tibetan monks

Self-mummifying meditator

Wisdom Quarterly points us to a YouTube video featuring Tibetan tumo practitioners drying wet sheets on their bare bodies in cool temperatures. All the while a Harvard professor discusses the wonders of meditation, tumo practice—a  technique…

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Watch: Sand mandala in the making

Tricycle friend Stuart Freeman provides this  video, which he shot Tuesday, May 25, 2010, at St. John The Divine, in New York City. During the Dalai Lama’s visit, ten Drepung Loseling monks created this extraordinary sand…

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