6th Machik Annual Commencement to recognize and celebrate the Tibetan Class of 2025!

A unique and heartfelt interfaith dialogue between Tibetan Bön teacher and monk, Geshe Sonam Gorung from Nepal, and Fr. Michael Holleran, a Catholic priest, Zen Roshi, and former Carthusian monk.

The beauty of Tantric Buddhism is its diversity of process—there are many types of practice. But that means it is easy to feel lost—which practice is best for you? In this teaching, Meditation as Medicine, Dr. Nida explores the two treasures of the 12th century yogi-physician, Yuthok Yönten Gönpo — Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig — to help us find our spiritual match. Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medical) diagnosis and treatment revolves around elemental type, similar to Ayurveda.

H.E. Ling Rinpoche will give teachings at the conclusion of FPMT’s East and South East Asian Region and Mongolian Mani retreats on 17th September 2023. Teachings will be online only, via Zoom.

Commemoration of Chökor Duchen

Please join us in the chanting of the Monlam Choga, a practice of offering and aspiration prayers compiled by Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche. This is followed by the short liturgy of Shitro (Peaceful and Wrathful Deities), a profound practice from the cycle of teachings and meditations of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. We dedicate this practice to the deceased in order to purify negativities, avert obstacles in the bardo, and establish a connection with the deities that will ripen in future lives.

A live webcast organized by Being Tibetan.

Remembering Pema Tseden

Tibet’s premier filmmaker has died. By writing and directing movies that won acclaim across the globe, Pema Tseden put Tibetan cinema on the map. And through showing modern-day Tibet on the big screen, he allowed audiences around the world to see the tragic evisceration of Tibetan culture under Chinese rule

This roundtable brings together social science researchers working with Tibetan and Himalayan pastoralist communities and climate scientists who have worked in the Himalayas and Asia to discuss how interdisciplinary approaches might enrich understandings of climate change in the Tibetan and Himalayan regions and contribute to knowledge of global climate change and community resilience.

Organized by the CU-IU Climate Research Initiative on the Tibetan Plateau, this event is sponsored by the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend a Long Life Prayer offered to him by students, staff and Ex-students of Tibetan Homes Foundation & CST Mussoorie along with Ex-Students and Ex-Vocational Trainees of CST Panchmari in the morning at the Main Tibetan Temple.

Although Mr. Gyari passed away in 2018, his legacy goes on, and his book, “The Dalai Lama's Special Envoy: Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet,” was just released by Columbia University Press. In this Tibet Talk, ICT will discuss the book with two people who knew Lodi Gyari from different perspectives: Greg Craig, the first US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, and Tenzin Tethong, the first President of ICT and a former Chairman of the Cabinet of the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala.

A study on the famous book “Joy: Lasting Happiness In A Changing World His Holiness The Dalai Lama And Desmond Tutu; organized by Karma Triyana Dharmachakra.

His Holiness will attend a Long Life Prayer offered to him by former students of the Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) along with North American Tibetan Associations in the morning from around 8 am at the Main Tibetan Temple.

Tsering Yangzom Lama (MFA, Columbia University) will discuss and read excerpts from her widely acclaimed debut novel “We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022). Her haunting but lyrical work recounts a Tibetan family’s fifty year journey through exile and their struggles to forge new lives of dignity, love and hope. Breathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a meditation on colonization, displacement, and the lengths we’ll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands.

Please join the Asia Freedom Institute for a discussion on the current state of human rights in China under Xi Jinping and what to expect after the 20th Party Congress this fall. A distinguished panel of experts will discuss China’s human rights record under Xi Jinping, the role of human rights in relations between China and Europe, and how the various communities working on advancing human rights in China can work in closer collaboration.

His Holiness will attend a Long Life Prayer offered to him by several Tibetan groups in the morning from around 8 am at the Main Tibetan Temple.

Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel, “We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies,” has become an international bestseller and been longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. The book provides an intimate glimpse into the experience of Tibetan exiles, as it follows three generations of a Tibetan family over a span of 50 years, beginning in 1960, as they are forced to leave their homeland following China’s occupation of Tibet. It is a vivid human story of the refugee experience that deals with colonization, displacement and the loss of homeland in a deeply personal way.

“SFT is honored to host Golog Jigme for an important talk on the past, present, and future of our movement with renowned activist, Chemi Lhamo, and SFT Campaigns Director, Pema Doma.

Stay tuned for more details on how you can join in-person in Boston or virtually. This is a discussion you definitely do not want to miss!”

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will deliver the inaugural opening address of a 2-day international Islam Buddhism Eco Dialogue on The Application of Religion and Science to Ecology & Sustainability: Perspectives from Islam and Buddhism from 9 to 10 am (Indian Standard Time) organized by Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM), Tibetan Buddhist Cultural Center (Malaysia), International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization – International Islamic University Malaysia (ISTAC-IIUM), University of Malaya Center for Civilizational Dialogue (UMCCD), Theravada Buddhist Council of Malaysia (TBCM), Vajrayana Buddhist Council of Malaysia (VBCM) and International Students of Islamic Psychology (ISIP).

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a teaching on Tsongkhapa's The Three Principal Paths (lamtso namsum) and Tsongkhapa's Short Version of the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (lamrim dhuedhon) from 9 am to 10 am (Indian Standard Time) at the request of Gaden Tri-thog Khang.

WEBINAR to understand the destruction of environment in Tibet by China in the context of just concluded COP-26

Our Panelists:

DR. MARTIN MILLS, Director, Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research, University of Aberdeen. (Coordinator of the Scottish Parliamentary Third Pole Climate Inquiry 2019-2021)

Ms. DECHEN PALMO, Research Fellow, Environment Desk, Tibet Policy Institute, Dharamshala. (Member of the Tibetan team which presented Tibet's case at COP-26 at Glasgow, UK.)

Moderator: VIJAY KRANTI, Chairman CHASE, N.Delhi, Concluding Remarks: Prof. AAYUSHI KETKAR, SCNNS JNU, N.Delhi

Vote of Thanks: SONAM TSERING, General Secretary TYC, Dharamshala