Issue 43 of Buddhism Today features many exciting articles connecting the history of our Karma Kagyu lineage to joyful developments in the modern Western world.
We are pleased to present an excerpt from Boundless Wisdom: A Mahamudra Practice Manual by the 14th Shamar Rinpoche, published posthumously in 2018. This newly released book offers precise guidelines for meditation. Shamar Rinpoche produced this book based on teachings he gave on the meditation-oriented teachings from Moonlight of Mahamudra in the 1990s. He provided new explanations for the final manuscript and continued refining it until his death in 2014.
Pictures are worth far more than words. In this issue you will find pictures of the first meeting of Lama Ole Nydahl and Thugsey, the son of the 17th Karmapa and Sangyumla Rinchen Yangzom. Furthermore, the Internet increasingly connects us and allows us to receive teachings via streaming services and social media platforms. “Dharma Online” teachings from Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, are found here in good old-fashioned magazine print!
The meeting of teacher and student and the ensuing spiritual relationship that develops is a defining feature of the Diamond Way. This issue highlights the meeting of Lama Ole and Hannah Nydahl with their teacher, the 16th Karmapa, in an excerpt from Radiant Compassion: The Life of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje by Gerd Bausch.
Continuing with stories of the 16th Karmapa, this issue includes the first English printing of the personal account of Tsultrim Namgyal. Since the early 1960s, Gyamkhar Tsultrim Namgyal was an attendant, secretary and right-hand of the 16th Karmapa and later for the 17th Karmapa.
Scientific inquiry is a crucial part of Western culture and modern life. The scientific view is complementary to Buddhism: Buddhism is not a belief system but is rather based on experience, causality and empirical insight. In this issue we provide and an article by Lama Ole Nydahl on “Mind, Brain and the Pure View” and are excited to launch a regular column on
“Buddhism and Science,” with “The Participatory Universe” by Sasha Rozenberg. We hope you will find this feature column to be an exciting exploration of Buddhism as the science of mind.
Finally, we note that Kenn Maly has retired from Buddhism Today after many years as editor. The entire Buddhism Today team would like to thank him for his many years of service to the magazine and wish him all the best in his future activities!
May all beings experience boundless joy and freedom!
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The following has been assembled from various question-and-answer sessions in Russia with Lama Ole Nydahl. It was first published in the Russian-language edition of Buddhism Today (no. 31, 2018).
Mind, Brain & the Pure View Read More »
In September 2017 Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, approached the editorial team of our sister publication in Germany, Buddhismus Heute (“Buddhism Today”), with a special request to record and publish the life of his trusted attendant Gyamkhar Tsultrim Namgyal.
In the Service of Two Karmapas Read More »
Education and Literacy Healthy education balances different types of wealth—inner wealth and outer wealth. Yes, we need to educate ourselves and use material (outer) wealth as a tool to meet our own and each other’s basic human needs. But there
Dharma Online: Teachings from the 17th Karmapa around the Web Read More »
We at Buddhism Today are very pleased to present a new regular feature that focuses on the connections between Buddhist teachings and modern scientific inquiry. This series of articles will explore the rapidly evolving dialogue between science and Buddhism in terms of physics, neuroscience and life sciences.
The Participatory Universe Read More »
The following are selections from Boundless Wisdom: A Mahamudra Practice Manual, by the 14th Shamarpa Mipham Chokyi Lodro, published in 2018. It is republished with the kind permission of Bird of Paradise Press.
Boundless Wisdom: A Mahamudra Practice Manual Read More »
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