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• Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture

  By Buddhism Now on 20 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  As illuminating for new enthusiasts of Chinese Buddhist art as for scholars and connoisseurs, Wisdom Embodied is a glorious tour of the Metropolitan’s unparalleled collection, certain to earn its place as a classic in the field…

• Dependent Origination, by Dalai Lama

  By Buddhism Now on 10 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Short talk by the Dalai Lama on the ‘law of causality and dependent origination’. About 25 minutes.

• Toward Nirvana and From Nirvana, by Professor Masahiro Shimoda

  By Buddhism Now on 4 July 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The process whereby Buddhism—which first began as the deeply internal experience of just one ascetic practitioner—has over time borne fruit within vastly different races, climates, cultures and histories, might be likened to the way volcanic magma breaks through the earth’s crust and gushes heavenwards then flows down in every direction…

• Purpose and the Search for Happiness, by John Aske

  By Buddhism Now on 26 June 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  The parallels with the story of the young Prince Siddhartha 2500 years earlier are clear. As childhood with its certainties (if we are lucky) and its securities, moves into adolescence and then maturity, we are all confronted with the opportunity of opening up to the world (and ourselves) and exploring it, or turning away from it and trying to restore the gilded cage we once lived in…

• Try to have a Permanent Emotion, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 18 June 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  To think ‘I am screwed up’, is a value judgement, isn’t it? ‘Screwed up’ makes the ‘I am’.

• Misunderstanding, by Trevor Leggett

  By Buddhism Now on 12 June 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  ‘Oh, it’s not finished yet,’ replied the senior. ‘Now do the same practise, but this time think about, and try to understand, yourself.’

• Emptiness True Health, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 30 May 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  The medicine which cures the disease is the knowledge and practice that gives birth to emptiness. When emptiness has appeared it will be the cure of the disease and alter recovery from the disease there will be nothing save emptiness, the state void of Dukkha and. void of the mental defilements that are the cause of Dukkha

• The Qingzhou Discoveries

  By Buddhism Now on 20 May 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  In 1996 around 400 Chinese stone sculptures of the Buddha were discovered in Qingzhou, China…

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