Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche (1938-2010) was a great scholar and a Dzogchen Master of our time. He was born in 1938, the Earth Tiger year, in the village of Joephu (rgyus phu) in the Dhoshul (rdo shul) region of Kham in eastern Tibet near the sacred mountain Jowo Zegyal (jo bo gze rgyal). In [...]
The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center welcomes the Yangsi of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche on his first visit to the United States and to New York which begins today, the 3rd of August.
We celebrate the centenerary of the birth of H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Rabsal Dawa. TBRC in many ways is the product of Khyentse Rinpoche’s vision. It [...]
TBRC is pleased to announce the upcoming release of its new website on May 3, 2010. The new release is intended to provide (1) multi-language capability [localization] and an (2) improved user experience.
The TBRC Library provides access to the complete range of Tibetan literature using a variety of current knowledge management solutions. This release is the [...]
By David Rawson
A color plate of a lonely and austere st?pa on a bleak and stony plain greets the reader of the cycle of works of Ar Byang chub ye shes (11th cent.) (Ar byang chub ye shes kyi gsung chos skor), a publication of Paltsegs’ [Beijing, 2007]. Drawn to the caption below, the remains [...]
The scions of the 19th century terton or “treasure revealer” (gter ston) Bdud ‘joms gling pa (1835-1904) had a significant impact on the religious history of Mgo log and environs. The eldest, ‘Jigs med bstan pa’i nyi ma (1865-1926), became a scholar of great acclaim and served as the third in a line of Rdo [...]