With my passion to create and live in a vajrayana world, Kilung's Rinpoche's perspective is indispensable. —Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo

Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, Pema Sangdzin Khandro, offers transformational teachings and life coaching, Peacekeeper curriculum, and Tibetan Buddhist teachings. In Part One Venerable shares some significant occurrences in the warp and weft of her life.

Highly accomplished thangka painter and sculptor, Andy Weber, spent seven years living and studying the iconographical art of Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of accomplished masters in India and Nepal. In this video, he shares his encyclopedic knowledge of auspicious symbols in Tibetan art. 

"I have to put in an incredible effort ...but no matter how much effort I make, ...it's never sufficient. This is partly because people have high limitless hopes in me..."

For those of you who love Padmasambhava... While sculpting him, I learned so much about Guru Rinpoche and his famous portrait--for a long time, I was simply overwhelmed about what to write. I felt that I was constantly confronted with the veils between the myths and the man. What I first dismissed as metaphor, sometimes brought me closer to the truth than I could have imagined. 

Mandalas are not just a personal fascination of mine. They are the beating hearts of the entire Vajrayana tradition. Every deity (and they are countless) has a unique mandala. So I naively thought, "Is this MY deity mandala? My ticket to enlightenment?"

Video: Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo speaks with Lama Rangbar, founder of Bodhivastu Foundation, about how Vajrayana is doing in the West, asking among other questions, "Do you see a Western culture of Vajrayana evolving, is it needed and what's involved?