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    Rebuilding Bagan: Ancient Buddhist Art and Architecture in Burma Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 10 Jul 2012
    "Burma" has been quite the Western media buzzword lately. What with Aung San Suu Kyi's European tour, Rakhine's riots, and ongoing debates about which name—Burma or Myanmar—is appropriate to call the long-calamitous nation, the country's wins and woes have saturated the pages of many publications. More »
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    Buddha Buzz: Birthday Parties and Abandoned Dogs Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 06 Jul 2012
    Happy birthday to the Dalai Lama! His Holiness turns 77 today. Here he is greeting Ogyen Trinley Dorje, one of the two claimants to the Karmapa's throne, at his birthday party in Dharamsala. And here he is again with some excited birthday revelers. You can see more photographs of the festivities on his official website. More »
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    Buddha Buzz: A Dog is a Pig is a Bear is a Boy Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 29 Jun 2012
    We're tackling the big issues in Buddha Buzz today: capitalism, vegetarianism, and Buddhist business.  In an article reminiscent of Tricycle's own "Occupy Buddhism: Or Why the Dalai Lama is a Marxist", GOOD magazine's Kira Goldenberg examines Western yoga's relationship to capitalism in "Bad Karma: Can Yoga and Capitalism Get Along?" The short answer to the title is no—not really—if you care about keeping the tenets of yoga intact. Goldenberg begins the piece, More »
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    Hunger Strikers for Tibet: Photo Essay Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 21 Jun 2012
    Since the 1950 Chinese invasion that ended with the forced integration of Tibet into the People’s Republic of China, Tibet has been simmering. It has boiled over more than once, most notably for the first time in 1959, when uprisings swept through the Tibetan plateau and the current Dalai Lama fled to exile in India, as well as in 2008, when the unrest spread to the Tibetan diaspora. More »
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    American Buddhism in the New York Times Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 19 Jun 2012
    Have you read the New York Times' opinion article from last weekend called "Buddhists' Delight"? It was written by James Atlas, a large figure in the publishing and editing world. Atlas was an editor at the New York Times magazine for many years and is also the author of several acclaimed books. But that's not all. Apparently, Atlas is also—to use the term he coins in the article—the newest "Newddhist" of the Western Buddhist world. ("Newddhist" is a term that I might like if it weren't phonetically indistinguishable from "nudist.") His overall point, which may be the understatement of the year, is this: Buddhism is growing in popularity in the Western world. More »
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    Buddha Buzz: Mindfulness and Being a Buddhist Woman Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 15 Jun 2012
    As mindfulness has spread into the corporate world, there have been some who have expressed their reservations about it. Is mindfulness being appropriated to serve ends of corporate greed? Is it promoting good business ethics or, as some suspect, merely teaching people to concentrate better on making money? If we take this article—"Corporate Buddhism Training Helps Employees Understand that Job Dissatisfaction and Malaise Are Actually Nirvana"—the answers to these questions are a very frightening yes. From the article: More »