Category Archives: Religion

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

Posted on October 19, 2010 by saurabh | Category: Featured Post Religion | 1,053 views | 3 Comments

Time Magazine interviewed His Holiness in New York City in May of 2010 for its “10 Questions to His Holiness the Dalai Lama”. Question: Do you ever feel angry or outraged? —Kantesh Guttal, PUNE, INDIA His Holiness: Oh, yes, of course. I’m a human being. Generally speaking, if a human …

Ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

Posted on October 18, 2010 by saurabh | Category: Featured Post Religion | 414 views | 1 Comment

His Holiness the Dalai Lama feels that it is important to know that nuns and monks ordained in the Tibetan tradition follow the vows set forth in the Mulasarvastivadin school of monastic codes. The gelong/gelongma (bhikshu/bhikshuni–the fully ordained monk/nun) level are recorded in the Mulasarvastivadin school’s Individual Liberation Sutras. Interspersed …

Who will wear the Black Crown?

Posted on October 13, 2010 by saurabh | Category: Featured Post Religion | 1,348 views | 14 Comments

The controversy over the 17th Karmapa is no less than a script of a bollywood masala movie. Two revered leaders both believed to be Karmpa incarnates are claiming their rights to head one of the premier schools of Tibetan Buddhism. A third contender had also sprung but soon vanished into …