There’s a whole category of travel most people never hear about: month-long immersions into monasteries, ashrams, temples, and intentional communities, most of them cheaper than staying home.
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The Green One There is a shade of green that follows you through Kathmandu. It is on the thangkas hung in the tourist shops of Thamel, on the small resin statues wrapped in newspaper and sold for a few hundred rupees, on the shrines tucked into courtyards where nobody stops to look twice. It is …
Why do you need the hierarchy, the doctrine about what happens after you die, the fee, the robe, the guru, the specific God?
A Quarter Century to Find the Blue Demon In late 1999, I had a strange vision of a blue demon fucking a red woman. He had four faces. A few weeks later, a loose page fell out of a book on tantra. They were on it. There was no explanation. The image had been in …
What happens when Buddhism runs into religions that didn’t grow up next to it, the Abrahamic faiths and, at its own root, Hinduism. Some of these encounters produced quiet blending that lasted centuries. One produced an entirely new religion, deliberately engineered to contain them all.