Usually during these meetings or subsequent ones, we get instructions, guidance for the next period of our practice, assignments/options for reading and/or attending live or video teachings. We might even schedule our next retreat(s). I didn’t get to meet with my teacher at the end of th...
6.6. On the day Visakha dedicated the monastery to the Buddha, she was overjoyed. She sang and danced with immense delight.”Today is the day of fulfillment; my prayers are granted and I am truly blessed”. She ran like child in ecstasy, with her children and grandchildren around the mon...
his children, his brothers and sisters, until the prime minister lost patience and said: “Sire, allow me to withdraw; a number of my friends from the southern provinces, men of great prominence in their distant homes, have arrived and are anxious to meet me and my sovereign.” ...
We are monitoring the situation in India very carefully via weekly Zoom meetings with Indian Order Convenors. They estimate that the impacts of the second wave will continue for at least a year, and we are working with them to put in place short, medium and long term plans so that we ca...
making it difficult to properly sit through meetings or get any measurable work done. I absolutely adore my son but the added stress of trying to get work done as opposed to playing with him and accepting his hugs makes going into the office important. Plus, working from a small laptop scr...
Hiei and in affiliated temples to express the protection of the shine and by devotional confraternities in regular meetings: they were also hung in Tendai temples for certain rituals. As with Kasuga mandala (and in contrast to Kumano mandala 熊野曼荼羅), the Sannou mandala lacks folk appeal ...
we see the many different ways in which Christians interacted with other believers, in encounters that reshaped both sides. At their best, these meetings allowed the traditions not just to exchange ideas but to intertwine in productive and enriching ways, in an awe-inspiring chapter of Christian...
7b Fig. 7c We may have a look at old Buriat thankas from the paintings collected by Russian officials during the period of their first meetings with Siberian peoples and their religion. For example, there are the collections of Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705-1783), Baron Paul Schilling von ...