April 27, 2010 – 12:01 pm
Yuto is a special child, a healer of hearts. He’s Japanese, he’s Jewish; he’s universal.
Read about how author Leza Lowitz and her husband came to welcome Yuto into their life in this excerpt from Lowitz’s “Adoption,” from our May 2010 issue.
April 4th is here. On this day in 1987 Chogyam Trungpa passed into nirvana. (For those not familiar with this expression, it is the day he died.) It is a time when his students and others affected by him all around the world pay special homage to his life and teachings. The Venerable Chogyam Trungpa [...]
Our ShambhalaSun.com homepage Feature of the Moment:
Just click the image, or here. For more from Pico, don’t miss his work about the Dalai Lama in our new, May 2010 issue.
Back from India and Nepal, Shambhala Sun publisher Jim Gimian here shares some of what he saw in his travels, and in an exclusive video interview, speaks to Buddhist monk and scholar Matthieu Ricard about what Ricard considers the central and most important part of his life’s work.
I am just home from a three-week journey [...]
February 13, 2010 – 9:03 am
By Carolyn Rose Gimian
Tomorrow is the Tibetan New Year. Tashi Deleg! [That is a traditional Tibetan phrase of auspicious greetings.] It is also the day our family sets off on a trip to India and Nepal for three weeks. We have been telling people and each other that this is a form of pilgrimage for [...]
February 12, 2010 – 1:46 pm
My Wisdom of a Broken Heart book tour has taken me many places: DC, Durham, Asheville, Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, Boulder, and to the Shambhala Mountain Center where I taught a weekend workshop — and tried to catch my breath. It has been a privilege to sit and talk with people around the country about their [...]
February 4, 2010 – 7:24 am
By Jill S. Schneiderman
I just finished reading Nando Parrado’s account of his 72-day ordeal of pain and suffering in the South American cordillera, Miracle in the Andes (2006). It’s an extraordinary testimony of his survival, along with 15 out of 45 people, most of them rugby teammates, after their privately chartered airplane crashes into the [...]
January 14, 2010 – 11:35 am
So what the hell am I doing out here on a book tour, lugging around 6 weeks of outfits, staying in friends’ spare bedrooms, and generally hoping to hold the humiliation factor to a minimum? (There’s almost nothing more embarrassing than showing up at a place where they have giant posters of your joyful-yet-understanding face, [...]
December 23, 2009 – 2:59 pm
By Steve Silberman
Images of animals gathering to listen to the Buddha’s sermons are traditional in Southeast Asia, where a body of folklore called the Jataka Tales recounts Shakyamuni Buddha’s pre-human incarnations. But do animals actually meditate? Many cat-owners — seeing their beloved felines at rest in a shaft of sunlight, with paws in full lotus [...]
December 2, 2009 – 3:07 pm
The 3rd Annual Shambhala Sun Auction is well on its way to reaching its goal of benefiting everyone involved and, like Kelly here in our featured photo, we couldn’t be happier. (Be sure to check out Kelly in the Auction’s Art section.)
After the jump — a peek at some of the Auction’s other great [...]
November 20, 2009 – 1:40 pm
One of our favorite photographers, James Gritz, has posted a new collection of photos of his travels, featuring special moments from, as he writes, “Nangchen to New York.” There you’ll also see a photo of the 17th Karmapa, taken by Gritz during His Holiness’s recent American tour. That photo, of course, graces the cover of [...]
November 5, 2009 – 4:32 pm
In “So Sad, No Problem,” in our current issue, Jaimal Yogis (author of Saltwater Buddha) shares the story of Sonam, a Tibetan Buddhist monk — ordained by the Dalai Lama himself — who Jaimal met in India and would teach the author an unexpected lesson about coping with love and loss. (The two also shared [...]
September 18, 2009 – 11:31 pm
The last time we heard from Heidiminx, she was planning her next trip to McLeod Ganj, India, to bring more of her good energy and effort there.
Here’s just some of what’s happened since she’s touched down, with a couple of her photos for good measure. See if you’re not inspired by how much one person [...]
An unlikely guest visited the birthplace of Zen Buddhism on Monday. NBA all-star Shaquille O’Neal went to the Shaolin Temple in China’s Henan province, where he met and discussed Buddhism with Abbot Shi Yongxim.
In her first guest-post for Shambhala SunSpace, punk rock/Buddhist activist Heidiminx, founder of Built on Respect, shares what led her to her Do It Yourself approach to helping the world.
Plus, she hints at what’s next, and asks what makes you put your compassion into action.
We introduced you to her here; now she speaks for herself.
