Jan 3
This episode is the first half of a lecture by Dr. Eric Hauber, Vice General Director of SGI-USA. The topic is “The Unique Buddhist Perspective of Life and Death” and the lecture was given at Viento y Agua Coffeehouse and Art Gallery in Long Beach, CA.
We have decided to release the second half of the lecture as Episode 3, to be posted in the next day or two. Let us know what you think about the shows so far!
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Jan 1
A five-day photo exhibition was organised by a Buddhist monastery at Dharamsala here to commemorate twenty years of the passing away of the tenth Panchen Lama.
The exhibition concluded on Thursday.
On view were rare photographs and vintage Thangka paintings (traditional Tibetan scroll art) that showed the lives of Panchen Lamas.
The organisers wished that through this exhibition the world will remember the forgotten Tibetan Buddhist lineage of spiritual leaders.
The main aim of the exhibition was to show the world that the tenth Panchen Lama had consistently worked for the welfare of the Tibetan people, and also that he had struggled to preserve Tibetan theological culture despite Chinese conquest and rule.
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Jan 1
Found at newkerala.com
“The Dalai Lama will deliver a discourse at Palitana near Bhavnagar in Gujarat Jan 3,” according to a post on the website of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
“After that he will reach Bodh Gaya to give teachings from January 5 to 9,” said the website.
The Dalai Lama, 74, along with many of his supporters fled Tibet and took refuge in India when Chinese troops moved in and took control of Lhasa in 1959.
He has ever since been heading the Tibetan government-in-exile from here which is not recognised by any country in the world.
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Dec 30
He whose in-flowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and image-less release – the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.
- Buddha…
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Dec 30
From the Associated Press (AP)
NAGANO, Japan, Dec. 30 (AP) – (Kyodo)—Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will visit Zenkoji Temple in central Japan, which earned praise from him for rejecting cooperation in a Beijing Olympic torch relay, in June 2010, the temple said Wednesday.
The Buddhist temple in Nagano declined to serve as the starting point of the Japan leg of the torch relay because of the crackdown on Buddhists in Tibet in 2008, and the Dalai Lama gave a statue to the temple in March to show his gratitude over the decision. Both sides have since maintained exchanges.
“Zenkoji Temple’s decision to withdraw from the relay led Tibetans to think that they have received strong support from the Japanese Buddhist community,” said Lhakpa Tshoko, the representative of the Dalai Lama’s liaison office for Japan and East Asia.
The Dalai Lama will arrive in Japan on June 18, attend a ritual at the temple the following day and deliver a speech in Nagano on June 20 before visiting Tokyo and Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, according to the temple.
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Dec 28
The country India is famous as the land of mysticism and values, was the origin of some religions, that continue living today in the world.
The mainly prevailing religion in India at the moment is Hinduism. Approximately 75% of Indians are Hindus. Hinduism is a multicolored religion with an infinite gallery of Gods and Goddesses. Hinduism is one of the very old religions in the world. It is thought to have been developed approximately 5000 years ago. After that in the early period other religions also came into existence in India.
Approximately 510 BC two more religions came into existence, namely, Buddhism and Jainism. These days only about 0.5% of Indians are Jains and about 0.7% people are Buddhist. In olden times Jainism and especially Buddhism were very famous in India. The people of India who accepted Buddhist viewpoint multiplied not only inside the Indian sub-continent but in addition it spread far and wide to kingdoms east and south of India.
The three oldest religions, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, are seen as the base of the Indian philosophy. In contemporary period many fresh religions were also recognized in India.
One relatively latest religion in the country is Sikhism and it came into being in the 15th century. Approximately 2.5% people of India are Sikhs. There were different efforts to generate new religions in India but they did not invariably thrive. For instance, a Moghul emperor, Akbar, who ruled from 1556, made an attempt to develop a new religion, Din- E- Elahi, but it did not continue to exist for a very long time. There are other spiritual philosophies whose supporters see them as a separate religion, but they do not at all times get this respect. For instance Lingayat of south India see them as a diverse religion, while some others see them as a division of Hinduism. There are also some ancestral communities who insist upon to be accepted as a different religion from Hinduism.
Besides the religions that urbanized in India, there are supporters of religions which never originated in India. The chief non-Indian religion is Islam. They are about 22% of the population of India. Christians are further then 2% of India’s population. There are also Zoroastrians. Though they are less then 0.01% of India’s population but they are known all over India. There are a few thousand Jews in India. Judaism and Christianity might have reached in India before it came in Europe.
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Dec 28
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- Buddha …
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Dec 22
Bangkok – Thailand’s Sangha Supreme Council which governs the country’s Buddhist monkhood has severed all ties with and Australian monastery for ordaining two female monks, media reports said Tuesday….
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Dec 22
United News of India Gulbarga, Dec 20: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today said rulers of China have no faith in Buddhism despite China being a Buddhist country.
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Dec 20
The National Commission for Minorities has written to the Centre and the Bihar government to put Buddhists in sole charge of managing the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago.
The NCM has also asked the state government to amend the Bodh Gaya Temple Act, 1949, as it feels the law is not in harmony with Article 26 of the Constitution.
The article guarantees every religion the right to establish and maintain a religious institution. Under the existing law, four Buddhists and four Hindus should be on the Bodh Gaya temple management committee. The panel’s tenure is for three years and the Gaya district magistrate is its ex-officio chairman.
“The NCM is of the view that the 1949 act should be either amended or repealed so that the temple management is vested exclusively with Buddhists. We have taken up the case with both the Union and the state governments,” said Spalzes Angmo, a Buddhist member of the commission.
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