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    TENZIN GYATSO, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people and the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate. Born to a peasant family in 1935, in the northeastern province of Amdo, His Holiness was recognized at the age of two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, and a manifestation of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. In 1959, he escaped the Chinese invasion of Tibet and lives now in Dharamsala, India. More »
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    Zen and the Art of Dance Paid Member

    By David Meanix and Mary Talbot
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    By Danny Fisher
    “This is why we come early,” Buddhist singer-songwriter Ravenna Michalsen says for the third time this trip, as we search for the correct turn into Wellesley College. She’s playing a show for the college’s Buddhist Community tonight, and we’ve driven up to Massachusetts from New Haven, Connecticut, where various karmic causes and conditions have brought the two of us together again for another semester. More »
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    Gatha by the Boatman Monk Paid Member

    A thousand-foot fishing line hangs straight down.One wave moves, ten thousand follow.The night is still, the water cold, the bait untouched.The empty boat carries home a full load of moonlight. [Image: Hattachi #346, Tokihoro Sato, 2000, gelatin-silver print ©Tokihoro Sato, courtesy of the Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York] More »
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    By Gaetano Kazuo Maida
    BRUCE JOEL RUBIN, 48, was recently awarded the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Ghost, 1990's top-grossing film. He also wrote the original screenplay, Jacob's Ladder. Influenced by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Jacob's Ladder was acknowledged as one of the" best unproduced screenplays" in Hollywood for a decade until Adrian Lyne took it on last year. Rubin's life has been informed by his encounters with Buddhism in the Himalayas and by his continuing meditation practice. Recently he spoke with Tricycle's On Film editor Gaetano Kazuo Maida about film and spirituality. Tricycle: What has inspired your work in film? More »