SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP (PDF-1868)

I just returned from a three-day intensive dharma teaching, in this case the presentation

and commentary on a "doha," which is Tibetan for a song of spiritual experience. In

Tibet, folks have biographies just as we do here, but there is a difference. At least

Buddhist biographies are not concerned with your personal life, your hobbies, and all of

that. Instead they are all about your spiritual life, the inner changes you have been

through and what you have realized from them. They are called Namtars, and amount

to a spiritual biography, like what we might call a hagiography (of saints) here in the

west.