By Pastor Shin Tan and Tsem Rinpoche At one of the highest points on the eastern seaboard, rural fieldstone buildings that resemble a Tibetan mountain monastery sit atop Lighthouse Hill. Founded in 1945, this “Jewel on a Hillside” is home to one of America’s most extensive collections of Himalayan artefacts and was “the only...
Tags: art, art gallery, biography, culture, dalai lama, karmapa, manhatten, museum, new york, panchen lama, spirituality, staten island, tibet, tourism, travel
Posted in Art, Architecture & Culture, Explorers, Travel | 6 Comments »
(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, As humans we are always inspired to read what others have done and perhaps it gives us the hope we can too. We all need hope very much. We like to set limits on ourselves projecting them as solid, permanent and fixed when in actuality they are just easily changeable. We...
Tags: american, dakini, Lochen Rinpoche, nangsa obum, new york, practice, Shungsep Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche, Tara, tibet, vajrayogini, yogini
Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice | 43 Comments »
I just read this wonderful news about a school in New York known as Active Learning Elementary School, serves vegetarian meals to their students 5 days a week!
Tags: america, bloomberg administration, cafeteria, new york, news, school, vegetarian
Posted in Animals, Vegetarianism & Environment, Current Affairs & News | 24 Comments »
When I was very young, my step parents took me to New York City (two hour drive from our home in New Jersey) to see a huge circus show ( I think it was Ringling Brothers).
Tags: Alec Baldwin, circus, new jersey, new york, Peta, Rangling Brothers
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A gigantic tyrannosaurus skeleton -- tucked away in a New York warehouse -- was seized by US authorities, who hope to return the prehistoric remains to their native Mongolia, officials said...
Tags: britain, dinosaur, florida, mongolia, mongolian, new york
Posted in Current Affairs & News | 27 Comments »
Rising sea level puts US Atlantic coast at risk: report Updated: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:34:40 GMT | By Agence France-Presse The sea level on a stretch of the US Atlantic coast that features the cities of New York, Norfolk and Boston is rising up to four times faster than the global average, a...
Tags: america, atlantic, boston, coastline, new york, US
Posted in Current Affairs & News | 25 Comments »
Facing college life in a new city, JP Thong had no idea what awaited him when he moved thousands of miles away from home to New York, where he was to encounter the first of many paranormal experiences he was soon to have over the coming decades...
Tags: ghost, ghosts, haunting, hauntings, new york, paranormal, spirit, spirits
Posted in Tsem Paranormal TV | 5 Comments »