Stanford University’s Search for Compassion (Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education)

By Henry Schliff on Jun 20, 2009

Nagarjuna famously said, “emptiness is the womb of compassion.” His proclamation, intended to point the direction for fostering compassion may or may not help the team of philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and theologians who are…

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I don’t believe in Reincarnation. Am I still a Buddhist?

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 16, 2009

I grew up in a Buddhist family. As the Dalai Lama says of Buddhism, Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama In fact, the Buddha himself said…

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Discovering Your True Nature ~via Nadia Ballas-Ruta.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 15, 2009

Several years ago, I read in a book that at one of the Mind/Life Conferences with the Dalai Lama and various scientists and doctors, the topic of self-hatred came up. The scientists asked His…

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Music Review: The Dance of Innocents (Nawang Khechog and Peter Kater)

By Todd Mayville on May 17, 2009

When Nawang Khechog chooses to collaborate with someone, you know the result is going to be a beautiful, eminently listenable and approachable collection of music.  This was demonstrated on his earlier cds, Winds of…

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Vintage Tibetan Motorcycle Goggles… The Choice of the Dalai Lama?

By Rusty Ralston on May 12, 2009

So, how can you instantly become the envy of your moto-biking hipster friends while being super eco-stylishly vintage and furthermore,  impressing your friends with an in-the-know Tibet reference?  Well, you can purchase these incredible…

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The Dalai Lama: On Dying.

By elephantjournal.com on May 6, 2009

Via our friends at the Upaya Zen Center, who have the best, loveliest, most useful newsletter this side of nirvana.   ON DYING: DALAI LAMA First of all, we should realize that death is truly…

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Book Review: The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

By Todd Mayville on Apr 17, 2009

I've been an admirer of the Dalai Lama for some time now, even before I became a Buddhist, and that admiration only increased when I realized how well His Holiness can write and articulate…

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Viva Las Vegas: Steve Wynn does his Dalai Lama impression.

By elephantjournal.com on Apr 11, 2009

Steve Wynn, king of Las Vegas, does the Dalai Lama. Click to 1130 to see Steve Wynn, king of Las Vegas casinos and the high life, do a (pretty good) Dalai Lama impression...and see…

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The Seventh Sign of Hell: Dalai Lama barred from Peace Conference.

By elephantjournal.com on Apr 4, 2009

Apparently winning the Nobel Peace Prize is no longer enough to give you street cred.  So why has the Dalai Lama been banned? After all, ain't he everyone's favorite "simple monk" who's been advocating a…

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The Incredible Dalai Lama…finally gets mad.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 16, 2009

It takes a lot to make the Dalai Lama mad. He's humble, a "simple monk," he'd rather bow and smile than puff up and pontifcate...he's played ball with the Chinese, who took over Tibet…

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Book review: A Concise Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (John Powers)

By Todd Mayville on Mar 9, 2009

This book is a distillation of Powers' 500+ page tome of the same subject, which couldn't have been an easy task to undertake, let alone accomplish.  More of a history and conceptual introduction rather…

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China continues to clamp down; anniversary of Tibetan protests is tomorrow morning. Worse, they shut down Oasis concert.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 9, 2009

Chinese suppression of all things Tibetan (except tourism) knows no end. They've started a widespread campaign to crackdown on Tibetans—those vicious evil Buddhist peace-loving nomads. Update re China's Tibet clamp down via NY Times: The…

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A Response to Time Magazine’s “Pain of Tibet” Article.

By Reverend Danny Fisher on Mar 8, 2009

In the most recent issue of Time Magazine, Beijing-based writer Simon Elegant reflects on His Holiness the Dalai Lama's flagging attempts to negotiate with China in a piece entitled "The Pain of Tibet".  The author notes…

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Gandhi was “a huge Hypocrite.” [Stephen Colbert video]

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Feb 26, 2009

Stephen Colbert gives a long overdue wag of the finger to hypocrite Gandhi, one of the erstwhile leaders of the non-violence / ahimsa lineage of Henry David Thoreau, MLK Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, the…

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Should the Karmapa succeed the Dalai Lama? Newsweek.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Feb 23, 2009

I wish mainstream American media (Newsweek, in this case) would stop calling Buddhist teachers gods and living deities. They're not. Get out of your Judeo-Christian box, take off your theistic goggles, and learn the…

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President Obama goes to Canada. [Stephen Harper, energy, Rick Mercer, Dalai Lama]

By elephantjournal.com on Feb 19, 2009

Obama meets with PM Stephen Harper today to discuss energy, the environment (especially Canada's Mordor-like Tar Sands, which Treehugger calls the worst environmental disaster in the world), war, and generally to repair our relationship…

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The Buddha Prince [a walking play about the childhood of the Dalai Lama; Markell Kiefer, Waylon Lewis, Tiger Lion]

By elephantjournal.com on Feb 18, 2009

From the Autumn 2005 Issue It’s no secret that, no matter where you look these days, there seems to be bad news. It’s become increasingly difficult to weed through the steady barrage of media…

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Chinese Authorities in Tibet Have Launched a 42-Day “Strike Hard” Campaign.

By Reverend Danny Fisher on Jan 28, 2009

[A photo from the protests in Rebkong, Tibet, March 2008.  Image via FreeTibet.org.] Earlier this week, Radio Free Asia reported that Chinese authorities in Tibet had launched "a 42-day 'strike hard' campaign in the Himalayan region,…

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Robert Thurman on TED—& we thought we were his only live-to-video talk show.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jan 5, 2009

  vs.   TED's amazing: a sort of ongoing lecture series with all the people we wish we could get to. Well, when we have a huge talk show someday—whether on Planet Green or NBC ABC…

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Top 20 Books To Give For Gifts This Holiday Season

By Todd Mayville on Dec 7, 2008

If you're a regular reader of Elephant Journal, then by now you've gotten a sense that I'm a pretty voracious reader.  So while I wouldn't necessarily call myself an expert on books, I do…

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