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“An Inji 1″


I just found this a few moments ago. It's a video of traditional Tibetan music. The interesting this is the woman in the video appears to be a Westerner, thus the title: "An Inji 1." "Inji" in Tibetan means "Westerner." Enjoy! ...>

Beer


I've had an interesting, though largely unproductive day today. I started by leaving at just after 6:00am for a required meeting at the bookstore where I work to prepare for the holidays.  One of the managers, Jason, even baked us homemade gingerbread cookies.  We were then split into two ...>

Mourning the lost an authority on Buddhist law and a pious monk by the passing away of Venerable Mirisse Dharmasiri Maha Thera


"Country lost an authority on Buddhist law and a pious monk by the passing away of Mirisse Dharmasiri Maha Thera"Sat, 2006-11-18 13:52 By Walter Jayawardhana Colombo, 18 November, (Asiantribune.com): The Anu Nayaka Thero of the the Ramanna Maha Nikaya the Venerable Balangod Pannawansa Thero said ...>

International Monk of Mystery


As you can see in the left hand column, I've got a "clustrmap."  It shows roughly how many hits and where they come from around the world.  So far, I've got hits from several location in N. America, Peru, Europe, India, Mongolia, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealan ...>

BrowserFriendly Now BrowsierFriendlier


Once in a while you have to cut right to the chase. The BrowserFriendly service has been improved in multiple ways to become a more robust, flexible, and internationalized subscription landing page. First of all, the service (along with the rest of FeedBurner) has been fully internationalized, s ...>

Who’s That Knocking on the Door? A Buddhist’s Guide to Evangelical Christianity


'Who's That Knocking on the Door? A Buddhist's Guide to EvangelicalChristianity' ~ An extract from a book by Ven. Sravasti Dhammika "About six months ago there was a knock on my door and I opened it to find two evangelicals Christians there. I knew they were evangelicals because they had tha ...>

Summon Your Aliveness


Being Fully Present When we are fully present, we offer our whole selves to whatever it is that we are doing. Our attention, our integrity, and our energy are all focused in the moment and on the task at hand. This is a powerful experience, and when we are in this state, we feel completely aliv ...>

Giving or Buying?


Giving with expectations of any returns is not giving - it is buying. We put a price tag on what we intend to receive from this transaction. We're trying to buy our expectations with whatever we gave. "The receiving is in the moment we give it. - The getting and receiving is experienced in the ...>

New Era of Enterprises for the Greater Good?


Here's a New York Times article showcasing how the billionaires are doing it... Going beyond simple fund raising, businesses are entering the industries traditionally managed by charities and government organizations. From fighting poverty, diseases research to distribution of water to villages, b ...>

Engaged Buddhism

  • Posted by stan
  • November 14, 2006

The vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh who left Vietnam in the 60's to live in the west is now one of best known Buddhist figures in the West, thanks to his interactions with various Buddhist and non Buddhist figures and thanks to his hundreds of lectures and writings. The BBC calls him "a world ...>