August 30, 2010 – 12:47 pm
Recently a “Facebook friend” — though I bet he’d be my “in-person friend” if we lived near each other — posted what seemed to me to be an especially intriguing status update:
Meditation at Navy Medical Center this morning. After meditation one guy said, “Wow, thank you… I had no idea my mind moved so fast!”…It [...]
August 26, 2010 – 9:50 am
“Don’t film us,” exhorts a parent in the new film, Journey from Zanskar: A Monk’s Vow to Children. [Trailer below.] “We look like corpses.”
But a monk responds: “The rest of the world will see how things are in Zanskar.”
And it’s a good thing, too. The residents of Zanskar don’t have it easy and, too often, [...]
August 21, 2010 – 7:05 pm
Taigu and I (Jundo) are very content to announce that, last Thursday, our Treeleaf Sangha ordained three new novice Soto Zen priests in the traditional manner.
What was not so traditional, however — and rather groundbreaking and somewhat controversial — is that it was, we believe, the first time that a Buddhist Ordination has been [...]
August 11, 2010 – 7:54 am
The blog of the late Robert Aitken Roshi has now announced an August 22 memorial service in Honolulu. Click here for details.
And Roshi’s Diamond Sangha has now released an official obituary. It follows here.
Robert Aitken Roshi (1917-2010)
Aitken Gyoun Roshi, beloved teacher and founder of the Diamond Sangha, died August 5 in Honolulu at the age of [...]
August 6, 2010 – 10:22 am
Robert Aitken, one of American Zen’s great pioneers, has died.
Aitken was brought to Zen in great part thanks to time detained in Japanese internment camps (due to his presence as a worker in Guam at the start of World War II). In one such camp he met R.H. Blyth, whose presence and scholarly work would [...]
“You could easily think you were in Tibet. But this is Richmond, which is now home to the first traditional-style Buddhist monastery in Canada.”
Our congrats and best wishes to Thrangu Rinpoche and all the good people for whom this new monastery will be a source of education and happiness.
Now and then on SunSpace we like to share a great post from elsewhere in the blogosphere. Today, we’re please to share this one, from author Marguerite Manteau-Rao and her fine blog, Mind Deep. Enjoy, and comment away.
The Washington Post just published an interesting piece from Chade-Meng Tan, “Hahayana Buddhism,” on the merits of tapping [...]
We here at the Shambhala Sun are big fans of the “Buddho-blogosphere” – that is, we love to see the diversity and dialogue that’s manifesting among the online sangha of Buddhist bloggers. And quite a sangha it is: there are monks and nuns and teachers and students and dabblers, all interacting and making their voices [...]
The first Parliament of the World’s Religions Event, held in 1893 in Chicago, was not only one of the earliest and most important interfaith gatherings in modern history, but also a watershed in the history of Buddhism’s transmission to the West. This past December saw the fifth Parliament in a 116-year period occur in [...]
The Summer 2010 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly (a publication of the Shambhala Sun Foundation) discussed the second-class status of Buddhist nuns and the injustice of denying women full ordination. It’s a subject that has generated a lot of controversy and strong emotion on both sides of the table. So we decided we’d like [...]
The Shambhala Sun Foundation’s first-ever Auction for a Mindful Society ends on Monday, May 31, at midnight.
Mindfulness pioneers Jon Kabat-Zinn and Thich Nhat Hanh – and a host of other people and organizations leading the way to a more Mindful Society – took part in the Auction. Did you? It’s not too late! Click here [...]
Following on her previous updates (see here and here), Michele Martin brings us all up to speed:
It has been over a month since the earthquake in Tibet that devastated Thrangu Monastery. Ten of Thrangu Rinpoche’s senior monks have had the opportunity to travel to Tibet, where they gave out aid to the survivors, [...]
The Shambhala Sun Foundation’s Auction for a Mindful Society opens today!
The Auction will run for only two weeks (ending on May 31) so visit the Auction now to see all the great things our donors are offering to make life more mindful – for you, and for us all.
Items available for bidding number [...]
By Michele Martin
As the days pass, information from Tibet becomes more clear and detailed: twenty-three monks were killed at Thrangu Monastery (see our previous post here); nine with serious injuries are in the hospital; around forty have a range of injuries that are being treated on site as best as possible. Structural damage [...]
Thanks to my friend Sam DeWitt, who sent news of this video clip with the message “Here is Josh Korda (our teacher at NYC Dharma Punx) interviewed on CBS Doc Dot Com. America will never be the same!”
CBS’s own caption for the clip: “Dharma Punx in New York City mixes the tradition of Buddhism with [...]
