The monk regularly identified as the happiest man in the world was once plagued by panic attacks. Mingyur Rinpoche grew up in the Himalayan mountains. “My life in general was wonderful,” he says. “I ...

CapeTalk’s Pippa Hudson speaks with Tibetan meditation master, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Rinpoche has been training in meditation since he was a child, and has been teaching the practice for over 30 ...

The visit will bring the founder of the worldwide Tergar Meditation Community, which operates centres across six continents, to Cape Town and Johannesburg for a series of talks, courses, and retreats.

He has been described as “the happiest man in the world” since neuroscientists rigged his head with electrodes and thought their machine was broken, but Tibetan lama, meditation teacher and ...

Can the power of the mind help humans self-heal? That’s what a group of scientists are hoping to help determine by studying a Tibetan lama who believes he cured himself of gangrene through meditation.

Tibetan Buddhist master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is possibly the world's happiest man, according to scientists, who initially thought their brain scanner was faulty. He's had lifetimes of practice; ...

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, internationally acclaimed meditation teacher and bestselling author, will embark on his first full South African tour this August and September. The visit will bring the ...

The Buddhist teacher's decision to leave his monastery suggests a revival of the principles laid down by the Buddha On first impression, Mingyur Rinpoche seemed to have everything well set up for a ...

Zach Holden starts and ends his days the same way: with 15 to 30 minutes of meditation. He says meditation makes him feel relaxed, less tired during the day and sharper mentally. But he thinks it has ...

Frustration is now running deep in South Korea, with the scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil. Furthermore, uncertainties about the country’s diplomacy ...

I OPENED Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s Why We Meditate: 7 simple practices for a calmer mind with some scepticism. I am not a regular meditator, and while I have read a few popular books that ...