His Holiness the Dalai Lama Teaching:
"Engaging Wisdom and Compassion"
at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor,
April 19 to 20, 2008

Sponsored by Jewel Heart, The Tibet Fund, U of M, School of Natural Resources & Environment, and the Garrison Institute. For more information, see www.DalaiLamaAnnArbor.com.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Teaching on
The Great Treatise (Lam Rim Chen Mo)
by Tsong-kha-pa
At Lehigh University
July 10 to 15, 2008

Six-day teaching on the instructions for the stages of spiritual evolution. For more information, see www.DalaiLamaJuly2008.com.

To see His Holiness' teaching schedule visit 2008 Schedule

B. Alan Wallace Teaching in Charlottesville, VA
"Lucid Dreaming & Dream Yoga Meditation Retreat"
March 14 to 16, 2008

Sponsored by Jefferson Tibetan Society. For more information, see www.avenue.org/jts.

Meditation Retreats with B. Alan Wallace
At the Santa Barbara Institute in 2008:

April 12 to 19: Soothing the Body, Settling the Mind

May 24 to 31: Four Applications of Mindfulness

July 19 to 26: The Four Immeasurables & Mind Training

September 6 to 13: Lucid Dreaming & Dream Yoga

November 15 to 22: Awakening to Our Buddha-Nature

Dalai Lama's Successor
Could Be a Woman

The Times of India
7 December, 2007

"If a woman reveals herself as more useful the lama could very well be reincarnated in this form," the 14th Dalai Lama told reporters in Milan, where he arrived for a private visit on Wednesday.

(For an interesting futuristic fictional story of a female Dalai Lama, read the 2007 novel by Bill Magee, She Still Lives.)

Hispanic Tibetan Astrology and Medicine
Website Launched

The first Spanish website on Tibetan Astrology and Medicine is now available online. Maria Paz Leon, a member of the Kagyu Tekchen Choling center in Argentina, became involved with the site as part of a personal project reasearching the treasures of Tibetan Culture. Jhampa Kalsang, author of the book Tibetan Astro Science, is Ms. Leon's teacher and advisor. Ms. Leon calls the site "the first serious material on the subject in this language."

For more information visit their website at www.astrologiatibetana.com.

Tashi Delek...Snow Lion Wishes You an Auspicious Losar!
Celebrate Tibetan New Year February 7, 2008
The Year of the Earth Rat

The Tibetan calendar, which starts on Feb. 7th, is based on the lunar year rather than the Western solar year. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal shares this thought on Losar: "...The new year gives us the opportunity to come together and celebrate, to notice and appreciate each moment, in the moment, and to realize the blessings of the teachings."

Click here to read more about Losar.

The Snow Lion Buddhist News & Catalog
Finds New Life after Sharing the News

A kind reader let us know that, after she peruses her paper copy of the Snow Lion Buddhist News & Catalog which we mail out quarterly, she puts it to further use as mulch. If mulch isn't your thing, please consider recycling our newspapers with your local municipality when you're done reading it.

We print with soy-based ink, which won't harm the environment—or your tomatoes.

New Spanish Dharma Now Available

La Liberacion en Nuestras Manos: Prima Parte: Los Preliminaries (Liberation in Our Hands) by Pabongka is now available from Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Press. For more information, e-mail   mstpiberoamericanos@yahoo.com.

The Tibet Center

Opens New Location in
Brooklyn, New York

The Tibet Center has opened its new location:

25 Washington Street, Suite 304
Brooklyn, NY 11201

For more information visit their website at www.thetibetcenter.org.

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Spanish Editions of Buddhist Texts
En Español

Dungkar Publications (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is part of Kagyu Teckchen Chöling, a Dharma Center under the spiritual guidance of H.H. Kalu Rinpoche and H.E. Bokar Rinpoche.

Its main goal is to make available to the large Hispanic-Buddhist community the teachings of great Masters such as: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche, Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, among others. The directors of KTC, Lama Sangye Dorje and Lama Rinchen Kandro, have dedicated themselves to the translation into Spanish and compilation of this valuable material.

For further information and orders, please visit www.kagyuargentina.org

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Dungkar Publications
Kagyu Tekchen Chöling
Av. Melian 2171, (CP: C1430EXG)
Capital Federal, Buenos Aires
Tel: (00-5411) 4543-4925

Dharma Books in French
Livres en Français

We're pleased to let you know that Dharma books are now available in French.

French-reading Tibetan Buddhists can contact the following publisher:

Éditions Ganesha Inc.
Collection "Méthodes et Sagesse"
C.P. 484, Succursale
Youville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H2P 2W1
Tel: 450-641-2395
Fax: 450-641-2989

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