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 Introduction to the Five Principal Spiritual Traditions of TibetTradition has it that Tibet is the land of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of compassion, and the Tibetan people are his descendants. They trace their ancestry to the copulation of an ape, an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, and an ogress, an emanation of the goddess Tara, whose progeny gave birth to the Tibetan people in the Yarlung valley.
 Greetings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Buddhist WomenFrom a message sent by His Holiness to the fourth International Conference of Buddhist Women, held in Ladakh, August 1995. (Reprinted from Sakyadita, the magazine of the International Association of Buddhist Women, Spring, 1996.)
 ORIGIN OF THE DRESS OF THE BUDDHIST MONKS AND NUNSOn receiving enlightenment at Bodh-Gaya, Buddha announced the first sermon in Banares to five people of the happy group and eighty Gods (Lok Deve.) The five ascetics grasped the scope of the teaching and became ‘Arhats’, saintly state leading to ‘Nirvana’. Although these five were enlightened from within; they dressed up as lay people did. So, Buddha laid down procedures
 Dark side story of the Birth Place of Light of Asia...Lumbini’s Development Myth: An Outlook 30 Years after the Master Plan was DesignedKathmandu/Lumbini, July 13, 2008- Now, the festive look of Lumbini is gone: gone are those celebratory moods of the Birthday Anniversary of Light of Asia, Gautam Buddha, and gone too are those colourful electric lights and diyos. What remains is the harsh reality of Lumbini’s incomplete Master plan.
 About Bauddhanath and Guru Padmasambhawa-Several years ago, a Goddess had a daughter called GANGCHUNGMA, an emanation born from the mind of Arya Avalokitesvara. She descended to the human land and was born to DECHOG, the daughter of a male servant in the town of MAGUTARA in Nepal.
 Introducing Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling MonasteryUpon completion of the monastery in 1976, His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah performed the official inauguration — the first time a Nepalese monarch had ever performed such a ceremony for a Buddhist monastery. Immediately thereafter, Karmapa appointed 24-year old Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche abbot of the new monastery. Karmapa then carried out the elaborate
 Buddhism is gaining followers in the West with practical ways to still the mind and find enlightenment.The man who taught me the most about Buddhism wasn\'t a monk with a shaved head. He didn\'t speak Sanskrit, and he didn\'t live in a Himalayan monastery. In fact he wasn\'t even a Buddhist. He was Carl Taylor, a lifelong San Franciscan who looked to be in his late 40s. At the moment, he appeared cold, sitting upright in a bed rolled into the gardens off the hospice ward at Laguna Honda Hospital. It was a blue-sky summer afternoon, but in this city that often means a bone-penetrating chill. Carl was dying of cancer.
 In and around LumbiniLumbini, Nepal -- Architect Kenzo Tange\'s master plan for Lumbini\'s development is large in scope - it covers an area of 2.56 square kilometres - yet minimalist in terms of aesthetics. It avoids the erection of monumental structures and is instead heavy on symbolism.
 Kingdom in the cloudsPARO, BHUTAN -- The tiny landlocked kingdom of Bhutan has managed a spectacular promotional feat. First, the Fourth King announced he measures his country\'s progress in terms of Gross National Happiness. Then he essentially limited the number of visitors by charging a minimum of $200 a day for accommodation, food, driver and guide
 What Happens When We Die?New York, USA -- A fellow at New York City\'s Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world\'s leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind \"out-of-body\" experiences.
 Monks\' march to mark the one-year anniversary of the Saffron RevolutionSittwe, Burma -- Around 150 Buddhist monks staged a peaceful march in Sittwe this morning to mark the one-year anniversary of the Saffron Revolution, according to an eyewitness.
 \'Life as a Siamese Monk\'It is several years since I found and read a copy of Life as a Siamese Monk. I was visiting Bath for the day and wandered into a bookstore, homing in quickly on the title. I read the description on the sleeve which mentioned an ordination of an Englishman at Wat Paknam, and was intrigued. Wat Paknam is where my late teacher and mother, Fuengsin, had been taught her practice: Dhammakaya.
 What is the goal of Buddhism?For monks and a few exceptional laymen the goal of Buddhism must be the purification of the mind leading to a state known as Nibbana, but for many Buddhists a more modest aim would be to lead a good life. For them recollection of the life of the Buddha and his Teaching helps them to achieve this goal.
 Value of the human lifeKnowing the value of the human life; Siddhartha himself engaged in harden ascetic life in search of knowledge and peace for the sake of living beings.
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche When the seventh Gyalwa Karmapa Chodrak Gyatso (1454-1506), visited the region of Thrangu in Tibet, he established Thrangu Monastery and enthroned Sherap Gyaltsen as the first Thrangu Rinpoche, recognizing him as the re-established emanation of Shubu Palgyi Senge, one of the twenty-five great siddha disciples of Guru Padmasambhava.
Buddhist Meditation Helps People Stop DrinkingA combination of cognitive behavioural therapy and Buddhist meditation can help people with drink problems turn their backs on alcohol. Dr Paramabandhu Groves, a consultant psychiatrist at the Alcohol Advisory Service in London, who has successfully run workshops with people with depression, has now turned his attention to using the techniques to help people with addictions. Dr Groves has been ordained into the Western Buddhist Order based at the London Buddhist Centre in Bethnal Green, east London.
Teaching Your Children BuddhistOf all the thousands of the Buddha\'s teachings, he directed a very few - three or four, depending on what you count - specifically to children. Considering the multitude and breadth of his suttas, it\'s hard to imagine why more weren\'t geared to kids:
A story of the BuddhaThere was a lecture given to five men, when the Buddha was staying at Jeta Grove. It is said that these men, disirous of hearing the Law, went to the Residence, saluted the Master and sat down aside. Now it is not the way of the Buddhas to only give the truth to rich people while changing
Karma in BuddhismHans Wolfgang Schuman
Our present existence is the result of deeds performed by ourselves in previous existences. The body is an \'old deed\'(S 12, 37, 3 II p. 65 - [1]), and to suffer means to endure kammic [karmic] effects, that is to lie on the bed one has made. Thoughts on KarmaW.Q. Judge
EVERY day in life we see people overtaken by circumstances either good or bad and coming in blocks all at once or scattered over long periods of time. Some are for a whole life in a miserable condition, and others for many years the very reverse; |