Mandala Issues for 1997

Cover: LamaThubten Yeshe (1935-1984), at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, March 1974. Lama Yeshe passed way thirteen years ago, on the morning of the Tibetan New Year, which this year fell on February 8. Photo by Ursula Bernis	January - February News International News - Lama Zopa Rinpoche visits thirteen centers in Australia and Europe News from FPMT centers & activities around the world Features Auspicious Events - A celebration of kindness: the Dalai Lama in New Zealand Places - What Tibetans do with their dead Education - From here to enlightenment: educating sentient beings Pligrimage - Not all who wander are lost Teaching - Be your own therapist by Lama Thubten Yeshe Columns A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama - Geshe Ngawang Dragpa The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw Home Truths by Adéle Hulse Advice from the Virtuous Friend - Lama Zopa discusses 'Teaching' Lama Ösel's Times by Lama Tenzin Ösel - Lama's fifth year of studies at Sera Monastery and his twelfth birthday And So Forth To the Editor Getting the essence Books and Videos People FPMT Resources
Cover: Ribur Rinpoche, historian, biographer and yogi, has been resident lama at Medicine Buddha's Healing Center, San Jose, California since September last year. Photo by Mark Gatter	March - April News International News The young Trijang Rinpoche and Zong Rinpoche in the west The Dalai Lama gives twenty-fifth Kalachakra initiation Lama Zopa Rinpoche in California News from FPMT centers & activities around the world Features Holy Beings - 'Transforming suffering into pure joy' - Ribur Rinpoche gives teachings Artists - Art for enlightenment - English artists Peter and Denise Griffin Reincarnation - The flight of a young Cherok Lama Teaching - 'Realizing the truth' by His Holiness Sakya Trizin Columns A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama - Geshe Sonam Gyaltsen The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw Home Truths by Adéle Hulse Advice from the Virtuous Friend - Lama Zopa discusses 'Prayer Flags and Auspicious Days' Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - Lama's teaching 'Spirituality and Materialsim' Lama Ösel's Times by Lama Tenzin Ösel - News from Ösel Labrang And So Forth To the Editor Getting the essence Books and Videos People FPMT Resources
Cover: The twenty-five foot statue of Lama Tsong Khapa in the new gompa at Kopan Monastery in Nepal.	May - June News International News His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Taiwan Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodh Gaya and Dharamsala News from FPMT centers & activities around the world Features Auspicious Events - Inauguration of Kopan's New Gompa Translators - Training Tibetan Translators Lamas - Mogchok Rinpoche Teaching - The difference between Dharma and non-Dharma - Advice from the Kadampa Masters Columns A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama David Strom writes about Geshe Tsulga The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw Home Truths by Adéle Hulse Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - Lama's teaching 'Relating to Your Path' Advice from the Virtuous Friend - Lama Zopa discusses 'Death and Impermanence' Lama Ösel's Times by Lama Tenzin Ösel - Visits to Kopan and Dharamsala and taking his novice vows from His Holiness the Dalai Lama And So Forth To the Editor Getting the essence Books and Videos People FPMT Resources
Cover: Queen Wenchung, seventh-century queen of Tibet and an emanation of the Buddha Tara, who brought to Tibet from China the famous Jowo Rinpoche, the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. Photo by Robin Bath	July - August News International News His Holiness the Dalai Lama in France and Spain Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Singapore and America News from FPMT centers & activities around the world Features Education - Climbing a mountain with both hands Mind - Many ways to work the the mind Culture - Mongolian Renaissance Retreat - Going beyond hope and fear Meditation - 'Letter from a meditator', received by Lama Zopa Rinpoche from a Western nun in retreat Columns A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama - Khensur Lobsang Thubten Rinpoche The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw Home Truths by Adéle Hulse Advice from the Virtuous Friend - Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses 'Anger' Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - Lama's teaching 'Attachment: the Biggest Problem on Earth' Lama Ösel's Times by Lama Tenzin Ösel And So Forth To the Editor Books and Videos People FPMT Resources
Cover: Buddha Yamantaka, He Who Conquers the Lord of Death. Photo by Bill Kane	September - October News International News His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Los Angeles and San Francisco Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Malaysia and America On pilgrimage in Borobodur with Ribur Rinpoche Peter Kedge the new director of the Maitreya Project News from FPMT centers & activities around the world Features Death Looking forward to death; the greatest adventure of Inta's life Death, intermediate state and rebirth by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 'Journeying skillfully from life to life' by Ven Pende Hawter with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, Garje Khamtul Rinpoche and Geshe Lamrimpa We die as we live Columns A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama - Gelek Gyatso Rinpoche The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw Home Truths by Adéle Hulse Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - Lama's teaching 'Give your ego the wisdom eye' Advice from the Virtuous Friend - Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses How to benefit the dying and the dead Lama Ösel's Times by Lama Tenzin Ösel And So Forth To the Editor Books and Videos People FPMT Resources
Cover: Jetsun Milarepa, eleventh-century Tibetan saint and reformed criminal. From an eighteenth-century Tibetan painting that hangs in the Folkens Museum Etnografiska in Stockholm, Sweden; reproduced with permission.	November - December News International News Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the road in America His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the "eternal optimist" Maitreya Project tackles the engineering challenges involved in building a statue to last 1000 years Ode to John Schwartz Thirty people to start seven-year Master's Program News from FPMT centers & activities around the world Features Finding Freedom: practicing Dharma in prison Searching for a way to leave no one behind: the transformation of a Mexican gangster Buddhism breaks into prison Letters from prison by Paul Dewey, Milo Rusimovic, Timothy Haremza, JW Johnson and Jimmy Tribble Writings from death row - Excerpts from a recently-published book by Jarvis Jay Masters Columns A Day in the Life of an FPMT Lama - Geshe Lobsang Sherab The Passing Scene by Jonathan Landaw Home Truths by Adéle Hulse Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - Lama's teaching 'Beauty is in the I of the Beholder' Advice from the Virtuous Friend - Lama Zopa Rinpoche writes that external prison is nothing compared with the inner prison that most people live in Lama Ösel's News by Lama Tenzin Ösel And So Forth To the Editor Getting the Essence Books and Videos People FPMT Resources

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