Wednesday, July 11, 2012
TEDx - The Only Way Out is In
This video is a talk given by Jenny Phillips, wherein she talks about the way Vipassana meditation brought an inspiring turnaround to the several lifetime convicts incarcerated in Alabama's Donaldson Correctional Facility in USA.
About Vipassana: (Source: wikipedia.org) Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना, Sanskrit) in the Buddhist tradition means insight into the true nature of reality.[citation needed] A regular practitioner of Vipassana is known as a Vipassi (vipaśyin). Vipassana is one of the world's most ancient techniques of meditation, which was introduced by Gautama Buddha. It is a practice of self-transformation through self-observation and introspection to the extent that sitting with a steadfast mind becomes an active experience of change and impermanence.
Masters of Mercy: Buddha's Amazing Disciples
From 1854 until his death in 1863, Japanese artist Kano Kazunobu (born 1816) labored to produce one hundred paintings depicting the miraculous interventions and superhuman activities of the five hundred disciples of the Buddha. The project was commissioned by Zōjōji, an elite Pure Land Buddhist temple in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). Now widely regarded as one of the most impressive feats of Buddhist iconography created during the Edo period (1615--1868), this remarkable ensemble was largely overlooked through much of the twentieth century.
A revival of interest began in the 1980s and culminated in a major exhibition in Tokyo in spring 2011, held to commemorate the eight-hundredth anniversary of the death of Hōnen (1133--1212), founder of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. Zōjōji collaborated with the Edo-Tokyo Museum and noted scholars to produce the exhibition, which featured all one hundred paintings along with related works and documentary material. The whole ensemble had not been viewed publicly since World War II.
Muddy Water Zen own the Exhibition Art Book from that Exhibition held in Tokyo last year where you can come and see all 100 paintings in the collection!
Consider Forgiveness
Suffering, love, compassion, the circle of violence, forgiveness as peace.
Consider Forgiveness features interviews with leaders and scholars from the Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Christian traditions. This project was filmed in Amritsar, India, at Sharing Wisdom: The Case of Love and Forgiveness, a meeting of the Elijah Interfaith Institute's board of religious leaders. View these clips to learn more about each faith's approach to forgiveness and how it relates to justice, love, compassion, retribution, revenge, and empathy.
View all 25 Consider Forgiveness Videos here from several different speakers
http://ppo.ala.org/commonground/galleries/consider
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Dharma Talk - A Relatively Ordinary Dharma Talk from a Relatively Ordinary Person
Talk Given By: Dae Hae (Alex Coe)
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Duration - 18:52
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DIP Progress Report
A status update on the Dictionary Indexing Project (DIP)
105 / 641 pages. 16% done!
Total terms indexed = 501
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Buddhist Film Collection
The Buddhist Film Collection is an ongoing project to catalog those films addressing Buddhist themes, concepts and imagery; as well as offer visual representations and interpretations of Buddhism from around the world.
The collection is home to 240 titles and covers a broad range of genres and topics. The Films come from diverse cultures and traditions; China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Mongolia, India, United States, Canada, Germany.... as well as many other countries and cultures.
The collection includes films that have explicit and obvious Buddhist themes and also films that carry implied concepts which can be found in the Buddhadharma.
The catalog is free to view online here (hosted by Scribd).
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Bishop Jongmae's New Buddhist Dictionary
Bishop Jongmae has recently published his 4th title "Modern Korean-Chinese-Sanskrit-English Buddhist Dictionary" in May 2012.
This new dictionary is a huge asset to all of us studying Korean Buddhism and the first time English speakers have had access to a such a comprehensive volume.
However, the dictionary is indexed according to the Korean entries so searching in English for terms is difficult if not impossible.
Therefore, it is my personal project to compile a supplemental digital English Index so that readers may easily and quickly search by known English terms to find the Korean/Sanskrit equivalent.
This ongoing blog label (dictionary) will track the progress of the English Indexing for all to follow and also highlight some new terms along the way.
The dictionary page count comes in at 641 pages with approx. 6-7 terms per page for an estimated total of over 4,000 individual entries.
So far 235 terms have been indexed that span over 50 pages. The English indexing is 8% complete.
Check back here at the blog often for regular updates on the Dictionary Indexing Project (DIP).
50 / 641 pages. 8% done!
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
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