In Tibetan lore, Shambhala is a magical, beautiful and mythical kingdom, although many Buddhists believe that it really exists because it is described within the Kalachakra Tantra as elucidated by His Holiness the great Panchen Rinpoche in the book he composed called Shambhala Lam Yig. In it, His Holiness the Panchen Rinpoche describes clearly how to...
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This photograph won the first prize in the China category of National Geographic’s 2017 photography contest. Though, it may just look like a photo of people sleeping on a fast moving train in China, it has deep significance...
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Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian saint and yogi who introduced the ancient teachings of Kriya Yoga to the world...
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Sai Baba of Shirdi is an Indian saint who practised both Hinduism and Islam. He dedicated his life to ascetic practice and to spreading the message of love...
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I came across a series of videos by a great Sikh master of the Radha Soami tradition. His name is Venerable Ishwar Puri Ji. I have watched several of his videos, and I must say that I am extremely impressed...
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நம்மை தெய்வீகத்தன்மைக்கு அழைத்துச் செல்ல, ஒரு பாதை அல்லது சிந்தனை, ஒரு குரு அல்லது ஆசான், அல்லது ஒரு மதம் அல்லது குறிப்பிட்ட வழி மட்டும் இல்லை...
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was a 13th century Sufi mystic, Islamic scholar and poet who is considered one of the greatest poetic geniuses and spiritual masters of all time...
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Atisha is considered one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters of all time but it is his work in reviving pure Buddhism in Tibet that truly sets him apart...
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Carlos Castaneda was an American New Age author and a scholar of anthropology. He wrote a series of popular books that described his training and magical experiences in Toltec Shamanism...
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Baba Sawan Singh Grewal, known as “The Great Master” to his followers, was a charismatic Indian saint of the Sikh faith. He was the spiritual successor to his teacher, Baba Jaimal Singh...
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(by Tsem Rinpoche and Stella Cheang) I am part Kalmyk. The Kalmyks are Mongolians who have their own republic in the Russian Federation called Kalmykia. My adoptive parents, along with hundreds of other Kalmyks, migrated to the USA between the 1950s and 1960s. At the time, America’s immigration policies did not favour Asians, but the...
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The Third Trijang, Lobzang Yeshe Tendzin Gyatso was born on March 10, 1901, in Gungtang. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Second Trijang, Lobzang Tsultrim Pelden...
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འབྲོམ་སྟོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས། b.1004 – d.1064 Tradition: Kadam བཀའ་གདམས་པ། Geography: Tolung Dechen County སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཛོང། Historical Period: 11th Century ༡༡ དུས་རབས། Institution: Reting Monastery རྭ་སྒྲེང།; Gyelje རྒྱལ་བྱེད་དགོན། Clan: Drom འབྲོམ། Name Variants: Gyelwa Jungne རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས། Dromtonpa Gyelwa Jungne (‘brom ston rgyal ba ‘byung gnas) was born in Tolung (stod lung) in 1004 or 1005, into the Drom (‘brom) clan. His father was Kushen Yaksherpen (sku gshen yag gsher ‘phen) and his mother was K...
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Pema Lingpa was born in Chel Baridrang, in the Tang valley in the district of Bumtang. His father was Dondrub Zangpo of Sumtrang and his mother was Pema Dronma...
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Sonam Chopel was born in 1595 at Gyale in Tibet’s Tolung valley to the west of Lhasa. When he was eight, he was enrolled at the great Geluk monastery of Drepung...
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When the Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso died at the young age of twenty in 1875, his face is said to have turned toward the south-east, which was taken as a sign...
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Zong Lobzang Tsondru was born in Mangsang, Kham, in 1905. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Geluk master Zongtrul Tenpa Chopel...
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The Third Changkya, Rolpai Dorje was born in 1717 in the Drakkar territory of Nub Padmo De Monastery, one of four monasteries that Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen established...
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The life story of Machik Labdron has been recounted in several different Tibetan hagiographies, with considerable differences among them. According to these sources, Machik was born in 1055...
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Padampa Sanggye was probably born during the eleventh century in an area identified as the district of Kupadvipa, the province of Carasimha, the land of Bebala...
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