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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...

Amanda Palmer talks meditation, Zen… and “mindful stripping”? Moved by Tragedy in Uttarakhand, His Holiness the Dalai Lama Expresses Sympathy and Contributes to Relief Funds A Shift in Perception. Lodro Rinzler to launch Institute for Compassionate Leadership Amanda Palmer talks meditation, Zen… and “mindful stripping”? Posted: 24 Jun 2013 03:00 PM PDT Amanda Palmer performing in 2008. Photo by Mykal Burns! In a new piece for The Quietus, Amanda Palmer — she of the "Cabaret Punk" act Dresden Dolls, and more recently a solo artist — talks about mindfulness meditation and also one of her favorite books, Only Don't Know , the first collection of letters between Korean Zen master Sung Sahn and some of his students: "I've probably bought that book a dozen times and gifted it to people who were in need. I don't give them [a copy of] How To Understand The Music Business ; I give them the Seung Sahn letters. [...] These are kids ...

Meditating… with Kittens! Monks, Journalists decry Time Magazine’s cover portrayal of U Wirathu as Buddhist terrorist Is Time magazine's Wirathu the face of Buddhist terrorism in Burma? Dhamma Or Ethnic Buddhism Time’s cover epitomizes Buddhism’s failure A Teaching of the Four Noble Truths and a Public Talk on Ethics in a Shared World in Darwin Conclude His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Visit to Australia Meditating… with Kittens! Posted: 24 Jun 2013 05:00 AM PDT Sumi Loundon Kim, author of "Why I Quit Facebook" (from our July magazine ) starts your week with a lighthearted moment, reflecting on two surprising little dharma teachers who've come into her life. Kittens, like children, alternate between being little monsters of destruction and adorable bundles of cuteness. In one moment our two kittens can be tearing around the house, knocking down ornaments from the Christmas tree or clawing their way up curtains. In the next, ...