Index
Everything on this site
25 pages and 10 Courtyard pieces, in one list, because a menu that only shows some of them is not a menu.
Begin
- Home Who writes this, from where, and the four ways in.
- Whose Site This Is Darpa Pandita: the monk who writes this, and the line of incarnations the name belongs to.
- Start Here Buddhism from nothing. What to read, a first month, the teacher question.
- Meditation Why this site will not teach you, and what you can do anyway.
- Death & Dying What is actually done for a dying person, and for forty-nine days after.
- Questions Real questions people ask in public, answered with sources.
Go and see
- Visit Maps, directions, the Protected Area Permit, etiquette, contact.
- What Happens at a Teaching The nine steps, the khata queue, the envelope, the red cord.
- Find a Centre 138 FPMT centres in 34 countries, with a coverage map.
- A Little Tibetan Thirty-six phrases with script and phonetics, and the four registers.
This monastery
- The Monastery Sera Jey from 1419 to today: chronology and structure.
- Monastic Life The day, debate, the five great treatises, the festival year.
- The Courtyard The journal. One long piece a month.
- The Festival Year 2026 and 2027 drawn as a calendar, with the Tibetan date in every square.
- The Buddhist Days What each occasion is, why it falls when it does, and what is done.
The tradition
- The Wider World FPMT, the founding lamas, the great monasteries, the archives.
- The People The principal figures of this school, what each of them did, and their books.
- The Dalai Lamas All fourteen, the exile, and how a reincarnation is recognised.
- Buddhas & Deities Twenty-two figures with large images, and who needs initiation.
- Buddhist Countries Where the tradition lives and what it survived.
- Claims to Be Careful Of What this tradition does not teach, and the Shugden split.
Look it up
- Lexicon 135 cross-linked term cards with a reading panel.
- Mantras Nine sourced mantras with meanings, figures and a mala counter.
- Sources & Credits Every written source and every image credit.
- Everything on this site This page: every page, in one list.
The Courtyard
All 10 pieces, newest first
One long piece a month, dated backwards. Every one carries its own sources.
- If Tibet were free tomorrow: a thought experiment about going home · Fiction · 12 min
- The Wheel of Time, and why it matters if you are nobody in particular · Teachings · 10 min
- 197 monks and 147 acres: what re-establishment actually looked like · History · 9 min
- How to be a good guest at a working monastery · Visiting · 9 min
- Who Tsongkhapa was, and why this school argues so much · Tradition · 9 min
- How to disappear for a month · Practical · 11 min
- The wrong monk · History · 9 min
- The shortcut, and why it is guarded · Teachings · 11 min
- One hundred and eight, and nobody is quite sure why · Objects · 9 min
- If everyone woke up Buddhist tomorrow · Fiction · 10 min
There is also a machine-readable sitemap for search engines, an RSS feed for the Courtyard, and llms.txt, which tells answer engines what this site is and what rules it holds itself to.