In Search of Padma Sambhava

The Dalai Lama once remarked that future historians will probably refer to the twentieth century as a century of war and bloodshed. Two world wars, together with violent dictatorships and Communist mass murders, witnessed the deaths of tens of millions of innocent people. But as Charles Dickens once said of […]

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Passage to Shambhala

On September 10th, 36 hours after a 24 hour flight, Ronen Schechner filmed a procession to Shambhala in the Gobi. The procession, which started with the blast of a conch, celebrated the consecration of a new assembly hall of the Hamrin Hrid Monastery. For three continuous hours, Ronen raced from […]

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Melt Down

From the comfort of our cheerfully arranged and well meaning lives we travel to the future in search of the ancient. 

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