have imagined only a few years before, when Trungpa’s passing merited the cover of the New York Times and features in the biggest magazines in America.

Three mornings ago, I left my job behind, hopped on my bike, and wheeled down to the Boulder Courthouse. There, I waited with a few hundred other sangha members and Boulderites to greet Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and his fiancée, Semo Tseyang Palmo, a lovely Tibetan Princess, gifted in the historic dances of Gesar of Ling, and fluent in five languages. Later that night, at Shambhala Mountain Center, nearly 1,000 of us greeted the newlyweds—seated regally on a stage with the great Tiger-Lion-Garuda-Dragon and GES flag behind them. It felt less, perhaps, as if I were in cowboy country in the 21st century thanJerusalem

JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 10 May — Jerusalem activists representing all major Palestinian parties on Saturday called for Nakba Day commemorations to be held at Damascus gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 15. The activists also called for all Palestinian Jerusalemites to participate in the commemorations and contribute to reviving the memory of the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” among all generations of Palestinians. The activists highlighted that the commemorations would be national and not party-oriented … Nakba Day commemorations take place around the world on May 15, and commemorations held by Palestinians still inside Israel have become a highly charged political issue, where they sometimes coincide with Israeli independence day celebrations. Israeli authorities have attempted to ban Nakba day commemorations in the past, including in 2012 in Tel