This year we decided to share with our followers pictures of our village of Changunarayan. This is a photo of Ganesh Himal. We hope that you appreciate it.

If you are planning to visit Nepal this year, you are welcome to visit our beautiful UNESCO heritage village and enjoy such an amazing view. GaneshHimal

It’s nice to give to people we like, but it’s also nice to give to people whom we don’t like because it’s a beautiful way to relate to others. ~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Just like an arrow shot by a skilful archer as soon as the string is released it does not stay but quickly reaches its target, and so also is the life of humans. ~ Gampopa

Enlightenment is nothing other than the state beyond all obstacles, in the same way that from the peak of a very high mountain one always sees the sun. ~ Chögya Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

Should someone do good, let them do it again and again. They should develop this habit, for the accumulation of goodness brings joy. ~ Buddha

Maheshwari One of Saptamatrika

Rajarshi রাজর্ষি wrote : A Newari painting of one of the sapta or astamatrika shaktis with baudha elements.

Maheshwari holds many weapons and a panapatra, stands on the vrisabha, is supported by ruru bhairava, grants a calm clairvoyance and precognitive abilities to the worthy upasaka.

(via Twitter: Rajarshi রাজর্ষি @Therajarshi)

Even if your power is small, if it would not harm yourself or others, you should act to protect and defend endangered beings as much as possible. ~ Patrul Rinpoche

Creating mandalas based on sacred geometry feels like an anchor of presence, logic, and freedom. It brings sense and beauty to my daily practice and existence.  ~ Tiffani Gyatso

Tibet House US New Year Meditation Event

Compassion doesn’t just drop into the brain or into the heart like rain. The mind has to be trained in compassion.

~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche

The mind is like an ocean, and all mental activities are like ocean waves. Ocean waves arise from the water and dissolve back into it. Look at the ocean and don’t be distracted by the waves. Let phenomena such as feeling good or bad manifest from mind and let them dissolve back into mind. ~ Khenchen Konchok Gyaltsen Rinpoche

There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. ~ Bodhidharma

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death and your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

When you feel kindness and compassion toward all beings as if they were your own mother and understand their suffering, you will be blessed by the Bodhisattvas, and the experience of their blessings will be born in your mind. ~ Chogye Trichen Rinpoche

We are visitors on this planet. Try to be at peace with yourself and help others share that peace. If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life. ~ Lama Surya Das

In yoga tantra, highest dimension of Buddhist practice, there is no distinction between gender. In this final life in which you attain Buddhahood, there is no difference whether you are male or female. ~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama Art: thangka painting of Buddha Samantabhadra in sacred union with Samantabhadri.

The Bodhisattva is always joyful, even when suffering. Bodhisattvas are always happy and cheerful under pressure, because they have felt the essence of reality as freedom. 

 ~ Robert Thurman