Where Peace Is a Living Presence: The Stupa Peace Parks of Kunzang Palyul Choling
06/01/2017 17:47 (GMT+7)
Kunzang Palyul Odsal Changchub Choling (usually shortened to Kunzang Palyul Choling or KPC), a Tibetan Buddhist center in the United States, has created two stupa peace parks—one near Washington, DC, the other in Sedona, Arizona—to provide places of pilgrimage where people of all spiritual traditions can visit, pray, and meditate to find peace and benefit for themselves and others.
The New Year Is Now
01/01/2017 11:36 (GMT+7)
The turning of the year is a natural time to pause and reflect on our lives, be it for the lunar or the Gregorian calendar. Many people prepare by cleaning or making resolutions. Some are excited about a new job or a new child, while others are living without food or shelter. But one thing holds true for everyone: none of us knows what the New Year will actually bring. The Buddha’s teaching on impermanence may seem redundant here, but I think this is the perfect time to examine it it more closely.

Buddhistdoor View: Reflecting on 2016
31/12/2016 11:48 (GMT+7)
What a year it’s been—brimming with economic and political upheavals that historians will be debating furiously for decades to come! Many joke (with a hint of grim sincerity) that the world might have lost its moorings because of the string of deaths of beloved household names that punctuated 2016, from David Bowie to Muhammad Ali to Prince. There is also a growing awareness of the increasingly critical decline of the planet’s ecological health, which can only mean bad news for humanity. We are all living on borrowed time unless we take radical measures to slow such destructive trends as ocean acidification, the melting of the polar icecaps and Himalayan glaciers, and the rapidly accelerating extinction of species (at least 10,000 each year, by conservative estimates!).
“There Is Also Joy”—Mindfulness-based Dementia Care
30/12/2016 10:45 (GMT+7)
Imagine a difficult situation that many of us experience: an aging parent is beginning to forget things, to have difficulty speaking, to struggle physically, and is diagnosed with dementia. As they lose the capacity to function independently, their family begins to make decisions for them, to respond to emergencies, and to support them financially. While helping aging parents is often seen as a filial duty, dementia brings other, more tangled aspects to the relationship. For family members, the stressful role of caregiving can often lead to depression, guilt, and anxiety, diminishing the quality of life and the care that is being provided to the beloved parent.

Moscow’s State Museum of Oriental Art Exhibiting Biggest Buddhist Art Collection in Russia
05/08/2016 15:55 (GMT+7)
The State Museum of Oriental Art (SMOA) in the heart of Moscow is exhibiting Russia’s biggest collection of Buddhist and Asian art, boasting a diverse collection from the Republic of Buryatia in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, India, Iran, Mongolia, and Tibet. Visitors can view a unique range of artifacts and art that includes paintings, sculptures, and antiquities from the Middle Ages, such as weapons, jewellery, household items, and textiles.
Buddhist Monks Working to Tackle Deforestation in Cambodia
23/07/2016 09:27 (GMT+7)
Deforestation remains a major threat to Cambodia’s forests, but a group of Cambodian Buddhist monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice is battling to save these forests by lobbying lawmakers to protect them and by publicly exposing illegal logging.

Latest Well-being Trend Sees Urbanites Seek to Reconnect with Nature
12/06/2016 15:09 (GMT+7)
The benefits of spending time in the Great Outdoors are no secret. Throughout history, great teachers, thinkers, and poets have extolled the virtues and benefits of communing with nature and maintaining a connection with the natural world. Aiming to combat the information and stress overload that all too often accompanies contemporary urban life, a new well-being movement known as “forest bathing” has become one of the fastest-growing health trends in many cities around the world.
Canadian Zen Monk Hopes to Bring Education to All in Myanmar
29/05/2016 16:24 (GMT+7)
Since 2005, Canadian Zen Buddhist monk John Stevens has dedicated himself to bringing education to dozens of remote rural communities across Myanmar. Working through 100 Schools, a UK-registered charity based in the northern city of Chiang Mai in neighboring Thailand, Stevens has so far enabled more than 10,000 children to attend school.

Can Your Smartphone Help You Meditate?
18/03/2016 11:32 (GMT+7)
The profile and popularity of mindfulness and meditative practices have grown remarkably in recent years, among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, as more people seek ways to manage their stress levels as they navigate the breakneck bustle and noise of our complex modern existence. The paradox is that what may sound simple in theory—halting our racing lives and racing minds for a few moments each day to become fully aware of and familiar with the present moment—can be one of the most difficult feats to achieve in practice.
On Pilgrimage: A Journey through Tibet (part 2)
15/03/2016 20:15 (GMT+7)
As our pilgrimage through central Tibet proceeded towards Samye prior to our long journey across the Western Tibetan plateau to Mount Kailash, I noticed a palpable excitement building—a sublime, devotional version of boyish glee. As if the two epic days visiting Drak Yerpa and Gangri Tokar (documented in the first part of this series)* were not vast enough, we were now approaching the sacred site of the primary transmission of realization to the early Tibetan masters who established the authentic Buddha Dharma in Tibet. This was the site of the nexus, the initial gateway for the profound teachings that Vajrayana practitioners the world over are receiving and practicing today. 

Neuroscience Research Supports Buddhist View of an Ever-changing Self
22/09/2015 17:06 (GMT+7)
The Buddhist understanding of the illusory nature of a constant, unchanging sense of self, first posited thousands of years ago, has been validated by recent neuro-scientific research. And while neuroscience cannot yet offer a definitive answer as to exactly how consciousness relates to the brain, some cognitive scientists have begun to reference Buddhist thought in their research.  
How to communicate like a Buddhist — mindfully and without judgment
10/09/2015 11:20 (GMT+7)
San Francisco, CA (USA) -- There’s a lot that used to frustrate me about communicating. Well, if I’m honest, it was that I didn’t know how to do it. I knew how to speak and string words together, but no one ever sat me down and taught me the purpose of communication or how to effectively express myself so I was heard and how to listen so I could understand. A lot of times it seemed that because I knew how to talk, that automatically meant I should know how to communicate.

Archaeologists Work to Conserve “The World’s Largest Book” in Mandalay
03/08/2015 21:56 (GMT+7)
Archaeologists from Australia’s University of Sydney and the Nan Tien Institute in New South Wales are on a conservation mission to clean and document the hundreds of marble stelae—sometimes referred to as the world’s largest book—at Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar.
Spiritual Receptiveness: A Conversation with Reverend Shomon
02/08/2015 11:58 (GMT+7)
Buddhism’s remarkable receptiveness has enabled it to evolve into a tradition of great diversity. Through pragmatic absorption and negotiation rather than conquest or imposition, Buddhism has enriched both itself and the cultures in which it has found a home. This receptivity was amply demonstrated when monks filtered into China from northern India and Central Asia, and when Japan and Korea adopted Buddhism from Tang dynasty (618–907) China and made it uniquely their own. One interesting phenomenon over the past several decades has been the proliferation of Buddhism in the West, Latin America, and Africa. In these traditionally non-Buddhist regions, Buddhism must be even more receptive in order to navigate established, globalizing cultures and trends. In the West, these established cultures are based broadly on a Christian heritage that is both complemented and contradicted by an increasingly normative secular, scientific worldview and social liberalism.

The Wonders of Kham and Larung Gar
01/08/2015 11:12 (GMT+7)
Traveling to the town of Larung Gar in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham was for me a mini-pilgrimage in itself. Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, founded in 1980 by Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok, is probably the largest religious institute in the world and is situated in quite a remote area— the closest major airport is in Chengdu, 24 hours away by road, which is probably why I met very few other foreign travelers during my visit there this spring. During my journey overland from Chengdu I passed through many scenic Tibetan villages and had a growing feeling of stepping back in time.
Worldwide Candlelight Vigil for Nepal on Saga Dawa
03/06/2015 16:50 (GMT+7)
On Tuesday 2 June, the Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation (CGLF) will be organizing a candlelight vigil for all those affected by the recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal. All students and affiliated centers, groups, and individuals worldwide are invited to conduct their own vigils at the same time as the main event, which will take place at 8 p.m. Nepal time (+5.45GMT) at the Great Stupa of Boudhanath in Kathmandu, at the organization’s mother monastery of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling, and in all the mountain villages where monks and nuns from the monastery have been delivering aid. As well as offerings of lights and incense, prayers and sadhanas will be recited throughout the night.  

How To Stay Motivated To Eat Healthy
17/02/2015 14:03 (GMT+7)
We all need some kind of motivation to eat healthy. Only exercising is not quite enough to stay in shape and live your life as a healthy person free from extra problems. You need to have a healthy diet as well. So try these tips for staying motivated to eat healthy wherever you go.
The Bengali Tea Boy
16/02/2015 18:58 (GMT+7)
Around the time I first became interested in the Buddha’s path, I was doing a construction internship in the southwest of the United States, living and working with 15 other people in the middle of nowhere. We got to spend a lot of time with each other. One woman on our crew, whom I’ll call Jessie, drove me nuts. In fact, I remember writing in my journal, “She makes me want to gouge my eyes out!” I can’t remember why I felt so agitated, but I still remember Jessie because of it. At the time, I was reading The Art of Happiness by HH the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler.

Energize your eggs: 11 easy ways to upgrade your morning scramble
31/01/2015 10:33 (GMT+7)
If you know how to cook, and even if you don’t really, chances are you can scramble eggs — a skillet of scrambled eggs is one of the quickest, simplest dishes around and often the first thing a new cook learns to make. Scrambled eggs also happen to be good for you — they’re packed with protein and nutrients such as vitamin D. Plus, they're inexpensive — a dozen eggs costs less than three dollars. 
On Pilgrimage: A Journey through Tibet (part 1)
16/01/2015 15:21 (GMT+7)
Pilgrimage is a mysterious thing. It has a very simple outer level that is sheerly pragmatic. One makes a journey to a particular place in a particular timeframe, with all the logistics involved. And yet . . . there is something that makes a pilgrimage different than most journeys or ordinary travel. Somehow a transformation occurs, one similar to that which takes place in committed, long-term meditation practice. One’s outlook changes. The place one looks from is altered somehow; everything is seen differently. This involves a transformation not only in perspective, but in the very clarity with which one sees, with which one acts, and with which one experiences the world.

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