September 3, 2010 – 9:50 am
On Monday, September 13 in New York City, Buddhist monk and photographer Matthieu Ricard will meet with world-renowned composer Philip Glass to explore the crossroads between contemplation and creativity. Exploring how meditation can access the creative muse, the discussion takes its cue from Ricard’s new book, Why Meditate? (An article by that title, excerpted from [...]
August 12, 2010 – 4:54 pm
[Update: this photo (left) of the happy couple and child can now be seen, extra-large, at Shambhala Times. Click here.]
Sakyong Wangmo, wife of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche — who is the eldest son of the late Chogyam Trungpa, founder of (among many things) Shambhala International and the Shambhala Sun — gave birth to a baby girl [...]
Tynette Deveaux, editor of Buddhadharma (also published by the Shambhala Sun Foundation) files a report from our weekend program at Omega Institute.
This past weekend 65 people came together near Rhinebeck, NY — not for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding but rather to attend a workshop called The Wisdom of Anger: What the Buddhists Teach, held at Omega [...]
As Lani Rowe of New York’s Interdependence Project tells us:
“The IDP has decided to go full throttle and upgrade our website to provide a more conducive environment for advanced user interaction. Although it will feature a new online store – complete with environmentally friendly schwag – and a highly interactive events calendar, the real crown [...]
Our fourth annual collaboration with Omega Institute brings four accomplished Buddhist teachers together to show you positive ways to understand and experience anger — your own, and that of others as well.
Join Norman Fischer, Narayan Liebenson Grady, Judy Lief, and Robert A.F. Thurman — along members of the Shambhala Sun staff — at Omega for [...]
Looks like somebody was having a very nice time. And His Holiness was hardly the only one. Throngs of people of all ages braved the rain in Dharamsala, India to celebrate the Dalai Lama’s 75th. Thankfully, photographer and writer Saransh Sehgal was there, and shares this and other photos from the very special day. See [...]
Yesterday, of course, was His Holiness’s birthday. Happily, video of the entire celebration, including cultural performers and the Dalai Lama himself, has been made available. Take a look here!
What is true expertise or virtuosity? That is the guiding question of The Expert’s Mind, a series of lectures and performances hosted by San Francisco Zen Center to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. The Expert’s Mind takes up the proposition that expertise need not foreclose on possibility. [...]
Current on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly site: A video (and transcript) featuring Norman Fischer — Zen priest, Google teacher, and practicing Jew — talking about meditation as it comes into play in all of these aspects of his life (just as it can in all the aspects of our own!).
Norman is a longstanding, living-and-breathing [...]
By Mark Kram of Mangala Shri Bhuti
Western practitioners rarely have the opportunity to experience directly the unfolding of mysteries that sustain the centuries-old legacy of a vibrant Tibetan Buddhist lineage. Yet just such an opportunity will arrive with the visit this August of Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche (left).
The U.S. visit—called Celebrating the Return—will recognize and [...]
The Shambhala Sun Foundation’s Auction for a Mindful Society opens today!
The Auction will run for only two weeks (ending on May 31) so visit the Auction now to see all the great things our donors are offering to make life more mindful – for you, and for us all.
Items available for bidding number [...]
By Jim Gimian, Publisher, Shambhala Sun
It was ten years ago this coming June that the Shambhala Sun announced its sponsorship of the First Annual Shambhala Institute Summer program on Authentic Leadership. (Disclaimer: Our names share the word “Shambhala” but there is no legal connection between the two organizations.) Convened on the campus of the University [...]
Coming soon to the Rubin Museum of Art — a celebration of the accomplishments of the Manjushree Orphanage and Free School in Tawang, India — and, to help fund a planned Academic Center (a sketch of which is pictured here) for disadvantaged children.
To date, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, Lobsang Nyandak, representative to the Dalai Lama, [...]
Our friends at Greater Good are hosting a May 15th event featuring Fred Luskin and Jack Kornfield. This special one-day seminar will teach you how and why to practice forgiveness.
Click through here for details on how to participate.
March 16, 2010 – 12:01 pm
New York City’s Interdependence Project has been, as they say, taking meditation to the streets. First there was their November 2009 “Sit Down, Rise Up” 24-hour meditation marathon in the windows of ABC Carpet. (Video here.) Now, the IDP has gone underground to bring meditation to light.
This new public meditation — which the IDP calls [...]
