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 [...]
By Paldor and Michael Sheehy
Though the oral precepts of the Nyingma were introduced from the time of the imperial period, it was not until Smin gling Gter chen Rig ‘dzin ‘gyur med rdo rje (1646-1714) and his younger brother Smin gling Lo chen D+harma shrI (1654-1718) wrote a series of commentaries on these teachings that [...]
It has been to brought to the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center’s attention by Jim Casilio of El Cerrito, California, that there exists a wonderful website of old classic photographs of Tibet. This site is called The Tibet Album, British photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950. The website has images from two important British collections one at [...]
By Michael Sheehy
Are there Geluk gzhan stong pas? This is a question that I’ve been asking for some time. Fortunately, a set of rare texts that were recently recovered may shed some light on this. Made available in late 2007, there are four published books by two authors of the Geluk tradition that deserve particular [...]
A new series of publications edited by the dpal brtsegs bod yig dpe rnying zhib ‘jug khang has recently appeared. This series is published by the Tibetan People’s Publishing House (bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang) in Lhasa.
Two other series brought out by Paltseg (dpal brtsegs) have previously appeared. The first series is the [...]