REMEMBERING ‘CHOTRUL DUCHEN’ AND JE MILAREPA’S ANNIVERSARY: New Praise to Je Milarepa by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa and Milarepa Guru Yoga live today from Bodh Gaya

ཁ་བའི་མེ་ཏོག་སྤུངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིར། །A mass of snow flowers in this worldརས་དཀར་འདབ་གཤོག་སྐྱོད་པའི་འཕུར་ལྡིང་གིས། །Flying and soaring with wings of white cotton robes --17th Karmapa excerpt from Praise to Milarepa (23 February 2024) Today, is the full moon of Saga Dawa, the first month of the Tibetan lunar year, which is considered to be especially sacred, and today is called… Continue reading REMEMBERING ‘CHOTRUL DUCHEN’ AND JE MILAREPA’S ANNIVERSARY: New Praise to Je Milarepa by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa and Milarepa Guru Yoga live today from Bodh Gaya

POETRY THE ‘FIRE-SPARK’ OF A BURNING HEART. Tibetan poetry and translation in Tibet and exile, remembering Tibetan poet, Chen Metak and new tribute poem “Stoked with Love”

“Some have arranged two masks,When sporting the black one, they walk in great humilityWhile wearing the white one, they walk dragging their whips behind." --Excerpt from “Strange World” poem by Chen Metak “An artist, if s/he’s unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against… Continue reading POETRY THE ‘FIRE-SPARK’ OF A BURNING HEART. Tibetan poetry and translation in Tibet and exile, remembering Tibetan poet, Chen Metak and new tribute poem “Stoked with Love”