Reflections on Dzongsar Khyentse’s “How We Raise Tulkus”
The Tibetan master’s criticism of tulku training highlights just one of the difficulties that traditional cultures have when transitioning to the modern world.
Reincarnation
Living and Dying with Confidence
Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo talk about how death is an important moment for every human being, no matter what tradition.
Remembering Jim Harrison (1937–2016)
Tricycle remembers the great American writer Jim Harrison, who died in his Arizona home on March 26.
China Asserts Control over Dalai Lama Lineage
According to the Dalai Lama’s autobiography, Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), once characterized religion as “poison.” The modern CCP maintains official atheism to this day, but that hasn’t stopped officials from…
25% of Americans believe in reincarnation
In “Remembrances of Lives Past,” an article that appeared in the New York Times this weekend, Newsweek‘s religion editor Lisa Miller takes a look at our nation’s growing belief in reincarnation. According to data released by…
Video: Watching Dilgo Khyentse Yansgi Rinpoche grow up
Filmmaker Mark Elliott is making a movie about Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche and has been visiting him every three years. He takes time out on his fifth trip to talk about his work. Great footage of Khyentse…
Ponlop Rinpoche takes a stab at “the question that won’t go away”
One year ago I wrote a post I called, “Is Buddhism a Religion? The Question that won’t go away.” I think it’s clear now that the question will come round again and again. Along with “religion…
Dalai Lama: My Reincarnation Will Appear In Free Country
VIA P. Vijian at Bernama.com, DHARAMSALA, July 20 (Bernama) — Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama believes his next reincarnation will be in a “free country”, if the Tibetan crisis prolongs without a cordial solution. “If…
Stephen Batchelor in Insight Journal: You don’t have to believe in rebirth to be a Buddhist
Not many things in life are free, but there are exceptions. One of them is Insight Journal, the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies publication edited by the center’s co-director Andrew Olendzki. The organization supports itself through…
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