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David Brooks, "The Neural Buddhists" - New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/opinion/13brooks.html?ex=1368504000
Robert Powell - Tree with Horns
From his series of paintings of Mustang (in Nepal), focusing on the living quarters of Buddhist monks (1998, I think).
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http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/powell/painting07.htm
Thailand Buddha Buddhism and Buddhist
ThailandBuddha.com offers links to Thailand buriram, buddhism, buddha image, buddha sutra, makingmerit,ordination of a monk, life in a Thai temple, 227 precepts, buddha teachings, temples...
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The Eightfold Path
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http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/eightfoldpath.html
Sikkim Tourism, India
Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second-smallest in area after Goa. The thumb-shaped state borders Nepal in t...
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http://www.holidayiq.com/states/Sikkim-Overview.html
Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Gangtok is the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim. It is situated in the lower Himalayas. Known for its clean surroundings and temperate climate, this hill station of ...
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The Neural Buddhists - New York Times
My guess is that the atheism debate is going to be a sideshow. The cognitive revolution is not going to end up undermining faith in God, it’s going to end up challenging faith in the Bi...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/opinion/13brooks.html
Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism
The Mountains and Rivers Order is an organization of associated Zen Buddhist temples, practice centers and sitting groups in the US and abroad. Inspired by Zen Master Dogen's Mountains an...
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http://www.mro.org/mro.html
Mindful Medicine - An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you go in talking about the Buddha and inviting masters with shaved heads for lectures, it's going to be perceived right away as some foreign cultural ideology - a belief system. Under...
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http://www.kwanumzen.com/primarypoint/v08n2-1991-summer-jonkabatzinn-mindfulmedicine.html
Do not zzz -- introduction to Zen
A really neat basic introduction to Zen produced by Kodai-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan.
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http://www.do-not-zzz.com
How Meditation Works
An introductory overview of techniques for mental development within the Buddhist traditions of Theravada, Tantra and Zen and including reference to Christian contemplative practice.
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http://here-and-now.org/VSI/Articles/TheoryMed/theoryHow.htm
Mindfulness In Plain English
The subject of this book is Vipassana meditation practice. Repeat, practice. This is a meditation manual, a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step guide to Insight meditation.
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
How to Meditate
From kalachakranet
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Zencast
Very cool, very web 2.0, very useful -- all kinds of zen related podcasts
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http://amberstar.libsyn.com
Zencast Blog
Zencast Blog is the companion blog to the Zencast Podcast . This is where you will find all the "Metta-Data"
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http://zencast.wordpress.com
The Minimalist’s Guide to Fighting (and Beating) Clutter Entropy | Zen Habits
The Minimalist’s Guide to Fighting (and Beating) Clutter Entropy
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http://zenhabits.net/2008/01/the-minimalists-guide-to-fighting-and-beating-clutter-entropy
Thich Chon Thien - Personality - 1-2
Contains excerpts from the narrative describing the events of the night of Siddhartha Gautama's enlightenment. -- "Thus with mind composed, quite purified, quiteclarified, without ble...
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http://www.zencomp.com/greatwisdom/ebud/personality/person-12.htm
Interactive Tour of the Buddhist Wheel of Life (flash movie)
An interactive explanatory graphic of the Wheel of Becoming, created around a spectacular modern Bhutanese painting.
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http://www.buddhanet.net/wheel2.htm
::::: WELCOME TO GIACLAMTU BUDDHIST YOUTH :::::
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http://www.buddhist-youth.com/intro/intro.htm
The University of Chicago Martin Marty Center
A U. Chicago Divinity School assistant professor on Buddhism and neuroscience, occasioned by the flap over the 14th Dalai Lama's planned address to the Society of Neuroscience.
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http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2005/1103.shtml
Won Institute of Graduate Studies
A local school granting masters-level degrees in three programs (meditation, ministry, and acupuncture) related to Won Buddhism. Not yet accredited.
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http://www.woninstitute.org
The Zen Society
A Dharma center in southern NJ, with Zen orientation. Sounds interesting, if a little cultish (esp. w. regard to the supposedly nonsectarian teacher veneration).
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http://www.jizo-an.org
Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/27/2003 | Towering faith to take shape
A note on the founding of Wat Mongkoltepmunee, a Thai temple, in Bensalem, PA. From 2003.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20041113070859/http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/6871...
The Blog | Sam Harris: A Contemplative Science | The Huffington Post
Sam Harris participates in a week-long silent retreat at Insight Meditation in Barre, Mass.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/a-contemplative-science_b_15024.html
Wired 14.02: Buddha on the Brain
An overview of the science that inspired the invitation by the Society for Neuroscience's speaking invitation to the Dalai Lama: meditation physically changes the brain.
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/dalai.html
Karma Chakra ~ The Board Game ~
A Buddhism-based, Parcheesi-style board game in which you travel around the board rolling dice and collecting cards in order to get a better rebirth.
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http://www.karmachakragame.com
As the Dalai Lama visits, Buddhism is now the fourth-largest religion in the U.S.
From the Christian Science Monitor, an article on the "Americanness" of American Buddhism. A generally positive piece that praises the Dalai Lama and his Western admirers.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0914/p14s01-lire.html
Why I ditched Buddhism. - By John Horgan - Slate Magazine
A criticism of Buddhism. Sort of a peculiar little article. Might be useful in teaching.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2078486
Paintings of Tibet
Amazing paintings by Robert Powell. Most are "documentary" -- i.e., they are simply faithful captures of what he saw -- but some are imagined scenes.
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http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/powell/index.html
Steven Segal is a reincarnated Tibetan lama (tulku)
Peculiar ... a statement by a Tibetan lineage head explaining the circumstances surrounding his recognition of Steven Segal as a tulku, i.e. a reincarnation of 17th-century Tibetan "hidde...
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http://sangyetashiling.dk/kt/seagal.htm
Surge of religious belief in China
On the resurgence of religion in modern-day China. Religious practice (of the five "authorized" faiths: Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Islam) is increasingly public, tho...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/world/asia/04china.html?ex=1330664400&en=1882077ee52bd4ed&...
Saffron-clad Buddhist monk kicks some serious ass
Think Buddhist monks are all about tea ceremonies, breathing meditation, and "present moment, wonderful moment"? Wrong. Check this photo out.
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/0,,70141-1261670,00.html
WITNESS: Japan nuns for a day mix religion and role-play | Reuters
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http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSL3054403920070701?sp=true
No fat Buddhas: Durham council condemns restaurant name as discriminatory
When people complain about "political correctness gone mad," I usually stop listening. But this seems like the real thing. A Chinese Buddhist opens a restaurant called "Fat Buddha" in Dur...
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http://religion.info/english/articles/article_324.shtml