Choyu, or Cho Oyu, (8,201 metres, 26,906 ft) is the sixth highest mountain in the world, located on the Tibet-Nepal border, 20 km west of Mount Everest.. “Choyu” comes from the Tibetan name Jowo Yu (jo bo g.yu), "Turquoise Lord”. A few kilometres west of Cho Oyu is Nangpa La (5,716m/18,753 ft), a pass that serves as the main trading route be...

Excepts from Matthieu Ricard’s Latest TED Talk, October 2014. We have an extraordinary potential for goodness, but also an immense power to do harm. Any tool can be used to build or to destroy, and it all depends on our motivation. Therefore, it is all the more important to foster an altruistic motivation rather than a selfish one. We ind...

West side of the Dhaulagiri range (Nepal, April 2015)

West side of the Dhaulagiri range (Nepal, April 2015)

Machapuchare, "Fish Tail" (22943 feet') in the Annapurna Range, Nepal (March 2015)

Young and old, all come to welcome Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche on his return to Shechen in eastern Tibet after thirty years in exile. (1985)

Articles in the New York Times and other news agencies reported on the latest scientific findings on climate change and global warming. How does this relate to what is called sustainable development? The term, sustainable development, is a contradiction. Quantitative growth has proven not to be sustainable because infinite quantitative growth...

Eastern Tibet, 2010 Eastern Tibet, 2010