comes alive with the slightest acknowledgement—animated, breathing. It’s deep winter; I don’t go out much. I spend […]
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Tibetan Buddhism
Time Warp
I’ve been sleeping in my clothes a lot since I got home. I don’t know why, it’s as if I need to be ready to […]
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Padma Sambhava and Taktsang, “The Tiger’s Lair”
Taktsang, “The Tiger’s Lair,” has become something of a symbol of Bhutan in the mind of the international public. This is not simply by chance. […]
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Padmasambhava in Bumtang, Bhutan
Our Padma Sambhava film shoot had been on the road for almost seven weeks. We had already travelled through Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal and Mustang, filming […]
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Occupied
Being thus unmindful of what occurs is delusion; the very state of unawareness and the cause of going astray…
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Drak Yerpa: The Heart of Sacred Mountains
Pilgrimage is a personal experience, even when performed with a group. Each person discovers his or her personal favorite sites, and within each site, his […]
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Heart of the World
I’m still in Tibet. Although I’m sitting on the stairs in front of Bodhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, when I meet Tibetans here it feels […]
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Harvest Day
Each year, the astrologers of Lo Monthang, Nepal, set the annual harvest days according to the Tibetan Lunar Calendar. For two sequential days, villagers head […]
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Padma Sambhava and the Ranjung Cave of Mustang
The ancient kingdom of Mustang in northwest Nepal, like so many other mountain kingdoms of the Himalayan region from Bhutan to Ladakh, became part of […]
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