Tibetan monastery leader plans Acadiana center

Acadiana residents interested in Tibetan culture and the Buddhist philosophy may soon have a resource close to home.
Khentrul Lodrö Thayé Rinpoche, abbot of the Mardo Tashi Chöling Monastery in Amdo, Tibet

Tibetan film ‘too dangerous to show’

Human rights groups are warning that a controversial documentary on Tibet could lead to the imprisonment and torture of people who were secretly filmed watching an illegal recording of their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

Buddhist exhibition opens today

Since last Thursday, these Tibetan Buddhist monks from Nepal have been working on what they hope will be the world’s largest sand Mandala of the Medicine Buddhas.