The New Kadampa Tradition is an international association of Mahayana Buddhist meditation centers that follow the Kadampa Buddhist tradition founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
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Get Fuzzy on Meditation
Get Fuzzy is a comic strip by Darby Conley. Even though Bucky B. Katt is Not... Quite... There... yet (and there are some popular misconceptions about meditation on display here), I like the cat's notion of peace in pieces. © Darby Conley More » -
Therapy, Meditation, and Buddhist Humor
Last week, Daphne Merkin wrote an excellent personal essay, entitled “My Life in Therapy,” about her varied experiences as a patient within the therapeutic establishment (lasting over 40 years!), that appeared in The New York Times Magazine. The piece is entertaining, thoughtful, and, not surprisingly, painfully “self-aware.” From the piece: I learned, that is, to construct an ongoing narrative of the self, composed of what the psychoanalyst Robert Stoller calls “microdots” (“the consciously experienced moments selected from the whole and arranged to present a point of view”), one that might have been more or less cohesive than my actual self but that at any rate was supposed to illuminate puzzling behavior and onerous symptoms—my beh More » -
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Religion and roommates
Should it matter what religion or faith your roommates adhere to? A recent New York Times article suggests that when it comes to selecting roommates, religion can be a key factor. Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists alike seek living arrangements where practice won't be an issue: Olivia Magdelene, 30, a Buddhist, is not looking for a roommate of any particular background, but someone who doesn’t mind her rituals. So when she posted a room-wanted ad on Craigslist, she specified what she is willing to pay ($500 in any borough) and that during her daily meditation she burns incense like nag champa, which she says some people find noxious. “I basically listed my religion and my practices in the ad because I am looking for other people with like minds,” says Ms. Magdelene, an artist who also works in child care. More » -
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World's longest calligraphy scroll
Tibetan master calligrapher Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar has completed the world's longest calligraphy scroll. At 162.3 meters (roughly 535 feet) long, it contains 65,000 Tibetan characters and took more than six months to complete. According to the World Records Academy, the scroll "contains long life prayers composed for His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama by 32 great spiritual masters of Tibet." The above photo was shot at New York City's Flushing Meadow Park. The scroll was earlier unrolled at the Tenzin Gyatso Institute, in Berne, NY, with Sogyal Rinpoche and Lodi Gyari Rinpoche, special envoy of the 14th Dalai Lama's. More »
