‘BLISSFUL FEELING OF YOUR ABIDING PRESENCE’: New translation of poem and calligraphy art by Jamyang Dorjee

ཁྱེད་བཞུགས་ཡོད་ བོད་གངས་ཅན་དུ་བཞུགས་པའི་སྤུན་ཟླ་དང། ཕྱི་འཛམ་་གླིང་ནང་གྱར་བའི་རྗེས་འཇུག་རྣམས། ཁྱེད་བཞུགས་ཡོད་བསམ་པའི་ཚོར་བ་དེས། བཤད་མི་ཤེས་པའི་ཡིད་ལ་བདེ་བ་སྦྱིན།   "YOUR ABIDING PRESENCE Tibetan kinsfolk abiding in Snowy Tibetan lands, andFollowers scattered around the world,That feeling while musing on your abiding presence,Kindles indescribable mental bliss." On sharing my translation of his poem with Jamyang Dorjee himself, he wrote publicly on his FB page: "There cannot be a better translation… Continue reading ‘BLISSFUL FEELING OF YOUR ABIDING PRESENCE’: New translation of poem and calligraphy art by Jamyang Dorjee

YIG-TSAL, FLOWING LINES OF AMAZING GRACE: POETIC TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF A MASTER TIBETAN CALLIGRAPHER, JAMYANG DORJEE. Review of the master Tibetan calligraphy artist, Jamyang Dorje Chakirar and his exhibition in Bhutan (2022), with a new poem spontaneously created as tribute to his work and effort

“After retirement I engaged into serious Buddhist practices and realized how vast Buddhist philosophy is. I began looking inward within myself, there is a beauty; my story would inspire many retirees. When they (people) retire they feel that they have nothing to do. But now is the time when you can express yourselves.” "Art is… Continue reading YIG-TSAL, FLOWING LINES OF AMAZING GRACE: POETIC TRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF A MASTER TIBETAN CALLIGRAPHER, JAMYANG DORJEE. Review of the master Tibetan calligraphy artist, Jamyang Dorje Chakirar and his exhibition in Bhutan (2022), with a new poem spontaneously created as tribute to his work and effort