A Tribute to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

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To mark the 50th anniversary of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö's parinirvana, we have quickly assembled this short compilation from our ever-growing archive of film and photographs.

Although little known in the West, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö was of the greatest importance for the spread of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings over the Western hemisphere. At that time in Tibet there was no other master that received the respect from followers of all traditions. Since he himself, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, had gathered, studied, practiced and taught all the different lineages of Tibetan Buddhism everyone claimed him as a great teacher of their very own tradition.

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Treasury of Wisdom is favoring Open Documents Standards

Since 2008, the Treasury of Wisdom has been exploring different document standards for use in Rigpa (like Open-Office format ODT, Word format DOC, RTF format). We have talked to many people and for now we are seeing ODT as the clear winner in the fight over which format we should use in an archive.

ODT is an open standard, i.e. there is a clearly published description of how files in this format need to look like it (as opposed to the Microsoft Word standard which is controlled by Microsoft).

If you wish to try out ODT, you can download a free copy of open-office unless you own a PowerPC mac, then you would need to use NeoOffice.

Both these programmes exist now in version 3 which is far superior to version 2. There has been some weird behavior in version 2 of open-office when converting text files, which seems to have been fixed in version 3.

Remembering the Masters

A team of dedicated Rigpa students has interviewed students of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö. The results of their work is now being published here.

http://www.rememberingthemasters.org/

Buddhism is modern

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In March 2009, Sogyal Rinpoche gave two days of teachings in Thimpu, Bhutan, which will be shown on Bhutanese Television. Here is a short extract of his teachings. Visit www.rigpa.org for more into.

SR Bhutan 2007 Part 3

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This is the 3rd part of the videos from Sogyal Rinpoche's teachings in Bhutan, March 2007. He talks about To tame this mind of ours.

SR Bhutan 2007 Part 2

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This is the 2nd part of the videos from Sogyal Rinpoche's teachings in Bhutan, March 2007. He teaches here on Commit not a single unwholesome action, Cultivate a wealth of virtue

SR Bhutan 2007 Part 1

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This is the first part of the videos from Sogyal Rinpoche's teachings in Bhutan, March 2007. He introduces his teachings here and talks about contentment.