Teahouse, Author at Tea House

In Praise of Magnolia: Scents of Life

The magnolias are in season, and Papillon offers a reflection on why they’ve always been revered and beloved

The Parinirvana dates of Marpa and Milarepa – two of Tibetan Buddhism’s most important guru-disciple pairs – fall in the same month this year

The Jonang Kalachakra Meditation Institute is one of the few institutions in the world fully focused on the Kalachakra Tantra’s Sixfold Yoga

The Jonang’s lineage holder will grant the White Zambala, Kalachakra Vishvamata, and Four-Faced, Eight-Armed Vase Yamantaka empowerments

Incredible India sees Hong Kong’s party district and public amphitheater transformed into a vibrant hub of cultural and musical delights

The scenic area of Sarpang Dzongkhag will feature, as part of Gelephu Mindfulness City, a trail tracing the presence of Padmasambhava

A Shinto-Buddhist dialogue about how spiritual presences, great and small, inhabit inanimate images is not too far-fetched

Her Majesty the Queen of Bhutan led a consecration ceremony at a center that will be presided over by Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche

Warm sun on cold earth even the grass is unsure what this really means.

Celibate nuns are an easy target for derision and mockery. Yet the paths they choose open up possibilities of the beautiful and transcendent