Blessing Rainy Day, A Mistaken Festival

Due to prayer made in the times of yore by gods and goddesses, the South Pole star of crystal water (Karma Rekhey) faces the cosmic Buddha Vairocana at Mount Meru for period of a week. In so doing, the nectar of auspicious blessing drizzles from the blue to the realms of beings to rinse out the sin of wrongdoings. This event happens once every twelve month but...

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Perfection of Generosity

The advise on perfection of generosity are published below not because that I’ve mastered all the words of Buddha, but it’s only the flat form I used to wind back those teaching on six virtues of life from booklet called ‘Thirty Seven Bodhisattva Practice’  taught by Dasho Namgay Wangchuk (Ex Member of Parliament, Punakha) during high school times. This work...

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Troy

Burning of Troy, Oil painting by Johann At the peak of present I stand to watch the past, where Paris cries to have heard the roar of hell and the jaws of death approaching to kiss his last breath. His cry ne’er reached to the ears of heaven as he was the torch to set his city in flames which prolonged for decades with no tail in the battle of Troy, and troubling...

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Open letter on About last Rites of H.E Shamarpa

Late Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche Dear Nepal, This is to send words that we the aficionados of Karma Kagyu are wounded when your government decided not to permit the entry of sacred body of H.E Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche for his last rites. Though acres of land in hundreds of Karma Kagyu monasteries are on hand for the cremation of our late master, we are still trying to...

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Amla; Off Farm Business in Eastern Bhutan

Usually in mid November, farmers fully clad in eye catching outfits get together in Drametse to witness annual festival. The event marks the start of dry season where men need not have to chase monkeys in the sunlight or wild hogs in the moonlight as their farmlands are bare without corns or paddies.  With no worries of their farm animals being beaten by landlords...

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