Pilgrimages to sacred Buddhist sites led by experienced Dharma teachers. Includes daily teachings and group meditation sessions. A local English–speaking guide accompanies and assists.
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Tour agency brings gay Buddhists to the Buddha's birthplace
After openly gay Nepali MP Sunil Babu Pant launched Pink Mountain Travels and Tours, the first Nepali travel agency for gay tourists, in early 2010, the agency has received its first group bookings from gay Buddhists who want to follow the Buddha's footsteps. From Sify News: 'We already have three groups from Britain, France and the Netherlands, and there are queries from the US,' said Pant, the founder of the gay rights movement in what was a rigid Nepali society in the last decade. 'They are from the Gay Buddhist Sangh (GBS), an organisation with members all over Europe. They travel in groups for joint meditation and pilgrimage to the places associated with the Buddha - Nepal, India, Thailand and Myanmar,' Pant said. More » -
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Cliff-Jumping with Cambodian Monks
This guest blogpost comes our way from Alex Tzelnic, a writer currently traveling in Cambodia. More » -
A Day for Bodhidharma
You can learn a lot of things perusing the Treeleaf Zendo message boards, including that today is Bodhidharma Day. What do we do on Bodhidharma Day? We sit, in order to honor the Zen ancestor who brought Zen from India to China. Bodhidharma is usually presented a bad-tempered barbarian who sat facing a wall meditating for nine years. In order to always stay awake, he cut off his eyelids, and tea plants sprang from them where they landed. More » -
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Beautiful photographs by photographer who shoot iconic cover for National Geographic
The work of the photographer who once captured the face of an Afghan girl for the iconic cover of National Geographic is now on display at the Birmingham Museum in Birmingham, England. Steve McCurry's photographs will be on display through mid-October in an exhibit titled Steve McCurry---Retrospective. More »
