Buddhism Internet Digest

• The Earth Sanctuary Blog - View the video to see how the Tsa Tsas were made at the first workshop. Please come to this Tsa Tsa workshop and help make the Tsa Tsas that will go into the Stupa that H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya is having built near the Tara Meditation Center at Earth Sanctuary…
• A brief history of Tibetan Buddhism - Tibet has always been overshadowed by other neighbouring nations. Thus, nothing much about its culture is known. Here is a brief history abouta sacred religion called Bon, Tibet’s pre-Buddhist religion, now better know as Tibetan Buddhism…
• Padma’s blog - Music and Buddhism. I see my music as my ‘spiritual path’. Both spirituality and music are central to my life. It’s taken me quite a while to realise that this is what it’s about for me. I’ve been a Buddhist for many years and have tried a number of different ways to practice as sincerely as I can…
• Fresco - art of Tibetan Buddhism - Fresco is one of the arts of Tibetan Buddhism and as an art style most popular and unique in Taer Temple, it is one of the “Three Art Miracles” of the temple…
• New book: The Two Truths Debate - The Two Truths Debate: Tsongkhapa and Gorampa on the Middle Way by Sonam Thakchoe. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2007. I just found this new book that came out last month. It highlights many of the differences we’ve seen here in discussing Buddhist emptiness and the two truths, etc…
• The Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement - The March to Tibet is an initiative launched by five leading Tibetan non-governmental organizations in Dharamsala, India, exiled-home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile…
• Visiting the Shambhala Mountain Center - The Shambhala Mountain Center is located in Red Feathers Colorado, just outside of Fort Collins. It’s about a two hour drive from Boulder or Denver. At the Mountain Center is ‘The Great Stuppa of Dharmakaya’…
• Safe to Travel in Chinese Tibet - Arriving at the Gandan Sumtseling Monastery, founded by the 5th Dalai Lama, is today a rather easier experience than it used to be. Tucked into a valley at one end of Zhongdian, in the north of Yunnan, in what used to be the Tibetan Province of Kham…
• Why Shadow Tibet? - Like alternate worlds in science fiction, two distinct Tibets co-exist these days. One flourishes in the light of celebrity patronage, museum openings, career opportunities, pop spirituality and New Age fashions. This is the Tibet that has captured the romantic fantasy of the West…