Sky McCain is a long-time supporter of the Drala Jong project. Later this year his work Planet as Self - An Earthen Spirituality will be launched.Having had sight of a sneak preview of the text, herewith is a review of his work.- - -One definition of stupidity is 'Doing the same thing over and over [...]
Dear readers - thank you for your interest in Question Time with Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen. We now have a range of questions to put to them on the subjects of Retreat and Retreat Centres in general, and Drala Jong in particular.I'll be closing the books on questions by mid-July, and aim to have [...]
As part of trying to find ways for our donors and volunteers to participate fully in the life of the Drala Jong fundraising project, we'd like to invite your participation in a 'Question Time' session with our Spiritual Directors, the Lineage Holders of the Aro Tradition. We are currently formulating a list of questions to [...]
£436,061.Do you happen to have that sum lying around under a bed somewhere, and don't know what to do with it?Excellent - then please pass it our way, as at the end of 2010 our appeal fund has risen to £63,939 and the figure of £436,061 is exactly how much money we now require to [...]
Drala Jong An interview with Ngak’chang Rinpoche Question Did you have any sense of what would occur when you first went to India in 1971? Ngak’chang Rinpoche No – not at all, not in any obvious sense. I knew I’d study thangka painting because I had arranged that with my Tibetan pen friend Yeshé Khandro. [...]
Drala Jong is about appreciation.I thought you might appreciate this - as I did when it was passed to me.A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach for about forty-five minutes.During that time—since [...]
When we write to people about the Drala Jong appeal, we always say we are happy to receive support in whatever way, large or small, that folk are able to help us. We are delighted to announce that Harry Enfield has provided us with a signed photograph, in response to a request for help, and [...]
Just a quickie to let you know that supporters of Drala Jong can now view, visit and post to a Facebook group called Drala Jong.
In 2008, with a few items still to come in, we have raised a further:£7,330 for the Drala Jong Retreat Centre Appeal - taking the fund balance to just over £60,000£800 for the Lhundrup Thobgye Ling School at Pemako - taking the total raised to over £4,500 since we started£645 for the Künzang Dorje Rinpoche [...]
I'm delighted to report that we have found an old, external reference to the association of our charity with His Holiness Dud'jom Rinpoche, that dates from 1983.Our Spiritual Directors, Ngak'chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen, were looking through boxes which hadn't been unpacked since they moved to their current home more than ten years ago, and [...]
