Tag: tribute
Her Eminence Jetsun Khandro Rinpocheon the passing of Peter Lieberson
I was deeply saddened by the passing of Peter Lieberson, who was both a good friend and a wonderful teacher and student of the Buddhadharma. Lopön Peter, as he was known...
Shibata Sensei Cremation Ceremony
https://youtu.be/1FTRNGxq0rM
Video by Greg Smith
The song that you are hearing here is Sensei singing about a flock of geese, "Gun"...one or two may fly away from the V - arrowhead shaped flock...
Akong Tulku Rinpoche (1939 – 2013)
By Grant MacLean
On Tuesday we heard the very sad news that Akong Rinpoche, along with a family member and a monk, were killed in Chengdu, in southwest China. It has been...
Tribute to Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche
It is with great sadness that Vajrayana practitioners around the world receive the news that Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche passed away on Friday 30 March at 3:30 am at his monastery in...
Tributes to Arnie Nordman
Arnie became a Buddhist in 1988 while living in Wilmette. He moved to Boulder to pursue the Buddhist path in 1997. From David Roadhouse: "I am privileged to have introduced Arnie...
A Part of the Main: Remembering Paul Warwick
To begin with, there was simply his size, strength and presence. Gifted with a fine body and a fine mind, as a friend once said of him, Paul Warwick was a...
Tribute to Michal Friedman
Michal Lura Friedman died on Nov. 25 due to complications after undergoing a caesarean section and giving birth to healthy twins, Jackson James and Reverie Vivian. In addition to her two...
Tribute to Barry Crofton
Barry Crofton passed away on September 8 at 12:30pm at the Toronto General Hospital. His wife Gail and sister Kerry were at his bedside. His brother Cameron flew in from Victoria...
Tribute to Michael Roudette
EULOGY FOR MICHAEL ROUDETTE
by Lopön Helen Berliner for the Lotus Garden Office of Practice & Study
Last night, when I should have been writing a eulogy for our dear vajra brother, Michael...
Tribute to Amy Bajakian
Amy Bajakian was a long time student of the Vidyadhara, Trungpa Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, and Shibata Sensei. She attended the 1986 seminary and was a dedicated...
Tribute to Polly Wellenbach
Polly Monner Wellenbach died early Tuesday, August 14, at her home in Halifax. Polly was a beloved student and friend of Trungpa Rinpoche, whom she met in 1970. She was the...
Tribute to Rick Kemp
Pygmy Warrior Rick Kemp
Purified by the rain of Agent Orange on the battlefields of Vietnam
Liberated by the illusory space of marijuana and LSD in San Francisco
Establishing the land RMDC as one...
Tribute to Larry Loomis
To the ever-kind Larry Loomis. We met for coffee spontaneously on Spring Garden Road in 2012. Our family had recently made the decision to leave the Homeland so that I and...
Tribute to Christine Keyser
For my dharma sister Chris, may Milarepa lead you on your journey
From Milarepa's Departing Aspiration Prayer:
Those undertaking hardship for the dharma's sake
Build up merit far to great to tell
Those who inspire...
Remembering Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
Report from the Cremation Ceremony
More than 15,000 devotees gathered near Paro, Bhutan on March 3, 2012, to attend the last rites of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. The ceremony began at four in...
Tribute to Arbie Thalacker
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche remembers Arbie Thalacker
Reposted from Buddhadharma, The Practitioner's Quarterly Online.
I have known Arbie Thalacker for many years. He was a wonderful person and a devoted practitioner, full of wisdom...
Tribute to Mary Smith
Long time sangha member, Mary Smith, died peacefully in her home in Boulder, Colorado on October 11, 2011. She was 85. Mary had moved to Boulder from San Francisco in the...
Tribute to Fabrice Champion
Fabrice Champion, trapeze artist, poet, and well-loved member of Shambhala Europe, died in Peru on November 25, 2011. It is reported that he died during a shamanic healing ceremony.
Fabrice performed with...
Parinirvana of Kyabje Trulshik Chokyi Lodro Rinpoche
Trulshik Rinpoche, one of the most venerated and revered masters in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, passed away on September 2, 2011 at the age of 88, at his monastery at Sitapaila...
Tribute to Peter Lieberson
Peter Lieberson passed away yesterday, April 22, 2011 in Israel, at the age of sixty-four. Peter was a close student of Trungpa Rinpoche, an early director of Shambhala Training, a prominent...
Recollecting Khandro Tsering on Hearing of her Parinirvana
By Clarke Warren
I have just received news of the parinirvana of Khandro Tsering. Khandro Tsering was the wife/spiritual consort of the great Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Rinpoche, the rebirth of Jamyang...
Tribute to Chime Heller
Dearest Noble Sangha,
It is with great sadness that I am writing to let you all know our Dharma sister and friend, Chime Heller, passed away yesterday evening, Thursday May 5th, at...
Tribute to Eamon Killoran
By Bill Scheffel
The photograph above shows Eamon Killoran eleven months ago. A few weeks after this picture was taken, Eamon learned he had cancer. In less than a year he was...
Tribute to Eamon Killoran
Eamon Killoran died on Monday, April 18, 2011. Eamon was a long-time and devoted student of Trungpa Rinpoche, and dedicated Shambhala Training director. He was also a merchant seaman for most...
Tribute to Bill Gordon
William A. Gordon, born September 30, 1921, passed away early on the morning of April 16, 2011. He was born in Chicago, migrated to New Orleans as a young man, fought...
Tribute to Jose Arguelles
Dear Sangha,
As some of you may already know, Jose Arguelles died on Tuesday, March 22nd. He died peacefully after a short illness. He was with his wife, Stephanie, at their home...
Tribute to Natalie Dawson
From an old friend
I first met Natalie in 1972, when we were both members of a group that was preparing to settle on kibbutz. She didn't stay long in Israel, and...
E. Gene Smith Memorial from Khyentse Rinpoche
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on Gene Smith
Smith did most of his seminal work of collecting, classifying and disseminating Tibetan books while serving as field director in India and later, Malaysia and Egypt...
Tribute to David Cook
David Cook passed away on January 13, 2011 in Boulder, Colorado from COPD (emphysema). He was admitted into hospice the previous day. David was a long-time member of the Shambhala community...
Tribute to E. Gene Smith
Excerpted From the Widsom Publications site:
For three decades, Gene Smith ran the Library of Congress's Tibetan Text Publication Project--an effort to salvage and reprint Tibetan literature. Gene wrote prefaces to these...
Tribute to Ani Tsultrim Palmo
Ani T. Palmo.
Laughter.
Old-world Laughter.
Fresh new-world laughter.
Ani T. Palmo.
Simplicity.
Old-world simplicity.
From the old country.
Always new.
Prajna.
Vipashyana.
Wordless.
Self-secret.
"Dear, will you please pass the sugar"
Love,
Mark
(Eckler)
Ani Palmo, Dharma Mom
November 2, 2010
Thank you, all of her friends and dharma...
Tribute to Beverley Webster
Opening remarks from the Sukhavati in Halifax. Here are Larry Mermelstein's opening remarks from last week's sukhavati ceremony in Halifax:
This is, as we know, very very big. This is monumental and...
Tribute to Beverley Webster from Myron Syms
by Myron Syms
When Judy and I moved to Cape Breton in 1994, Beverley generously invited us to stay at her house while we searched for our new home. We arrived auspiciously...
Tribute to Peter Orlovsky
Peter Orlovsky was born in New York City in 1933 to a family of Russian immigrants. He dropped out of high school in his senior year to help support his financially...
Tribute to Ann Spruyt, 1930 – 2009
Ann Spruyt
I did not know Ann Spruyt. I don't know much. But I do know this. If I were a member of the current sangha, I would be watching, all the...
Wendy Friedman on the Legacy of Trungpa Rinpoche
How do we get perspective on the life and contribution of the Vidyadhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche? It doesn't seem enough to say that Trungpa Rinpoche was a pioneer. That he was...
A Tribute to Jonathan Eric
The first thing that has to be said about Jonathan is that he was enormously generous. He gave money, time and energy and, amazing as it may seem, he apparently gave...