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Buddhist walking practice

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Sumeru author Innen Ray Parchelo speaks with Ted Meissner of the Secular Buddhist podcast… Chances are if you are on a silent meditation retreat, the primary focus is sitting practice. Not just on retreats, either; sitting has a dominant focus in contemplative practice, interspersed with periods of short walking which seem geared to loosen up... Read more »

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Buddhists Helping Buddhists

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Here’s a review from Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly of A THOUSAND HANDS: A Guide to Caring for Your Buddhist Community, edited by Nathan Jishin Michon and Daniel Clarkson Fisher (Sumeru, 2016). Buddhists Helping Buddhists  

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XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Toronto

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The XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies will be held in Toronto, August 20-25, 2017. Here is the agenda. Scroll down for the specific topics of panels, papers, and presentations… Congress Schedule *All event venues are at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus Saturday, August 19, 2017 15:00 – 18:00 Pre-registration (Bahen... Read more »

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Earth Day interview on the Secular Buddhism Podcast

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Ted Meissner, of The Secular Buddhism Podcast, recently interviewed Dr. Michael Glantz (Consortium for Capacity Building, UColorado-Boulder) and me about an eco-Buddhist Facebook group we started some time ago, called Plot to Save the Earth. The group was started with Dhiraj Pradhananga, from Small Earth Nepal. A global Buddhist Eco-Initiative. If you have relevant articles... Read more »

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A Thousand Hands reviewed in Tricycle Magazine

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Here’s the review, from the summer 2017 issue…

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