The International Society for Krishna Consciousness Kolkata has apprised the Centre of the ongoing attacks on their monks and other members of the Hindu Vaishnavite community in Bangladesh. Chinmoy Krishna Das, a Hindu leader associated with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, who faces several charges, is escorted by the police at the Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Chattogram, Bangladesh. …
A new day breaks to the rhythmic shuffling of bare feet upon the ground. Like an apparition from centuries past, a procession of several hundred shaven-headed monks emerges through the dawn mist, snaking its way through the sleepy narrow streets. Then, as silently as they appeared, the monks disappear back inside their temple walls, their saffron robes billowing softly behind …
Seated on a carpet on the floor of the Buddhist monastery in Itanagar, Phuntsok Wangchuk cuts a lonely figure on this particular Friday morning. At an elevation of above 4,000 metres in Tawang district lies the Bhagajang Wetland Complex that has around 20 high-altitude lakes ranging from 0.01 sq km to about 0.35 sq km. At an elevation of above …
When 90-year-old Chokpa Tenzin died in her Bengaluru home in September, her family members called an ambulance and the crematorium. As Tibetans, the family had heard about the post-death meditative state of thukdam—when highly-realised Tibetan monks die in a consciously controlled manner through meditation—but hadn’t witnessed the phenomenon. In July this year, Geshe Jampa Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar in …
