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Changing Minds: Uniting Monasticism with Education

Posted on April 20, 2022April 20, 2022by Teahouse

“In the early 90s, former monastics were quite rare in my region. Society did not perceive ex-monastics in a good way. They were seen as failures that could not fulfil their commitment. These days it’s accepted. You don’t need to be a monastic to help the Dharma.” In telling me this, Choje Lama has highlighted […]

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Answering the Conch Shell’s Call: Schooling and the Religious Life

Posted on March 3, 2022March 6, 2022by Teahouse

This is the second instalment of Life Religiously Lived, a biography of Choje Lama. We opened with the birth circumstances of the boy then-known as Wangchuk Topden, and in this chapter we look at how his school years shaped his life in preparation for his growing religious vocation. * Each human life is an open […]

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Full of Noise

Posted on March 28, 2020March 24, 2020by Teahouse

the call often comes when we refuse it.On some mornings it comes as an orange sitting ripe on the table.

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