He published several books, including The Teacher in International Law: Teachings and Teaching (1982), and many articles.
Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche is a visionary leader, renowned scholar, meditation master and international speaker, widely recognized for his ability to modernize ancient Buddhist teachings for today's challenges.
While Buddhism has always had a strong monastic component -- after all, its monasteries have preserved the texts and the teachings for 2,500 years -- it seems to me that today's world is ripe for the message of Vimala-Kirti.
I first encountered his teachings in 2011, shortly after moving from San Francisco to Istanbul.
In writings and teachings from 1930 on, accordingly, he emphasized the connections between words and practical human activities.
They maintained that the "false" Dalai Lama, as they called him, was himself a follower of Shugden teachings until 1976 but was now banning the practice and suppressing human rights.
The query of the rabbis of Provence to Maimonides about the legitimacy of astrology was most likely prompted by the spread of Ibn Ezra's astrological teachings (Sela 2004).
Henry of Lausanne, a former Cluniac monk, adopted the Petrobrusians' teachings about 1135 and spread them in a modified form after Peter's death.
The landmark Abington v. Schempp case banned mandatory prayer and Bible teachings, but 2001's No Child Left Behind Act instructed the DOE to offer guidance on "constitutionally protected prayer in public schools" as a First Amendment right.
Whether one reads the Upanishads (Müller 1900), the Tao-teh-King (Hsüan and Crowley 1995), the teachings of Zoroastrism (Kapadia 1905), or the ancient Egyptian texts (Lichtheim 1976), all write that the world we live in is an orderly structured rather than a chaotic one.
