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Modern Buddhism lecture slated for U of T ScarboroughDr. Ian Harris, a professor from the University of Cumbria in England will bring his perspectives on Buddhist thought and culture to residents at the University of Toronto Scarborough on Wednesday, Feb.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 17:03
Protection of the right to freedom of religious belief in Tibet
Tibet is one of China's ethnic autonomous regions, and the Tibetans mostly believe in Tibetan Buddhism.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 06:33
Yen Tu Buddhist spring festival being celebrated in Vietnam
The earliest established religions in Vietnam according to Wikipedia are Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 02:19
A Very BIG Buddha
Buddha is big in China and in Hong Kong that's literally true. On Lantau Island sits the world's largest outdoor seated Buddha statue.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 19:04
'Sunning of the Buddha' at China monastery
XIAHE, Gansu - A huge Thangka bearing the image of the Buddha was unrolled to kick off an important Tibetan Buddhist gathering Saturday at Labrang Monastery in northwest China's Gansu Province.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 05:36
Movies with Buddhist Themes
Many wonderful Buddhist movies have been made in recent years, both feature films and documentaries, and I listed some of them in a prior article, Buddhist Movies .
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 05:23
A Case of Bad Karma on Kickstarter
The idea behind a Zen garden is that combing all of that sand into intricate patterns improves the practitioner's concentration.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 01:14
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Close to Home, a Cosmic Setting for Her Songs
IN the Himalayan art and artifacts that are the heart of the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea, some traditions go back thousands of years.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 20:59
New issueSpring 2012 TricycleNow online, and heading to newsstands soon
Why do we hold on to things we don't need? A guide to clearing clutter and forming new habits Founded in 1921 by D. T. Suzuki and others for the purpose of relaying the true spirit of Buddhism to the modern world.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 15:40
The Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture to Show Buddhist Deities
Hanford, California.- The Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture is pleased to present "Wrathful Deities and Compassionate Bodhisattvas: Aides of the Buddhist Faith" on view at the center from February 4th through April 28th.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 11:35
Buddha: Triumph & Tragedy In The Life Of The Great Sage
Historically speaking, we know very little for certain about the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the man who came to be known as "the Buddha ." Although no one today seriously questions his actual existence in ancient India, debates still rage over the dates of his life, with the year of his death now being set anywhere between 486 and 360 B.C. To be ... (more)
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 08:35
Buddhist museum to rival all other museums worldwide
There is planned a museum that will rival all other museums worldwide by the type of content, the age of the content, how official the content will be and the fact that the museum will offer something no other museum ever has.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 05:30
Buddhist Celebrations: Magha Puja Day
Celebrated in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, Magha Puja is a Buddhist "holiday" that occurs each year on the evening of the full moon of the third month of the lunar calendar.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 01:26
Lewis Richmond: Buddhism And Groundhog Day
When I think of Groundhog Day in a Buddhist context, the first thing that comes to mind is this old Zen story: Zen teacher Ummon said to the assembled monks, "I do not ask about 15 days ago, or 15 days hence.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 21:11
Zen Meditation Question
One aspect of Zen meditation I could not yet understand is why there is no metta meditation.
Topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 22:24
Zen Meditation Question
Here's a question that came up in the comments to the last post:
...One aspect of Zen meditation I could not yet understand is why there is no metta meditation. In the Triratna tradition - and I suppose in most other Tibetan meditation traditions also- amongst other things there is like mindfulness of the breath meditation also the metta bhavana; a practice I have done on some occassions and also found it helpful to develop compassion. Why does the meditation and chanting practice found in the Metta Sutra and Brahmaviharas not form part of the Zen liturgy or canon? It appears in the Vietnamese Zen (Thien) tradition the Metta Bhavana might be practiced?
about.com | 01-Feb-2012 14:44
Perfection of Meditation
I hope to focus on dhyana paramita , the perfection of meditation, a bit this week.
Topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 02:30
Can Buddhism Help with Sex Addiction?
In the land of the strange but true, as a former Tibetan Buddhist nun I fell in love with and married a man who counsels sex addicts and who is a recovering sex addict himself.
Topix.net | 31-Jan-2012 21:16
Perfection of Meditation
I hope to focus on dhyana paramita, the perfection of meditation, a bit this week. But many of you already are experienced meditators, so I'm not sure what to say about meditation that would be helpful.
...about.com | 31-Jan-2012 17:22
The Debate Tradition
Following up on the last post on the role of debate in Buddhism -- this brings to mind one of my favorite women of Buddhist history -- Liu Tiemo (ca. 780-859), also called the "Iron Grindstone."
...about.com | 31-Jan-2012 11:02
Review: Enlighten yourself at "Mandala: Sacred Circle in...
After some two decades of visits from the Dalai Lama and exhibitions of Tibetan art in Atlanta, most of us are at least acquainted with the painted mandala as a representation of a complex, symmetrical building with a single enlightened being at its center.
Topix.net | 31-Jan-2012 03:18
Tibetan unrest in China near boiling point
BEIJING - Looking down on Drango town from his hillside monastery on China's eastern Tibetan plateau, monk Gelek Rabten appeared hopeful last fall.
Topix.net | 30-Jan-2012 23:08
West coast premiere of 'Buddha: Triumph & Tragedy'
The life of the Buddha in his own words - the evolution of his thought, his triumphs, and the rarely portrayed tragedy at the end of his life.
Topix.net | 30-Jan-2012 18:59
Foreign News: BUDDHISM-The Dalai Lama's Faith
THROUGHOUT Asia, some 500 million people-including the Dalai Lama-practice Buddhism.
Topix.net | 30-Jan-2012 14:49
Tibet And Buddhism To Stay Liberated
Dr. Sascha Vongehr [e ae 'ae2 ] studied phil/math/chem/phys in Germany, obtained a BSc in theoretical physics & MSc ... The news of the world are filled again with anti-Chinese propaganda.
Topix.net | 30-Jan-2012 11:44
Conflicted Aversion to Conflict Aversion
Lewis Richmond has an essay at Huffington Post about a couple of topics dear to my heart. One topic is the growing inclusion of women as equals in Buddhism, and the other is that "'right speech' is often wrongly interpreted to mean never saying anything critical or difficult."
...about.com | 30-Jan-2012 10:52
5-year-old believed to be lama-reincarnate
Its morning time and a little boy with a shaved head and a face shaped like the moon chants a Tibetan prayer.
Topix.net | 28-Jan-2012 07:54
Another foreign visit for Dalai Lama - but not to Tibet
The globetrotting Dalai Lama visited not less than 18 countries last year and the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism already has on the cards a trip to Britain.
Topix.net | 27-Jan-2012 22:16
The Identity Problem
One of the first posts I wrote here, as I remember, had to do with my discomfort with identifying as a Buddhist. I had no trouble with the Buddhism part; it was the identity part that bothered me. Just to say "I am a [insert object of your choice]" gives me a little twitch of discomfort these days.
...about.com | 26-Jan-2012 14:59
Meet An Artist: Po-Wen Liu
Right now, I'm creating functional pieces for every day. I incorporate my personal experiences and cultural background into pottery.
Topix.net | 26-Jan-2012 13:18
Lobsang Sangay Discusses Self-Immolation Of Tibetan Buddhist Monks
Lobsang Sangay, the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, attributes the deaths to restrictions being imposed by the Chinese government on traditional Tibetan practices.
Topix.net | 26-Jan-2012 03:45
Rebecca French is continuing her research on Buddhist legal traditions through the Fulbright program.
UB Law School faculty member Rebecca R. French is spending the next six months in New Delhi, India, as a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher, furthering her landmark research on Buddhist legal traditions.
Topix.net | 25-Jan-2012 21:35
[Iws] Cecc: China Human Rights & Rule of Law Update, 2012, No. 1 [24 January 2012]
This CECC Special Report demonstrates an apparent correlation between increasing Chinese Communist Party and government repression of freedom of religion in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and nunneries, and 12 instances in 2011 of current or former monks and nuns resorting to self-immolation. Reporting from each of the Commission's 10 annual reports ... (more)
Topix.net | 25-Jan-2012 01:01
Degenerate music from the land of the iPhone
Degenerate Music from the 1930s is now a fashionable cause but from our own times is ignored, presumably because the regime doing the proscribing makes iPhones , hosts the Olympic Games and buys an awful lot of Bentleys .
Topix.net | 24-Jan-2012 20:52
Mandalas Bring Serenity to the Carlos Museum
"Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism" is a new exhibit at the Carlos Museum that opened on Jan.
Topix.net | 24-Jan-2012 03:58
Laurie Anderson's Vision of Art in the Future
"The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing," performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson says in an interview in the January 2012 issue of Believer magazine.
Topix.net | 23-Jan-2012 23:48
Tolland Author Writes of Her Spiritual Journey Through Yoga and Buddhism
We all want to be happy, but sometimes we just don't know how to find happiness because we think it is on the outside, but it is just a heartbeatA away," explained Sharon Cormier .A She continued, "a¦it is always right inside us, waiting for us to see with clear eyes, mind and heart." This is the central theme of a new book, "Where the Lotus ... (more)
Topix.net | 23-Jan-2012 19:29
The Right Words
Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche, a lineage holder in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition, has a new book out called Living Fully: Finding Joy in Every Breath. This is not a book I would recommend to someone who just wants to learn something about Buddhism. However, I think some of you who already have some experience with practice would find this book inspirational and clarifying.
...about.com | 23-Jan-2012 16:29
Happy Lunar New Year
It's already January 23 in China, so the Chinese new year has begun. This is a year of the dragon, so for fun I wrote an article about Buddhist dragons. Enjoy.
about.com | 22-Jan-2012 15:52
Rebuilding Lumbini
It is hard for anyone now to imagine what Lumbini looked like during Buddha's days, but historians have it that Lumbini was a flourishing village even then.
Topix.net | 22-Jan-2012 09:07
2012 Messages from Sacramento Buddhist Monastics, Ministers and Lay Teachers
Ten Sacramento Dharma teachers from varied traditions offer their messages for the year 2012.
Topix.net | 22-Jan-2012 04:48
Painter cannot go a day without picking up brush
Aisin-gioro Song Shi, 68, is a renowned painter whose works can fetch more than 1 million yuan a piece.
Topix.net | 22-Jan-2012 00:34
The sound is just following its own nature
In our practice, we think that noises, cars, voices, sights are distractions that come and bother us when we want to be quiet.
Topix.net | 21-Jan-2012 20:29
Correcting the Dictionary
This morning I ran into an article about correct use of the word karma, based on what it says in a standard dictionary. Unfortunately, the article, and the dictionary, are incorrect. Barry Wood of GateHouse News Service wrote,
...about.com | 21-Jan-2012 16:41
Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory Hosts Mandala Sacred Circle
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University will showcase the sacred art of Tibet in the special exhibition Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism from January 21 through April 15, 2012.
Topix.net | 21-Jan-2012 12:19
Buddhism and Techno-Physicalism: Is the Eightfold Path a Program?
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Topix.net | 21-Jan-2012 05:55