For those who may still be unaware, Rinpoche is visiting Toronto, NYC, and Conway MA this year.
http://www.tsegyalgareast.org/pages/participate/membership-retreat-registration.php

Please visit this site:

http://www.for-the-people-of-tibet.net/

My BFF in Seattle got involved with Seeds of Compassion, the presenting organization,via the all-ages community that was created to sing for His Holiness ... and she says it has ballooned to 2000 members ( Read more... )

Anyone else see this article in the BBC?

Comments?

Therefore, Shariputra, without attainment,

bodhisattvas take refuge in Prajnaparamita

and live without walls of the mind.

Without walls of the mind and thus without fears,

they see through delusions and finally nirvana.

All buddhas past, present and future

also take refuge in Prajnaparamita

and realize unexcelled, perfect enlightenment.

- The Heart Sutra, ( Read more... )

Here is a glamorous interpretation of Kuan Yin's /Avalokitesvara's vow to save all living beings. The only thing missing for me is that it isn't on ice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKJiP_bdbE 

I just found a 2008 calendar of Buddhist holidays from all traditions ( Read more... )

Taken from http://ecumenicalbuddhism.blogspot.com/2008/01/nativity-of-buddha-nativity-of-christ.htmlSome interpretations of the life story of the Buddha attribute his birth to a virgin birth. This is likely due to a specific interpretation of the prophetic dream Queen Māyā is said to have had prior to conception and is not a widely held view ( Read more... )

When you feel anger ( Read more... )

Hollywood is to fill in the Bible's "missing years" with a story about Jesus as a wandering mystic who travelled across India, living in Buddhist monasteries and speaking out against the iniquities of the country's caste system ( Read more... )