Counting the Pennies, by photographer Sylvie Goy A big thank you this week to Lama Nor'dzin and Lama 'ö-Dzin for kindly donating a sack full of pennies that have been gradually totting up in a jar in the family home over. . . well years now really. Over a thousand of the little devils have now [...]
Just a quick post to tell you that there is a nearly new Fuji digital camera up for sale on e-bay at the moment - kindly donated by my father, Cliff Watkins, member of the Beckenham Photographic Society. If you want to bid, act now - after some costs are covered, all profits will go to [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Well, we're back from the latest Apprentice Retreat here in good old Blighty, and although the event itself was nothing to do with fund raising for the project, various folk have been diggin' the Drala Jong fundraising effort one way or the other. Nearly £2,000 has poured into the appeal as a result. It's particularly [...]
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 [...]
