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Kalachakra 2014 with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama is currently giving the Kalachakra initiation in Ladakh. The event, which runs from today through July 16, is being live streamed in many languages. Here is a video (2 hrs) of the opening prayers, consecrations and preparations with HHDL. For more information about the Kalachakra 2014 event, and to follow... Read more »

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Dale’s Temple Adventures

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Dale Quarrington, a 36-year-old Canadian teacher of English in Korea, also contributes to spreading the beauty and knowledge of Korean Buddhism through his blog titled, Dale’s Korean Temple Adventures. Since January 2011, Quarrington has visited more than 190 temples in Korea and posted pictures and reviews. That breaks down to three or four temples every... Read more »

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Petition about provocative New Kadampa protests at public teachings by HHDL

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I just signed the petition “New Kadampa Tradition: We request that you immediately cease the provocative protests and yelling at the public teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.” on Change.org. It’s important. Will you sign it too? Here’s the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/new-kadampa-tradition-we-request-that-you-immediately-cease-the-provocative-protests-and-yelling-at-the-public-teachings-of-his-holiness-the-dalai-lama?recruiter=38324271&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

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Buddhist art online

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released their photography collection online for non-commercial use, for free. The collection includes more than 600 photos of Buddhist artifacts in their possession. Well worth visiting… http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?ft=buddhist You can find hundreds more by changing the search word to “Tibet”, “Japan”, etc.

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Thupten Jinpa on Buddhism, Science and Secularism

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Via Tricycle… An excellent interview with Geshe Thupten Jinpa, translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and highly accomplished scholar in his own right, dealing with the intersection of Buddhism, scientific education, and the secularization of meditation/mindfulness. Geshe Jinpa lives in Montreal. http://www.tricycle.com/feature/under-one-umbrella

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