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Our Voices Matter
Imagining Peace Conference with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche Malcolm X College, Chicago by Gretchen Neve, Shambhala Times Reporter Saturday’s Youth Congress on Peace at Malcolm X City College opened with...
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Peace Practices
Imagining Peace Conference Malcolm X College, Chicago by Debra Hiers, Shambhala Times Reporter How incredibly fortunate we are to have come together this weekend to engage in an honest conversation...
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Mayor Emanuel Welcomes the Sakyong to Chicago
reported by Joshua Silberstein, Chief of Staff for Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche In an historic meeting, the Sakyong was welcomed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the City Hall of Chicago on the eve of the convening...
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Cancelling our Vaishaka Day Celebration
Our new Practice and Education Director, Michael McCormick, writes: Vaishakha Day is the day that Buddhists commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of the Buddha. It is undeniably...
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Sakyong Meets the Interrupters
The Sakyong shaking hands with Tio Hardiman the Director for CeaseFire Illinoisreported by Joshua Silberstein, Chief of Staff for Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche photos by Breton Hoagland At the University of...
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Investigating Original Peace
photo by Sarah LiptonShambhala Times Updates from the Inside Out Editor’s Column by Sarah Lipton Shambhala Times Editor-in-Chief Is it possible to feel deeply into our humanity in the midst of our...
View ArticleThe Shambhala Monastic Order
On behalf of the Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, the Office of the Kalapa Court wishes to announce the formation of the Shambhala Monastic Order. This is the fruition of years of work by the Sakyong...
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Message 4 Boston
Boston, Two Weeks Later by Elsa Sze, Boston When two bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, I was at home, merely a few miles away. Helplessly, I witnessed the horror unfold from...
View ArticleSunday afternoons talking about Enlightened Society
It all comes down to arranging radishes, really. There have now been five gatherings in our center parlor, five unstructured Sunday afternoons, discussing Enlightened Society. As the open invitation...
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The Wisdom of Illness
guest article by Gregory Lubkin, Los Angeles, CA When we feel basically healthy, many of us tend to take it for granted and experience the arrogance of well-being, as though we will always be healthy...
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Discovering Sound
Mbongui spectacleCOLUMN: In Everyday Life In this Shambhala Times exclusive interview, we take an in-depth look at the life and art of Herb Elsky, resident of Mas Marvent, France. More of Mr. Elsky’s...
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Stories of Who We Are
Shambhala Dharma Teachings by Acharya Susan Chapman photos by Laura Chenoweth Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche opens his book, Ruling Your World, with the story about a case of mistaken identity. A pauper who...
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Book Release: The Shambhala Principle
Discovering Humanity’s Hidden Treasure new book by Sakyong Mipham released to the public today, May 7, 2013 review by Dixie Griffin Good In Chicago for the Imagining Peace conference in April 2013,...
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Basic Goodness Day
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, the spiritual leader of the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, has designated May 7, 2013 - the day of the release of his new book, The Shambhala Principle - as Basic Goodness Day, an...
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Profound Treasury Tour Nears Completion in Halifax
Halifax, photo by Sarah Liptonby Carolyn Gimian It is early May. It is sunny Halifax, but a little cold and we are wishing for warm spring days. The Profound Treasury Tour rolls into town from Boston....
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Life in Orissa
the Sakyong Wangmo, photo by Diana ChurchThe Sakyong Wangmo reflects on life in Orissa and improving the quality of life in its settlement camps by Sarah Sutherland Fifty years ago this May, Tibetan...
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Shambhala Principle Book Signing
Sakyong Mipham signs a copy of The Shambhala Principlearticle and photos by Terry Rudderham Sakyong Mipham signed hundreds of copies of his new book, The Shambhala Principle; Discovering Humanity’s...
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Mahamudra, Mexico, and Our Lineage
This spring, five members of the DC Shambhala Center made their way to Casa Werma in Patzcuaro, Mexico to participate in a 10 day Mahamudra retreat with Acharya Richard John. It was an absolutely real...
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Heartbeat of Basic Goodness
San Francisco, photo by Sarah Liptonby Leslie Gossett Shambhala Times Reporter The anticipation is so thick you could slice it with the proverbial knife. I haven’t even seen all the hustle and bustle...
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Gathering Opens in California
“Creating Enlightened Society” gathering opens at Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California report and video by President Richard Reoch “We’re in such a high, auspicious moment on earth,” said Jyoti,...
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