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    Meat: To Eat It or Not Paid Member

    By Shakyamuni Buddha, Stuart Smithers, John McClellan, John Stevens, Gelek Rinpoche, Philip Glass, Bodhin Kjolhede, Zen Master Ryokan, Kate Wheeler, Lama Shabkar
    What the historical Buddha ate for his last meal has been the subject of much debate. The controversial passage from the  Mahaparinibbana Sutta, the sutta that recounts the Buddha's final days, tells us that on his last night the Buddha rested in the home of Cunda, a metalsmith apparently known to the Buddha. In honor of his guest, Cunda prepared (probably not personally) "hard and soft delicious food, and also a large quantity of sukaramaddava." The difficulty lies in the translation of sukaramaddava. The amateur mycologist Gordon Wasson studied the available literature on the problem and admirably summarized it in his essay "The Last Meal of the Buddha": More »
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    In the Name of Freedom Paid Member

    The buddha body extends throughout all the great assemblies: It fills the cosmos, without end.Quiescent, without essence, it cannot be grasped;It appears just to save all beings.The Buddha, King of the Teaching, appears in the world Able to light the lamp of sublime truth which illumines the world; His state is boundless and inexhaustible: This is what Name of Freedom has realized. The Buddha is inconceivable, beyond discrimination,Comprehending forms everywhere as insubstantial.For the sake of the world he opens wide the path of purity: This is what Pure Eyes can see. The Buddha's wisdom is unbounded—No one in the world can measure it. It forever destroys beings' ignorance and confusion: More »
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    Fifty-Three Temples In and Around Seattle Paid Member

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    A Diamond-Cutter Like No Other Paid Member

    By Carole Tonkinson
             Into the turn-of-the-century splendor of New York City's National Arts Club strides Michael Roach, carrying with him 30,000 pages of Tibetan Buddhist sutras—and $20,000 in diamonds. Roach has chosen the club's stately, mahogany-paneled dining room as a meeting place to discuss his plans to digitize the dharma. He's barely in his chair before he switches on his Powerbook to demonstrate the latest release of the Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP), an organization he founded that employs about twenty young monks in India to type the Tibetan canon onto CD-ROMs (computer disks). After a few moments, one thing is clear: Michael Roach is not just a simple Buddhist monk. More »
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    A Resource Roundup for the Cybersangha Paid Member

    By Gary L. Ray
    "There's nothing lonelier than a Buddhist in Alabama" is the kind of comment I hear from many Buddhists who live in outlying regions of North America where their sangha is small or nonexistent and information about Buddhist practice and philosophy is scarce. By tapping into computer networks, however, geographic isolation can be overcome. This rapidly expanding "cybersangha" provides support and community for Buddhists around the world. From your home, you can now send a message to anyone (who has a computer, a modem, and a telephone line) within seconds, and usually at the cost of a local phone call. More »
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    3-D Dharma Paid Member

    By Tracy Cochran
    The graduate students and faculty in the program of computer graphics at Cornell University are slowly but surely developing the means to generate photographically real images of architectural spaces that don't exist. "We write software that can function the way a camera does," explains senior research staff member James Ferwerda. "Our aim is to show exactly how a building would look if it were built." More »