Students question Buddhist teacher
Engulfed in a maroon robe on a sun-splotched wooden stage at Oak Grove School, Samdhong Rinpoche used gentle motions of his hand to select students whose arms were raised with questions.
Students question Buddhist teacher
Kangchen Tsering, 4, above, presents a scarf as a gift to Buddhist teacher Samdhong Rinpoche Friday at Oak Grove School in Ojai. Rinpoche, 64, speaks to students below. Rinpoche will speak again at Oak Grove School today.
Boom in Tibet but at high cost
Change has come to Tibet – some of it good, some not so good, reports GOH SUI NOI of The Straits Times China Bureau who visited the autonomous region recently.
Boom in Tibet but at high cost
WOMEN’S EDUCATION: Adult illiteracy has been reduced to 43.8 per cent from 95 per cent in the 1950s – and the focus of the literacy campaign is women and girls in rual areas. (AFP)
Computers and The Buddha Nature
In his youth, Lhamo Dhondrub enjoyed repairing clocks and watches at his home in Taktser in northeastern Tibet. That early affinity for technology and the sciences continues today, although he is now known by another name: His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
Computers and The Buddha Nature
The Dalai Lama (Photo by STEVE PYKE)