by Martin Horan | Oct 10, 2024 | Blog
The five forces are five simple practices that we can use to bring Dharma into our daily life. If we use them as a focus for our practice day by day, we can also adapt them at the end of our life (see Part two). They are also sometimes known as the five powers. ...
by Anna Goldstein | Apr 19, 2024 | Blog
“Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind.” – His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet. For many people anger or any of its siblings – frustration, impatience, annoyance and irritation, exasperation or touchiness – represent giant...
by Tim McKibben | Apr 19, 2024 | Blog
Love is such an evocative word. Throughout the ages countless poems and songs have been written about it. In many cultures, it’s seen as essential for spiritual growth, and deep down most of us want to know love. However, often the ‘love’ referred to in literature...
by TBS newsletter | Apr 13, 2024 | Blog
by Martin Horan – One of the most unusual and intriguing traditions within Tibetan Buddhism is that of the identification of reincarnated lamas. Where a renowned lama passes away, in some cases a child may later be identified as the reincarnation of that...
by Tim McKibben | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog
When asked to write this, I pondered: what value are words about compassion? Especially as everywhere you look in life, actual kindness shows its wonderful face. Like the sun breaking through a cloudy sky, its presence is pervasive and irrepressible. You see it in a...
by Michael Joseph | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog
In September 2023 the Tibetan Buddhist Society is hosting a Medicine Buddha empowerment bestowed by a qualified tantric master, in this case Venerable Geshe Doga of Tara Institute. In this article we address some of the questions commonly asked about taking initiation...
