TIBET HOUSE US DRUM | FALL 2022 - WINTER 2023

TIBET HOUSE US DRUM FALL 2022 – WINTER 2023 | ISSUE 31

The training conveyed that “Learning and using the common speaking and written lan guage of the country is a citizen responsibility stipulated in the constitution, and it is an important way to consolidate the conscious ness of the Chinese nation as a community”.

For the success of the promotion of education of the national common language, they were told to deepen the exchanges and integration of various ethnic groups, and implement the following measures; Ensuring detailed implementation of education and training in the national common language. Improving the leadership role of the ‘two committees’ in each village as the national common language learning and education work manager and supervisor. They need to pay more attention to detailed working mechanisms and carry out timely inspections and rectifications. Ensuring full coverage of the education and training of the national common language…”

again very dear mem bers and friends of Tibet House US.

“The training should focus on covering towns, counties, and villages at all levels. It should implement centralised teaching, paired learning, and practical exercises. The focus should be to achieve 100% installation of ‘The Tibetan Yitong’ APP, an online teaching platform by all the grassroots cadres. So far, in Dongga town, it has carried out more than 40 education and training sessions, more than 20 sessions of night schools, and trained more than 200 village leaders and 1,200 villages ‘two committees’ party mem bers. As part of the promotion and practical use of the national common language, they conducted a 2022 national common language test for village cadre was organised, and the test covered daily conversation language, par ty building knowledge, and the party’s ethnic and religious policies ....”

DEAR THUS MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF TIBET, June 14, Greetings2022once

The purely material world of this planet as experienced by most animals seems to be a theatre of suffering, with pain and violence always seeming to be nearby if not right in your face. The Buddha fully meets us there, so we can avoid unrealistic escapism and acknowledge it with his “first noble truth,” what I like to call nowadays, “first friendly fun fact!” But he then shares his discovery with us, that this way of being in the world is not inevitable. He gives us a diagnosis of the cause, our inability to see through the seeming fixed reality of what presses down upon us, includ ing even what seems to be dreaded “death.” He encourages us that if we investigate, we ourselves can find outit all is not what it seems to be. We are not seeing deeply enough. His diagnosis gives us x-ray vision to see through even the atoms and subatomic particles to find our true existence to be a blissful oneness with the deepest energy of life. Infinite, and so peaceful, all done, but not noth ing at all, and even still ever ready to enjoy by doing whatever needs doing for everyone! He coaches us not to be impatient, that it takes time and perseverance to open to real reality, and he announces the blessed progno sis, that our actual reality is sheerest bliss, nirvana, perfect freedom from suffering, even in the midst of it.

Speaking of the Tibetan people in Tibet, the news is not good. Sadly to repeat what I have written in previous letters, Presiding dictator of China Xi Jinping has turned Tibetans over to the CCP’s United Front Work Department and the PLA to double down on their genocide, still trying to remove the existence of the Tibetans as a people by either assimilation or extermination, to pre-empt them being there as themselves to make anyfuture claim on their colonized and devastated home. No more freedom to be Buddhist, no more freedom to learn their own language, shameless public pressure to intermarry—Tibetan women with Chinese men—no more pretence of human rights, no restraint of exploitation of resourc es—wood, grass-to-wool, minerals,water—no restraint of futile coloniza tion in cities, accelerating the atmo spheric overheating that threatens the glacial lifeline of the downstream billions, etc. I will now cite some excerpts from a monthly report I receive from Centre for China Analysis and Strategy in New Delhi (CCAS May 15-30 report – my comments in block caps interspersed), May 20, 2022:

“Nyingtri Municipal Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs conducted training to deep en the national common language (Manda rin) learning and speaking for the grassroots cadres in Donga, Langxian County, Nyingtri.

It is my pleasure to write to you on this full moon day of the 4th lunar month of the Water Tiger Year! This day is celebrated every year by the Tibetan people as the day of the birth, enlightenment, and full nirvana of Shākyamuni Buddha in the 9th centu ry or 5th century BCE. Why do they celebrate this so whole-heartedly?

NO MORE EDUCATION IN TIBETAN. ALL TIBETANS HAVE TO LEARN ONLY IN CHINESE.

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

As my friend the Reverend Michael Beckwith likes to say, along with Jesus, “All right already!” Buddha the educator finally sets up an eightfoldcurriculum and invites us to educate our mind, speech, and body to discover the goodness, beauty, and bliss of reality itself—encouraging us that it naturally supports our love of self and all others. What a relief! This educa tion enables us to find what we really are, where we are, and how we can enjoy being there for others as well! The very heart of Tibetan culture, by the way! Of course not every Tibetan has gone all the way through this. But some have, and they have joyfully assisted many others to reach various stages along the way. They have found theeducational core of the culture that emerged over many generations once received from India to be so effective, they live generally in good cheer, in tremendous friendliness, creativity, and resilience. So naturally, when the special times connected with the life of their great benefactor arrive, such as at this Vaishakha full moon time, they remember, they celebrate, they enjoy the amazing grace revealed inthe heart of life.

Back to Tibet House US/Menla Healing Resort—this is our inspiring context. Tiger Years are very ener gizing for great tasks, and the water element being prominent, it may help us flow through obstacles in our great task of nowadays. We have to build on our 35 years of service to His Holiness and the amazing people of Tibet by creating and stabilizing THUS, forti fying it even more solidly to continue through the next few generations—at least until the Tibetan people are free again to flourish and shower their blessings on the world from their lofty perch on the roof of the world, on the Third Pole of the Planet Gaia.

“The Chinese government demolished a 99-foot tall Buddha statue in Drago County, Sichuan in December 2021, with several arrests related to the incidents. Monks were coerced to sign confession letters stating that they were responsible for demolishing the statutes. The Drago people were called to give information about their relatives abroad, about their Covid vaccination status, phone number and social media account. They were told that if they fail to hand over required infor mation, they will be removed from household registries and denied any state assistance they may be receiving from the government. New information on the local security facilities in Drago County was also revealed. Drago is surrounded by three new security facilities as per the satellite image. One of these is an army base near the Shingchu River in the northern outskirts of Drago that was previously a Forestry Nursery Bureau. The second facility is an extra-legal detention centre known as a “re-education centre” that lies in the north-eastern suburbs of Tropa. This is where groups of detainees are taken by Chinese authorities and beaten. The third security facility is a prison in the southern area of Chigrey which appears to have been constructed to replace the county prison located in the centre of Drago.” Therefore, given this worsening situation on the ground, the critical importance of our enduring mission of preserv ing the seeds of Tibetans’ unique enlightenment-oriented culture turns out to confirm His Holiness’ far-reaching vision in founding and supporting THUS with persistent determination. THUS continues to be long-term vital for the future of the highland and her people, a tower of the mission perforce conducted mainly by the Tibetan diaspora and the network of Tibet Houses and other Tibetan Cultural Associations in free nations around the world,

You are THUS members (please don’t forget to renew, handsomely!) because you know that life on this earth without Tibet’s unique inner science of wisdom and compassionate art of freedom, without its beauty and joy—and its teaching of both the blissful grace of every moment blessed by infinite compassionate beings and also the inspiring evolutionary purpose of awakening life—just would not measure up to the precious opportunity of being human. Thank you all so much for your cheerful presence and contributions of every kind. We will need your help even more to expand our presence in America for the next generations, inspiring all to save its culture of essential spiritual knowledge and practical lifestyle. With all blessings for your health and happiness during this year of the Water Tiger!

In our current drive to fortify THUS for the long-haul future, we are pleased and honored to celebrate our outstanding Board of Directors, who are highly energized to shoulder this responsibility with full enthusiasm and creativity. In particular, I want to thank Professor David Kittay, JD, PhD, and family, who is making great effortsto embrace and execute the mission of THUS as a central focus within his many interests in Buddhist teaching in several venues, in his ongoing research and activism in phi losophy, religion, technology, and the future of America, Tibet, and the world. As I always say, dear friends, you all also do Love Tibet by giving and working with us to save its precious culture.

Faithfully yours, Robert A.F. Thurman, President June 14, 2022

rooted in Dharamsala and New Delhi, and channelled through your precious THUS in the great city and state of New York, but reaching out more than ever all over the US of A and beyond.

“The Tibetan Autonomous Region held a press briefing on May 24 on the TAR’s development in national unity, people’s living standard, and economic and infrastructure development since 2012. The briefing highlighted that the number of ethnic intermar riage families in Lhasa has increased from 1,891 in 2015 to 7,245 in 2021, an increase of 5,354 in six years. Pan Wenqing, Deputy Mayor of Lhasa said that ‘the city showed a good trend of deepening exchang es and integration of various ethnic groups.”

PS: Please remember your THUS mantra—LOVE TIBET! And Tibet’s mantra, !!OM MANI PADME HŪM!! It expresses the enlightened vision that true love, deeply intelligent and vastly compassionate, pervades the world, heaven and earth. Vajravarāhī - Mahākāli Female Buddha Form 19th GiftTHUSMineralSakyaCenturyOrderThangkaPigmentoncottonRepatriationCollectionofRichardPrince,etal.

CHINESE SCIENTISTS HAVE PUBLISHED THAT CHI NESE PEOPLE BORN AT SEA LEVEL CANNOT ADAPT TO LIVE YEAR ROUND ABOVE 12000 FEET ALTITUDE ON 47% OF SEA LEVEL OXYGEN. BUT THE OFFSPRING OF A CHINESE FATHER AND A TIBETAN MOTHER CAN ADAPT THEIR NITRIC OXIDE CHEMISTRY FOR OXY GEN DISTRIBUTION TO DO SO. May 26, 2022 -- “Wang Yang said “Tibet-related work is of great importance, and the contradictions, risks and challenges on the way forward should not be underestimated. It is necessary to carry out in-depth anti-separatist struggles, and rely closely on the masses of all ethnic groups to build an iron wall for national security. It is necessary to solidly promote the cause of national unity and progress with the main line of consolidating the consciousness of the Chinese nation’s community, deepening party history learning and popularising the common national language”. He further added that it is necessary to adhere to the direction of sinicization of religion in China, strengthen the management of religious affairs in accordance with the law, and improve the long-term mechanism for the management of Tibetan Buddhist temples. He asked them to strengthen the building of a ‘team’ consisting of the party, government cadres and representatives of religious circles, who will be responsible for studying and guiding how Tibetan Buddhism can be better adapted to socialist society…..”

GANDEN THURMAN, executive director, BEATA TIKOS, managing director,KYRA BORRÉ, special events, SONAM CHOEZOM, membership, ANNA VARSHAVSKAYA, office manager, TENZIN KUNSANG, program associate, JEN LIU, programming, JOE COSEY, digital development, TASHI TSERING, programs/events, DELGIRA SAMTONOVA, social media, THOMAS F. YARNALL, publications menla staff

ANONYMOUS, PETER BACKMAN, INA BECKER, ANNIE CHRISTOPHER, JANET FRIESEN, SUSAN KESSLER, DAVID KITTAY, MARJORIE LAYDEN, MICHAEL MCCORMICK, JOHN MILLER, GESHE DADUL NAMGYAL, LAURA PINTCHIK, VEN. TENZIN PRIYADARSHI, JOHN REZK, LAURENCE H. SILVERMAN, NENA THURMAN, UMA K. THURMAN honorary directors

ALAN B. ABRAMSON, LAVINIA CURRIER, PEGGY HITCHCOCK, NAVIN KUMAR, ADAM LINDEMANN, TENZIN NAMGYAL TETHONG, FORTUNA VALENTINO tibetan ex-officio board CHHIME CHOEKYAPA, ex officio, Private Office of H. H. Dalai Lama VEN. GESHE DORJI DAMDUL, director, tibet house new delhi, india KELSANG & KIM YESHI, directors, norbulingka institute, dharamsala, india visiting spiritual advisers

GYALWA KARMAPA OGYEN TRINLEY DORJE, NECHUNG KUTEN R., LAMA ZOPA R., KYABJEY LINGTSANG R., SAKYA TRICHEN R., LAMA PEMA WANGDAK, LELUNG RINPOCHE, LAMA TENZIN WANGYAL tibet house staff

TIBET HOUSE US—Cultural Center of H. H. Dalai Lama patronHIS HOLINESS THE XIVth DALAI LAMA honorary chair NAMGYAL CHOEDUP, US Representative of CTA/ H. H. DALAI LAMA board of trustees — executive officers

ROBERT THURMAN, president, PHILIP GLASS, vice president, LUDWIG KUTTNER, secretary, BEATA TIKOS, treasurer, board of trustees — directors

NENA THURMAN, executive chair, MICHAEL G. BURBANK, executive director, LYNN SCHAUWECKER, managing director, AMBER HALLINAN, general manager, ALICIA OJEDA, executive chef, ISSIS ORREGO, front of house, GOLRIZ JAHANGIRI, dewa spa, DAVID GIANGRECO, facilities, ADAM FOIZEN, events & operations, JUSTIN STONE-DIAZ, new media

ROBERT A. F. THURMAN, editor-in-chief, KYRA BORRÉ, MICHAEL BURBANK, SONAM CHOEZOM, GANDEN THURMAN, BEATA TIKOS, TASHI TSERING, ANNA VARSHAVSKAYA, editors, JOE COSEY , WILLIAM MEYERS, MARC GREENE, production & design, volunteers SONAM WANGCHUK, TENZIN YESHI, et al.

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Amidst the day to day struggle to re-establish the rhythms and relationships that defined our little Tibet House US community in the years before the pandemic, we have been continuing our work with our colleagues at the upstate facility, Menla, consultants, and board members to prepare the organization for the inevitable transition to the next generation of leadership who will of course continue our original mission in the form of our new long term plans for the sustainability of the organization and its mission. As things stand we’ve accomplished, with your kind assistance and attention over the last 35 years, many of the institutional goals and ongoing projects that our founders laid out in their vision of a good and useful Tibet House US: we have a facility, now two, with which we can do our work sharing the best aspects of Tibetan culture, arts, and sciences with wider audiences; we have established Tibet House US as a neutral arbiter of and reference for all things Tibetan; we have provided a vehicle for many Tibetan Cultural Treasures (artists, scholars, and lamas) to represent themselves to larger and wider audiences/students; we have published and assisted with the publication of many Tibetan works; we have inaugurated and built up a world class collection of Tibetan art and antiquities which we hold for the Tibetan people in the form of their cho sen representatives; we have identified and explored, in programs, conferences and publications, many areas of actual and potential collaboration between our sciences, academies, medical research, and faith traditions and their counterparts from Tibet; and we have established

Summer Greetings to you all, dear Members, Patrons, Partners, and Occasional Visitors alike; and a belated, but still very happy I hope, Junteenth, Fourth of July, Saga Dawa, Eid, and HH the Dalai Lama’s Birthday! All of which holidays more or less celebrate the triumph of understanding and freedom over ignorance and tyranny; evergreen values and issues in this world and our lives of course and the very foundation of our mission as Tibet House US; whereby we maintain that preserving and and presenting the truth -- in our case about Tibet, its charm ing and all too human people, and its essential offerings -in all its multifaceted glory is in itself liberating, enabling, and ennobling, even if sometimes only in small ways yet to be fully appreciated in the fullness of time! I am sharing with you now the joy and hope I take in giving tours to school children visiting the cultural center to assess Tibet, Art, History, Philosophy, Meditation, and Buddhism. After such a long time of pandemic and pan demic-related bummers obstacles, I’m happy to say that things have been slowly beginning to return to normal here at Tibet House US and frankly, at this point, we’ll take what we can get until communitas fully returns to New York City and, who knows, maybe even the country as a whole! One can hope! As I implied we’ve been holding programs, tours, and a few events here, since our soft re-opening in the fall of 2021, as circumstances have allowed; gingerly tran sitioning from the online programming of the fading (we all hope) pandemic era to more and more frequent in-person events. We will still do both moving forward of course. In the fall we have a robust set of programs you may peruse elsewhere on the website; and are work ing on reviving our daily free guided meditation sessions which will be underwritten thanks to a generous grant from Anam Cara Meditation. Also in development for the winter or perhaps the spring of next year is a return to our yearly docent Tibet House US tours to buddhist Asia, albeit with new docents. We are currently plan ning an India trip to restart the series; there will be a list to receive notifications available shortly for those who might be interested. All things being equal we are also planning to hold our Annual Benefit Concert, our 36th?, live in Carnegie Hall early next year at the usual time; we appreciate everyone’s support for the last two online versions and are really looking forward to doing it in its proper ephemeral spectacle format the next time around. At this writing we are just concluding the David Orr mandala themed exhibition with our continuing thanks to the artist for showing here. After Labor Day we’ll have two shows for the fall featuring Bruce Miller’s photogra phy, originally slated for 2020, followed by the paintings of Mayumi Oda. I should note that we’ll be closing the Cultural center for a portion of August to do some light renovations and upkeep as we do.

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a more or less reliable system of generating support for these ongoing activities on a year by year basis without, we hope, driving you all too crazy with our constant requests for support for our ongoing and special projects. But, we don’t have an endowment guaranteeing our persistence into the future, until, at least, we are no longer needed as an ambassador of the valuable and endangered culture, arts, spirituality, and sciences of Tibet. So these issues have also occupied our time in the last year. We welcome any ideas and inspirations our members and friends may have for the future of our, meaning yours, institution!

Finally, I would like to announce two excellent and current projects we are endorsing and assisting, one being produced by THUS and one inspired and enabled in part by THUS. I am happy to say that we are executive producers of “The Animated History of Tibet” a project under development by Armchair Academics that will provide an illustrated (animated) and clear presentation of the basics of Tibet’s History in eight 30 minute episodes due to be released in late 2022. Needless to say this will provide an invaluable resource for both public and K-12 education on the subject. Secondly, our friends at Mindwell Labs have developed an app, which runs on most digital sports watches, allowing the user to track and then hopefully mitigate their anxiety levels during their days and nights: an AQ app. This represents a vital new tool in the genre of digitally aided mindfulness and combines insights from eastern medicine and meditation with the cutting edge of medical scientific understanding; just the sort of combination that Tibet House US exists to Thankfoster.you and please come visit us at Tibet House US!

Ganden Thurman Executive Director

We are deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Jimmy Breen, talented artist and dear friend and supportrer of Tibet House, Tibetan Culture and the Tibetan people. He will be greatly missed.

A long time donor, collaborator, partner, colleague, and friend of Tibet House US since our founding in 1987, Mr. Walter Beebe, recently passed on leaving behind a wife and five children as well as a lifetime shining a light onto the commonalities and utility of spiritual traditions, cultures, ancient wisdom lineages, modern takes on the human condition, and so many other variations on the themes, methods, and techniques of self empowerment, enlightenment, and fulfillment for the betterment of all humankind through his marvelous Open Center. For over twenty years Tibet House US collaborated with Wal ter’s Open Center to present our programs on the Tibet an contributions to these subjects Walter so determinedly and generously shared with the world. After we got our own space we continued to partner with the Open Center on programs like our oddly popular “Art of Dying” con ferences for many years. I should say that the world lost a little of its luster with Walter’s passing but honestly the constellations of lights he kindled over the years blaze so brightly even now that it’s hard to focus on his absence, and I’m certain that’s just as he would have it. That said, our heartfelt condolences and best wishes flow out to his family and many many friends among whom we proudly count ourselves. Om Ah Hum!

Walter Beebe

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Jimmy Breen

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SAVE THE DATE! MARCH 1, 2023 36TH BENEFITANNUALCONCERT We are thrilled to announce that after two years of holding our annual benefit concert virtually, we will be in-person at Carnegie Hall (fingers crossed) on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 to celebrate the Year of the Water Rabbit.

GALLERY On View: November 4, 2022 - February 10, 2023 visit https://thus.org for more information

Gouache on cotton Gift of the Zimmerman Family Collection

Sertrap the Protector

Sertrap, literally “possessor of a golden cuirass,” is the terrific form of the Dharma protector Tsangpa Drakpo, Fierce Brahma, who is peaceful and white, and wears a conch in his hair. Sertrap is like a great goblin king, wild and red in appearance. He looms here as a giant, riding a brown horse amid a swirling mass of orange-red flames. He flourishes a jewel topped club in his right hand and in his left is a lasso to snare and tie up demons and oppres sors. He has a tough, bearded face of dark red color, against which his three rolling and gleaming white eyes and “sharp and glacial” white teeth stand out clearly. He wears a golden helmet rimmed with the five-skull crown typical of fierce deities. Silken flags and a small canopy ornament with two peacock feathers flutter above his helmet. His massive body is distinguished by the cuirass of gilded leather that is his special emblem. He wears patterned tur quoise silks that, like those adorning the horse, flutter and twist energetically.

From his wide, jeweled girdle hangs a leopard-skin bow case and a sheathed sword. He is shown with his fortress-palace compound, whose three concentric walls of red, yellow, and white describe an asymmetrical octagon. The figures around him are emanations of his body, speech, mind, excellence, and miraculous activities. In the upper reaches of the painting, surrounded by clouds and trees against the dark blue sky, are the three golden roofs of his three-storied palace. His dominating figure occupies the first floor. On the roof of the second level is a figure of Amitayus, flanked on the left by a lama (Loden Sherap, 11th century translator), and on the right by a red Hayagriva. The roof of the third level is occupied by a figure of Amitabha. Outside, on the right, are two lamas of the compassion lineage, with White Tara, and on the left two lamas of the wisdom lineage, with Green Tara. The painting is handsome and dramatic. It is possibly the finest and richest painting yet known of this particular deity. The style is descended from the powerful paintings dominated by green and orange coloring of the late 17th century combined with some of the pale color effects and other details known especially from Eastern Tibetan paint ing. The Tibetan rendering is, however, a revitalization of Tang Dynasty China and Central Asia from the 7th Centu ry, which offers yet another magnificent major style development–one that stresses the beauty of colorful pattern with a wild and vigorous spirit. We are pleased to begin a regular feature in the biannual THUS Drum by presenting a couple of the most important works in the collection, to inspire our members and friends. All works in the Collection have come from the generous donations of the supporters of THUS and of Tibetan culture and are held in trust to become someday the seed of a National Museum of a reliably recognized free Tibet. In the meantime, they are on display at Tibet House US Cultural Center in New York City and also available to circulate in museum shows internationally, representing the brilliant culture of Tibet, once memorably praised by the head of London’s Royal Academy, as the “Art of Freedom.”

COLLECTIONS

Tibet House US Repatriation Collection Iconic Works

18th-19th Century. 56 ½” x 35 ½”

18th Century, 48” x 31 ¼” Gouache on cotton Gift of Richard Prince, Acquired from the Horch Collection

Shri Devi (Palden Lhamo)

Shri Devi (Palden Lhamo), is a Tibetan Buddhist form of Kali Devi, the fierce female goddess who protects the Dalai Lamas and the Tibetan nation. She rides her magical mule, sitting on a saddle blanket of a flayed human skin, brandishing a club in her right hand and holding a demon-blood-filled skull bowl in her left. Her hair flames up with supernova flames and her black and orange flaming aura fills her space with dynamic energy. Such fierce deities should be understood as defenders of the gentle from the violence of the evil, magnifying the forms of ferocity to such an extent that aggressors are paralyzed and held immobile, while the bodhisattvic and angelic enlightenment manifestations explain to them the error of their ways. Above her head is a figure of Hevajra, the archetype deity buddha-form associated with the Sakya order. In the upper right corner of the tangka sits a Sakya lama, who seems to be holding a wheel of sovereignty, thus identifiable as Chogyal Phagpa (12351380), who was the spiritual preceptor of Khubilai Khan and also the virtual king of Tibet during the Mongol empire. However, the partially effaced inscription identifies him as “Ma…..khan po,” so far a mystery. To the right and left of the central deity in the top row are, respectively, the Brah manarupa Mahakala and the Tent Protector Mahakala, and in the upper left corner a four-armed form of Shri Devi, known as Remati, who holds sword, spear, and trident.

Moving down the left side, the first fierce deity is identified as Nagpo Nodjin (Black Ogre), below him the next is labeled Bhuta (Goblin), next down Chu srin gdong ma (Sea-monster-headed goddess), and the next fierce deity down has lost his label. Going down the right side is a mild black goddess, labeled Yum Chen (Great Mother), a peaceful form of Shri Devi, who holds a vase of elixir of immortality. Below her is a fierce goddess called Nagmo Nojin (Black Ogress), presumably the mate of the male deity on the left side at her height. Below her is Seng gdong ma (Lion-headed Goddess), who together with the Sea-monster-headed goddess always serves as page of Shri Devi as she proceeds on her mule. Below her are two sorcerers labeled sngab ru ‘gran, who are performers of the sacred dance rituals of Shri Devi. Below them a fierce female deity Sring mo Nagmo (Black Demoness) presumably counterpart of the unlabeled male deity at the same height on the left side. Along the bottom are four fierce female goddesses of Devi’s retinue, riding left to right, deer, horse, yak, and camel. Above them and below the belly of the Devi’s mule are three deities; on the left, in a tableau as if they were in a painting, the Kinkara skeleton couple who are protectors of the Chakrasamvara mandala; in the middle, the wealth deity Jambhala, holding his jewel-vomiting mongoose; and on the right, a peaceful goddess labelled No rgyun ma (Vasudhara or Shri Mala Devi), the most peaceful form of Shri Devi. Along the bottom of the tangka are three pairs of beings; on the left, a pair of army generals (Dmag dpon ru ‘gran); in the middle, two female fierce angels (Bu med ru ‘gran); and on the right, a pair of monks (dge slong ru ‘gran).

Exploring and Transforming Guilt and Shame

Michael Lobsang Tenpa Saturday, December 3, 2022 | 11am-2pm

Exhibition

A five week journey exploring practical ways to weave Buddhist wisdom and practice into the fabric of your daily life to bring clarity of mind, a compassionate heart, and an embodied purpose to your relationship with work.

Exploring Our Goodness: Green Tara and the 6 Perfections

Lavina Tuesdays,ShamdasaniNovember 1 through Decem ber 6, 2022 | 6–7pm ET This book club will offer a safe space to share and reflect on “The Art of Happi ness” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, with the ultimate goal of fostering a deeper understanding of the teachings and incorporating them into our daily lives.

Channeling Emotions for Global Compassion Dr. Eve Saturday,EkmanNovember 12, 2022 | 1-3pm

ExploreET the interplay between our emo tional experiences and compassion, along with ways to channel our emotions into compassionate action in this world.

Accomplished teacher Phakyab Rinpoche will teach Level 1 of his 9-Step Healing Shamatha practice, which promotes mastery of the mind and can lead to a beneficial effect on the physical body.

ONLINE PROGRAMS

AETvirtual workshop exploring the way guilt and shame affect our self-percep tion, our feelings about ourselves, and our intentions, and how tender attention to these two emotions can help us access both kindness and insight—the two main wings of contemplative practice.

IN-PERSON PROGRAMS "Running Toward Mystery" by Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi | Book Discussion with Robert A.F. Thurman Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi & Robert A.F. Friday,ThurmanSeptember 9, 2022 | 7-8:30pm ET

The Dharma of Engaged Practice | Week end Friday,CyndiWorkshopLeeOctober 21 through Sunday, October 23, 2022

Weekend Workshop Geshe Pema Dorjee Friday, October 28 through Sunday, October 30, 2022

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Opening & Artist Talk Mayumi Oda Friday, November 4, 2022 | 6pm ET Artist, activist, and modern Buddhist revolutionary Mayumi Oda will intro duce her exhibition “Sarasvati’s Gift,” on view at Tibet House US Gallery through February 10, 2023.

Explore the various ways to express your radiant nature by means of the 6 per fections of a bodhisattva, also known as “far-reaching practices”, or paramitas in “TheSanskrit.Art of Happiness” by H. H. Dalai Lama | 6-Week Book Club

Boundless Leadership: Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Practice with Everyday Life and Work: 5-Week Course Joe Loizzo & Elazar Aslan Tuesdays, October 4 through November 1, 2022 | 6:30-8:30pm ET

6-Week Course Michael Lobsang Tenpa Saturdays, September 10 through Octo ber 15, 2022 | 11am-1pm ET Learn to connect with nature and the elements to deepen your wellbeing, and take steps to protect the planet by creat ing a strong foundation of contemplative Stanfordpractice.

Three Higher Practices: Ethical Conduct, Concentration, and Wisdom |

Shamatha Meditation Level 1 | 3-Day PhakyabRetreat Rinpoche

Christian Howard & Michael Lobsang Saturday,Tenpa

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi discuss es his autobiographical book, Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of an Unconventional Life (2020), with Rob ert A.F. Thurman, Buddhist scholar and President of Tibet House US. "The Power of Mind" by Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé | Book Launch and Discussion Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Monday, September 12, 2022 | 6-8pm ET Book launch event for "The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk's Guide to Find ing Freedom in Every Challenge" with T’hayé Rinpoche, author and direc tor of Katog Choling.

Nature of the Heart: Awakening Our Innate Wisdom and Compassion Nina Rao and Lopön Chandra Easton Wednesday, September 7, 2022 | 6–8pm AnET ongoing series weaving together mys tical stories, visualizations, meditations, mantra repetition, and singing chants to offer an immersive experience of the feminine creative power that underlies our inner and outer nature.

Boundless Leadership: Integrating

THUS PROGRAMS

A weekend workshop exploring the three higher trainings of ethical conduct, concentration, and wisdom – essential elements of the path to liberation and full Sarasvati'sawakening.Gift

Eco-Dharma: InterdependenceExploringforHealing and Activism |

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A vibrant approach to meditation and yoga through integrating mind-body awareness, developing compassion, and deepening your understanding of Bud dhist Mindfulnessteachings.and Mahayana | 4-Day Monday,CyndiMini-RetreatLeeOctober 24 through Thursday, October 27, 2022 Immerse yourself in the practice of mind fulness meditation, Buddhist Mahayana teachings, develop stability and mental clarity, and expand your understanding of what Thich Nhat Hanh called "inter-be Theing."

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SeptemberFarrell16-19, 2022 Find rest and nourishment through shared practices of morning and evening meditation, vinyasa yoga classes, deep stretching sessions, guided mindfulness and heart-opening reflections, and Dharma talks to further our understanding of the profound Buddhist teachings on love and compassion.

Joy Through Self-Care Colleen Saidman Yee

Using effective modalities such as Kundalini yoga*, sound healing, mantras, community recovery meetings*, and group session work, we release the “power” of the intellectual mind and invite deeper healing in ourselves.

Michele Loew & Robert Thurman

July 18-22, 2022 Hybrid IntroductionOfferingtoBuddhist Yoga: The Subtle Body and the Vajra Rosary Tantra David Kittay, Robert Thurman, and Michele Loew

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Jai Dev ThisOctoberSingh5-9,2022isanin-person, multi-day immersive yoga retreat that will give you the energy, inspiration and momentum to live the life of creativity and purpose that you were designed for. Join Jai Dev Singh and the Life-Force Academy this fall at the majestic Menla Mountain Retreat in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.

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ThisSeptemberMiro-Quesada22-25,2022uniqueceremonial gathering is open to all who feel the call to be a source of love, an empowered healing presence upon Gaia-Pachamama. Meticulously designed to invoke and embody the inherent unitive balancing forces and powers within the upcoming 2022 Autumnal Equinox Power Through Powerlessness: Releasing Self-Sabotage and Reclaiming Your Power in Recovery

September 16-18, 2022 In this course, you can expect to move your body, follow your breath, notice your habits, and be inspired to take this love and self-care into your daily lives long past the retreat.We will dig deep and discover who is living in these bodies.

Robert OngoingThurmanOnline Series

Gratitude Yoga Fall Yoga & Meditation

Please check (thusmenla.org ) for up-to-date listings. Vajra Yoga & the Subtle Body: How Subtle Body Awareness Can Enhance Your Yoga Practice and Daily Life David Kittay, Robert Thurman & Michele Loew

Munay-Ki Teacher Training Marcela Lobos, Steffen Buffel, Antonella Velasquez, Karen Hoza & Alberto

July 22-24, 2022 Hybrid BuddhaOffering&theWarrior-Sage: the Sacred Armor of Heart-Wisdom

The Inconceivable Liberation Ocean: Exploring the Flower Ornament Sutra

Glow Yoga Summer Retreat: Total System Reset Erin & Carl Klemme

SeptemberVilloldo 3-9, 2022 Take the next step of the Munay Ki… The residential teacher training is here! Imagine yourself training Munay-Ki practitioners just as you were trained by your

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August 24-28, 2022 Gift yourself a journey into beauty, peace, and renewal. This four day retreat will include yoga, pranayama, meditation, guided hikes, evening bonfires and a sound healing event.

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JohnIn-PersonFriendsteachers.ofFungiRetreatMichelotti& Friends September 9-11, 2022 Join John Michelotti this September for an all-levels mushroom cultivation and foraging weekend workshop at Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New FindingYork.

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August 4-7, 2022 Hybrid Offering

Alchemy of the Equinox: Living the Magic of Shamanic Belongingness for Planetary Regeneration

The Life Force Academy Immersion

October 20-26, 2022 Vajra Yoga explores the philosophical and experiential interface between Hatha Yoga and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Vajra Yoga traditions. If you are looking for a Yoga Teacher Training course that brings in yoga and the meditative sciences from both traditions, this is the course.

Sage Academy of Sound’s 10th Annual Gong Camp

Lea SeptemberGarnier30 - October 3, 2022 This retreat is not just for the advanced professional sound-healer, or the ongoing student of gong yoga, or for just the practicing healing musician, but it is also for those who simply wish to be introduced to the self-realizing and healing power of the gong.

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Menla turned 20 years old on June 18, 2022, exactly 20 years after our very first weekend retreat with Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, and Robert Thurman! Weremain ever grateful to our community of supporters,our board members, hard-working staff, and volunteers,and all the many people who have attended programsat Menla over the years. Our retreats are designed todeliver authentic teachings on spirituality and wellnessin a variety of ways, with the aim of helping people toheal and grow individually while accessing meaningfulcommunity together. Your generous support andcontinued attendance of Tibet House-sponsored eventshas been especially critical as we traversed the manychallenges and uncertainties of the past two years of thepandemic.Weare

We are delighted to announce that an anonymousdonor has arranged to donate a gorgeous and verymodern floatation tank to Menla! Floatation tanks provide a wide array of mental and physical healthbenefits, and float centers are rare on the East Coast. We are in the beginning stages of planning where to houseit, and we hope to complete renovations and add thisservice to our spa menu in 2023. We are also putting the

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Our Dewa Spa continues to flourish as well, with ourwellness services now available to book directly online, no longer requiring a call to the Spa’s reception deskand giving visitors a seamless reservation experience.With an expanding team of first-rate therapists, our Spacontinues to be in very high demand, both from themany groups on retreat at Menla and from droves oflocals and visitors to our region. The stunning summerweather we have enjoyed has helped keep our Spa nearlyfully booked much of the time, and fall promises to beequally inspiring, so be sure to book your treatmentswell in advance!

very happy to report that our 2022 retreatseason has been a phenomenal success so far–we have surpassed even our best pre-pandemic records in terms of the number of retreats and participants we host,helping us overcome two massive challenges tobusinesses across the country, widespread labor shortages(especially in the hospitality industry) and rapidly rising inflation. Thanks to this year’s total reboundfrom pandemic interruptions, we accomplished severalmajor building renovations, significantly increased ouroverall staff compensation, and expanded our network of ardent students and supporters through the growth of our hybrid programs. While nothing compares withan in-person retreat, affording people the opportunityto attend virtually who otherwise could not participate, has been an amazing gift of the pandemic.

finishing touches on our hyperbaric chamber, which wealso hope to offer to the public next year.

For general audiences, we also offer several weeklonghybrid Vajrayoga study and practice intensivesthroughout the year, such as the Vajrayoga MahasiddhaReunion, with Robert Svoboda, Krishna Das, Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor, Michele Loew, and Bob Thurman taking place in May of 2023. Most Tibet House US retreats at Menla are now offered in hybrid format. Please see below for the current list of online and in-person offerings for 2022. We are profoundly grateful to all who have sustainedus and helped us grow, and we look forward to servingour community for the next 20 years and beyond!

February, Menla sponsored a highlysuccessful online Art of Dying and Living conferencewhich drew over a thousand participants and featuredpresentations and panels with renowned presenters suchas Deepak Chopra, Gabor Maté, Joan Halifax, FrankOstaseski, Eben Alexander, Andrew Holecek, Richard Martini, Robert Thurman, Alberto Villoldo, Henry Fersko-Weiss and Dr. Nida Chenagtsang among others.Still available via our thusmenla.org site for onlineofferings, this conference is THUS|Menla’s newestincarnation of a powerfully transformative event thatTibet House US launched with the NY Open Center20 years ago and which introduced thousands of peopleto the profound exploration of the realities of death anddying as the doorway to living ever more vibrantly inthe precious moments of this life. We plan to sponsoranother such online conference in the mid-winter of 2023, and it is our intention to continue offering theseannually, as the topics and themes surrounding deathand dying now receive much wider interest from thepublic. Additionally, we are excited to announce that weare teaming up with Henry Fersko-Weiss to offer annualDeath Doula trainings at Menla.

This spring we finished a beautiful full-color 35-pagewelcome guide to our resort and services, which is nowfound in each guest room and is available at the FrontDesk. These brochures communicate our many offeringswith stunning photos and inspiring language that engagesreaders. Please be sure to check it out the next time youvisit

OurMenla!two wonderful horticulturists, Iquwah Bezuyin and Aaron Water havebeen hard at work growing more foodthan ever before, further beautifyingthe landscaping surrounding ourguest lodging, and cultivating avery inviting atmosphere for ourguests to learn about organicgardening or just to meditateserenely among the many plantsand flowers. Near our newest garden–the site of former tenniscourts by the Vintage Barn–wenow have a meditation labyrinth, and soon we will complete thisarea’s transformation with the addition of a games area, featuringbocce, shuffleboard, and horse-shoe courts for leisurely afternoon fun andcolorful sunsets behind Panther Mountain in the evenings.Thispast

Another stellar offering, and one which is totallyunique to Tibet House US|Menla, is our ongoing seriesof Vajrayoga courses, headed up by expert yogini MicheleLoew and THUS President, Robert Thurman, along withguest presenters such as Dr. Nida, Richard Freeman, andMary Taylor among others. Vajrayoga is the confluence ofsciences from the Hatha Yoga and Indo-Tibetan Buddhisttraditions. In these programs–both our Teacher Trainingsand intensives designed for general audiences–we study the interconnected nature of Buddhism, Hatha yoga andIndo-Tibetan Naljor practices, learning to practice thesubtle anatomy software and spiritual psychotherapieswhich help us uncover our original blissful nature. Whilethe West has until now been introduced to yoga andBuddhism as if they were separate streams of teachingsand practices, Vajrayoga aims to explore and elucidateboth their common origins and inter-empoweringintegration on the path to self-awakening. This long-term initiative at THUS|Menla aligns fullywith His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 4th aim in life: to bring the ancient IndianInner Sciences (“Adhyātma Vidyā”), including the teachings of Hinduismand Buddhism, supporting humanbeings’ inner awakening forhappiness and freedom back to India.Ifyou are seeking an authenticand profound yoga teachertraining, either as a teacher oras a student wanting to seriouslydeepen your understandingand practice, we invite you tolearn more about our VajrayogaTeacher Training, running October2022 - May 2023, with an in-personkickoff retreat at Menla October 2026. Robert Thurman provides students thephilosophical and meditation education via Indo-Tibetan cosmologies and in-depth analysis of sourcetexts, and Michele Loew teaches application of thephilosophy through physical asana and subtle bodyrituals. Graduating students will leave the program asa certified Vajrayoga teacher, one who understands thekey principles of Vajrayoga and is capable of teaching aVajrayoga class comprised of physical asana (Hatha Yogaand Tibetan Trul Khor), philosophical enquiry (BuddhaDharma and comparative non-dual Indian philosophies)and subtle-body anatomy (Indo-Tibetan Inner Sciences). We study a variety of Dharmic and Yogic texts thatinclude: The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, MahāsatipatthanaSutta, Shankarāchārya’s Yogatārāvalī, Hatha YogaPradīpika, the Yoga Vashishta, and the Vimalakirti andFlower Ornament Sutras.

Illegal wildlife trade, unsustainable practices, and rapid development put pressure on the fragile high mountain ecosystems, and climate change exacerbates these threats. To save the Third Pole we must work together, bridging gaps between snow leopard conservation, community engagement and climate adaptation. The GeoLab is a platform to help achieve that.

• Encroachment of snow leopard habitats by people

The snow-covered mountains surrounding the Tibetan Plateau hold the largest store of permanent ice and per mafrost outside the North and South Poles earning the nickname the Third Pole. Home to endangered wildlife, numerous nomadic cultures, and the headwaters of Asia’s mightiest rivers, the treasures of these mighty mountains unite the many countries whose borders they cross. But the region, and all who depend on it, are at risk. Illegal wildlife trade, unsustainable practices, and rapid development put pressure on the fragile high mountain ecosystems, and climate change accelerates and exacerbates these threats. To save the Third Pole we must work together, bridging gaps between wildlife conservation, community engagement and climate adaptation.

Changes to these cycles, compounded by the potential for more frequent extreme events of many types, will have direct impacts to snow leopards and their prey species and ecosystems upon which they depend.

• Increased risk for disease and other health impacts

The snow leopard habitat stretches across 2 million sq km of high Asia, including the sources for the 20 largest rivers in Asia. Considered an endangered species, the snow leopard and is already at risk from a variety of threats, including poaching, overgrazing, fragmented range of suitable habitats, and human-wildlife conflicts. Global climate change will continue to negatively impact snow leopard habitats across the high mountains of Central Asia and is projected to increase the existing risks, and impose new threats to these big cats and their prey. Climate change will also have indirect impacts by affecting human behavior, with human responses to climate change in turn affecting the snow leopard landscape. Melting glaciers, altered seasonal cycles, increased human-wild- life conflicts, upslope movement of tree-lines, habitat fragmen tation, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), and increased pests and disease as a result of changes in climate and all pose direct and indirect risks.

• Shifts in seasonal food availability for wildlife

The combination of warming throughout the year and a wetter monsoon season could additionally dramatically impact snow leopards, their prey, and the people who live in the region.

• Increased human-wildlife conflict

it’s currently estimated that snow leopards occupy roughly 90 000 km2 of mountains in the Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sik kim and Arunachal Pradesh, of which about 34,000 km2 (13,000 sq mi) is considered good habitat, and 14.4% is protected. The total global population of snow leopards is estimated at roughly 10, 000 individuals and these occupy mainly alpine and sub-alpine zones of between 3000-4500 metres above sea level.

A study done by the Mountain Landscapes and Commu nities project outlines the specific risks posed to six snow leopard land- scapes in the following project areas: Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, South Gobi, Central Tienshan/ Sarychat, and the Kara- koram-Pamir Range: the climate in the Eastern Nepal snow leopard landscape is characterized by a strong seasonal relationship between temperatures and precipitation, with the warmest months of June, July, August, and September receiving the most rainfall.

• Changes in vegetation patterns and shifting tree line

• Increased flooding and landslide risk

Global climate change will have localimpacts on snow leopard habitats across the high mountains of Central ImpactsAsia.could include:

Noticeable dramatic changes to the current patterns of annual temperature and precipitation cycles affect snow leopard survival, such as water availability, ecosystem health, snow leopard behavior, and human activities.

An Indian friend told me, “We should cultivate more trees in northern India.” Actually, he gave me that“Wheneverresponsibility:youvisit northern India, you should tell people, ‘More forests! Try to avoid cutting trees.’ ”

Dialogue for Our Future: A Call to Climate Action April 22, Dharamsala,2022H.P., India Commentary:

I appreciate that more and more people now are really showing a sense of concern for the world environment.Ultimately

Some of the artwork contained on these pages is extracted from MAN OF PEACE: The Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet. The state of world affairs described on the previous page, although that which prevailed at the beginning of the last century, during the lifetime of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, is no different from what today’s Fourteenth Dalai Lama has to deal with— except for the enormous difference in parts per million of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. The resulting effects in climate change are now globally inescapable.

What follows are excerpts from his address to the climate conference he convened on Earth Day.

I try to fulfill that one responsibility he gave me. I try my best. So now we should show our younger generation our responsibility to preserve water and in the future, in Tibet, we should keep this water and keep our Land of Snows. As far as we can do, we should do. And if it’s beyond all control, then we cannot do anything. Our generation should think more, and then our younger generation should be educated in these things and pay more attention. His Holiness the Dalai Lama

I think we have the responsibility to keep the big rivers flowing. In that respect, most of the big rivers in Tibet come from Tibet rivers which go to China, like the Yellow River; to Vietnam, like the Mekong; and here in this area of India, the Brahmaputra.InLhasaarea, annually, winter on surrounding mountains brought more snow. Then, within my lifetime, year by year, less and less . . . Now we already have the technology for sea water to be transformed to sweet water. Some areas of Arabia, and India also, are always very dry desert sand. With sweet water, many of these areas can be cultivated, as green land. So, for the next few decades, or a few centuries, we can keep land Previously,green.we simply felt about water, just use it, with no responsibility for its purity.

But in the meantime, through education, we human beings should have the awareness that one of our responsibilities is to keep water pure, and to keep these big rivers flowing with pure water.

In the meantime, I think it’s also important for our younger generation to learn about the preservation of forests and the environment.

water is the basis of our life. For the next few centuries, I think water will remain but after a few centuries, the world may become dry.

Now the reality is that this water is greatly reduced. And we have a responsibility to develop a concern for how to preserve it.

This is truly compassionate work. I always practice compassion, but at practical level, I have no concern for these big waters. I am already 87 years old in another 10 or 15 years, my life ends. So no concern but for future generations. Whatever way there is to preserve this pure water for them, that’s our responsibility. Eventually this world will become a desert as on some other planet, like Mars. So far, this world, a beautiful blue planet, now gradually will become a white planet, with no water. Without water, we living beings cannot survive. And for many birds, many animals, their final time will come to say good-bye to this world. But I think that for at least a few centuries, we can keep our beautiful planet blue.

So I really appreciate a group of people here now thinking of how to preserve this pure water. Wonderful.

—Gyalwa Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet “Sogan Rinpoche was educated and trained in Tibet in a thoroughly traditional way, rare in this modern age. He studied and practiced at the feet of his main teacher, Khenpo Munsel, a renowned Dzogchen master in Eastern Tibet. Since leaving Tibet, Sogan Rinpoche has spent over a decade in the West. . . . His memoirs give an intimate and inspiring glimpse into the life of a Lama who bridges old Tibet and the modern world.”

—Pema Lodoe, the Sixth Sogan Tulku of Tibet book release in fall 2019 A Tibet House US Publication isbn 978-194131-208-7 (pbk.) 312 pages with 39 photo illustrations US $29.95 / $39.95 CAN

—Tsoknyi Rinpoche

I was introduced to the subtle teachings of the Lord Buddha, entered a monastic community, was recognized as a reborn Lama, met with a sublime master of the Buddha’s teaching, entered extended meditation retreat in sacred and remote places, went into exile in foreign lands, and encountered spiritual treasures in the fabled land of India and beyond. I share my inner journey through the intense study, contemplation, and meditation on the profound secrets of the Dzogchen tradition of Buddhism.

His first meeting with H. H. the Dalai Lama, in 1991

“Sogan Rinpoche is well known in the Tibetan community, and well known to be close to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has graced us here with a moving and at times heartbreaking account of his remarkable life. . . . Lively and unusually candid, Rinpoche has given us a privileged view of occupied Tibet, Tibetan culture under siege, and of the secular and spiritual journey of a highly accomplished Tibetan Lama.”

“Sogan Tulku, known also as Pema Lodoe, is a man whose faith and commitment are unshakable. . . . This book is therefore a most valuable resource now and in the future. . . .”

—Richard Gere

“It is Tibet House US’s honor to publish this remarkable story and my pleasure and privilege to welcome the world to Sogan Rinpoche’s vision of life. If he and most of his fellow Tibetans can remain positive and kind while enduring seventy years of national and personal invasion, dispossession, oppression, and torment, then why should we give up in despair at the challenges we all now face worldwide? By honestly and poetically showing us how we can take advantage of darkest adversity and turn it into golden opportunity, he has honored his noble teachers, including our kindest patron, the Great Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet.”

—Robert A. F. Thurman

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The story of Paljor Thondup’s life, related in this book, is one of the most remarkable human stories I have ever encountered. The arc of his life, from an idyllic but rough childhood in the Himalayan mountains to Santa Fe, New Mexico, is immense in its sweep of history and geography, and especially in the human story it tells. The journey from revenge and hatred for unspeakable crimes to forgiveness through the compassion and loving kindness of the Dalai Lama is one of the greatest stories ever told. —douglas preston

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China’s Red Army and communist cadres systematically slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Tibetans in the prov inces of Amdo and Kham, intimidating with atrocities and seeking to enslave the survivors. The active resistance of the Tibetan people to the Chinese invasion in the 1950’s coalesced into a guerrilla army of freedom fighters, the Chushi Gangdruk. They waged war against overwhelming odds, losing to greater numbers, airplanes, and artillery. Fleeing to central Tibet, they helped their beloved Dalai Lama escape the 1959 massacre in Lhasa, to speak for his people in exile. Paljor Thondup’s diehard Khampa family also rose up to repel the invaders. They fought their way west through the whole thousand-mile length of Tibet, ultimately withdrawing to sanctuary in the Mustang region of Nepal. . .

—robert a. f. thurman

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Welcome to this fascinating history of heroic courage in battles, both outer and inner! You will discover the brave heart of Tibet—one that, no matter what, remains undefeated.

The young Paljor ThondupATibet House US Publication isbn 978-1-941312-10-0 (pbk.) 216 pages with 20 photo illustrations, 3 maps $24.95

Another addition to the . . . THUS Love Tibet Collection this book tells the story of two Tibetan families whose nomadic but devoted way of life suffers from the impact of historic upheaval when their land is invaded and occupied by murderous forces of destruction. . . Here, in this autobiography, it is a family of yak-herders on the vast Himalayan plains of Tibet who are forced to deal with the reality of extreme oppression by a violently expansive and autocatic state.

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His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Part 1, “The Precious Protector in the Land of Snows,” covers his birth and discovery, family, enthronement, youthful studies, assumption of polit ical leadership at fifteen, forced by the Chinese invasion, his brave attempt to get along with the communists while completing his formal studies, his near capture in 1959, his people’s uprising to save him, his midnight escape be fore the massacre ordered by Mao and Deng, and his intrepid flight through the high passes and the reaching of ex ile exhausted but safe in India.

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The book is helpfully arranged in four main parts, preceded by the author’s informative and touching introduc tion, a brief and beautifully illustrated history of Tibet, with a stirring fore word by His Holiness’ younger brother Tenzin Choegyal, the Ngari Rinpoche incarnate, who is himself a lively char acter throughout the story, reveling in his numerous provocative roles.

This is a wonderful work, drawing on the experience of Tendzin Geyche Tethong’s forty years of serving as His Holiness’ close personal secretary and assistant. Full disclosure: He is also a very old friend of mine, since we met in 1964 when he became a monk and was first working as His Holiness’ personal assistant and I first came to Dharamsala in my effort to become a Buddhist monk myself while continuing my third year of study of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy under the tutelage of His Holiness. He remained in constant close service of His Holiness for the next forty-two years, so there is no one on earth as well placed as he to tell the story of His Holiness’ ex traordinary life full of many hardships, breathtaking personal transformations, and stunning accomplishments on behalf of the suffering Tibetan people and the whole swirling world of struggling sentient beings. The illustrations are outstanding, many of them unique and never before pub lished. The Presence, the Kundun, in photographs, old, from many eras, and even recent—as a baby, a scruffy child about to be discovered, a captive hos tage held for ransom by a Chinese warlord; an enthroned, dignified, gracious living icon of a reincarnated, divine bodhisattva, messiah of his adoring people; a studious young monk with somber tutors, a teenage monk-king dealing with Mao and the old Panchen Lama in Beijing; a young man in des perate flight from invading troops across Himalayan passes, against all the odds; a harried administrator protecting and organizing a hundred thousand refugees in a foreign land; a scholar teaching new generations of monks, an elegant guru lama presiding over complex and exquisite ceremo nies; and then, of course. the Nobel Peace Prize laureate traveling the world meeting popes and presidents, royalty and commoners, scientists and priests, the global celebrity Dalai Lama we all know and admire.

An Illustrated Biography by Tenzin Geyche Tethong (Author), Jane Moore (Photographer)

Part 2, “A New Home in India,” is impressive in its presentation of the time through the Sixties when HH proves to be a visionary diplomat and tireless administrator, organizing the exile community around a de facto Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE), building upon the democratic reforms made by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in Tibet during the independence period from 1912 to 1950 to initiate from the outset the development of a modern democratic charter. The young Dalai Lama in his late twenties skilfully estab lished this TGIE in Dharamsala amid the ambiguities of President Nehru’s attitude, which was kind and generous to the Tibetans by granting asylum and protecting and yet also was nervous and resistant to their efforts to reach out for help from the powers in the world to stop the Chinese genocidal policies, due to Nehru’s futile hope to befriend Mao (as if a Gandhi-inspired, culturally spiritual, independent India and barrel-of-a-gun communist China under dictatorship could ever become partners in common cause in not-quitepost-colonial geopolitics). Just as importantly, His Holiness also worked with the spiritually enlightened Gov ernment of India to preserve the pre cious Tibetan culture-in-exile: he set up a Tibetan-language public school system for the refugee children; reestablished in the south the culturally core monastic universities of Lhasa— Ganden, Drepung, and Sera; support

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough for everyone who wants to meet His Holiness the Great Four teenth Dalai Lama and be inspired by what a meaningful life can look like and can be emulated. Great deeds and great words and great pictures, each one worth thousands more!

Part 4, “Universal Compassion and Healing the World,” briefly traces His Holiness’ global impact since receiv ing the Nobel Prize through the ’90s and into this century, touching on his joyous nature winning the hearts of people everywhere, including the masses of the Chinese people (except for the entrenched leadership of the Chinese communist-capitalist impe rium); his relations with all sorts of political leaders, his dialogues with scientists; his remaining a beacon of hope to his people in Tibet who continue to suffer unreasonably (over 160 people young and old, lay and mo nastic, have immolated their bodies during recent decades to protest the ongoing genocidal oppression they must endure); his concern for the people of China; his concern for the endangered ecology of Tibet and the accelerated melting of its glaciers; his offering of spiritual solace to the world through his thirty-four grand Ka lachakra “Wheel of Time” ceremonies that create a temporary blessed space where people can at least subliminally feel that a “happy ending” to history is in the offing, no matter how remote it seems; his pursuit of a “fourth life aim,” that of repaying the kindness of the Indian people by encouraging them to rediscover and redeploy their own great historical cultural treasure of the Nalanda University inner sci ences of wisdom and compassion, the vast literature of which exists in its fullest form only in the faithful translations into Tibetan of the great libraries that were burned by foreign invaders a thousand years ago; his sec ular ethics and peacemaking efforts in Northern Ireland and the Mid dle East; his 2011 resignation from political authority and responsibility in the government-in-exile (nowa days “Central Tibetan Administration” [CTA]) and his insistence that future Dalai Lamas not be saddled with such responsibility, so that Tibetans, upon regaining their freedom someday in whatever form, should be fully democratic in their governance; his joyful ecumenism of all form of spirituality, so well exemplified by his relationship with the recently departed Archbishop Desmond Tutu; and finally his love of technology and his ability at almost 87 years of age to teach and travel widely, meeting and inspiring people from his Dharamsala sanctuary via the internet, Zoom, Facebook, Twit ter, and Instagram!

ed the flourishing of all the Buddhist religious orders of Tibet, including even the non-Buddhist Bonpos; set up in Dharamsala the Tibetan AstroMedicine Institute, the Drama Insti tute (TIPA), a Library, Museum, and Archive (LTWA); created a Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS) in Sarnath near Varanasi; and the first Tibet House Museum and Culture Centre in New Delhi. During all of this, a lifetime’s work in itself, His Holiness continued his own spiritual studies and practices, kept up the spirits of over a hundred thousand people undergoing hard times, and learned more about the modern world he was facing.

This conclusion of the book presents two prayers for us all. First, from page 268, “Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family, or one’s nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibili ty is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.” And from the last page, “We should employ science and human ingenuity with de termination and courage to overcome the problems that confront us and at tain our common goal of a more caring and a more peaceful world.”

T. Bob ProfessorThurmanEmeritus and author President, Tibet House US June 2022, Water Tiger Year

Part 3, “Reaching Out to the World,” looks beyond the miraculous estab lishment of a modern version of an en tire country in exile, highlighting the importance of culture in maintaining a people’s identity and spirituality in preserving their mental health amid tremendous adversity, and focuses on His Holiness’ development of relations with all kinds of people around the world, along his famous “three main life aims”—as a human being, the strength ening of positive values, kindness and compassion; as a Buddhist monk, sup porting interreligious harmony and cooperation; and as a Tibetan, speak ing out to bring help to his Tibetan nation, to relieve their suffering under the boot heel of foreign oppressors. This part also shows His Holiness’ own spiritual development, working with his Namgyal Monastery to mas ter the complex scientific and spiritual teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, both intellectually and experientially, and growing into the world-teacher he has become. It keeps up with the de velopments in China and Tibet, His Holiness’ creative responses such as his Five Point Peace Plan and his Middle Way approach, pragmatically asking for meaningful autonomy in a union with China instead of demanding the outright independence Tibet actually deserves, and ends with the confer ral of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. I was particularly moved by Tendzin Geyche’s brilliant touch of ending this section with a beautiful photo of His Holiness sitting in ethnic Sami cos tume in a meeting with President Ole Henrik Magga in the Sami parliament in northern Norway, which makes me think of His Holiness’ excitement in Oslo before the Peace Prize ceremo ny when he could only talk about his upcoming visit to the indigenous Sami reindeer people in the north!

Robert A. F. “Tenzin” Thurman Jey Tsongkhapa Professor of Buddhology Emeritus Columbia Co-FounderUniversityofTibet House US Woodstock, New York June 17, 2019 Vaishakha Full Moon

Sarasvati’s Gift: The Autobiography of Mayumi Oda— Artist, Activist, and Modern Buddhist Revolutionary by Mayumi Oda

ALOHA, E LO, LIFE! Mayumi radiates it from her person and in her monumen tal, iconic art. She is inspired by the Tibet an word thang-ka, literally “scroll plane opening” for each icon, thang meaning flat plane or expanse, like a plain, a steppe, the floor of a valley, and ka or kha, a face, an opening. In Tibetan art such scroll icons are seen as windows from our ordi nary world of habitual perceptions into the sacred world of higher beings, em bracing environments, inspiring realities. What we glimpse through those windows are deities, teachers, allies, havens, bene ficial energies that inspire us to see more precisely, feel more deeply, understand more fully the realities of our worlds and the greater possibilities of our continuum of Mayumi’slives. works serve perfectly in that tradition, and, as with the best of it, are completely original. They express the presence of wisdom, its flowing with the indomitable power of universal love as kindness, care, tireless responsibility, and humorous self-confidence. If any art of our time expresses the irrepressible female, in all its magnificent aspects—beauty, sen suality, generosity, no-nonsense realism, tenderness, and even ferocity—it is the art of Mayumi Oda. It is a privilege and a pleasure to welcome the book, lighting a small candle of praise at the altar of divine holiness—Sarasvati and her lovely, worthy, and delightful em anation, Mayumi Oda!

Sarasvati’s Gift, Mayumi Oda’s great gift— how wonderful to receive it in this beau tiful, heartfelt, honest book. Sarasvati, the goddess of art, the Lady of the River of Beauty, is the cleansing divine flow of the waters of truth and beauty, and she emanates to heal and cleanse our stressedout lives on our stricken planet through the undaunted art and golden heart of Mayumi Oda. I knew Mayumi since 1966, when our two families were just starting to have our wonderful children. We have walked through the decades since then, each on our own distinct Buddhist paths, but ulti mately shoulder to shoulder in the direc tion of the victory of truth and love in the golden future of this planet, trying not to get too stressed or to give in at all through the long tunnel of obstacles under the self-destructive leadership of obsolescent elites. This book of hers is a revelation of the glory of her determined artistry, filled with all the kindness, beauty and power that flows from the indomitable feminine divine as nature, of nature, in nature, gen tle and nurturing and ferocious in the de fense of life. It chronicles her discovery of our mother Gaia’s inconceivable gracious abundance to us humans, giving us the opportunity to thrive in joyful celebra tion of her grace. Only when I read this book did I finally learn so much more of Mayumi’s youth, of her sufferings from the war-torn childhood, and understand more deeply her dreams, her insights, her bravery, and her irrepressible creative force. I also heard more keenly than ever her bone-deep, marrow-piercing mes sage to us all to wake up, stop at once our busy-ness-as-usual, step back from our sleepwalking into catastrophe, and turn away from the path of greed and hostility and delusion, to restore our world—our earth, our oceans, our fire, our air, our space itself, and recover the joy of care and creativity, taking up the universal re sponsibility to make everyone enjoy the unending time we all will face together on this Mayumiplanet.andI were born the same year, 1941, and that sweet child with the sen sitive soul of a fine artist had to cower in a homemade bomb shelter during the fire bombings of Tokyo, culminating in the all-too-nearby nuclear horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She then had to grow up in a culture both rigid with samurai patriarchy and also deeply traumatized by war and devastation, loss and grinding pri vation. Kindness of family and friends and the expressiveness of art were her salvation clearly, and the experience of finding beau ty in the rubble and turning stubborn love into creativity has been the triumph of her life, the great achievement of her art, and the depth and urgency of her teaching and its activism for life. As I read the book, it brings me to tears, alone in my study, thinking of her suffer ing as a child. I marvel at how succinctly but thoroughly she chronicles the huge transformations the world has suffered and achieved in our lifetimes. Her life it self testifies to how far we have come on the people level, in spite of gigantic and intensifying dangers and catastrophes, truly to a new age of gentleness, sustain ability, recovery of human intelligence, love and creativity. Her art and her activ ism and its facing of obstacles also show how we all still seem to be driven toward doom by insane leadership, a relative few sad but powerful people still imprisoned by habit patterns of ignorant, outmoded but obstinate convictions, personal rigidi ty, male chauvinist arrogance, and escapist self-destructiveness based on the sublimi nal nihilism of scientistic materialism.

PURCHASE

For all teachings in Dharamsala, registration is required in order to attend. Registration begins a few days before the actual start of the teaching and ends the day before the first day of the teaching. Registration hours are from 9 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm at the Branch Security Office in McLeod Ganj (Bhagsunath Road near Hotel Tibet). Kindly bring your passport for registration. A nominal fee of Rs. 10 will be charged. For your information, as a long-standing policy His Holiness the Dalai Lama does not accept any fees for his talks. Where tickets need to be purchased, organizers are requested by our office to charge the minimum en trance fee in order to cover their costs only. Please note that the dates given below are subject to change.

Teaching in Dharamsala, HP, India September 15 - 16, 2022 His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give two-day teachings on Chandrakirti’s Entering the Middle Way in con junction with the autocommentary (uma jukpa rangdrel thok ney) in the mornings at the request of a group of Southeast Asians at the Main Tibetan Temple. For more information please see www.dalailama.com/live

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