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Friday started the forum topic NYT: China Asserts Role in Choosing Dalai Lama in the group
Vajrayana: 1 year, 5 months ago · ViewFrom the New York Times, July 1, 2010: The Tibetan government-in-exile in India says the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama is a fraud. It says the real one, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was endorsed by the Dalai Lama, was abducted with his family in 1995 by the Chinese government and has not been seen since. He was [...]
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Friday started the forum topic NYT: Sex Scandal Has U.S. Buddhists Looking Within in the group
General: 1 year, 5 months ago · ViewFrom the New York Times, August 20, 2010: “Sooner or later, every traditional faith has to confront sexual impropriety by its spiritual leaders: extramarital sex, or sex with the wrong people (members of the congregation, minors) or, for supposedly celibate clergy, any sex at all. “But there are great differences in how religions handle these [...]
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Friday posted on the forum topic Spiritual Materialism in the group
Zen Practice: 1 year, 5 months ago · ViewHi Paul, Great topic. I have encountered surprising rigidity among some Zen teachers (and students) here in America with regard to the preservation of Japanese Zen traditions, rituals, lineage, and scriptural interpretation. Most laypeople who are full time students, have full-time jobs, have families with young children and other worldly responsibilities, will be hard-pressed to [...]
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Friday started the forum topic New Play About Yeshe Tsogyal in the group
Vajrayana: 1 year, 5 months ago · ViewA friend emailed me this link yesterday: http://buddhism.about.com/b/2010/08/18/new-play-about-yeshe-tsogyal.htm Here is the text from “Barbara’s Buddhism Blog” By Barbara O’Brien New Play About Yeshe Tsogyal Wednesday August 18, 2010 The 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe, September 3-18, will include a new play on the life of Yeshe Tsogyal. Yeshe Tsogyal was a woman of 8th [...]
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Friday posted on the forum topic Killing and Bioethics Resources? in the group
General: 1 year, 5 months ago · ViewOn another forum, someone recently posted that the Buddha’s guidelines about right livelihood are so strict that, accordingly, the only way one could feed oneself would be either to forage on wild plants or to beg. (I’m sorry I can’t site the passage verbatim or direct you to the particular scripture.) I’m sorry I can’t [...]
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