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By Lewis Gwilt This month is one of celebration as people all over the world pay their respects to honour His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 90th birthday this Sunday. The Dalai Lama’s work has left an indelible mark on Buddhism and its place in the world today – …
There’s something about a building that remembers. The doors swell in winter, the stairs know where to creak. You walk down a corridor and feel the past brushing against your arm. This is how it feels at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, tucked inside a Victorian courthouse in South London—a place once …
This summer, Nālandā monastery is hosting a visit by His Eminence Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Delek, the 74th Abbot of Sera Je Monastery. As a part of his program, His Eminence will confer the initiation of the Most Secret Hayagriva—the titular deity of Sera Je which was also very close to …
The third week of our new course Discovering Buddhism course, which recently launched on May 5th, is now underway. Available both in-person and online, the classes are every Monday at 6:30–8:30 pm (UK time); we have welcomed over 210 new students to Jamyang to study the fundamentals of Buddhism, and …
On Letter to A Friend and Entering the Middle Way Image: Lama Zopa Rinpoche reading a text, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA, 1974. LYWA collection By Michael Lobsang Tenpa The Indo-Tibetan tradition of Buddhism is keen on reading—for those who are literate, of course, since there have always been throngs …
By Lewis Gwilt In diving into Buddhism and the ideal of the bodhisattva, it is impossible to avoid bodhichitta. But what is bodhichitta, why is it so integral to the bodhisattva path and how can we begin to develop it? Bodhichitta as the mind of enlightenment Bodhichitta is known as …
For Westerners coming to Buddhism for the first time, there is sometimes a bit of a terminological bump early along the way. “If Buddhists don’t believe in a soul,” some of us might remember asking, “then what is it that’s getting reborn and potentially liberated from samsara?” The general answer …
By Lewis Gwilt What are Samsara and Nirvana? Samsara encompasses the experience of suffering of all beings. It is defined by the sense of being a permanent and separate self. This denotes suffering because what is experienced as permanent and separate is only imagined. Nirvana, in contrast, is the extinction …
As Jamyang Buddhist Center gets ready for the new round of FPMT’s famous Discovering Buddhism program, Michael Lobsang Tenpa contemplates the origins and logic of the course. Stumbling into Discovering Buddhism was one of the educational highlights of my life—even against the backdrop of having had a chance to study …
How Buddhist practice shaped Marina Abramović’s performance art By Vicki McKenzie On the evening of 22 November 2023, amidst the media frenzy surrounding Marina Abramović’s solo exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, the world- acclaimed Performance Artist could be found at Jamyang Meditation Centre talking about her meeting with the Tibetan …
