Live Webcast: 3rd Annual Drukpa Council

Tenzin Namgyel (The Buddhist Channel, Aug 23, 2011)

Leh, Ladakh (India) - Devotees and pilgrims are currently now in Leh, the capital of the Indian state of Ladakh, to attend the third annual Drukpa council (ADC), that begins from August 22. The council is being presided over by His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche, the spiritual head of the Drukpa lineage. More

• Live Webcast link: drukpa.tv/index.php/live-webcast

Himalaya village caught between culture and nature

Navin Singh Khadka, BBC News, 24 August 2011

Humla, Nepal - An ethnic community in Nepal's remotest Himalayan district, bordering Tibet, says it has been struggling to save its unique Buddhist culture from being uprooted by floods from a glacial lake. More



Don’t worry, be happy

MAJORIE CHIEW, The Star, August 21, 2011

A spiritual leader expounds on his ideas for finding true contentment in life.

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia - HAPPINESS has to come from within us. When a jolly monk says this, people tend to listen. More

"Jesus in India" (video documentary)

The Buddhist connection in Jesus's career begins at minute 09:30

• Historian Holger Kersten has laid out the strongest case so far, but none of this is news to religious scholars who have known for centuries.
  

BBC: Jesus was a Buddhist monk (video)

BBC documentary: "Did Jesus Die?"

(NJ) "Did Jesus Die" is a BBC documentary that examines the question the life of a man who has become the most famous figure in history. It looks at ideas around the question until minute 0:25. The examination of ideas takes a logical and grounded turn with surprising conclusions that demonstrate: The three wise men were Buddhist monks who found Jesus (considered a tulku or incarnation of a bodhisattva aiming to become the Messiah/Maitreya or buddha to come). They came back for him around puberty. After being trained in a Buddhist monastery (likely to be Hemis Gompa in Ladakh, India, near Tibet). He spread Buddhist philosophy, survived crucifixion (with the help of apostles and bribed Roman soldiers particularly the one who lanced him and prevented him from drowning in his own bodily fluids), and escaped Israel to the ancient Jewish enclave of Kashmir, Afghanistan where he died and was entombed as a respected sage (St. Issa) at the age of 80 (the same age the Buddha passed into final nirvana).