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June

About some parts of Dharmagupta Poshada for Bikshunis

About some parts of Dharmagupta Poshada for Bikshunis By Ven Christiana Jampa Tsomo In my opinion, the text of the Pratimoksha Sutra for bhikshunis in the Dharmagupta tradition contains extraordinary elements, useful for any monastic and even non-monastic Dharma community. I am referring to the part of the Sutra that lists a set of precepts…

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March

Protected: Sharing Our Struggles

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March

Researching The Gelongma Lineage

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Researching The Gelongma Lineage By Ven Sangye Khadro The September 2020 IMI e-news included an extract from a teaching about Sangha and gelongmas that Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave in Holland in 2015. This article raised a number of questions and points for reflection regarding the gelongma/bhikshuni ordination. As someone who was very fortunate to…

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March

The Moss in the Garden: My Experience as a Monk in Graduate School

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The Moss in the Garden: My Experience as a Monk in Graduate School Ven Khedrup For the last year and a half, I have been studying for an MA in Asian Religions at McMaster University in addition to serving as the Tibetan-English language interpreter for Geshe Sonam at Lama Yeshe Ling Centre in Burlington,…

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December

Signs of Death

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Signs of Death Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches at the annual Kopan November course in the newly rebuilt Chenrezig Gompa. - Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal; Photographer: Neal Patrick; 2019 Red and white drops at the time of death I want to explain more about the signs of death. As you know from the death…

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December

Covid and Resilience

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Chonyi Taylor Even if the environment and beings are filled with the fruits of negativity, And unwished for sufferings pour down like rain, I seek your blessings to take these miserable conditions as a path By seeing them as causes to exhaust the results of my negative karma. …

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December

A Letter about Bikshunis vows

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By Ven Cristiana Ciampa Tsomo Thank you, and thanks to IMI, for giving space for us bikshunis to share our experiences, since this would enhance people’s understanding of the Buddhadharma. Actually yes, after the IMI last newsletter I felt the need to say something about bikshuni vows, given my little but very positive experience on…

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December

Interview with Ven Jamyang Wangmo

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Interview with Ven Jamyang Wangmo (also known is Jampa Chokyi). Author of The Lawudo Lama, Stories of Reincarnation from the Mount Everest Region. By Tendar During a relaxed meeting in the garden of the Utpala Cafe in Boudha, Kathmandu, I was able to ask Ven Jamyang Wangmo (Jampa Chokyi) some questions. It is August 10,…

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July

A new IMI cabin in Thakpa Kachoe, Vajrayogini Pure Land in France.

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A new IMI cabin in Thakpa Kachoe, Vajrayogini Pure Land in France. By Venerable Gyalten Yangchen It is with great joy that we announce the opening of a cabin built by the International Mahayana Institute at Thakpa Kachoe, Vajrayogini Pure Land in France. This new cabin, named “Olka Cholung”, after the name of the place in Tibet…

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July

Teaching Each Other The Dharma

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Teaching Each Other The Dharma A report from the Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche retreat in Bendigo, Australia 2014 By Gelongma Lozang Yönten (Larisa Wahler) Bendigo, Victoria fulfilled its promise of variable weather from biting cold to blazing hot – sometimes all in one day. Mirroring the changeable weather was, unsurprisingly, my mind – this is retreat…

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