With our network of partners, since the first quake in Nepal, Karuna-Shechen has helped 140,135 people in 379 villages, bringing essential medical, food and relief aid to the most vulnerable populations.

We have also put in place a special program …

The glacier that comes down in fronf of Choyu, or Cho Oyu, (8,201 metres, 26,906 ft), 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 …

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”. …

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. …

Two weeks after a first earthquake devasted Nepal and caused over 8,000 casualties and 17,800 wounded, a new quake of a magnitude of 7,3 struck the north-east region of the country on May 12th.

The teams on the ground of …

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 …

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

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

In voting to ban bullfights, Catalan Parliamentarians have launched a national debate in Spain. Those who support bullfights put forward two arguments: bullfighting is a cultural tradition as well as an art. However, to kill is not an art, and …

For years ornithologists were intrigued by the fact that bar-tailed godwits (a species of waders, in the family of birds who live principally near water, but who cannot land on or dive in water to fish) became so fat before …