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Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
-CID Questions Two PMs : (July 07) Criminal Investigation Division in Sri Lanka has questions Member Parliamentarians Vijitha Herath and Ramalingam Chandrasekaran in connection with the arrest of a former Director of the film cooperation.-Blast hits Indian embassy in Kabul : (July 07) At least 40 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul Monday morning. A health...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) As a member of a new generation of Tibetan Buddhist high teachers, His Eminence Gyana Vajra Rinpoche is coming to Seattle to give a teaching on "The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to the Dharma" at 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 25, 2008; and a Long Life Initiation at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 26. The teaching and the blessing ceremony will take place at the Sakya Monastery of...
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About Buddhism (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Buddhists often speak of Buddhism as a practice rather than a faith. What exactly is Buddhist practice?
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Cthulhu Is My Copilot (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The first Zen master to teach in the United States was a man named Soyen Shaku of the Rinzai school of Buddhism. He is quoted as saying, “My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes.” Those were profound words considering he was... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
China's ambassador to France warned of "serious consequences" for Chinese-French relations if the French president meets with the Dalai Lama next month.
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Drunken Stepfather (Free subscription) | yesterday
Her name is Elsa Zylberstein and she’s someone you probably haven’t heard of because she’s from France and not from America. As you’d expect with a name like Zylberstein, has a Jewish father, but since dude realized that Jewish Woman aren’t the prettiest things out there, married a Catholic girl and had her. She considered [...]
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Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taking advantage of new technology and the carbon-credit market, India's religious institutions are becoming leading preachers of environmentalism
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
(AP Photo/Myanmar NGO Group, HO)In this May 8, 2008, photo released by the Myanmar NGO Group, women and children sleep in an open shed near Bogalay, Myanmar, following Cyclone Nargis which struck the ...
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The Buddhist Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and hopeless . No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed. You also are no crazier than anybody...
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ONE INCH PUNCH (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
With the iPhone 3G out this Friday 11th July, people will be flocking to get their Jesus phone. And you can’t have that without a Buddha phone! Not sure how much the concept of the phone ties in with Buddhism, but the aesthetics incorporate religious symbols and Buddha himself on the back, along with a Buddhist [...]
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IndyStar.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Guru's 'Art of Living' methods focus on breathing, meditation.
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Blog Catalog Blog Directory (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Please enjoy these fine art photographs based on the Eight Offering Substances in Buddhism. As a Buddhist in a Tibetan lineage, these works are part of my meditation practice as well as an offering of blessings to all beings.
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lotusinthemud (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
'Mindfulness, or awareness, does not mean that you should think and be conscious "I am doing this" or "I am doing that." No. Just the contrary. The moment you think "I am doing this," you become self-conscious, and then you...
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About Buddhism (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
The Bardo Thodol -- "Liberation Through Hearing in the Intermediate State," known commonly as "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" -- is best known as a guide through the intermediate state, or bardo, between death and rebirth. However, the teachings in the book can be read and appreciated on many different, subtle levels.
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About Buddhism (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
To become a Buddhist is to take refuge in the Three Jewels, also called the Three Treasures -- the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha. This essay explains what "taking refuge" means to a Buddhist.
