The 12th Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso was born in a small town near Olkha Dzingchi in 1856. The young boy was one of three candidates for the reincarnation of the 11th Dalai Lama Khedrub Gyatso...
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The 12th Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso was born in a small town near Olkha Dzingchi in 1856. The young boy was one of three candidates for the reincarnation of the 11th Dalai Lama Khedrub Gyatso...
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The Eleventh Dalai Lama, Khedrub Gyatso was born in a small town near Gartang Monastery near Dartsedo, Kham in 1838. In 1841 the Seventy-third Ganden Tripa...
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The 76th Ganden Tripa, Lobzang Khyenrab Wangchuk was born in Gyelrong in Kham in the late 18th or early 19th century. Details of his parents and childhood are not known...
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The Seventy-second Ganden Tripa, Jampel Tsultrim was born in Tobgyel Kharlung Nangpa in Tsang. He matriculated in the Drati House of Sera Je College of Sera Monastic University...
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The Tenth Dalai Lama, Tsultrim Gyatso was born in Litang in 1816. His family was known as Drongto Norbutsang. Following the identification, Lobzang Nyendrak was given a title...
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The Seventieth Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Chopel was born in a poor family in a place called Pabong Karri. At the age of five he was trained in caring for lambs and kids...
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The 73rd Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Jampel Tsultrim Gyatso was born in Chone, Amdo in 1792. At a young age he was identified as the reincarnation of the 61st Ganden Tripa Trichen Ngawang Tsultrim...
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The Sixty-sixth Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Nyendrak was born in Jakhyung in Amdo in 1746. He was admitted in the local Jakhyung Monastery at the age of ten and ordained by...
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The Ninth Dalai Lama, Lungtok Gyatso was born with several auspicious signs in a small village located near the Denchokor Monastery in Kham in 1805. Most sources have him as an orphan...
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With the death of the 7th Dalai Lama, Kelsang Gyatso, many of the ecclesiastical and political luminaries of that time gathered to discuss the future of the institution of the Dalai Lamas...
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The 61st Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Tsultrim was born at Darwo near Chone Monastery in Amdo in 1721. He received the vows of primary ordination at the age of 7 at Tsador Monastery...
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The great Mahasiddha Naropa was born the prince of an ancient kingdom in East India. Descended from a notable and respected royal family, Naropa’s father was the great King Santivarman and his mother was the glorious Queen Srimati...
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An Shigao (安世高), a Parthian monk also known as Parthamasiris, was the first translator of Buddhist texts into Chinese and an early Buddhist missionary to China...
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People have been asking me, "Why did you leave everything behind in California, your life behind, to become a Buddhist monk?" And for me, the answer is fairly simple...
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Wat Phra Dhammakaya, the world’s largest Buddhist temple, is located in the district of Klong Luang, Pathum Thani Province, just north of Bangkok, Thailand. The grand complex was founded by the maechi Chandra Khonnokyoong and a monk, Luang Por Dhammajayo...
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How Buddhism spread throughout the Mongol Empire provides an important insight into the cultural and political situation at the time, and illustrates how many high lamas worked skilfully to benefit the Mongols...
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(Bhagawan Dorje Shugden Chapels in Kathmandu, Nepal!) नेपाल मुलुक मलाई अति नै मनपर्ने ठाउँ हो । विगतमा मैले धेरै समय यस स्थानमा व्यतित गरिसकें र मलाई यहाँका पवित्र स्थानहरूका बारेमा राम्रो जानकारी छ ।
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(By Pastor David Lai) On February 23, 2018 at the Hotel Tibet in Dharamsala, a monk by the name of Gen Thupten Choephel held a press conference to express his grievances regarding his observations of the Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) dealings. According to Gen Thupten Choephel who hails from Sera Jey Monastery, the CTA...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline) Formerly known as David Hewavitharne, Anagarika Dharmapala (Sinhalese: අනගාරික ධර්මපාල) of Sri Lanka was one of the most revered Buddhist revivalists and writers of the 20th Century. He was well known as a significant reformer of Buddhism in Sri Lanka as well as one of the founding fathers...
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