Sentences with phrase «tibetan lamas»

«Tulkus 1180 to 2018,» a tremendous survey - in - progress by Paola Pivi of over 1,100 photographic portraits of tulkus, or officially - recognized reincarnations of Tibetan lamas, includes the large - scale portraits of Tibetan exiles from David Zimmerman's One Voice series.

The lion was closely associated with Buddhism, but the lion was not indigenous to China, so the Chinese and the Tibetan lamas bred their toy dogs to resemble lions.

When a contemporary Jesuit from Boston teaches a Buddhist mindfulness technique to his flock or an ecumenically minded Tibetan lama expropriates a Christian prayer, we have something analogous to John Ruskin's rhapsodies about the Elgin marbles, or Henry Steele Olcott's attempts to tell Sinhalese Buddhists what their religion was really all about.

It is not realised that nearly one thousand million Moslems are entirely wedded tothe idea of repetition in the Salah, when turning to Mecca five times a day; or the Tibetan lama when he says his prayers, and all the followers of Eastern meditation.

My Buddhism professor in college told a story of practicing with a famous Tibetan lama.

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It discusses the geography, history, organization of Lamas, government, customs and ceremonies of the Tibetans.

The expert on Tibet leads trips there with Tibetan and Bhutanese lamas.

Today, introductory forms of the practice, brought to the West by Tibetan monks and lamas over the past several decades, are gaining popularity here.

The Dalai Lamas come from the Yellow Hat Sect of Tibetan Buddhists, which was founded in the late 14th century, devoting itself to restoring discipline in a monastic life.

It is likely that the first small Tibetan Lion Dogs from which the Shih Tzu is probably descended came to China during the Qing (Ch «ing) Dynasty (1644 - 62) as tributes from the Grand Lamas to the Chinese Imperial Court, and that the Chinese interbred these Tibetan dogs with the early western imports and with the Pug and the Pekingese.

Tibetan Terriers are highly intelligent, sensitive, loyal devoted and affectionate dogs who are said to originate in the Lost Valley of Tibet, where they were bred and raised in the monasteries by lamas almost 2,000 years ago.

The Lamas of the Tibetan monasteries cherished the Tibetan terrier more than 2,000 years ago.

Where others might see a busy religious institution, the Bhutanese director Khyentse Norbu — who is also a high lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition — saw the raw material for his first feature, The Cup.

Her search for spiritual enlightenment led her to Buddhism, and in the mid-1960s she met Khyongla Rato, a «reincarnate lama and scholar of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism,» who had fled Tibet.

In the mid-1960s, she met Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, a «reincarnate lama and scholar of the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism,» [4] who had fled Tibet and recently arrived in New York.