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Buddhism Now is an online Buddhist magazine based upon the teachings of the Buddha.
Buddhist Publishing Group (BPG) was formed in 1983 and published the paper issue of Buddhism Now between 1989-2007.
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Two ways not to go, by Diana St Ruth
The path, the way, reality, is open for us all to see and know for ourselves. It can be done and we can do it if we wish. That, to me, is what the message is, at least in most forms of Buddhism.
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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche passed away on the 13th of February at his hermitage Nagi Gompa on the southern slope of the Shivapuri mountain. He was born in eastern Tibet on the tenth day of the fourth Tibetan month in 1920…. Read More ›
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Is Your Hair On Fire? by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
It is quite amusing and quite sad that most people seem to wander through life in a little cloud, as if nothing were wrong. And then, when something is obviously wrong, they pretend it isn’t. People rarely develop the keen and powerful urge to be free of all the dukkha…
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Dalai Lama meeting Aung San Suu Kyi
Love this picture of Dalai Lama meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, in the UK, on her birthday.
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Words that live on, by Dalai Lama
Words that live on, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Short film 30secs..
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Bhante Bodhidhamma
In the late seventies I began to meditate in the Soto Zen tradition with my first Buddhist teacher, Vajira Bailey in Birmingham. In August 1979 I underwent Jukai and committed myself to Buddhism as a Zen Buddhist at Throssel Hole… Read More ›
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The Burden of Selfishness, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Selfishness is a terrible burden for the entire world. You can see that all the problems, all the conflict, all the crises, are the result of selfishness. Many people come to Asia to get away from the constant sense of crisis that they meet with in the West. But they can’t escape it by coming to Asia. The same problems are here as well!
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Dalai Lama: I never get angry
“If I develop anger, suffer myself. No help to our problem,” The Dalai Lama. Six Minute audio.
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