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  • Worldwide celebration of Lord Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana
  • Message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Saka Dawa
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Features

• Sangha
  • Buddhist monks and nuns: a community of white crows
  • Ordination, who me?
  • With vows you don’t do the ordinary
  • Western monks and nuns: taking care of our own reality. The beginning of the International Mayayana Institute by Lama Thubten Yeshe
  • IMI Communities: Nalanda is Reborn
  • Chenrezig Nuns: Harmoniously Growing
  • Taiwanese Sangha
  • A Monastery to Last until Maitreya Comes
  • Italian Monks and Nuns in ‘Precarious Equilibrium’
  • Tibetan Geshe Offers Money to Help Western Sangha
• Meditation – A longing to change

Columns

• A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama – Geshe Tashi Tsering with his attendant Ven Tenzin Tshering
• Home Truths by Adéle Hulse
• Advice from the Virtuous Friend – Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses ‘The Benefits of Being Monks and Nuns’
• The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw
• Lama Ösel’s News by Lama Tenzin Ösel

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