Vajrayana Forms

Stupas, Vajrayana Foundation Drawing: Matt Welsh On aptly named 'Eureka Canyon Road' in Santa Cruz, California is the Pema Osel Ling...

From the last post on a center in Hawai'i, back to the continental USA and to the southeastern extremity. The state of Florida is host t...

Over in a state I consider home in a very heartfelt way are dharma centers on the most verdant and peaceful of grounds, colors exploding ami...

Source: Sakya Kach ö d Ch ö ling website Over in the Pacific Northwestern Reach of the San Juan Islands is a colorful dharma center, set in ...

From humble abodes to lavish temple complexes, it all houses the dharma, the spaces all serving as hubs and way stations for practitioners o...

One of the first things that captured me about the Tibetan Buddhist design tradition was the color scheme. It originally struck me, and stil...

Deer Park Artist Tenzin Choephel, one of whom worked on temple art for the new center at Deer Park, seen at right Source: Madison.com Photo ...

Dharmachakra and flanking Deer at Labsum Shedrub Ling Source: The Wish Fullfilling Jewel Mirror First, I would like to just express how much...

Just beautiful. Source: Hannibal Taubes, Ungern and Sternberg

When I refer to architecture, I am typically referring to the built environment that surrounds us. Yet in the lexicon of religious architec...

A datsan refers to a Buddhist university and monastery in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Datsan's are found in Mongolia, a co...

Now for a bit of distant virtual travelling... As referenced in the last post, the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism has six "mother m...