Weekend reading: Leonard Cohen, the Karmapa, and more from our current issue

Posted: 18 May 2013 05:00 AM PDT

The July Shambhala Sun is coming soon, but in the meantime, our May magazine is still available and loaded with great reads. So we've shared longer excerpts of two of its features: Andrea Miller's interview with Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman, and Pico Iyer's meditation on Leonard Cohen. Click here to read "The Dude and the Zen Master," and here for "Leonard Cohen burns, and we burn with him."
You'll find the full articles, along with stellar photographs by Peter Cunningham, and Charla Jones, inside the May magazine.
You can also read full May articles, online, from Bernie Glassman, the Reciprocity Foundation's Taz Tagore, and His Holiness the Karmapa.
To see them all, click here. If you're not a subscriber, click here to subscribe and save, and here to order a copy of this issue.
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Posted: 17 May 2013 06:00 PM PDT
  I am fond of Avant garde art of all sorts. From the Russian Oberiu group which includes people like Daniil Kharms, who I wrote about before at some length in the post Dystopia, to stuff Yoko Ono has done … Continue reading → Read More @ Source


Posted: 17 May 2013 10:00 AM PDT

A Vesak celebration in Sri Lanka in 2011. Photo: Gerald Pereira via Flickr, CC-BY license.
Buddhists around the world are gearing up for Vesak, the annual celebration of the Buddha's birthday. The full moon in May, for many, marks the day that the Buddha was born. On the same day many Buddhist communities also celebrate major events in the Buddha's life, mainly his attainment of enlightenment and his parinirvana. Vesak Day has Southeast Asian origins, and while it might be considered a Theravadan holiday, other Buddhist traditions, including Zen and some Tibetan, choose to celebrate Vesak Day.
For many groups, the holiday falls on May 24 this year, but celebrations have been taking place throughout May and are scheduled into June. The difference in dates is partially due to the complications of using a lunar calendar as well as the needs and availability of each center's practitioners.
Many Buddhist groups are celebrating the holiday in the coming weeks, including Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, the Vermont Zen Center, The Toronto Zen Center, and more. Others, including many Buddhists in Korea, celebrated earlier — click here to see a slideshow from a Vesak parade in Seoul last weekend.
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