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• The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide

  By Buddhism Now on 10 December 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  The album was first brought to the West in 1923 by a Christian missionary who acquired it from a Buddhist monastery in Jehol, Inner Mongolia. It is believed to have been commissioned by a Mongolian patron during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), whose rulers sponsored extensive artistic production and supported Tibetan Buddhist monasteries. Drawing together Tibetan Buddhist content with the aesthetic traditions of Qing-era Chinese art in Inner Mongolia, the album exemplifies the rich patterns of cross-cultural exchange that characterized the period and region…

• Part 2 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura

  By Buddhism Now on 5 December 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  In our zazen we have to let go of any kind of thinking, even thinking about dharma.

• Looking Deeply, by Thich Nhat Hanh

  By Buddhism Now on 2 December 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  During the exercise, we identify the in-breath as the in-breath, and the out-breath as the out-breath, like a child’s game. It is very easy. If you enjoy it, concentration just comes without any attempt at getting it…

• Tathata or Suchness

  By Buddhism Now on 21 November 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  When I first came across this word ‘Suchness’ in Zen literature, I thought, ‘What the heck is Suchness?

• Million thanks to everyone _/\_

  By Buddhism Now on 17 November 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  We had our millionth view this morning. Million thanks to everyone _/\_

• Meditation In Daily Life — emotional states, by Bhante Bodhidhamma

  By Buddhism Now on 14 November 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  The moods, once so solid, now seem softer and there is a general uplift towards calmness, peace and joy…

• Brothers and sisters in suffering, old age, sickness and death, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 8 November 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  If the Buddha had started with the teaching that there is no suffering, none of us would have believed it: There certainly is! He certainly got that wrong! So he started with: There is suffering…

• Two Tibetan works on Chan from the Tenth-century

  By Buddhism Now on 31 October 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Later Tibetan accounts agree that the Chinese side lost, leading to expulsion of Chan (Zen) Buddhism from Tibet. However, evidence from Dunhuang, such as this manuscript, suggests that Chan’s influence in Tibet continued well into the tenth-century.

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