it includes Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. also uses images to teach about life after death. The Wheel of Existence shows the different realms Buddhists can be reborn into. Belief in life after death ...

Spinning the wheel brings the same benefits as reading the respective texts and each cycle counts as one repetition of the prayer. As many as forty thousand prayers can be tightly rolled up in the ...

writings by historical and contemporary authors on the Buddhist path, and films that provide a visual window into Tibetan life worlds. Throughout the semester, we pay special attention to different ...

Chöje Akong Rinpoche, who died after a violent attack aged 73, was co-founder of the biggest and first Tibetan Buddhist monastery ... Akong was not a monk in later life, and he married and ...