Khunu rinpoche biography of alberta

  • In the 8th century, Indian guru Padmasambhava (known to Buddhists as Guru Rinpoche) traveled from India to Nepal and then to Tibet and stayed in and around.
  • This article defends and develops the categorization of Buddhist ethics as moral phenomenology.
  • Chodron gave teachings on the Tara practice and began a commentary on beautiful verses by Khunu Lama Rinpoche, “The Precious Lamp in Praise of Bodhicitta.

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    Kham Tibetan Language

    Number 42 November,

    Kham Tibetan Language Materials


    by Renchin-Jashe & Kevin Stuart

    Victor H. Mair, Editor Sino-Platonic Papers Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA vmair@

    SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series edited by Victor H. Mair.


    The purpose of the series is to make available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including Romanized Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platoni
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    Back Over the Mountains

    By Jane Marshall

    Southern Tibet in during Kushok&#;s last trip home

    The Beginning of the End
    The Final Kyirong Years
    Kyirong, Tibet to the borderlands of Nepal

    Heinrich Harrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet, wrote:

    “I shall never cease thinking of this place with yearning, and if I can choose where to pass the evening of my life, it will be in Kyirong.” It was in this valley that Kushok Lobsang Dhamchöe was born.

    Kushok’s family was a combination of wealthy landowners and reincarnate lamas. For centuries his lineage experienced wealthy harvests and wanted for little. They enjoyed a yearly bounty of barley, wheat, potatoes and labu. Kyirong Valley, known as Happy Valley, was described by Harrer as mythical fairy-land of flowing streams, abundant food and uncanny climate considering the harsh, wild landscape that surrounds it.

    The family’s clergy members, including Kushok’s father, had literally risen from the valley floor to the surrou

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    Moral Phenomenology in a More-Than-Human World: A New Approach to Buddhist Environmental Ethics

    A Tibetan Buddhist Response

    This being the case, we evidently need new ways of thinking about and responding to the climate crisis and the ongoing violence against nonhuman animals. This dissertation will attempt to enter this discourse and do just that. It will look through a Tibetan Buddhist philosophical lens at these issues to present new ways of theorizing and, ultimately, responding to the present issues of the degradation of the more-than-human world. Of course, inom am not the first to direkt Buddhist ethics towards environmental ethics. Prior scholars have of course conducted classical religious ecology readings of the sūtras 14 and have assessed their general principles, 15 but many of these 12 Marti Kheel, "From Heroic to Holistic Ethics: The Ecofeminist Challenge," in Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, natur (ed. Greta Gaard. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, ), 13 Lo