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Monday, September 11, 2023

BuddhaFest 2023 with Dalai Lama (online)

LionsRoar.com Lion's Roar (buddhafestonline.com, Sept. 9, 2023); Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen Bradford, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Lion's Roar presents BuddhaFest 2023 online festival (buddhafestonline.com)

The Last Daiai Lama? film festival 2023 trailer (buddhafestonline.com)

Richard Gere with the CIA-funded Dalai Lama: to preserve Tibet from Chinese hands

PHOTOS: What's the Dalai Lama up to now, summer '23? (The Office of 14th Dalai Lama)

Tricycle | BuddhaFest Online Festival from BrightStar | Events to Uplift (brightstarevents.com)

International Buddhist Film Festival

BuddhaFest (presented in partnership with Lion's Roar) begins this weekend.

Get tickets and save 54%. All are invited to the BuddhaFest Online Festival, a six-week celebration of Buddhist wisdom, compassion, and culture.

From Sept. 10 to Oct. 22, immerse in an extraordinary experience of Buddhist films, enlightening Dharma talks, and moving musical performances — accessible on-demand 24/7 from the comfort of home.

Tibetan-Buddhist nun Ven. Thubten Chodron

BuddhaFest begins this weekend, on Sept. 10, 2023. There’s still time to get a ticket at the limited early-bird discount. Get a 6-week online pass now for only $35. What to expect:

8 Captivating Films

The current Dalai Lama

Explore the life and teachings of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in "Compassion in Exile," "Heart of Tibet," and go behind-the-scenes of the iconic film "Kundun," including interviews with the Dalai Lama and Director Martin Scorsese.

TRAILER: The Last Daiai Lama?

Witness the powerful Kalachakra Tibetan Buddhist initiation ceremony in Wheel of Time and follow Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s remarkable journey in Wandering...But Not Lost, among other remarkable films.

8 Enlightening Talks

Science says I'm the happiest in the world.

Explore eight new talks from leading Buddhist teachers, including Matthieu "The Happiest Man in the World" Ricard (French Buddhist monk and scientist), Professor Robert A.F. Thurman (tibethouse.us), Ruth King, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Lama Tsultrim Allione, Craig Hamilton, and Ven. Thubten Chodron.

Catch exclusive, unreleased interviews with the Dalai Lama and a conversation between Pico Iyer and Gaetano Kazuo Maida.

Inspiring Music

Be enchanted by musical performances featuring Philip Glass, Tenzin Choegyal, and Drukmo Gyal Dakini.

A Special Tribute

Scene from BuddhaFest featured film, The Last Dalai Lama? (buddhafestonline.com)

Past BuddhaFest event (insightla.org)

Join in celebrating the 88th year of the 14th Dalai Lama's life with a touching tribute.

Secure a 6-week online pass today for only $35 and get ready for an immersive and enlightening cultural experience. Get Festival Pass

Catch this unique opportunity to experience a rich combination of film, music, and Dharma. Join the BuddhaFest Online Festival — which all begins this weekend on 9/10/23.

Warmly, Lion’s Roar

Lion's Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time (lionsroar.com)

P.S. Get access to everything on-demand for the full six weeks with a festival pass.

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Past BuddhaFest mindfulness event online

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Who is the Dalai Lama? John Oliver finds out

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Relationships and "Bodhicitta" (video)

Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Western nun Ven. Thubten Chodron (sravasti.org)

(Sravasti Abbey) Ven. Thubten Chodron interviewed by Asian "Buddhist Television Network"

Lay practitioner meditation (la.shambhala.org)

Enlightenment-mind and Relationships are the twin topics of Ven. Thubten Chodron's Dharma talk delivered at the Buddhist Library in Singapore. In another talk in 2010 in Idaho, Sravasti Abbey brought us a talk about Kindness and Forgiveness. How is this ani (Tibetan Buddhist nun or gelongma) able to speak with such authority? She is not, regardless of her name, related to famous Shambhala Buddhist nun Pema Chodron. She ordained in 1977, making her part of the first generation of Western monastic practitioners in America. That length and depth of practice put her in touch with the Dharma, as a Westerner would approach and apprehend it. Her own meditative calm and broad study allows her to pass the teachings on to subsequent generations of Westerners and displaced Tibetans.

(Peaceful1987) A wonderful Dharma talk by American Buddhist nun Thubten Chodron

Typhoon Haiyan, strongest cyclone of 2013, kills 100+

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

American Buddhist nun: Vegetarian from Afar

(Phathue) Interview with the Buddhist nun Ven. Thubten Chodron at Pagoda Phat Hue ("Buddha's Wisdom") in Frankfurt, Germany -- "Ven. Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha's teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well-known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings."

"Interdependence, protecting life, and loving kindness are three of the Buddha's most important teachings… Sentient beings and the environment depend upon each other for survival, and thus it's in the interest of human beings to protect the environment."
- Thubten Chodron (Sravasti Abbey, sravasti.org)

(vitalrecipe.com)

Vegetarian from Afar
Venerables Chodron, Tarpa, Semkye, and Jampel attended a monastic conference about the environment and global warming where we learned that the global meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all cars, buses, trucks, and planes combined.

The Abbey has been vegetarian since its inception and we thought it would be good to encourage others to be vegetarian as well. We want to inspire and empower each other to make a noticeable difference in the world by doing something quite simple yet important. Thus we’re beginning “Vegetarian From Afar” to inspire others to reduce their meat eating.

To be a part of it, folks make a commitment not to eat meat (including fish and chicken) one day a week. There are many great reasons to participate and here are just a few:

From the viewpoint of compassion:

As sentient beings, animals want to be happy and to be free of suffering just as much as we human beings do. Thus let’s cherish their lives as we cherish our own.

From the viewpoint of global warming and climate change: If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. alone would save:

100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months
1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year
70 million gallons of gas — enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare
3 million acres of land, more than twice the size of Delaware
33 tons of antibiotics

"The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the meat industry generates nearly one-fifth of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide… far more than transportation" (meatlessmonday.com).

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:

Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France
3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages
4.5 million tons of animal excrement
Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant

From the viewpoint of health:

Here are the benefits of eating less meat: More>>

TRAVEL-TEACHING SCHEDULE

Sept. 25: Walla Walla/Tri-Cities, WA: "Compassion in Action: One Step at a Time," one-day retreat with Ven. Tarpa, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Contact: Chris Murray, 509-946-7217
Sept. 25 & 26, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: World Buddhist Conference with Thich Nhat Han, Ven. Chodron, and others
Oct. 11 - Nov. 22, Spokane, WA: Buddhist Meditation with Vens. Semkye and Jigme, Mondays 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Dr. Contact Sara, 509-533-3222.
Oct. 15 - 26, Singapore: Teachings with Ven. Chodron. Contact FOSA.
Oct. 25, Buddha Dhamma Mandala Society, "What Do We Do with Desires?" 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 14 - 22, Mexico: Dharma talks in Cancun and Xalapa & retreat in Jalcomulco with Ven. Chonyi. Details to come. Contact Patricio.
Nov. 3, Cheney, WA: Eastern Washington University, "What the Buddha Taught and Why It Matters Today," on campus. Public talk with Ven. Chodron, hosted by Women's & Gender Studies Dept. 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Dec. 28 - January 1: Boulder Creek, CA: Vajrapani Institute. New Year Purification-Vajrasattva Retreat with Ven. Chodron

Monday, July 21, 2008

Happiness by Shopping

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Buddhism and Consumerism
Talk by Thubten Chodron

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Buyer Beware: Retail Tricks
Robert Roy Britt (LiveScience.com Managing Editor) July 21, 2008

As shoppers, we do crazy things. Retailers bank on it.

Several studies reveal how Americans shop in irrational ways, and increasingly scientists are figuring out how easily we can be duped.

Retailers in turn use these tricks to get inside our heads, encouraging window shoppers to become real shoppers, driving purchases of sales items regardless of real value, and helping buyers feel good about the things they walk out with...often for no good reason.

One new study finds that happiness with a purchase depends on the choices that were available on a store shelf and how the items were presented. Study participants were presented products ranging from cordless phones to lawn mowers -- presented in three ways:

One choice was clearly superior to the other two (dominance)
One choice was intermediate to the other two (compromise)
Two options that were somewhat equivalent (control)

After participants made choices, they rated the products and their satisfaction. In five tests that shifted the products and setups, the participants' preferences were affected by presentation. The bottom line: A product presented as clearly superior to other products on a store shelf makes for a happy customer, regardless of the product's inherent qualities to some degree.

"A pen selected from a set in which it asymmetrically dominated another pen produced a more positive writing experience and a greater willingness to pay for the pen than if the same pen was selected from a set in which it did not dominate another option," conclude Song-Oh Yoon of the Korea University Business School and Itamar Simonson from Stanford University. The study is detailed in the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.

A study last year by a separate group, published in the same journal, reached a similar conclusion. Study participants were presented with two sofas. Sofa A was softer, but Sofa B was more durable. Sofa A was preferred by the minority - 42.3% of the participants. Then both sofas were presented with three other sofas that had very low softness ratings. Preference for sofa A jumped to 77.4%.

Tricks of the trade

There are many ways retailers encourage you to open your wallet. None is more obvious than putting things on sale. Researchers have known empirically for more than 20 years a "50% off" sign leads consumers to assume a price is attractive, even if they have no knowledge of the original price or reasonable prices for that product.

In fact, shoppers as a whole seem quite clueless about sales values. Studies have also shown that frequent but modest discounts -- such as the constant sales at a car dealership - lead to perceptions of greater value than less frequent but deeper discounts.

And when math is involved, most of us can't cope. For example: See if you can calculate the total savings in the setup: 20% off the original price plus an additional 25% off the sale price. How much is that item marked down? If you said 45% off, then you're math skills are as pitiful as the 85% of college students who also got this wrong in a study last year by researchers at the University of Miami and the University of Minnesota. The right answer: 40% off.

Environmental-friendly consumerism? World Resources Institute

More tricks
Other tricks, such as this one documented in a study last year, are more subtle: A salesperson can totally alter a window shopper's inclination to buy something by simply asking the right question. When a salesperson asks a shopper which of several items she prefers, the shopper tends to skip the whole "Should I buy it at all?" question and go straight to the "Which one should I buy?" phase. The study was done in simulated tests and in real-world retail situations.

"Stating a preference appears to induce a which-to-buy mindset, leading people to think about which of several products they would like to buy under the implicit assumption they have already decided to buy one of them," wrote Alison Jing Xu and Robert S. Wyer, Jr. of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "Consequently, they are more disposed to make a purchase than they otherwise would be."

Amazingly, the gimmick worked even in selling unrelated products. Just 2% of a control group bought candy in one test. But in a group who had been asked to indicate their preference among mp3 players, restaurants, and mobile phones, 28% bought candy.

Some tricks are down right nasty. One sales technique is called "disrupt-then-reframe." Frank R. Kardes at the University of Cincinnati and colleagues found that by presenting a confusing sales pitch (such as telling a potential customer that a candy bar costs 300 cents) then restating the pitch in a more familiar way, they were able to increase sales of a candy bar in a supermarket. The same trick increased students' willingness to accept a tuition increase or to pay to join a student interest group.

Loyal shoppers
Any good salesperson knows that if you really want to sell something, you just need to know what the customer wants. Another study by Simonson, the Stanford researcher, with Ran Kivetz of Columbia University, focused on loyalty programs, in which a consumer joins to gain discounts or some other rewards but is required to make a certain number of purchases.

People who liked sushi were offered one program that required them to buy 10 sandwiches, and another program with equal rewards that required them to buy 10 sandwiches and 10 orders of sushi. The study subjects were more likely to join the second program, even though it offered no additional benefit and required them to buy more. The study "shows that people put too much emphasis on things that seem to fit them better than others, often leading to irrational choices," Simonson told LiveScience.

Thubten Chodron teaching at Dharma Friendship Foundation, Seattle