American Buddhist Net

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 7:00 pm CST

Description: “Entering the World of Tibetan Buddhism” with a focus on history, part one of four taught by Dr. Roger Jackson, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Northfield Buddhist Meditation Center, 313 1/2 Division St., above Jenkins Jewelers. Free and open to the public; free-will donations accepted. Registration: e-mail contact@northfieldmeditation.org.

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The Brazosport College Art Gallery will host a reception on Monday for Montana artist Valerie Hellermann, world traveler and student of Buddhism.

Hellermann’s appearance comes in conjunction with her show, titled “Witness — Culture in Peril,” currently on display at the Brazosport College Art Gallery. The show will run through Feb. 28.

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The proposal for a Buddhist temple near 44th Street and Edgerton Avenue will not be heard at the Greenfield Plan Commission meeting on Tuesday night.

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For some time now we've been following the progress of the amusingly titled Superb Art Museum of America, which remains papered over but with an impressive new, neo-classical facade at 1025 Market (between 6th and 7th). Curbed became intrigued early last year when the building's name got engraved, they connected it to some Buddhists, and then in December revealed the bizarre, cavernous interior which appears to have a large water feature with a foot bridge.

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ESCONDIDO — A 4½-ton statue of Buddha made of rare, dark jade has arrived in the county on its first stop in a U.S. tour to spread peace and happiness with its trademark smile of serenity and look of compassion.

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The world's largest Buddha carved from gem-quality jade arrived Wednesday in Escondido to begin a two-week stay that includes a Sunday unveiling ceremony expected to attract up to 3,000 people.

"It has an enormous impact," Ian Green said about how people react to seeing the sculpture, officially called the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace. "It was in Vietnam three months, and in that time 4 million people came to see it. People were in tears."

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OXFORD, Ohio -- Miami University will host a visit by the Dalai Lama this fall.

The university confirmed the visit will take place Oct. 20 to Oct. 22. A location and schedule have not been set.

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Worshipers are borrowing from Eastern religions and New Age beliefs. Open-mindedness or a dilution of faith traditions?

Because she attends Catholic mass every Sunday and observes all the religious holidays of her faith, Angela Bowman may well exemplify the Latin root of the word “religion,” which is “to bind.”

But the Chicagoan also meditates several times each day and practices yoga every other week. She knows Catholicism, Hinduism, and Buddhism have contradictory elements but is unfazed by her multiple observances because, to her, “it’s all pretty much the same thing.”

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"Blue-eyed" Zen Masters, Vipassana Meditation and Buddhist Psychotherapy in Contemporary Korea. UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Prof. Ryan Bongseok Joo (Hampshire College).

Friday, February 05, 2010 @ 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM. UCLA Royce Hall 243 Los Angeles, CA 90095

Abstract forthcoming

Cost: Free and open to the public

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Meditation Service, Tuesday, 6-7pm

Buddhist Concepts, 1st and 3rd Tues., 7-8pm

Advanced Sutra Study, 2nd and 4th Tues., 7-8pm

Violence doesn't have to be a physical act. It is a state of mind and can be emotional, Reema Datta said.

Founder of Usha Yoga Foundation, Datta has taught yoga since 2003 in Africa, South America, Asia, Europe and throughout North America.

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Ajahn Metta, a German-born Buddhist nun who has lived in Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries in England for more than a decade, will present Dhamma teachings Saturday at Unity Church in Modesto.

Metta leads retreats and is part of a group of nuns establishing a training monastery in a rural area near San Francisco. She has an adult son and worked as a secretary before entering the monastic life. Besides the monasteries, she has lived in other spiritual communities in Europe and Thailand.

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Scarlett Sams works in a Presbyterian Church during the day, but on Thursday nights she attends a meeting of Tibetan Buddhist’s at Ekoji Buddhist Sangha in Richmond, Va. She is a part of a growing Buddhist movement in the United States of every day Americans finding comfort in this Eastern tradition.

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Tibetan Buddhist Center — Teachings on the process of utilizing meditation for death preparation will be given by Lamas Pema and Yeshe of the KSC Ashland Tibetan Buddhist Center beginning Friday at the Avalon Lodge, 5210 Canyon Drive. Friday’s session is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday’s session is from 10 a.m. to noon; and Sunday’s session is from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 for Friday and $20 for Saturday and Sunday. 541-543-3404 or 541-683-3180.

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WEAVERVILLE — Rev. Teijo Munnich of Great Tree Zen Temple will lead a “Mother and Child Retreat” Feb. 6 and 7. All ages are welcome.

This retreat is an opportunity for mothers to strengthen their spiritual practice in a sharing environment with their children. It is also an invitation for mothers and children to explore spirituality together through meditation, play, work and study.

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NEW YORK, NY.- A descendant of samurai-era Bizen sword makers-turned-Buddhist priests, Miya Ando, a petite half-Japanese American who resides in Brooklyn, is the second coming of Ando steel workers. Miya, who from a young age saw the natural beauty and elegance in steel that her ancestors knew, has used this medium to make a name for herself as a respected post-minimalist contemporary artist. Her work is now on view in private homes and in public spaces across the U.S. and abroad.

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"Transform Your Life — New Year, New You" — 7-8:30 p.m. Wed., through Feb. 24, Emerson House at the Hotel Fauchere (upstairs from the Patisserie), 403 Broad St. A meditation class with Buddhist nun Kelsang Chokyi. $8 per drop-in class. Call 856-9000.

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Buddhist meditation classes: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Anabel’s Framing & Gallery, 2531 Broadway, Everett. By Kadampa Meditation Center. 206-526-9565, info@MeditateInSeattle.org.

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On Sunday, January 24 at 5 p.m., the Northfield community is invited to attend a special Tibetan Buddhist Service of Teaching and Mediation in the Skinner Memorial Chapel at Carleton College. The service will be led by Lama Tsultrim Yeshe and a soup supper will follow the service. This event is free and open to the public.

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RALEIGH -- The Venerable Lhundub Tendron wasn't always a Buddhist nun. For most of her life, she wasn't even a Buddhist.

She was Leslie Inman, a New Orleans native living in Charlotte who was separated from her husband and searching, not very consciously, for inner peace.

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Sue Moon, Berkeley writer and long time Zen student, has written a new book entitled "This is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Dignity and Humor". It is due out in June from Shambhala Publications

...Ms. Moon says the devaluation of the elders in our society is woven into the very language. She asks “Why would being 'young at heart' be better than being old at heart? Wouldn't it be wonderful to have an old heart seasoned with wisdom and experience?”

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INDIANAPOLIS - The Dalai Lama will speak at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis during a visit to Indiana in May.

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In a phone interview last week, Lama Kathy Wesley referenced the hard-edged, ruthless cheerleading coach on Fox's popular primetime series "Glee" as an example of a character that is selfish because of a lack of self awareness.

What's that? A Tibetan Buddhist Lama making a pop-culture reference?

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The store on Melrose Avenue, a mecca for spiritualists and philosophers since 1970, has been sold. Its owners hope to find someone to buy their inventory and reopen the store in a new location.

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A few years ago, I was struck by a frank assessment made by Zen monk Clark Strand in the Buddhist magazine Tricycle. "Buddhism," Strand wrote, "must change or die."

Americans began embracing the Eastern religion in a major way in the 1960s, he said, but they focused on the practice of meditation and spiritual retreats for themselves and failed to develop rituals and traditions to pass to their children.

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IMHO, the best way - maybe the only way - to pass on the tradition to children is to make it fun. The temple, first and foremost, should be a place where kids experience joy, fun, and maybe some peace and a chance to observe adults behaving themselves for once. They should more or less really enjoy going there. For small kids, no instruction in anything is needed. After 8 or 9, maybe a bit if they enjoy it. They will learn the most and see the value in the tradition most easily if they associate it with pleasant emotions. ABN

LOS ANGELES - (Business Wire) His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, one of the world’s beloved spiritual leaders, will visit Los Angeles Feb. 20-21, 2010. During the visit, His Holiness will give his first large-scale public talk in Los Angeles since September 2006.

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The Dalai Lama will return to South Florida next month to deliver speeches at Nova Southeastern and Florida Atlantic universities.

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The furor over recent comments by Brit Hume suggesting that Tiger Woods convert from Buddhism to Christianity is intriguing, don't you think?

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Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies will hold an open house from 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, at the Monastery, 412 N. Aurora St.

Following a short meditation, members of the staff will briefly speak about Namgyal Monastery Institute and courses offered this spring. They will also answer questions regarding the Monastery in India and Ithaca, or about Tibetan Buddhism in general.

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