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    It Saved My Life. It Woke Me Up

    Saturday, May 18, 2013

    Iñaki Sánchez, from Madrid writes: “Before finding The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, my state of mind could be described as follows: I was carried along by life, finding some degree of ‘fulfilment’ or entertainment in activities such as working, being with my family, watching football, playing sports and drinking beer. As for my [...]

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  • Remembering Khandro Tsering Chödrön

    Saturday, May 4, 2013

    It is now two years since Khandro Tsering Chödrön, the great dakini [female embodiment of enlightened energy] and accomplished practitioner, passed away. The embodiment of utter simplicity and unflagging faith and devotion, she was an inspiration to all who met her whether in the East or in the West, where she spent the last years [...]

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  • The Essence of the Buddha’s Teaching

    Tuesday, April 30, 2013

    During his recent teaching tour in Australia, Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, gave an inspired series of public talks in Sydney and Melbourne. In this first extract from a talk in Sydney, Rinpoche shares a teaching on the importance of discovering inner peace and contentment––what the Buddha called “the [...]

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    Robert Thurman: Sogyal Rinpoche and The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying

    Thursday, April 18, 2013

    In an Interview, Robert Thurman Shares his thoughts on the Impact of Sogyal Rinpoche’s The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: “Dealing with the terrible difficulties of dying or having a relative or loved one die is a really hard thing. And in our culture we don’t do it well. But we’re doing it better [...]

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    A Treasure in My Hands

    Tuesday, March 26, 2013

    Cristina Iglesias from Madrid writes: “In August 2008, my partner and father of my daughter, whose name is Paris, was diagnosed with third stage pancreatic cancer. They didn’t give us any hope, but hope is the last thing there is to lose, and so we started a series of natural treatments and Paris came home [...]

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Podcast v2
Aug
22

Podcast: Part 3 of “Living and Dying Today” Now Available!

This episode of The Tibetan Blog of Living and Dying Podcast features  Part Three of the talk called Living and Dying Today.

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Aug
20

No truer words to live by

Felicia Chan from Manchester, in the United Kingdom, writes: “Happy 20th anniversary! I seem to be taking just as long to get through the book and am only about halfway through several years after picking it up. Taking in a book at this pace is very unusual for me, but for some reason, I have [...]

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Aug
17

Letter from Death Row

In the early 90s, not long after The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying was published, a young man called Greg from the United States, wrote to Rinpoche from his prison cell, where he was preparing to be executed. He wrote: “I am not writing this for any benefit to myself, other than the possibility [...]

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Aug
15

Coming Home to Our Fundamental Goodness

“The fundamental message of the Buddha is that, regardless who we are, we all have Buddha nature,  the potential of enlightenment. In fact our true nature is the Buddha. That means our true nature is goodness.”

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Aug
12

Giving My Life Meaning

Damien Moyeuvre, from France, kindly agreed to share this letter he wrote to Rinpoche in July during a retreat at Lerab Ling in the south of France: “Dear Rinpoche, Before meeting you, my life was rather chaotic. My dad was murdered when I was ten years old. As my mum was an alcoholic, it was [...]

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