Joshu Sasaki Roshi at 105

Joshu Sasaki Roshi at 105

Joshu Sasaki Roshi at 105

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT

The Los Angeles Times has a profile of Rinzai Zen master Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi, abbot of Mount Baldy Zen Center in Mount Baldy, California, and founder of Bodhi Mandala Zen Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the age of 105, Roshi still has a busy teaching schedule, and he tells his students he'll live to 120.

Michael Haederle wrote about Roshi at age 101 for the Shambhala Sun's January 2009 issue, which also featured an excerpt from one of Roshi's books, True Love, Ultimate Zero. Roshi also graced the cover of Shambhala Sun's September 1998 issue with his student Leonard Cohen in a photo by Don Farber (pictured.)

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New Vipassana center opening in Beaumont, Texas

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Bhante Kassapa (public domain)

A new dharma center, the Metta Meditation Center, will be opening in Old Town, Beaumont, Texas later this year. It will be led by Bhante Kassapa Bhikku, currently of Buu Mon Temple in Port Arthur. An old home is being renovated to house the meditation center, along with a space for yoga and rooms for monastics and visitors. An open house is scheduled for December 2.

For more information on Bhante Kassapa and his work, visit his website.

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Prajnopaya at MIT to mark 10th anniversary with teachings, inter-faith discussions

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT

The Buddhist Channel, Sept 24, 2012

MIT, MA (USA) -- The year 2012 marks 10 Years of Prajnopaya at MIT, celebrating the many opportunities extended to students for spiritual growth through regular classes in meditation, Buddhist philosophy, and Buddhist art.

To mark the celebrations, guest teachers from all schools of Buddhist have been welcomed including His Holiness Chhetsang Rinpoche the 37th Drikung Kyabgon, the Reverend Ichigaku Nagira, Robert Thurman, and B. Alan Wallace.

Interfaith discussions between Buddhists and members of other religious traditions are also encouraged. Students have been invited to experience art through Chinese brush painting sessions, tsa-tsa workshops, and the sacred sand mandala projects.

Through the Prajnopaya at MIT affiliates, students have put generosity and compassion into action and gained valuable insight into their own capabilities by competing to win awards for design of a new delivery system to eradicate TB in India, and by joining the
design team for tsunami relief houses.

In celebration of 10 Years of Prajnopaya at MIT, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will graciously bestow a teaching on Kamalashila's "Stages of Meditation" on October 16, 2012 at MIT in Cambridge, MA. Musical performances and guest speakers will round out the events. This is the third visit by His Holiness to MIT.

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi directs the programs of Prajnopaya at MIT. He serves as Buddhist Chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the founder of the
Prajnopaya Institute of Buddhist Studies and Prajnopaya Foundation.

About Prajnopaya at MIT

Prajnopaya at MIT, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2002, is a learning and service initiative of Prajnopaya Institute for Buddhist Studies under the auspices of
the Office of Religious Life at MIT.

It provides beginning and advanced students and curious visitors from other traditions with a venue to study Buddhist in a non-sectarian fashion.

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India keeping Karmapa in virtual prison: Chinese writer

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT

by Manu Pubby, The Indian Express, Sep 14 2012

New Delhi, India -- Asserting that the Indian government is keeping Tibetan spiritual leader, the 17th Karmapa, in virtual prison by not allowing him free travel abroad to meet followers, prominent Chinese author Liao Yiwu has said that the leader could be compelled to "escape" from India in a similar fashion in which he left China in January 2000.

The dissident Chinese author, who escaped to Germany last year after spending several stints in prison for his controversial writings, recently met the Karmapa in Dharamshala and extended an invitation to visit Berlin — a request that is unlikely to be accepted as there are stringent travel restrictions on foreign travel of the spiritual leader who is a political refugee in India.

Liao told The Indian Express that he found the Karmapa very "concerned and anxious". Questioning the restrictions on his foreign travel, Liao said the only barrier between the leader's travel to Berlin is exit permissions from India's Ministry of External Affairs — an issue that would not be easy.

"How can India treat a future leader of Tibet like this by keeping him in virtual prison? The Indian government is treating him in the similar way in which he was treated in China. If the Karmapa cannot stand it any more and escapes in the same manner that he did 12 years ago, it will bring shame to India," the author said.

Liao, who also interacted with workers of the Tibetan Youth Congress who are on a indefinite fast here to show "solidarity with self-immolaters inside Tibet" since September 3, said the impression he got after interaction with the Karmapa's office was that the Indian government has conveyed that he will not be allowed to travel abroad for any purpose this year. "The Karmapa should have basic human rights to go where he wants to and when he wants to. It does not matter if he is a refugee. He should get these basic rights," Liao said.

The author, whose works on the downtrodden in China led to him going to jail several times, is best known for his book The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up that was never allowed to be published in his country. He slipped into Vietnam last year before getting asylum in Germany.

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