Having returned last winter from a mostly silent and unplugged three-month personal retreat at a local Vipassana center, I have my own personal answer as to the benefits and limitations of the “walking” mode from…
For any devotee of Guru Rinpoche, arriving in Melamchi-gyang is a kind of homecoming. Whether one feels an affinity with the physical landscape or not, the energy infused in this place by the presence and…
How I Met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu & An Artist in the Dzogchen Community Feb 6, 2015 Mariano Gil was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November…
Roberto Cacciapaglia - We need a form of music that goes below the surface of sound
The All-Penetrating Sound Tantra is the considered to be the source of all the 17 Tantras representing the teachings of the Upadesha series of Dzogchen. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu alone has dedicated several years of effort…
The studies of Dzogchen and Tai Chi are vast and deep like an ocean and it is not possible to synthesize them in a few words, but what I have found to be essential in…
Every morning I would go to Piazza Santa Maria for my ritual cappuccino at the Galeassi cafe. But one day I didn’t. That morning, something “compelled” me to turn right, in the direction of Piazza…
Peter Silverman, a long time student and friend of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, had the great fortune to rediscover a lost Leonardo da Vinci drawing in 2007 in New York City...
On January 16, 2015 the twelve brave souls on the maiden trip organized by the Shang Shung Institute UK, met up at Yangon international airport to experience Burma in all its glory
An international team of experts has been painting a set of beautifully decorated tagdrol mandalas for the newly built cinerary at Merigar West