Sumeru News — Media

Rev. Heng Sure, from Gold Mountain Monastery in San Francisco, has written a fascinating article for the Interfaith Observer about using modern social media tools to translate ancient Buddhist texts. Here’s the article: http://theinterfaithobserver.org/journal-articles/2013/1/15/buddhist-translators-without-borders.html

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Robert Thurman on CBC about Buddhist self-immolations in China, for hour 3 of Michael Enright’s “Sunday Edition” this morning. You can hear the podcast here: Buddhist Self-immolations protest Chinese rule in Tibet.  

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This SBA podcast includes Paul McCartney’s 13-minute video “Glass Walls” promoting vegetarian diet and an end to animal cruelty. http://secularbuddhism.org/2013/01/05/episode-150-bob-isaacson-dharma-voices-for-animals/  

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According to the Canada-Tibet Committee, a group of Beijing-based reporters from the CBC have gained access to Tibet, where they have been able to report on recent events: http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/12558 The original post is from Phayul.com

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Regina Leader-Post reprints bad Vancouver Sun article on Canadian Buddhism: http://www.leaderpost.com/life/Buddhism+house+divided/7755402/story.html I hope people are writing letters to the editors of these newspapers to tell them their articles are inaccurate and offensive! Perhaps the publishers of these papers should also seriously consider sending their staffers to the Pure Land Buddhism conference being held at the end of... Read more »

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