KHENPO'S BLOG AUTHOR: KHENPO TSULTRIM LODRO

Death is an important issue for everyone since it is the reality that has to face but is reluctant to do so. To ordinary people, death represents a dark unknown filled with despair, mystery, pain and sorrow.

~ Khenpo's blog published on 20 May 2014

She is the chief editor of the Oxford Chinese Dictionary who gave me some valuable advice on editing a dictionary.

I stayed at the Wolfson College of the University of Oxford for a week. During that time, I gave two lectures. The topic of the second lecture was “How Mind Affects the Material World.” I feel deeply that in many ways Western technology can absolutely be a help in learning Buddhadharma.

~ Khenpo's blog published on 07 June 2014

Life and death are important to everyone because they are our destiny. No one can deny or run away from the cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death, or the agony and pain that are an integral part of real life. We can only muster the courage to face all these. But how should we face death? Most people are completely at a loss for an answer to this. However, if the whole dying process can be transformed into a very happy and meaningful journey of liberation, then there is no need to see death as an enemy and feel anxious and frightened about its coming.

~ Khenpo's blog published on 26 May 2014

Still jet lagged! But, wanting to spend Children’s Day with students at the primary school, I spent almost the whole day on the road and finally got there.

Death is not the end of life. After death comes rebirth. We have experienced death countless times, but we cannot recall any of them today; they have all been completely forgotten! Being able to face up to the matter of life and death is critically important for those who are seeking liberation—we must know how to face not only death but also rebirth.

~ Khenpo's blog published on 16 June 2014

My topic at the seminar held by the School of Culture and Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford was “The Relationship between Tibetan Medicine and Tibetan Buddhism.”

~ Khenpo's blog published on 31 May 2014

At the University of Cambridge, I saw a copy of the Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra in old Tibetan and a copy of the Lotus Sutra in classical Chinese. My contact there arranged for me to give a short speech during which I told the audience that if the subjects of these two sutras, wisdom and compassion, could be joined in a perfect union, it would solve all of today’s mental problems.

~ Khenpo's blog published on 05 June 2014

It takes more than two hours by car to go from Oxford to Cambridge. The English countryside is really very pretty!