Erik Pema Kunsang Among Masters

Standing on the street at Connaught Circus, he says “you will come with me to have tea?” It is not a question. I see a young Indian princ...

After graduating from high school, I bought an airline ticket to the Himalayas. I had spent several months looking at maps and atlases, tra...

The Karmapa had traveled through Europe on his first trip to the West in 1975. I had followed along with a small group of people from ...

Dalai Lama in Copenhagen 1973. Photo: Benny Gunnø The blacktop glimmers in the morning frost. I’m standing on a Swedish highway. Sometim...

The sky is very blue this summer. Just a few clouds on the horizon. We are lying on our backs, doing nothing. I guess we’re either el...