Tibetan Buddhism

No Regrets: Dalai Lama’s Advice for Living and Dying

By Buddhism Now on 22 September 2017 • ( 3 )

‘Passing through life, progressing to old age and eventually death, it is not sufficient to just take care of the body. We need to take care of our emotions as well.’ The Dalai Lama. (Buddhist film 34 minutes)

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Photographs Taken During a Journey Around Tibet in 1997 by Linda Griffiths

By Buddhism Now on 14 July 2017 • ( 2 )

We received a warm welcome from the many Tibetans we met — a life-changing experience for me, a homecoming — the landscape, buildings and the people merging, and overnight stays with Tibetan families wherever possible.

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First Teaching Buddha gave after Awakening, by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

By Buddhism Now on 20 May 2017 • ( 0 )

The Four Noble Truths were the first teaching Buddha gave after his awakening. They are the foundation of all Buddhist teachings. Short Buddhist video (about 12 minutes)

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Piers Morgan meets his Holiness the Dalai Lama

By Buddhism Now on 26 April 2017 • ( 0 )

In September 2016 Piers Morgan met his Holiness, the Dalai Lama — and the pair talked about everything, from Mr Trump, to IS, to love and marriage and even celebrity culture. Watch the full (40-minute, uncut), fascinating discussion.

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Cover of Tibet and India @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tibet and India: Buddhist Traditions and Transformations

By Buddhism Now on 17 February 2017 • ( 2 )

As Buddhism spread out from north India, the place of its origin in the sixth century BC, the core ideas of this great religious tradition were often expressed through images. This Bulletin and the exhibition it accompanies, “Tibet and India: Buddhist Traditions and Transformations,” focus on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist art of the eleventh and twelfth centuries… (Free PDF download) Beautiful Buddhist works of art

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Shadakshari Lokeshvara is the bodhisattva of compassion (Avalokiteshvara)

The Mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, by The Dalai Lama

By Buddhism Now on 21 January 2017 • ( 1 )

Just as a jewel is capable of removing poverty, so the altruistic mind of enlightenment is capable of removing the poverty, or difficulties of cyclic existence and of solitary peace. Similarly, just as a jewel fulfils the wishes of sentient beings, so the altruistic intention to become enlightened fulfils the wishes of sentient beings.