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Dharma Talk

Sunday, March 16, 2008

I went to a Dharma talk by kusaladharma Demar, a RL Buddhist monk in SL, whose studied for 11 years and came to SL simply to teach the Dharma. kusaladharm speaking: A shot of him with the group in the background.

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NPR : Geography of Heaven: Kawakarpo

Monday, January 30, 2006

National Public Radio and National Geographic team up to report on Tibetan Buddhist ideas of the afterlife by searching the mountain Kawakarpo. NPR : Geography of Heaven: Kawakarpo

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Closest Known Galaxy Just Discovered

Wednesday, November 5, 2003

When you consider the Buddhist theory of cyclic existence, you envision leaves growing on trees, changing colors, and falling; but never this: Via Yahoo News Yahoo! News – Closest Known Galaxy Just Discovered: “A small galaxy has just been detected as it is being ripped apart and swallowed by the much larger Milky Way. The [...]

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Why Won’t the Dalai Lama Pick a Fight?

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Buddhist News Network – Archive: “The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and temporal leader in exile and the man believed by Buddhists to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion, does not see himself as a miracle worker. ‘I’m a skeptic,’ he said at his recent sold-out appearance at Boston’s FleetCenter. ‘If someone truly [...]

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Impermanence of Art

Saturday, August 16, 2003

The Buffalo Museum of Science’s sand mandala isn’t being shown because the workers wanted to move it, and they didn’t hold it even; so, it shifted. His Holiness The Dalai Lama states in Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment, “This transient and impermanent nature of reality is not to be understood in terms of something coming [...]

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