“Leaving nothing behind but a name” མིང་གི་ལྷག་མ་ཙམ་དུ་གྱུར་ –-Tibetan idiom used to describe success at totally destroying so-called “enemies” As I wrote about in A TIBETAN TRAVESTY: DESTRUCTION AND APPROPRIATION OF KARMA KAGYU/8TH KARMAPA'S MANY MONASTERIES, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje recently taught about the reasons why 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje newly established many… Continue reading NOTHING LEFT BUT A MERE NAME: Documenting the ruins of two 14th Century Karma Kagyu monasteries, destroyed or taken over by Mongolian-Gelugpa sectarians
Month: October 2025
REVERENCE OR IRREVERENT? “Reverence: Important Himalayan Art from the Collection of Ulrich von Schroeder”: Priceless and sacred Tibetan Buddhist artworks and statues being sold for financial profit at Bonhams Hong Kong auction to highest bidders on 30th October 2025
Similar to the Christies' Hong Kong auction, another auction, Reverence: Important Himalayan Art from the Collection of Ulrich von Schroeder, of priceless Tibetan Buddhist treasures and artworks is being sold off to the highest bidder, for millions of USD/HKD. This time the works come from a specific living individual the art historian and collector, Ulrich… Continue reading REVERENCE OR IRREVERENT? “Reverence: Important Himalayan Art from the Collection of Ulrich von Schroeder”: Priceless and sacred Tibetan Buddhist artworks and statues being sold for financial profit at Bonhams Hong Kong auction to highest bidders on 30th October 2025
“TRY WALKING IN MY SHOES”: NO DISCUSSION OR ACCOUNTABILITY FOR BULLYING OF LONE, FOREIGN WOMAN. A summary list of “what, where, who and when” in relation to bullying and harassment campaign, with unaccountable “judge and jury” decisions by “anonymous” or “handpicked by Guru Vajradhara” administrators in Vietnam and Europe 2025
"Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced." --Bertrand Russell "Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist." "If you try walking in my… Continue reading “TRY WALKING IN MY SHOES”: NO DISCUSSION OR ACCOUNTABILITY FOR BULLYING OF LONE, FOREIGN WOMAN. A summary list of “what, where, who and when” in relation to bullying and harassment campaign, with unaccountable “judge and jury” decisions by “anonymous” or “handpicked by Guru Vajradhara” administrators in Vietnam and Europe 2025
THE FORTHCOMING SELLING OF “PRICELESS” BUDDHIST TREASURES TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER IN HONG KONG: Ancient Indian and Nepalese Buddhist statues, 10th Karmapa rare 17th Century paintings and more (whose lineage into private collectors’ ownership is not clear) being sold at Christie’s Hong Kong auction house on 3 November 2025
“Regarding poetry and painting there is none greater than me in Tibet. I am one who pleases . I am one who has come into this world to paint.”--10th Karmapa, Choying Dorje [1] “Superior to all of these [was] the Lord of the World practicing art, the glorious Karmapa Choying Dorje. This individual studied painting with… Continue reading THE FORTHCOMING SELLING OF “PRICELESS” BUDDHIST TREASURES TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER IN HONG KONG: Ancient Indian and Nepalese Buddhist statues, 10th Karmapa rare 17th Century paintings and more (whose lineage into private collectors’ ownership is not clear) being sold at Christie’s Hong Kong auction house on 3 November 2025
KILLING ORDINARY BEINGS IN THE NAME OF AVALOKITESHVARA? Exposing the Fifth Dalai Lama’s obsession with studying and practising thu (མཐུ་) violent tantric “killing rituals” from the Nyingma lineage (such as Zhigpo Lingpa’s texts) for political and war purposes, and re-writing the false narrative of a “Mongolian invasion” of Tibet and the Dalai Lama institution as the compassionate unifier of “war-torn” Tibet
"Most Gedenpa (Gelugpas) shun alcohol and the like, making them excellent models of the teachings. Yet, most Gedenpa see no faults in those who seek to kill and maim. Such anger and hostility is a huge enemy, be careful!" --Mipham Rinpoche དགེ་ལྡན་པ་ཕལ་ཆེར་ཆང་ནག་སོགས་འཛེམ་པས་བསྟན་པའི་མིག་ལྟོས་ལེགས་ཀྱང༌། ཕལ་ཆེར་གསོད་གཅོད་ལྷུར་ལེན་པ་ལ་སྐྱོན་དུ་མི་ལྟ་བས། ཞེ་སྡང་འདི་དགྲ་ཆེ་བས་གཟབ་ དགེ་ལྡན་པ་ཕལ་ཆེར་ཆང་ནག་སོགས་འཛེམ་པས་བསྟན་པའི་མིག་ལྟོས་ལེགས་ཀྱང༌། ཕལ་ཆེར་གསོད་གཅོད་ལྷུར་ལེན་པ་ལ་སྐྱོན་དུ་མི་ལྟ་བས། ཞེ་སྡང་འདི་དགྲ་ཆེ་བས་གཟབ་འཚལ། "Leaving nothing behind but a name" མིང་གི་ལྷག་མ་ཙམ་དུ་གྱུར་ --Tibetan… Continue reading KILLING ORDINARY BEINGS IN THE NAME OF AVALOKITESHVARA? Exposing the Fifth Dalai Lama’s obsession with studying and practising thu (མཐུ་) violent tantric “killing rituals” from the Nyingma lineage (such as Zhigpo Lingpa’s texts) for political and war purposes, and re-writing the false narrative of a “Mongolian invasion” of Tibet and the Dalai Lama institution as the compassionate unifier of “war-torn” Tibet
NEW TRANSLATION: No Regrets: “New Melody (Yangchen Sarma)”’s Reflections: Verses by the 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje (tr. Adele Tomlin)
"If looking outwardly, there is nothing that cannot be done. If reflecting inwardly, there is nothing that lacks being done. If thinking with certainty, it is not a realm of intellect . New Melody (Yangchen Sarma)'s nature, who can fathom that?" --8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje ཕྱི་ནས་བལྟས་ན་མི་བྱ་ཅི་ཡང་མེད། ། ནང་ནས་གཞིགས་ན་ཅི་ཡང་བྱེད་པ་བྲལ། ། ངེས་པར་བསམས་ན་བློ་ཡི་ཡུལ་མ་ཡིན། ། དབྱངས་ཅན་གསར་མའི་རང་བཞིན་སུ་ཡིས་དཔོགས། ། Translator’s Introduction… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: No Regrets: “New Melody (Yangchen Sarma)”’s Reflections: Verses by the 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje (tr. Adele Tomlin)
THE CREATIVE POWER, BLISS AND WISDOM OF A WOMAN’S BODY: Why are wisdom, love and compassion exemplified by a woman’s body/form in Buddhism?
"In Buddhism, a woman's body is viewed as a source of wisdom and bliss. All humans are born from women's life-giving bodies, yet there is still continual shaming, judging, objectifying, exclusion, denigration and policing of women's bodies. Without women as mothers, care-givers, spiritual consorts and teachers, there can be no Buddhas." --Adele Tomlin (2025) … Continue reading THE CREATIVE POWER, BLISS AND WISDOM OF A WOMAN’S BODY: Why are wisdom, love and compassion exemplified by a woman’s body/form in Buddhism?
“Pictures speak a thousand words”: All-male guest line-up photos for Bhutanese Global Peace Prayer Festival
A couple of weeks ago some photos appeared online advertising the line-up of confirmed guests for the upcoming Global Peace prayer festival in Thimphu, Bhutan (November 4th-11th) . It is fortunate to have realised Buddhist masters with pure lineages, such as HE 12th Tai Situpa and Gyaltsab Rinpoche, to join together and have Buddhist event… Continue reading “Pictures speak a thousand words”: All-male guest line-up photos for Bhutanese Global Peace Prayer Festival
THE CREATION STAGE AND PURE PERCEPTION IN VAJRAYANA: Taking refuge vows and getting a new refuge name, instructions on pure perception and the creation stage, and deliberately harassed/targeted by total strangers revealed as part of a general smear campaign to disrupt my connection with the teacher (Beaumont, Belgium Part II, 9th Gyalton Rinpoche)
"However, in the Vajrayana, the Buddha taught that you are Amitabha, or Avalokiteshvara, or Tara right here and now. Due to the obscurations though, we have not recognised it. So recognising that everything right now is the pure land of the Buddha, and is perfect, that is bringing the fruition as the path." "That Buddha… Continue reading THE CREATION STAGE AND PURE PERCEPTION IN VAJRAYANA: Taking refuge vows and getting a new refuge name, instructions on pure perception and the creation stage, and deliberately harassed/targeted by total strangers revealed as part of a general smear campaign to disrupt my connection with the teacher (Beaumont, Belgium Part II, 9th Gyalton Rinpoche)
BULLYING AND DISCRIMINATION OF LONE BUDDHIST WOMAN AT PALPUNG CENTRE IN AUSTRIA: Female administrator’s “anonymous and unauthorised” email banning lone woman’s attendance at Avalokiteshvara empowerment, harassment in person, refusing to refund registration fee and wasting police time
Generally, as I wrote about here, my time in Europe attending teachings with HE 9th Gyalton Rinpoche was blissful, meaningful and memorable indeed. I was able to attend most of his teachings that I had planned on. However, sadly it was deliberately disturbed (on several occasions) by a few "power-trip" administrators intent on harming that… Continue reading BULLYING AND DISCRIMINATION OF LONE BUDDHIST WOMAN AT PALPUNG CENTRE IN AUSTRIA: Female administrator’s “anonymous and unauthorised” email banning lone woman’s attendance at Avalokiteshvara empowerment, harassment in person, refusing to refund registration fee and wasting police time