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Arizona Daily Star
April 12, 2018
Pielstick hasn't seen a lot of collaboration between the various Buddhist groups in town, though he and others are making efforts to change that. ... The Awam Tibetan Buddhist Institute, 3400 E. Speedway, will continue its monthly movie and potluck with a showing of "The Sacred Sites of the Dalai Lamas" 6Ãâà...
WQOW TV News 18
April 12, 2018
A group of Tibetan Monks created a sand mandala at St. Norbert College, in Brown County. It's a type of art that is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Mandalas can be created in various ways, like water color on canvas, carved in wood or with colored sand. Can't Find Something? WQOW 5545 Highway 93, EauÃâà...
Freepress Online
April 12, 2018
Eight Tibetan Buddhist refugee monks traveled from India to midcoast Maine as part of their 13-month tour of the US. Their Sacred Art Tour ... Since 1949, when the Dalai Lama fled Tibet and settled in India, more than 1.2 million Tibetans have died at the hands of the Communist Chinese. During the past 60Ãâà...
WeAreGreenBay.com
April 10, 2018
DE PERE, Wis. (WFRV) - A unique and eye-catching creation is currently taking place at St. Norbert College with the help of the Tibetan Buddhist Monks. The monks are from Drepung Loseling Monastery and they are constructoing a mandala sand painting. They can be created in various forms, withÃâà...
Daily News & Analysis
April 10, 2018
A newly discovered cliff carvings of Buddha in eastern Tibet may offer a glimpse into the Buddhist art and local history from 1,200 years ago, ... The era of Tubo Kingdom is said to be the most powerful period in Tibet's history which has made contributions to the Tibetan culture and the Tibetan Buddhism.
Tricycle
April 4, 2018
The Asia Society's exhibit delves into Italian scholar Giuseppe Tucci's expeditions and the vivid Buddhist thangka paintings he collected. ... The show opens with a spectacular 16th-century painting depicting a brilliant red Amitayus, one of the three long life deities in Tibetan Buddhism, ensconced in anÃâà...
OZY
April 1, 2018
He also found it odd that the Sutra of Issa “should not have found a place either in the Kandjur or in the Tandjur [the Tibetan Buddhist canon]. ... Scholars of Buddhism generally agree that Notovitch was a fraud — he went on to publish other sketchy historical tomes and once claimed that a cardinal in RomeÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 31, 2018
... the revered spiritual leader of Tibetans and an international icon, fled Tibet in 1959 following a failed anti-China uprising. He arrived in India and set up a government in exile in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala. India has continued to host the Dalai Lama and his fellow Tibetan Buddhist exiles evenÃâà...
East Hampton Star
March 30, 2018
In 1995, he was selected to teach at the monastery's North American seat in Ithaca, N.Y., and he's now a professor of Tibetan Buddhist studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. He has never returned to Tibet, he said, because, despite trying twice, the Chinese government denied him aÃâà...
New York Times
March 29, 2018
“In Delhi, we approached many dignitaries and invited them,” said Sonam Dagpo, a spokesman for Tibet's government in exile and the chief organizer for the ... India has continued to host the Dalai Lama and his fellow Tibetan Buddhist exiles even though China condemns them as dangerous separatists.
Tricycle
March 29, 2018
So [we have members] whose main sangha is Tovana [Israel's largest sangha], or Zen Buddhism, or Tibetan Buddhism, and they join our activities. We think those ... Is it mostly people who were born into Judaism, Christianity, or Islam, or do you have a lot of people who grew up with Buddhism? Israel is aÃâà...
News18
March 27, 2018
New Delhi: Marking the 60th year of exile in India, Tibetan Buddhist leader Dalai Lama is set to kick off yearlong pan India 'Thank You India' events on ... Sangay said that Tibet is inextricably linked to India through geography, history, culture, and spiritually and that “the Tibetan struggle is 'Made in India'Ãâà...
Global Times
March 22, 2018
"Theft, for example, not only violates the law, but also breaks the Shramanera Precepts and the temple's regulation," said Ngawang, a Buddhist in Sera Monastery, ... The Tibet regional government has issued multiple regulations related to Tibetan Buddhism in recent years, including the Regulations on theÃâà...
The Hindu
March 22, 2018
A Tibetan Buddhist monk prays in front of a wall-mural of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during a gathering to mark the 58th anniversary of the March ... “The World Parliamentarians conference on Tibet has been postponed,” confirmed former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP MP ShantaÃâà...
Media India Group
March 21, 2018
The main market square is filled with stalls selling Buddhist mantra (spell) prayer wheels, Tibetan singing bowls for meditation, prayer flags, yak wool ... Buddhism, the religion which forms an indispensable part of Tibetan beliefs and culture, has played a crucial role in the construction of the lifestyle ofÃâà...
Brown Political Review
March 17, 2018
But, as Kevin Carrico points out in a cultural and historical analysis of the practice in Tibet, there is no tradition of self-immolation in Tibetan Buddhism. In his view, an implication of religion is simplistic, and the best way of understanding self-immolation is as “less Tibetan Buddhist than simply Tibetan,”Ãâà...
GetReligion (blog)
March 13, 2018
Since the late-1950s, Buddhism has grown exponentially among non-ethnic Western Buddhists. It began with Zen, then embraced Tibetan and Southeast Asian Buddhist schools. Key is that the first adherents tended to be counter-cultural types – beatniks, hippies, and serious Judeo-Christian spiritualÃâà...
Tricycle
March 13, 2018
In a YouTube video uploaded in early March, the prominent Tibetan Buddhist religious leader openly expressed his life-long struggle to meet the demands that ... said Ogyen Trinley Dorje, 32, one of two claimants to the title of the 17th Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
Patheos (blog)
March 13, 2018
To find out if the logic of the Buddhist perspective eliminates existential fear, Shaun Nichols at the University of Arizona and his colleagues surveyed hundreds of monastic Tibetan Buddhists (monks-in-training) in exile in India, as well as lay Tibetans, Tibetan Buddhists from Bhutan, Indian Hindus andÃâà...
The Australian
March 12, 2018
Chinese President-potentially-for-life Xi Jinping is garnering even higher accolades, as farmers hail the leader as a living Buddhist deity. ... in Beijing at the weekend that “the ordinary people in the herder areas” — meaning ethnic Tibetan yak herders — were venerating Mr Xi as “a living Bodhisattva”.
BBC News
March 12, 2018
The Chinese have regarded him as an enemy - " a wolf in monk's clothes", they once called him - ever since he rejected Beijing's rule and fled Tibet in 1959 ... As the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama couldn't intervene directly, but last year, as Buddhist mobs torched Rohingya villages, he urgedÃâà...
Times of India
March 10, 2018
Every year, Tibetan Uprising Day commemorates resistance to occupation of Chinese government forces in Tibet on March 10, 1959. ... Expressing its sense that the identification and installation of Tibetan Buddhist religious leaders, including a future 15th Dalai Lama, is a matter that should be determinedÃâà...
Newsweek
March 10, 2018
Award-winning photographer Kevin Frayer documents a sacred festival at an ancient Tibetan Buddhist monastery. ... spectacle known as "the basking of Buddha," or the "sunbathing Buddha festival," is part of the Monlam prayer festival, a magnet for pilgrims from the Tibetan-populated areas of China.
Arizona Daily Star
March 9, 2018
The Awam Tibetan Buddhist Institute, 3400 E. Speedway, Suite 204, will host its monthly movie night 6 p.m. Friday, March 16. The film "Western Tibet Kailash" tells the story of a Tibetan mountain and pilgrimage site, according to press materials. The movie night is free but participants can bring a dish toÃâà...
Mongabay.com
March 8, 2018
In China, where most rivers are deprived of large mammals due to habitat destruction and over-exploitation, a healthy population of Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) was recently found to thrive right in a city of over 200,000 people, due mainly to the joint support of conservation initiatives and Tibetan Buddhism.
Tibet Post International
March 7, 2018
His Holiness emphasised the unity of the Tibetan people, particularly among the three traditional provinces as well as between the various sects of Tibetan Buddhism. “In the past in Tibet, there were instances when monasteries fought each other based on sectarian divisions. However, now we are in theÃâà...
Tricycle
March 7, 2018
In the Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet, Geoffrey Barstow of Oregon State University tackles the history of ... For Tibetan Buddhist practitioners in North America, what might be most surprising is the pointed critique of consuming meat in daily life based on aÃâà...
New York Times
March 6, 2018
Even the history of the Dalai Lama's own sect of Tibetan Buddhism includes events like the razing of rival monasteries, and recent decades have seen a .... Indeed, if that weren't the case, there would be no need for Buddhist practice; it is just because people everywhere (even in Tibet, Myanmar and Japan)Ãâà...
Newsweek
March 6, 2018
One of the West's largest Buddhist groups has admitted to failures in how it deals with “abhorrent sexual behavior” by its teachers. ... Last year, Sogyal Rinpoche, the Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author of the 1992 international bestseller The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, was accused of sexual andÃâà...
The Tribune
March 5, 2018
For, Tibet and Buddhism (along with yoga) are PM Modi's preferred soft foreign policy tools. PM Modi made it a point to be always accompanied by a sapling of the sacred Bodhi tree as if to underline India's spiritual pre-eminence over competitor China during his visits to the Buddhist-dominated Sri Lanka,Ãâà...
Lincoln Journal Star
March 3, 2018
When Glenn Mullin moved to Dharamsala, India, to study with the Dalai Lama in 1972, Buddhism was little-known in the U.S. beyond some pockets of interest in Zen ... One of the world's leading Tibetologists, Mullin is — in significant measure — responsible for bringing Tibetan Buddhist culture to the West.
Lion's Roar
March 3, 2018
Buddhist nun Ani Palmo Rybicki runs Songtsen Gampo and has been teaching Buddhism and meditation courses in Cleveland for over ten years. She grew up in Ohio and encountered Buddhism after moving to Japan to teach English. She studied in France under Pema Wangyal before receivedÃâà...
Phayul
March 2, 2018
His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the long life prayer organized by Buddhist nuns at Tsuglagkhang on March 1, 2018. Photo- Kusang. DHARAMSHALA, March 1: Nuns of all the four major Tibetan schools of Buddhism and Bon tradition offered a long life prayer (Tib: Tenshug) to the Tibetan spiritualÃâà...
Lion's Roar
March 2, 2018
In an interview with ArtAround Arrow, Invader said the idea to travel to Bhutan was sparked by the experiences of a close friend who practices Tibetan Buddhism. “I've always been interested by the spiritual aspect and the philosophy of life inherent to Buddhist practice,” Invader told ArtAround. Invader'sÃâà...
Phayul
March 1, 2018
His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the long life prayer organized by Buddhist nuns at Tsuglagkhang on March 1, 2018. Photo- Kusang. DHARAMSHALA, March 1: Nuns of all the four major Tibetan schools of Buddhism and Bon tradition offered a long life prayer (Tib: Tenshug) to the Tibetan spiritualÃâà...
Big Think (blog)
February 28, 2018
Buddhism may offer some reassurance. A central tenet of the religion is that all is impermanent and the self is actually an illusion. If there is no self, then why fear the end of the self? To find out if the logic of the Buddhist perspective eliminates existential fear, Shaun Nichols at the University of Arizona andÃâà...
HuffPost India
February 27, 2018
JOHANNES EISELE via Getty Images The Jokhang temple in Lhasa is one of Tibetan Buddhism's most hallowed sites. The Jokhang temple, one of Tibet's most sacred sites, reportedly caught on fire on Saturday in the city of Lhasa. Dramatic videos shared on social media show the seventh-century temple,Ãâà...
The Diplomat
February 22, 2018
Unsurprisingly, the information vacuum made many Tibetans even more anxious, since the Jokhang Temple “is seen as the most sacred shrine in Tibetan Buddhism, and for centuries it's been the focal point of pilgrimage for Tibetan Buddhists,” as Robert Barnett, a London-based expert on contemporaryÃâà...
Hong Kong Free Press
February 21, 2018
Chinese authorities have ruled out arson as the cause of a recent fire at Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple, state media reported Thursday, adding an important Buddha statue had emerged “intact” from the blaze. The report is the first official account of Saturday's fire at the more than 1,300-year-oldÃâà...
ABC News
February 21, 2018
17, 2018, that damaged a 1,300-year-old monastery that is one of Tibetan Buddhism's most sacred sites. ... Like other sites of Buddhist learning in Tibet, it is tightly controlled by Chinese communist authorities, who have ruled the Himalayan region with an iron fist since their troops arrived in 1951. PledgesÃâà...
The Guardian
February 17, 2018
However, Robert Barnett, a London-based expert on contemporary Tibet, said Beijing's “almost total suppression of information” about the incident meant many Tibetans feared “the heart of Tibetan Buddhism” had suffered significant damage. For almost four hours after the fire began, he said, it was notÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
February 16, 2018
Pielstick hasn't seen a lot of collaboration between the various Buddhist groups in town, though he and others are making efforts to change that. Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ Email; Print; Save. The Awam Tibetan Buddhist Institute, 3400 E. Speedway, will host its monthly movieÃâà...
Lion's Roar
February 15, 2018
The temple is being built under the guidance of Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, a Tibetan meditation master who currently oversees a 500-acre monastery and education center in the Catskill Mountains of New York. He and his late older brother, Venerable Khenchen Palden Rinpoche,Ãâà...
Tibet Post International
February 10, 2018
Choeyang, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been living in India, visited Tibet three years ago to meet his family after reportedly obtaining a visa from the ... Choeyang travelled to India for advanced studies and religious discourses in Buddhism in Gaden Monastery in South India before returning to Tibet.
Tibet Post International
February 10, 2018
Choeyang, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been living in India, visited Tibet three years ago to meet his family after reportedly obtaining a visa from the ... Choeyang travelled to India for advanced studies and religious discourses in Buddhism in Gaden Monastery in South India before returning to Tibet.
Arizona Daily Star
February 2, 2018
Pielstick hasn't seen a lot of collaboration between the various Buddhist groups in town, though he and others are making efforts to change that. Kelly Presnell ... The Awam Tibetan Buddhist Institute, 3400 E. Speedway, will host several days of teachings by teacher Jigme Lodro Rinpoche Wednesday, Feb.
The New Indian Express
December 31, 1999
Till then, the Bon religion that was active in Tibet was mainly about the occult. So, instead of trying to teach them something new, Padmasambhava took the Bon religion as a basis and placed the Buddhist tantric yogic culture on top of it, creating a well-woven process. Tibetan Buddhism today is a blend ofÃâà...
PenBayPilot.com
December 31, 1999
During the past 60 years of Chinese occupation, more than 6,000 of Tibet's monasteries, including Drepung, have been abandoned or destroyed. Although The Tibetan people are some of the most oppressed people on earth, they choose the middle way of peace, kindness and ease. The only way that theÃâà...
Daily News & Analysis
December 31, 1999
In a show of solidarity, a team of 22 Danish volunteers in collaboration with a Tibetan Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)-in-exile are renovating a prominent Tibetan monument known as 'Tibetan Martyrs Pillar' near the main Buddhist temple in Himachal Pradesh's Dharamsala . Director of Tibet HopeÃâà...
The Union of Grass Valley
December 31, 1999
The group of visiting Tibetan Buddhist monks sit down for a meal with members of the community during lunch Thursday afternoon at St. Joseph's Cultura. ... A group of six visiting Tibetan Buddhist monks have been hard at work placing millions of tiny colored grains of sand to make a mandala at St.
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