The village was in a valley surrounded by mountains and grasslands covered with sheep. The villagers welcomed them in and shared their food. Though their dialect was incomprehensible to the Tibetans and Chinese, these country folk brought tea to their guests and treated them like royalty…
The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China.
On this 51st anniversary (10th March 2010) of the Lhasa uprising in Tibet, I’d like to talk about one of the bravest people I’ve ever met, a Tibetan monk called Palden Gyatso…
Arthur Braverman was born in 1942 in NY. After living in Nigeria for two years through Peace Corps he went to Japan to study Zen Buddhism.
Corrado Pensa is cofounder and guiding teacher of the Association for Mindfulness Meditation in Rome.
Sir John Aske has been a practising Buddhist for many years. He is a keen traveller and photographer (many of his photos on this blog), and is a regular contributor to Buddhism Now. He lives in Exeter. Other posts by… Read More ›
In ancient times, the Patriarchs and Ancestors directly pointed at the mind for realisation of self-nature and attainment of Buddhahood. Like Bodhidharma who ‘quietened the mind’ and the Sixth Patriarch who only talked about ‘perception of self-nature’, all of them just advocated the outright cognizance (of it) without any more ado…
Kusan Sunim, Korean Seon (Ch’an Zen) Buddhist master…
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