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Un entretien avec Khentrul Rinpoché concernant l’entraînement de l’esprit et les émotions: “Le Lodjong est une pratique qui explique de façon simple et très efficace comment transformer l’adversité. C’est la spécificité de cet enseignement. Je pense que l’entraînement de l’esprit est particulièrement important de nos jours, car nous voyons et affrontons tellement d’adversités, d’agitations internes et…

Buddhist monk Khentrul Lodro T’haye Rinpoche grew up in the mountains of Tibet in the midst of the cultural revolution, when China was destroying its monasteries and desecrating its shrines. These days, he lives in the hills of north Arkansas, freely teaching the tenets of Tibetan Buddhism at the Katog Choling Mountain Retreat Center, near…

Roundtable Tuesday with Risshan Leak explores Dia de los Muertos en Ogden feat. SUENATRON and Emma Almanza. The Power of Mind with author and Tibetan monk Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche.

Editors Landry, Ibby Caputo, and Paul Gustafson assemble in this superb manual the oral teachings of Tibetan monk T’hayé on lojong (“mind training”) practices in Buddhism. T’hayé expounds on the Buddhist text The Seven Key Points of Mind Training and distills its wisdom on “taming the mind” and “refining away mental afflictions until we aren’t ruled by our…

What kind of person decides to settle in the windswept terrain of the Ozark Plateau? Johnny Carrol Sain, who calls himself “The Philosophical Hillbilly,” writes about his Arkansas homeland — a place where water shapes rocks, John Deere cowboy boots meet multicolored prayer flags, and three distinct groups of people are living in relative harmony….

For years, Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche has been teaching Buddhism around the world– and on Orcas Island. “I love visiting Orcas because of the clean and pure environment,” he said. “With thewater surrounding it and all of the natural vegetation and wildlife, as well as the weather,it is a very special place.”

There once was a log barn on property deep in Newton County. For close to a century, it stood its rocky ground in the mountains near Parthenon, slumping and rusting over the years, like so many old Ozark structures. But this particular barn, close to the Little Buffalo River, is coming back to life. Here,…