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Happy Birthday, Dalai Lama
It's His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 75th birthday today! You can share your birthday wishes here, courtesy of avaaz.org. And Bhuchung K. Tsering writes about the Dalai Lama as a role model in the Huffington Post here. Also, marking the occasion is an interesting piece by Mary Finnigan at the Guardian entitled "The triumph of Tibetan Buddhism." More » -
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Meditation comic: Still tongues don't swallow
Among the many difficulties encountered during meditation: tongue placement. Image from Sit Illustrated © 2010 Sunship Productions http://sitillustrated.com/ More » -
The listener helps tell the story
In my opinion, one mark of a good Buddhist is the ability to put oneself in somebody else’s shoes, to see yourself walking with them. More » -
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Herbie Hancock on his Buddhist practice
In a profile at The Sydney Morning Herald Herbie Hancock talks about his introduction to Buddhism, how his practice has informed his sense of purpose, and his latest undertaking The Imagine Project. From the article: He's a dapper man who generally looks 20 years younger than he is, but there's a weariness in his eyes and voice after hours banging the drum about a project he describes as his most difficult. “I guess . . . it's a combination of my age and the practice of Buddhism. What I've learned is, in order for something to have value it has to in some way work towards serving humanity, otherwise it's self-serving and shallow and disruptive.” Hancock came to Buddhism nearly 38 years ago, via his old bass player, Buster Williams. More » -
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Buddhism in Canada
O Canada! Happy Canada Day! To celebrate I spent the morning flipping through Wild Geese, a solid, comprehensive study of Buddhism in Canada, edited by John S. Harding, Victor Sogen Hori, and Alexander Soucy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010). It goes over the history of the religion in Canada, looks at various Canadian Buddhist communities, and contains the biographies of a couple of Buddhist leaders in Canada. In 1905, the Reverend Sasaki Senju, of the Honganji Temple—a head temple of the Japanese True Pure Land tradition—came to Canada to build the first Buddhist temple there. More » -
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A picture and a thousand words
Just picked this up from a raft, who suggests this for the more "visually minded," and floated it over here: Click on it to enlarge. It pretty much sums it up—Buddhism in a nutshell! From a raft (Ashin Sopāka): "This was sent to me, so the source cannot be properly attributed, but it appears it was created by 'S Chinawaro Bhikkhu.'" More »
