New retreat center balances natural and built environments
New retreat center balances natural and built environments |
- New retreat center balances natural and built environments
- Newark Museum: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucius, and the Cult of Mao
- Seeing Fresh: Contemplative Photo of the Week
- Grand-parentage
- Dharma College, a new Buddhist college in downtown Berkeley
- This Week in the Press: Stories of interest to Shambhala Sun readers
- Webinar: Abuse and Misconduct by Buddhist Spiritual Teachers
- Celebrating John Cage at 100
| New retreat center balances natural and built environments Posted: 05 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT  Photo: wondharmacenter.org A new Buddhist retreat center in upstate New York has been featured in Architectural Digest for its unique design. The Won Dharma Center, designed by architects Thomas Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers, consists of five cedar buildings — one large, airy meditation hall and four smaller ones with a spiraling design that Hanrahan says suggests continuity and infinity. The main meditation hall is surrounded on all sides by airy porches that achieve a balance between indoors and outdoors, and recall the traditional design of wood-framed New England barns. The building is also environmentally friendly — cooling is geothermal, water is heated by sunlight, and the lighting system is more efficient than New York state laws require. You can view a slideshow of the retreat center here. For more information about the Won Dharma Center and its programs, visit its website. Read More @ Source
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| Newark Museum: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucius, and the Cult of Mao Posted: 05 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT  Newark Museum entrance A new exhibit, "Buddhism, Taoism, Confucius, and the Cult of Mao," is currently on display at New Jersey's Newark Museum, funded by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. The exhibit will run indefinitely. According to the Newark Museum website: "Multiple religious arts populate the diverse regions of China. Some traditions, such as Confucianism, Taoism and the Cult of Mao, developed within China. Others traditions like Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, entered with foreign traders, missionaries and shifting populations. The formulations of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism all began sometime between the 6th and 4th century BC. Buddhism arrived in China by land and by sea through traveling merchants and monks shortly after its formulation. All three practices differ drastically from each other, but all have held long-lasting influence in China up to the present day." (Photo via Wikimedia Commons by jim.henderson. This work has been released in to the public domain.) Read More @ Source
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| Seeing Fresh: Contemplative Photo of the Week Posted: 05 Sep 2012 06:00 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 Andy Karr's site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies this practice.
"I love the rich colors and strong forms in this week's photo by Mirja Heide," Andy says. "There's something about the range of reds, from brilliant to almost black, that's particularly delightful. It's a great example of fresh seeing." For more about contemplative photography, and lots of other great photos, visit seeingfresh.com. And don't miss this video or this article on contemplative photography. You can see all our Seeing Fresh posts on Shambhala SunSpace here. Read More @ Source
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| Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT  Whisky Keg Mountains Yesterday traveling south from Inverness to Aberdeen along country roads. Turned a corner and come upon these mountains of kegs in a Cooper's yard. Bound no doubt for one of the many whisky distilleries along the river Spay.  Wendy Hut Today visiting and walking and talking and eating with sangha members. Turned a corner in a garden and came upon this Wendy House. A dream children's house. A Wendy Hut! Grandad planted geraniums and painted it red. Drawing together these two images is a thread of skill and craftsmanship. There is almost a sense of romance around the ancient hand trades. Such as Cooperage, dry stone walling and the like. And in the painting of the Wendy House and the tended vegetable plot is demonstrated equally an ancient skill and craftsmanship. Though not recognized as a trade. Grand-parentage! This is in gratitude for those I have spent time with these past two days. I bow to what you all have done, are doing and will no doubt continue to do. Getting on and caring. Sacrificing retirement years, health and more. No romance, lots of love and devotion. Satisfaction, little recognition. Read More @ Source
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| Dharma College, a new Buddhist college in downtown Berkeley Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT  Photo: dharma-college.com This October, Berkeley will be home to the latest Buddhist college in the United States — Dharma College, located at 2222 Harold Street downtown. The facility, a former business school between the public library and YMCA, was purchased by Lama Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche in 2009 (a Tibetan refugee living in the U.S. since 1959). The first six-week courses will start on October 3rd. According to the article by Johannes Gernert, "The fees for the six-week courses, with weekly sessions bearing titles like "Confused mind is not my friend," are between $ 85 and $ 95. Dharma College is financed by donors from the Buddhist community." Note: Because the institution is not yet accredited, they will not be issuing degrees to students at this time. For more information about Dharma College, be sure to visit their website at dharma-college.com. Read More @ Source
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| This Week in the Press: Stories of interest to Shambhala Sun readers Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT If you're following the Shambhala Sun on Facebook, you know that we share interesting stories from around the web there all week long. But not everyone's on Facebook, so here's what we posted in the past week.
If you're not already following us on Facebook, like the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma pages so you don't miss anything else. You can follow both the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma on Twitter, too. Read More @ Source
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| Webinar: Abuse and Misconduct by Buddhist Spiritual Teachers Posted: 04 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT
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John Cage, the legendary avant-garde composer, writer and artist, would have celebrated his 100th birthday tomorrow. Though Cage died in 1992, he's still a towering figure in the art world, and in honor of Cage's birthday, performances and exhibits are scheduled all around the world this week — click here to see the full schedule. One of the largest celebrations is happening in Washington D.C., where a weeklong festival will feature theater pieces, dance, art exhibits and over 60 musical performances. One of the pianists scheduled to perform is Margaret Leng Tan, who worked extensively with Cage in the 1980′s. As she writes in this New York Times blog post, some of Cage's compositions deal with the disturbed mind, and his music and his Zen philosophy have helped Leng Tan manage her own obsessive compulsive disorder. Cage's longtime interest in Zen Buddhism, and its influence on his creative process is the focus of Kay Larson's new biography, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism and the Inner Life of Artists. Andrea Miller reviews it in our September 2012 magazine — read the review here, and read an excerpt from the book in the Fall 2012 Buddhadharma magazine. Read More @ Source
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