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This has been a month of reflecting on Dekeling’s past year, in order to prepare for 2025, and so naturally I have also spent a lot of time thinking about our possible futures as a community. Today, j…

Up until about the last two decades we’ve seen very few prominent women teachers. I think it’s due to a lack of education. Societies in the East, in India and in Tibet, and basically where…

The day after Lama Lekshe returned from Ashland, she welcomed Peter ‘Daishin’ Renner to the Vicarage (the Lama’s House) in Portland for a two-day visit. Lekshe then accompanied Daishin to Great Vow Ze…

Lama Lekshe and Dekeling board member Nan Whitaker-Emrich travelled to Ashland, Oregon, for a teaching retreat with Lama Sarah Harding called, ‘The Other Woman, a Teaching on Sukhasiddhi.’ The dakini …

After crossing the country from New York City to Portland, Oregon, I landed with dear friends, with a couple of days to spare to get ready for a month-long backpacking trip with Dharma teachers Soten …

I recently read that there are more than 140 large scale armed conflicts in the world right now. As the Resident Lama at Dekeling, I am committed to practicing and teaching the principles an…

The past four years, I have been living primarily in Brooklyn, New York. I moved here to study at Union Theological Seminary, to eventually receive a “Masters of Divinity” and work as a chaplain. Afte…