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01/01/2020

A GOOD NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL

Hope you unfold new horizons, harbour new hopes and rediscover the strength within you to bring in positive changes with the unfolding of the New Year and new decade 2020.

25/12/2018

I've posted a video on Sitting and Walking Technique in Insight Meditation. Also two audio files, one is a talk explaining Vipassana (Insight) Meditation and the other is on Loving-kindness Meditation, including the chanting of the Karaniya Metta Sutta and a guided Loving-kindness meditation. You can find them at this link:
http://buddhistelibrary.org/en/thumbnails.php?album=lastup

26/05/2018

As more and more Buddhists begin to realize the importance of performing a pilgrimage following the Buddha’s exhortation, the need for a simple guidebook becomes evident. The basic four pilgrimage sites (Lumbini, Bodhgaya, Sarnath and Kushinagar) were increased in terms of the great events of the Buddha’s life to eight by adding four more places considered to be the scenes of four principal miracles that he performed, namely: (i) The Twin Miracle in Sravasti, (ii) Descent from Heaven in Sankasia (iii) Taming of the drunken elephant, Nalagiri in Rajgir and (iv) Offering of honey by a monkey in Vaishali.

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22/04/2018

Unconventional Social Wisdom

Interviews with: Venerable Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu, His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama and Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche

By Leonardo R. Chapela Castañares

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05/04/2018

Join the author on his Dharma journey of discovery as he treats his depression with Western methods and Tibetan Buddhism learned with his wife from the teachings of the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman, Allen Ginsberg and the Lamas of the KTC Monastery in the Hudson Valley.

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