As natural disasters, like earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as mental illness, related with suicide and madness, have both been unceasingly on the rise in recent years, people increasingly sense how fragile life is and more people are beginning to focus on the issues of life and death, something we all must face sooner or later. To most people, death is a very heavy subject as it brings to mind huge fear and catastrophe. There is no point in trying to escape it, either. But understanding the truth of death can help us not only eliminate the fear toward death but also possibly find the catalyst to ultimately free us from it.

~ Khenpo's blog published on 07 May 2014

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.

We wish to extend our gratitude to all mothers and always keep in mind their great kindness.

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.

Please don’t eat them!

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