RECOGNISING JONANG AND RIGHTING PAST WRONGS IN TIBET: New online campaign launched by Tibetan Jonang lineage holder to demand that central Tibetan exile government authorities officially recognise one of the main Tibetan Buddhist lineages

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --George Santayana "History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done." ~ Sydney J. Harris Introduction A new campaign and online petition to recognise the Jonang Tibetan Buddhist tradition has been launched by the… Continue reading RECOGNISING JONANG AND RIGHTING PAST WRONGS IN TIBET: New online campaign launched by Tibetan Jonang lineage holder to demand that central Tibetan exile government authorities officially recognise one of the main Tibetan Buddhist lineages

ORIGINS OF SECRET MANTRA (DAY 7): IDEAS ON SAMSARA, KARMA, ADVANCED PHILOSOPHY AND INDIAN CASTE: the Upanishads on liberation, two epic Indian poems, Buddha’s clan as ‘friend of the Sun’, rise of the Brahmins and status of women (by 17th Karmapa)

"Brahman has but two forms—gross and subtle, mortal and immortal, limited and unlimited, defined and undefined." (dve vāva brahmaṇo rūpe—mūrtaṃ caivāmūrtaṃ ca, martyaṃ cāmṛtaṃ ca, sthitaṃ ca yacca, sacca, tyacca||) — Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.3.1 "Then, higher than this heaven, above the world, higher than everything, in the highest world, higher than which nothing exists—the light… Continue reading ORIGINS OF SECRET MANTRA (DAY 7): IDEAS ON SAMSARA, KARMA, ADVANCED PHILOSOPHY AND INDIAN CASTE: the Upanishads on liberation, two epic Indian poems, Buddha’s clan as ‘friend of the Sun’, rise of the Brahmins and status of women (by 17th Karmapa)

With the years of my youth passing awayI have wandered all across the land of India, east and west.I have studied Sanskrit, most useful,And the useless language of the foreigners. --Gedun Chophel, Tibetan translator of the Upanishads and Dhammapada[i] We need to understand the background and history of Indian civilization. Only when we understand that,… Continue reading ORIGINS OF SECRET MANTRA (DAY 4): ‘HUMAN NATURE’ AND VEDIC GODS: Fire, intoxicants, money, death and the Vedic ‘dark side’: Demi-Gods, Maras, Flesh-eaters, and the four priests required for sacrificial offerings (by 17th Karmapa)