On Saturday June 30th - fifteen apprentices and friends of the Aro Tradition will be undertaking the Green Man Challenge as a sponsored walk to raise funds for the Drala Jong Appeal. The Green Man Challenge follows the 45 mile course of the Community Forest Path around the city of Bristol. We will be undertaking the challenge as [...]
Now okay, 101 part 2 is probably 103 (think about it) but I hope you'll forgive my mathematical meshuggenations after our little discussion about 101. Let us proceed. Raising money is much like eating an elephant - a subject with which Tantrikas should be intimately familiar. Having first established that you don't have to work as hard [...]
This is a post that has been floating around for a few months, whilst I've been waiting for a good time to pop it up. Now the title has got the better of me, and I can't keep it back any longer. Enjoy! Recently had a remarkable day at the ARHC/SOAS conference on 'Unity & Diversity: [...]
Well, you lucky people, here is an opportunity for you to indulge your own artistic interests, your desire to acquire, AND your charitable spirit. Some of the calligraphies created by Ngak'chang Rinpoche for the talk in Bristol have found their way into our tender care, and we display them here for your delight and delectation, [...]
Sky McCain will be signing his book Planet as Self, an Earthen Spirituality in Aro Ling at 2pm on Saturday 24th March. In his book, Sky McCain challenges us to stop and and think about possible alternatives in the way we look at the planet and to question our suppositions as to what it means to be [...]
Now, before I start I have got to confess that I have no idea of the background to why people append the figure '101' to a subject line - but it is clearly a popular passtime. The main aim of calling something 101 seems to be to create the impression that the writer is about to list [...]
. . . satisfaction. Well, not when trying to engage in fundraising anyway. Like a home sick polynesian, I'm always left longing for Somoa (some-moa donations, that is. . . and yes I will keep making puns like that until we reach our target). Still, with 8 of the 50 calligraphies sold at the special display-rate on [...]
With the work of Ngak'chang Rinpoche, the calligraphy is not simply a brush-and-ink drawing. Each piece carries seals and signatures, in unique combinations. The most easily recognisable perhaps is the seal of scorpion is found in Tibetan calligraphy on the works of both Trungpa Rinpoche (see here) and some of the work of Ngak'chang Rinpoche. Robert [...]
As next Friday's charity calligraphy sale at Aro Ling approaches, our thoughts are turning to focus fully on this modern art form (and of course to the sale itself). Written words are sacred in Tibet because they carry the knowledge of liberation. The scripts Ngak'chang Rinpoche uses are u'med and u-chen, and originate in part from [...]
As there are only 47 shopping days until Christmas - if you are considering buying presents ~ or know someone who might be ~ you might like to look at Ræchel's Ridiculously Risible Rabbits All profits from the sales of Ræchel's Ridiculously Risible rabbits calendars and artwork will go towards the Drala Jong Retreat centre appeal. These [...]
