Buddhism in Ireland + "The Miracle Club" (film)

The Journal, 1/16/17; Sony Pictures; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I'm Green Tara Kwan Yin, and he's the Irish Buddha Scythianmuni the Shakya/Scythian

Becoming a Buddhist in Ireland

(The Journal) Dharmachari ("Dharma Teacher") Vajrashura is one of four full-time teaching staff members at the Dublin Buddhist Centre (DBC), which is a registered charity.

Lawrence Carroll became Ven. Dhammaloka

Along with six other regular volunteers, they teach Buddhist meditation to approximately 600 new students a year, and Buddhism to another 100.

The DBC is the fulcrum of a wider community of 1,500 Buddhists in the Dublin area and has sister communities (or sanghas) in Killaloe, Clare and Westport, Co Mayo.

Dhr. Vajrashura grew up as Sean Boland in the west of Ireland, before coming across Buddhism in the TCD Meditation Society as a theoretical physics graduate.

Now 39, he is a full-time Buddhist teacher and lives with two friends in a small Buddhist men’s community in Dublin 7. There, they meditate at 7:00 am each morning, breakfast together, and go off to work – in his case as manager of the DBC (jrnl.ie/3130287).

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The Miracle Club

The King of Ireland (via Imperial Rome)

It's Ireland. You can be Catholic, Roman Catholic, New Catholic or Episcopalian, possibly Protestant, and maybe if you're really lucky Buddhist on the coattails of Lawrence O'Rourke, who became the world's first Western Buddhist monk -- U Dhammaloka -- when he left for the States and onto Asia (Mandalay, Burma).

Go to Lourdes, Ladies. We approve

Will you hold me, Friend? Yes, I'll "hold you like a grudge" (FOB). Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan. Starring: Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates. Set in 1967, THE MIRACLE CLUB follows the story of three generations of close friends, Lily (Maggie Smith), Eileen (Kathy Bates), and Dolly (Agnes O'Casey) of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, Ireland, who have one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French Catholic town of Lourdes, a place of miracles that draws millions of visitors each year.

Who was the Irish "Dharma Bum" Lawrence Carroll or U Dhammaloka

When the chance to win presents itself, the women seize it. However, just before their trip, their old friend Chrissie (Laura Linney) arrives in Ballygar for her mother's funeral, dampening their good mood and well-laid plans. The women set out on the journey that they hope will change their lives, with Chrissie, a skeptical traveler, joining in place of her mother.

The glamour and sophistication of Chrissie, who has just returned from a nearly 40-year exile in the United States, are not her only distancing traits: Old wounds are reopened along the way, forcing the women to confront their pasts even as they travel in search of a miracle. #TheMiracleClub #OfficialTrailer #SonyClassics