Dalai Lama visiting Syracuse University for peace forum and concert
Dalai Lama visiting Syracuse University for peace forum and concert |
- Dalai Lama visiting Syracuse University for peace forum and concert
- Seeing Fresh: Contemplative Photo of the Week
- “being mindful of what you place in your gob”
- Wat Dhammakaya claims to know rebirth status of Steve Jobs
- UN staff sentenced in Burma for alleged involvement in Rakhine violence
- Malcolm Browne, who photographed Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation, dies at 81
- Two Tibetan teens dead after self-immolation protest on Monday
| Dalai Lama visiting Syracuse University for peace forum and concert Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT  H.H. in Vienna, Austria (2012). On Monday, Syracuse University announced that His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will visit the school in October for a two-day forum called "Common Ground for Peace." Scheduled for October 8–9, 2012, the Dalai Lama will give a talk at 7 p.m. on the second day. His talk will be followed by the One World Concert, featuring Dave Matthews, Counting Crows, Nas, Andy Grammer, and many others, with Whoopi Goldberg hosting. For ticket information for the One World Concert (including when tickets go on sale), see www.oneworld.syr.edu. (Photo [cropped version] via Wikimedia Commons by Wolfgang H. Wögerer using a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.) Read More @ Source
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| Seeing Fresh: Contemplative Photo of the Week Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT Contemplative photography is a method for working with the contemplative state of mind, seeing the world in fresh ways, and expressing this experience photographically. Each week we choose an image that's been submitted to seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies this practice.
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| “being mindful of what you place in your gob” Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) Le boeuf écorché (The beef carcass) Painted circa 1924 From an article by Andrew Graham Dixon: "In 1925, when he had a studio large enough in the Rue du Mont St Gothard, he procured the entire carcass … Continue reading →  Read More @ Source 
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| Wat Dhammakaya claims to know rebirth status of Steve Jobs Posted: 28 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT  From foreignpolicy.org The Bangkok Post reports that Thailand's Wat Dhammakaya, the rapidly-expanding, elite-supported, proselytizing organization founded in 1978, has published a post on its website in which its leader purports to know the whereabouts of Steve Jobs in the afterlife. The Huffington Post and NY Daily News, among others, have picked up the story. According to the post, written by the temple's abbot, Phra Thepyanmahamuni, Jobs has been reborn as "a half Witthayathorn [a knowledge-seeking angel], half Yak [the Thai word for giant]." Digital editor Rod Meade Sperry previously posted about the controversial Wat Dhammakaya and their recurring appearance as a Facebook meme in a post for Shambhala SunSpace last year. Read More @ Source
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| UN staff sentenced in Burma for alleged involvement in Rakhine violence Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT  Photo: Bernard Jaspers-Fajer EU/ECHO. There is a heavy security presence in displaced persons camps in Rakhine. Voice of America is reporting today that two staff members with the United Nations and one United Nations partner have been sentenced to prison terms in Burma for their alleged involvement in the violence between Muslims and Buddhists in the Rakhine state. According to CNN, one is from the U.N. refugee agency, one is from the U.N's food program, and one is from a nongovernmental organization that works with the refugee agency. Aye Win, a U.N. spokesperson in Burma, said that the sentences were handed down on Friday, though the U.N. was never notified of the trial and the accused were been legal counsel. One was found guilty of arson and given a six-year prison term; the other two were convicted of inciting violence and promoting hatred between Muslims and Buddhists, and sentenced to two and three years in prison. All three are natives of Burma, though their identities are not being disclosed. The United Nations says that twelve local workers were detained in June, six having been released so far; news of these sentences came as a surprise. "Well, obviously [we're] very disappointed at the outcome of these cases," Aye Win said. "Especially as we had a very positive development when some of the staffers were released last week. So, we had hoped also that these staffers who were under detention would be given the same consideration." (Photo by European Commission DG ECHO via Flickr using a CC-BY-SA license.) Read More @ Source
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| Malcolm Browne, who photographed Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation, dies at 81 Posted: 28 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT  Browne's image of Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation, shown here on an album cover, became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Malcolm Browne, the Associated Press photographer who captured the image of Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation on a Saigon street in 1963, died yesterday at the age of 81. Brown's iconic photo of the monk engulfed in flames appeared on newspaper front pages throughout the world, and prompted the Kennedy administration to re-evaluate its policy in Vietnam. Though numerous journalists had been told to be at the blocked-off intersection on the morning of June 11, 1963 for "something important," Browne was the only one to show up and document the immolation, which was a protest against South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's persecution of Buddhists. Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1964, and later spent 30 years working as a war correspondent for the New York Times. Browne's wife, Le Lieu Browne, said he was rushed to the hospital Monday night after experiencing difficulty breathing. He had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000. Read More @ Source
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| Two Tibetan teens dead after self-immolation protest on Monday Posted: 28 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT News organizations are reporting this morning that two Tibetan teens self-immolated in protest of Chinese policies outside the gates of Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, Tibet yesterday. The pair, 18 year-old Lobsang Kalsang and 17 year-old Damchoek, died Monday evening from their injuries. Before the two set themselves afire, they shouted slogans of protest (as others before them have done.) It has confirmed that Damchoek is the brother of Tenzin Choedon, a nun who self-immolated in February. Free Tibet says the two latest immolations are the 50th and 51st to happen since 2009. For all past and current Buddhadharma News coverage of the self-immolation protests happening in Tibet, please see here. Read More @ Source
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