Shambhala Blog

Chögyam Trungpa took his first photograph as a teenager in Tibet. He photographed his root teacher, Jamgon Kongtrul, on the roof of a monastery. It is a wonderful black-and-white portrait...

Pema Chödrön on Chögyam Trungpa’s view of monasticism in the West:
In the early 1980s, Trungpa Rinpoche started to talk to me about what he would like a Western monastery to...

In the wilds of the Deer Park in Sarnath
There are the monasteries and shrines, relics of Buddhism.
A stray dog finds a wounded deer lying in a shed
And licks it in...

With greater clarity, pain is experienced more harshly, more precisely and directly. According to the abhidharma, the Buddhist teachings on psychology and philosophy, the unwise feel pain as the stroke...

Unless we have an understanding and acceptance of pain, we will have no way to transcend that pain. Throughout our lives we are struggling. We struggle because, in our being...