Cover: Choden Rinpoche spent nineteen years in a room in occupied Lhasa, secretly meditating. Photograph: Eytan Salinger

July — August

News

• International News
  • Ribur Rinpoche in Boston
  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Tokyo and Copenhagen, with Pavarotti and Friends
  • Sakya Trizin in New York
  • Maitreya Project
  • Australian Stupa
  • World Festival of Music
  • New Tibetan translators
• News from FPMT centers & activities around the world

Features

• Science & Buddhism — Scientists and Buddhists explore mind and life
• Auspicious Events
  • Yangsi Rinpoche leads intensive teaching retreat
  • Twenty-nine new monks and nuns
  • The Seventeenth Karmapa in India
• A Hidden Meditator: The Life of Choden Rinpoche
  Cuộc đời của Choden Rinpoche, một thiền giả ẩn dật (Vietnamese)
  Một số bài pháp ngắn (Vietnamese translation by Lozang Ngodrub)

Columns

• Monks and Nuns in FPMT — Ven Dechen Shih
• A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama — Geshe Konchog Khyab
• Vajra Brothers and Sisters Have a Say — Fred Cheong serves in the army in Singapore
• Other Lamas — Jhado Rinpoche, abbot of Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala
• The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw
• Advice from the Virtuous Friend — Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to get your practices done while working at your Dharma center
• The Wisdom of Lama Yeshe — Continuing on the teacings on The Inseparability of the Guru and Chenrezig
• Lama Ösel’s News by Lama Tenzin Ösel

And So Forth

• Communication
• Getting the Essence
• Obituaries
• New Centers
• Books
• People
• FPMT Resources