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August 2026: Season 3 of the Double Dorje podcast has begun. The posting schedule is still uncertain. Tips. Travellers’ tales. Perspective. Gossip. Experience. Stories. Wonder. Putting a bit of flesh on the bones of Vajrayana (Tibetan style) Buddhist practice in today’s society. Are you curious about Tibetan Buddhism? But how, and where, and when, and all that? Is the water safe? Or have you taken the plunge, but want to plug into it better? Come - let’s enjoy a bowl of dharma momos in the Double Dorje. Chilli with yours? Special emphasis on Nyingma, Kagyu and on non-monastic practice. You can find it on YouTube as well as the links below.
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When Buddhist teachers give teachings to westerners, live interpreting into the main language of the locale is often crucial. It can be done well. But sometimes it is done badly. Here are some of the issues. #interpreting #buddhism #tibetan
After a masterpiece of a life, Lama Lodro finally left us at the age of 100. #Lama #Lodro #eulogy #Tibetan #Buddhism #Edgbaston
There have been a depressing number of scandals in major Tibetan Buddhist organizations, particularly (though not only) in the West. It clearly has systemic roots - can the disease be identified? PS. How unprofessional! I uploaded the sound file without the delightful music. This is now the correct one.
The podcast will have to take a back seat for some months as I work on a project aimed at publishing biographies of a few of the nuns, and the sometimes heroic journeys they undertook to arrive at the caves above Tsopema (Rewalsar) to live and practise. A Tsopema Nuns blog gives a few details. It should help to find missing pieces in the jigsaw of names and places.
"To get enlightened" is such a watery explanation. Mindfulness largely misses the point. This was a retreat about a specific deity. Whatever that is! #Tibetan #Buddhism #Vajrayana #Retreat
Really intended as a brief video on YouTube. Is the Vajrayana "just" a clever technique within conventional Mahayana, or is it really something different.
Goodbye to Series 2 - and what of the future?
You've been looking at Tibetan Buddhism? You want to start? But you still don't know how? This might help.
Like it or not, magic is interwoven with Tibetan Buddhism. Is it symbolic? Or is it real?
Devotion (mögü) - another Tibetan word that doesn't quite correspond to its English usage.
How do empowerments actually work?
Should we read our texts in Tibetan? In English? Using phonetics? Does it make any sense to read phonetics without understanding the Tibetan? Questions, questions...
Confession is a big thing in Buddhist practice. But there is no priest to forgive your sins on God's behalf. It is more nuanced than that.
Shop like a Buddhist! Majnu Ka Tilla is the wellspring of Buddhist art for the Tibetan world.
Horror, violence and disgusting soup in Tibetan-style Buddhism. Why don't they get as much attention as sex? Why is it obvious that these things are not for performance "as written", but some people assume that the sexual aspects are? Something to think about! #Buddhism #Tibet #Vajrayana #Horror
If you do Vajrayana, you will say these syllables again and again. And again. What do they look like? What do they mean? Why does it matter?
Dos, don'ts, and who cares (some do) about wearing the red-and-white striped "Ngagpa shawl".
A crucial text for the mahamudra tradition of, in particular, the Kagyu traditions descended from Marpa the Translator
Season 2 is coming soon
Final episode of Season One! Groping towards the dharma in the midlands of England in the 1960s. Bookworm paradise: Birmingham Central Library as it was then: Words or phrases you might want to look up (in no particular order, and some best forgotten!): Man, Myth and Magic (magazine) Gurdjieff PD Ouspensky Paul Brunton Anagarika Govinda Edward Conze Alexandra David-Neel Evans-Wentz Christmas Humphreys Marco Pallis Waddel’s “Lamaism: Buddhism of Tibet” Lobsang Rampa H P Blavatsky #Buddhism #Vajrayana #DoubleDorje #Dzogchen #Nyingma
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