September/November 2003FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Introducing the new-look Mandala! The more things change, the more they stay the same.
MEDITATION
His Holiness Sakya Trizin on how to get the best out of our meditation practice.
Ven. René Feusi on exchanging the self with others.
TIBETAN BUDDHIST EDUCATION
Georges Dreyfus and Massimo Corona debate the question of debate.
ART IN THE MAKING
Jim Westbrook’s living likeness of Lama Thubten Yeshe
Why Holy Objects are precious and wish-fulfilling.
Replicas of Denise and Peter Griffin’s statue of Lama Yeshe as a buddha.
RETREAT
Petra McWilliams sees the light in a three-year retreat.
BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY
Buddhism is psychology, says Ven. Tenzin Chönyi.
INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
Bikshuni Thubten Chodron reports on a Catholic-Buddhist nuns’ conference.
CONVERSATION WITH A NUN
Ven. Robina Courtin opens the prison door.
TEACHINGS
Karma and reincarnation
Lama Zopa Rinpoche answers questions in ‘Ask a Lama’.
BODHICITTA
His Holiness the Dalai Lama reflects on the highest perfection of altruism in life’s practice.
EMPTINESS
An excerpt from Lama Thubten Yeshe’s book Becoming the Compassion Buddha.
REGULAR COLUMNS
Family Life
The challenge: kids and their ‘stuff’ with Allys Andrews.
Letter from Bodhgaya
Kabir Saxena finds the cure for feeling knocked flat.
Beginnings
Revisiting the seventies.
NEWS ROUNDUP
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“ Pamily Peeling”
MEDIA REVIEWS
RESOURCE DIRECTORY