Author Archives for rinchengyatso
Buddhist Health Survey
Chaplain Danny just sent me the following email. I did the survey and am interested in the results. Check it out:Northern Arizona University is currently sponsoring a Buddhist HealthSurvey (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/hs-p/bhs/), which seeks to assesscertain information about Buddhist practi ...>
Authoritarianism Rears its Ugly Head in China…Again
Check out this link to a story on a recent protest in Tibet and the Chinese crackdown. During a horse festival, a Tibetan man took the stage and asked the crowd if they wanted the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet. According to the article, hundreds shouted "Yes!". The man i ...>
I Survived Harry Potter
Well, Friday night has come and gone and I'm still ticking. I worked 5pm Friday until nearly 2am Saturday for the release of the final Harry Potter book. It was crazy. People were screaming as the time grew near and when we started opening the boxes stacked at each register, the e ...>
Maitreya Project Relic Tour
A groups of friends and I went to a tour of Buddhist relics at UC Irvine on Saturday. I almost didn't go as I haven't been feeling well for just over a week now. I'm fighting a chest cold. However, I'd seen the tour in the Chicago area about four years ago and know how wonderful s ...>
4th of July
Without much sleep, I got up in time to connect with a group from the university participating in the Rosemead 4th of July parade. We had a fairly large group, and my friends Eldor and Shakya and I walked carrying the schools banner. We also had a small Chinese dragon dancing, two cars, ...>
Blogger Buddies
Just a quick post about some changes to my blog roll. First, be sure to check out Hun's Summer of 2007, a blog from a friend of mine who is a professor of Religious Studies at Warren Wilson College (which is technically a university, I think, because I just saw something about MFA programs on ...>
Danny Strikes Again
First things first: Shakya's b-day is Monday, his 29th (he thinks he's getting old. HA!), so he took six of us out to lunch today at a Nepali/Tibetan restaraunt in Pasadena. That's right, he took us out to lunch. He was going to get some cake to share on Sunday, but I have e ...>
Quote of the Day
"Fundamentalism is a poor attempt by a weak mind to make a complicated world appear black and white."
~me
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A Tale of Two Temples
This past weekend I visited two different temples. The first was on Saturday with Venerable Seongwon, my Unsa Seunim (benefactor/master is how I think that is translated). He is the professor/monk who is helping arrange my move to Korea after I graduate next spring. Venerable and a Taiw ...>
The Diamond Sutra
The Diamond Stura is very easy, says Ven. Hyun Gak. In these five video clips, Ven. Hyun Gak, an American monk living in Korea for well more than a decade, explains in very simple terms the Diamond Sutra, one of the most influential Sutras in all of East Asia.
Part 1 Part 2 Part ...>