Join the Dalai Lama’s birthday celebrations with this live webcast

Join the Dalai Lama’s birthday celebrations with this live webcast

Join the Dalai Lama’s birthday celebrations with this live webcast

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT

His Holiness the Dalai Lama turns 77 tomorrow, July 6, and his birthday festivities in Dharamsala, India, will be broadcast live online. There will be speeches in English and Tibetan starting at 9:00 a.m. Indian Standard time, which is 11:30 p.m. today in Eastern Time, and 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time. You can tune into the livestream here.

That's not the only way you can celebrate His Holiness' birthday, though. In his honor, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition has designated July 6 as Compassion Day. There are three main parts to Compassion Day: Rejoicing, Compassion in Action, and Meditation. You can celebrate at an FPMT center, if there's one near you, or at home. For more information about how you can observe Compassion Day, visit the Compassion Day website and/or the day's Facebook page.

And in honor of Compassion Day, Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive will offer free copies of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's books Bodhisattva Attitude and Joy of Compassion. Just place your order on Compassion Day, July 6th and get the books with free shipping anywhere in North America.

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First group of Tibetan monks and nuns graduate from science education program

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:00 AM PDT

Twenty-six Tibetan monks and two nuns have graduated from an intensive five-year summer program run by professors from Emory University, reports the Associated Press. For six weeks each summer, they've been gathering in Sarah, in Northern India, to study subjects ranging from basic math to neuroscience. The monks and nuns didn't earn any degrees, but they'll be returning to their monasteries and nunneries with a new Tibetan-language science curriculum that they'll teach.

The Tibet-Emory Partnership is one of several programs aimed at bringing science education into Tibetan monasteries and nunneries, with encouragement from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

"The Buddhist religion has a deep concept of the mind that goes back thousands of years," said Larry Young, an Emory psychiatry professor and prominent neuroscientist. "Now they're learning something different about the mind: the mind-body interface, how the brain controls the body."

Because they've been trained to learn by memorizing long passages, few of the program participants take notes during class. But, Young notes, they're able to follow along and discuss complex concepts at an advanced level. The bigger challenges, he notes, are in reconciling scientific knowledge with spiritual beliefs. But as one young monk notes, "Buddhism basically talks about truth, or reality, and science really supports that." Read the full story here.

 

 

 

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From the July 2012 magazine: “Politically Aware”

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan is a vocal advocate for incorporating mindfulness into all aspects of American society. In this Q&A from the July 2012 Shambhala Sun magazine — now online in its entirety — Ryan talks about his own meditation practice and his vision for more mindful country, which he outlined in his book A Mindful Nation.

"We'd all slow down and reprioritize our values. Today, consumerism seems to be front and center and caring about one another is on the back burner. In a mindful nation, we'd begin to see and appreciate that we are all connected—we are all part of the 100 percent. It would lead to an education system that's more mindful in teaching social and emotional skills. It would lead to a health care system that focuses on prevention. Our neighborhoods would start to look different. There would be more urban farms and parks and bike trails—things that connect us. In a mindful nation, the pressure would go down. There'd be more time off with your family, like it was for my grandparents."

Read the rest of Andrea Miller's interview with Ryan here. And click here to browse the entire July 2012 magazine online.

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