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Saving Yourself Saving Yourself Myanmar's prominent Buddhist monk talks peace and unity The Mind-Body Connection and the “Emotional Rollercoaster” Dorsky Museum presents “Anonymous,” an exhibit of contemporary Tibetan art Saving Yourself Posted: 01 Jul 2013 07:00 PM PDT This is a very compelling narrative from someone who detoxed and just finished rehab and is trying to get themselves clear. We all know somebody who's been there even if we haven't exactly been there ourselves. The Shitshow & The Oxygen Mask: A Postmodern Narrative I find the end of it particularly poignant–I feel this is true not only of this process but of things like Buddhist practice. You put on your oxygen mask first. You do what you can in the world, but you've got to save yourself first. It won't take long until I can help others, you think. You take it one day at a time. Read More @ Source Saving Yourself Posted: 01 Jul

Meet Konchog Norbu, our newest Shambhala Sun online contributor Posted: 01 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT There's a new online contributor among us here at the Shambhala Sun Foundation, so we thought we'd let him introduce himself. Friends, meet Konchog Norbu , who recently began writing regularly for us both here and at Buddhadharma News . About himself he says: "I come from a family of bibliophiles in which Scrabble games were gladiatorial in their intensity, and disownment was the implied threat if you couldn't write a clever letter that made the recipient snort and immediately snatch up a pen to reply. (Yes, people once wrote letters to one another. With pens.) Carrying that momentum into the study of 20 th century American literature and creative writing at Brown University, I discovered my favorite application of whatever talent I possessed was promoting cool stuff that I loved. In and just out of college, this mainly meant underground music and performance,

Dorsky Museum presents “Anonymous,” an exhibit of contemporary Tibetan art Posted: 29 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT Rabkar Wangchuk, "Spiritual Mind and Modern Technology," 2013. Image courtesy Samuel Dorsky Museum. A rare exhibit of contemporary Tibetan art will be on display later this year at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York, New Paltz. The show, entitled Anonymous , features more 50 works of painting, sculpture, installation, and video art by 27 artists living in Tibet and in diaspora. These will include many works from the private collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin (founders of New York's Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art) never before exhibited. The show opens July 20 and runs through December 15. According to curator Rachel Perera Weingeist, "It is only roughly in the last ten years that a contemporary Tibetan visual culture has galvanized." The museum's press material further explains: "Anonymity and se

From The Under 35 Project: “A Good Death” His Holiness the Dalai Lama sends congratulations to the Australian Prime Minister and the President of Mongolia His Holiness the Dalai Lama sends congratulations to the Australian Prime Minister and the President of Mongolia Reports: China easing bans on Tibetans displaying Dalai Lama images Buddhist Monk, U Wirathu and the 969 Movement. Score one for the chimps — and all beings For the Sake of All Beings, We Vow This Conversation: A report from the Gen X Dharma Teacher Gathering Karmapa announces overhaul of Buddhist nuns’ education From The Under 35 Project: “A Good Death” Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT New from The Under 35 Project: A practitioner's thoughts on grief, death, and the loss of a parent. By Christa Joy . In her last days of life, we tended to Mom as though she were able to feel us, hear us, and experience the sensory world with us. Hospice had told us to continue on a

2013 Nyingma Summer Seminar offers “A Celebration of the Entire Buddhist Path,” streamed live Model/singer/author Naima Mora: “Everyone is a Buddha” A “Seeing Fresh” moment lost in time Blur frontman’s Buddhist-themed opera, Monkey: Journey to the West, to grace Lincoln Center stage California couple bequeaths $25 million Japanese art collection Buddhist Monk Dedicated to Preventing Suicide in Japan. Pay more attention to Buddhists, Rinpoche tells India Here’s to more and more “Happily Ever After” Time’s “Buddhist Terror” cover story provokes outrage, reflection The False Idea 'I AM' Koans and Performance Project to premiere “We Are Still Here” in SF 2013 Nyingma Summer Seminar offers “A Celebration of the Entire Buddhist Path,” streamed live Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:00 AM PDT Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Mangala Shri Bhuti has no small ambition for this year's Nyingma Summer Seminar in Ward, Colorado. From J