A few month ago, a heard, Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaking about his passionate campaign against the marriage of girls in childhood or just after puberty, still widespread in Africa and Asia (Every day, 25,000 girls are married too young, without any freedom of choice). In general, a married teenager quits school if, by chance, she atten...

Despite the enormous media coverage of terrorist acts, according to the largest database available, the number of terrorism deaths is very small compared with other causes of violent death. According to the Global Terrorism Database, since the attack of September 11, terrorism has killed 30 U.S. citizens, which is 3 per year as against 18,000...

From April 26 to 29, In Denver, Colorado is being held the first International Symposia for Contemplative Science Research, which brings together more than seven hundred participants —psychologists, clinicians, neuroscientists, philosophers and contemplatives of different traditions, mainly Buddhists and Christians. Plenary session prese...

MR 913. Even in August, the path around the sacred mountains of the Amnye Machen range in the Golok province in eastern Tibet remains covered in snow.

MR 1076. Tibetan monks in clouds of sweet smoke from branches of burning juniper lit to greet a great Tibetan master, who will arrive soon at the monastery.

In 19 July last year, 68 countries joined the Kingdom of Bhutan in co-sponsoring a resolution entitled ‟Happiness: Towards a holistic approach to development,” which was adopted by consensus by the 193-member UN General Assembly. In follow up to the resolution, the Government of Bhutan has convened a high level meeting on 2nd April 2012 at th...

MR 1180 Riders from Dzongsar Valley in Eastern Tibet who have come to greet a great lama returning to visit them.

Among all the clumsy, blind and extreme ways we go about building happiness, one of the most sterile is egocentrism. ‟When selfish happiness is the only goal in life, life soon becomes goalless,” wrote Romain Rolland. Even if we display every outward sign of happiness, we can never be truly happy if we dissociate ourselves from the happiness...

Excerpts from a statement from the Prime Minister of Bhutan, H.E. Jigmi Y. Thinley, in preparation to the 2nd of April debate on GNH at the United Nations, to which I shall participate Some will undoubtedly ask: Why is all this number crunching necessary? And others might also ask — aren't our GNH indicators enough? Well first, the new me...

Excerpts from a statement from the Prime Minister of Bhutan, H.E. Jigmi Y. Thinley, in preparation to the 2nd of April debate on GNH at the United Nations, to which I shall participate Drs. Kubiszewski and Costanza have worked hard to give us the first ever estimate of the economic value of Bhutan's natural capital, which provides Nu 760 ...