That Tsundue and Padamsee are working together on this project should bring another and necessary perspective to the complex issues that Tibetans face every day, both in exile and in Tibet. Art opens avenues of conversation that politics must, by definition, avoid. My only fear is that I won't get to see it. ...»

In fact, it turns out that there are segments of the human psyche on display in Tunisia that theory can't touch, and the attempt to understand it theoretically always arrives too late, often devours the event within its own conceptual apparatus, and most likely disgraces the essential and informing spirit that might otherwise define a compassionate citizenry....»

To the young people who are currently challenging these oppressive regimes, the internet is nothing more than a cup of coffee: always useful, almost always around, but always unreliable, because it doesn't do what a macchiato will do-focus, drive, and sustain at a very high bit rate. ...»

I begin on a grey Tuesday in February. Fifty-eight-years-old. My two-year-old daughter sleeps in her room nearby, my twenty-one-year-old son, who lives with his mother, is working at the grocery store a few miles down the road, and my wife......»

Trungpa was a controversial figure, but when he arrived in this country in 1970, he had a formidable task ahead of him-introduce a sophisticated and subtle spiritual practice to a hardened counter-culture that had deeply rooted suspicions regarding power, authority, gender, and sobriety. ...» 

Hello, Namaste and Tashi delek from India. I am happy to announce that theTibetan Organic Farmers have successfully kept the compassionate action going. On April 26th another 20 bags of Tibetan Organic Rice weighing 25 kg (55 pounds) each were distributed to the recipient families for the Pennies for Partnerships' Compassion in Action Outreach. The recent [...]...»