Interview: Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo: Yudron, I love that the strong story-telling tradition in Tibet inspired you to write Vajrayana based novels to help teenagers understand and heal their experiences. Many parents are probably prostrating to you! How did you come to identify teenagers as your audience?

While one might expect ongoing scriptural revelation to be innovative, Nyingma Treasure is in fact strikingly conservative. Despite the colourful personalities of individual treasure revealers, and the sometimes dramatic public displays accompanying revelation, finished Treasure works are faithful to age-old tradition.

Neuroscientists refer to "direct" mode when we pay attention to our senses, as opposed to "narrative" mode when we're caught up in our inner narrative or thoughts. Unsurprisingly, there is a powerful and positive correlation between being in direct mode and being happy.

"Let's pray" is not what you might expect to hear from Buddhists but...there it is. What could it mean?

When I hear best selling authors saying that we don’t need to step back from our everyday life in order to gain the advantages of meditation, I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.  Really, I do.  A few of their points are sound, that what is found in time apart is also available here, and that ultimately we need to bring the practice home, and I give them credit for saying this much.  But when they deny the value of retreat, they go too far.

Deity yoga is simple and not complicated if understood correctly. All you need to be the best deity yoga practitioner in the world is the correct view.

Tara Choying Lhamo, an Austrian Buddhist who has been living in retreat for more than 20 years—12 of which were spend in Milarepa’s caves in Lapchi, Nepal—is now sharing her experience and insights. Listen to her interview.

Video (1:22) : Buddhist teacher Alan Wallace and two physicists on the nature of reality at Dartmouth’s Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement. 

If the olden days found their lighting through candles, Asakura thought modern times could find its lighting through colorful illuminations.

Become a part of the history of this sacred syllable by learning about its importance and then stepping into a recording environment to offer your OM. 

Embracing Compassion is an international touring exhibition of Vajrayana paintings that aims to raise awareness about Vajrayana's sacred art but also...wait for it...actually make viewers more compassionate!