Free Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit (3/16)

Lion's Roar; Ananda (Dharma B Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen Bradford (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

They help me fight China (LA Times)

Join Lion's Roar for The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit a FREE online event, March 16-20, 2023.

How do we navigate the increasingly uncertain world we live in with compassion, goodness, and virtue?

The Dalai Lama’s kindness, humility, and wisdom lead the way and set an example for us all, and Lion's Roar is pleased to invite everyone to explore his vision and key messages to the world in The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit 2023.

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This could be it before my 15th reincarnation.

With the personal endorsement and support of the 14th Dalai Lama, Lion’s Roar and Robert Thurman's Tibet House US are pleased to build upon the phenomenal successes of the 2020 and 2021 Global Vision Summits.

Join in for this incredible opportunity to hear from an esteemed panel of Buddhist teachers, experts, spiritual leaders, and activists to celebrate and reflect upon what it means to be human in our modern world.

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Join tens of thousands of participants from all over the world and host Dr. Jan Willis to unpack the essential teachings and priorities of "His Holiness" the Dalai Lama, as we explore how to:

• Cultivate goodness in ourselves and others
• Use the power of the fundamental human quality of compassion to experience inner happiness and create a more harmonious and just society
• Embrace the Dalai Lama’s call for "a new global ethics of universal responsibility"
• Use the personal insights gained through meditation to see the world more clearly and unlock a path toward societal change
• Apply key Buddhist teachings on wisdom to the challenges we face today.

Host Dr. Jan Willis leads twenty Buddhist leaders and teachers in the Global Summit 2023.

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Sign up now to join this momentous summit and gain FREE access to 20 inspiring sessions and experience 18 exclusive meditations from leading Buddhist scholars, including:

• Spring Washam, Buddhist shaman and healer
• Dr. Vandana Shiva, physicist
• Prof. Philippe Goldin, Ph.D., UC Davis, leader of Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Lab
• Tenzin Geyche Tethong, teacher and author
• Butterfly (Tony Pham), meditation and compassion teacher, Tibet House US
• Rev. Matthew Fox, Ph.D., author, theologian, and activist priest
• Prof. Emerita of Religious Studies Dr. Jan Willis, Wesleyan University
• Tenzin Priyadarsha, president and CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT
• Venerable Thubten Chodron, founding abbess of Sravasti Abbey
• Dr. Lisa Miller, Ph.D., author of The Awakened Brain, founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute
• Cyndi Lee, founder OM yoga, author of May I Be Happy
• Dr. Joe Loizzo, founder and academic director, Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science
• Dr. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., psychologist and bestselling author
• Dan Zigmond, Zen teacher and technologist
• Pema Khandro Rinpoche, founder of the Buddhist Studies Institute
• Prof. Emeritus Robert A.F. Thurman (Uma Thurman's dad), translator, president, Tibet House US
• Pamela Ayo Yetunde, co-founder of Buddhist Justice Reporter
• Brother Phap Luu, Zen monk and Plum Village Dharma teacher
• Melvin McLeod, editor in chief of Lion's Roar
• Dr. Joe Loizzo, founder and academic director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science
• Thupten Jinpa, president for the Compassion Institute
• Dr. Lisa Miller, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Awakened Brain and founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute

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P.S. Reserve a spot and join online from March 16-20, 2023. Sign up today and get a special gift: a downloadable collection of teachings from Lion's Roar's exclusive publication Vision of the Dalai Lama: Wisdom for a Compassionate World.

Thurman: Time travel in Buddhism? (video)

Dr. Robert Thurman (Tibet House US, May 27, 2018); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Is time travel possible? Explained by Prof. Thurman

This talk was recorded during the 2016 Force For Good Class Series at Tibet House US in New York City. "A Force For Good" is a Tibet House US course to further the Dalai Lama’s contemporary world initiatives, from his American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Mind & Life Institute science dialogues (Universe in a Single Atom) and his creation of Abhidharma 2.0 through the “Science for Monks” programs, his “secular ethics” (Ethics for the New Millennium and Beyond Religion), nonviolent approach to conflict resolution, including Nobel Peace Laureate activities to seek dialogue and a win-win reconciliation with China in the face of the ongoing ethnicidal policies in Tibet (Freedom in Exile and Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of Tibet’s Dalai Lama) and along with his emphasis on positive activism (A New Reality: Charter of Universal Responsibility). 

This video is apart of the Tibet House US Digital Archives and is brought by the generosity of Tibet House's membership community. To watch more videos please visit tibethouse.us. Full Access begins at $2 a month. Connect with Tibet House US + Menla Online: twitter, facebook, twitter.com/menla, facebook.com/menlaretreat.

10% Happier: Prof. Thurman on Tibet (video)

Prof. Robert Thurman (tibethouse.us), Host Dan Harris; Dhr. Seven, Aloka, Wisdom Quarterly

The 14th Dalai Lama meeting Prof. Thurman's daughter, Uma (columbia.edu)

All in the family: wife, Prof. Robert Thurman, daughter Uma Thurman, yoga teacher son

10% Happier: Prof. Thurman, renowned Tibetan Buddhist scholar

(ABCNews, Aug. 25, 2017) The father of actress Uma Thurman, Harvard Professor Robert Thurman, speaks to ABC News' Dan Harris about his avid interest in Buddhism and his relationship with the Dalai Lama. Watch more on abcnews.go.com, facebook.com/abcnews, twitter.com/abc, Good Morning American homepage: gma.yahoo.com.

Support Tibet House, USA: bid now for lunch with Uma Thurman and Robert Thurman

Tibet House US (video)

TibetHouse.us, charitybuzz.com; Vanessa, Ashley Wells, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tibet House US was created 30 years ago by Harvard's Robert Thurman and Hollywood's Richard Gere at the request of the XIVth Dalai Lama.

The mission of Tibet House US is to preserve, present, and protect Tibetan culture -- its arts, sciences, medicine, and philosophy -- for the Tibetan people and the rest of the world.

This effort is needed because it is estimated that, since the 1949 invasion of Tibet by China, some 95% of Tibet’s material culture and Buddhist artifacts have been destroyed.

Roshi Joan Halifax and the 14th Dalai Lama

Presently, Tibetan language, lifestyle, livelihoods, religion, and customs continue to be deliberately and actively targeted by policies of the Chinese government designed to consolidate its possession of Tibet’s land by erasing the Tibetans’ distinctive identity and history.

Tibet House represents Tibet by being a cultural embassy in New York, a place where the general public can discover all things Tibetan.

Bid to have lunch with us (charitybuzz.com)

Tibet House does this through conferences, retreats, educational programs, religious events, publications, translations, school tours, gallery and museum exhibitions, concerts, building, and maintaining a Repatriation Collection of Tibetan Art as well as an old Tibet photographic archive, and much more. More

• Tibet House US: 22 West 15th St., New York, NY 10011
• (212) 807-0563. HOURS: MON-FRI 10:00 AM-6:00 PM

If we had GODDESSES to worship

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Buddhist Goddess Prajnaparamita

The world needs goddesses (devis) to worship if it is going to honor "gods" (devas) like we used to have in the Jewish and early Christian traditions, which were taken away by Rome when they converted these ideas into an imperial Psy-Op to conquer the world, and females were relegated to an afterthought with the triumph of beloved Western icon Mother Mary (like the East's Kwan Yin). Later Buddhism was not immune to the worldwide sexist rampage that took away our sacred feminine figures keeping a more androgynous.

Originally, females were honored as chief disciples (Khema, Uppalavanna), enlightened matriarchs (Maha Pajapati Gotami, Rahulamata Bhaddhakaccana a.k.a. Yasodhara or Princess Bimba, Kisa Gotami, Maha Maya Devi often portrayed as a salabhanjika), and exemplary nuns (bhiksunis, anis, theris, sayalays) and supporters (Ambapali, Queen Mallika). A feminine revival largely forgot them but set up other Buddhist "goddesses" such as Prajnaparamita, the 21 Tārās like Green Tara, the apsaras, dakinis, tantrikas, yakshinis, and of course the universally beloved Kwan Yin Bodhisattva. Even the Jewish-Christian God YHWH (Yahweh, Jehovah) once had a consort or wife named Asherah, and Rabbi Jesus (Issa, Y'shua) had Mary Magdalene.

WHEN GOD WAS A WOMAN: Archaeologically documented is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under Her, women's roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Abrahamic (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) cultures. Author Merlin Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the worldwide decline in women's status. Index, maps, and illustrations. More

Crappy JAP Survivor's Shallow, Parvati

Parvati (Sanskrit पार्वती) or Uma (as in Thurman) is the Hindu goddess of fertility, love, and devotion, as well as of divine strength and power.

Known by many other names, she is the gentle and nurturing aspect of the Hindu goddess Shakti and one of the central deities of the Goddess-oriented Shakta sect.

Goddess Saraswati

She is the Mother Goddess in Hinduism and has many attributes and aspects. Each of her aspects is expressed with a different name -- giving her over 100 names in regional Hindu stories of India.

Along with Lakshmi (goddess of wealth and prosperity) and Saraswati (goddess of knowledge and learning), she forms the Trinity of Goddesses (Tri-devi).

Wall carvings in Ellora Caves: Kalyanasundara wedding scene of Shiva/Parvati (wiki)

  

Deva Shiva and Devi Parvati like Greek gods

Parvati is the consort or wife of the Hindu god Shiva -- the protector, the destroyer (of evil), and regenerator of universe and all life, according to the Shaiva sect.

She is the daughter of the mountain King Himavan and Queen Mena. Parvati is also the mother of Hindu deities Ganesha and Kartikeya.

Shiva, Parvati (British Museum)

The Puranas also reference her as the sister of the preserver god Vishnu [who gets equated with the Buddha and other for being peaceful] and river goddess Ganga.

Along with Shiva, Parvati is a central deity in the Shaiva sect. In Hindu belief, she is the recreative energy and power of Shiva, and she is the cause of a bond that connects all beings and [not] a means of their spiritual release.

Uma Karuna Thurman among some pigs

In Hindu temples dedicated to her and Shiva, she is symbolically represented as the argha or yoni (womb, vulva, vagina, abode, uterus linked to the Shiva lingam).

She is found extensively in ancient Indian literature, and her statues and iconography grace Hindu temples all over South Asia and Southeast Asia. More

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Young Sadhvi once put her foot in her mouth in defense of Hindutva nationalism. And in an instant, there vanished our peaceful super heroine.

Heart Sutra recitation, commentary: Thurman

Robert Thurman (Tibet House US 2015); Amber Larson, Dhr Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Heart Sutra recitation and commentary by Bob Thurman

In this video Tibet House US President Robert AF Thurman (a Vajrayana Buddhist and personal friend and early translator for the 14th Dalai Lama) leads a recitation of his own translation of Buddhism's "Heart Sutra" followed by a commentary of the philosophical basis of the text. Recorded at Menla Mountain at the "Buddha's Inner Sciences" intensive retreat with Eric Rosenbush, Mark Epstein, Phagyab Rinpoche in August 2015 in Phoenicia, New York. This is an excerpt from "Buddha's Inner Sciences Introduction" a Patreon monthly supporter video. To watch the full evening's teaching (1:38:43 running time) requires becoming a monthly supporter on patreon.com/menla.

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Former first lady Barbara Bush in failing health

Man's suicide unearths decades-old sex abuse

Incest: Man kills his daughter/wife after breakup

Louisiana takes aim at Jim Crow-era jury law

Loving Our Enemies (Salzberg and Thurman)

Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Sharon Salzberg (sharonsalzberg.com), Prof. Thurman (bobthurman.com), Krista Tippett (onbeing.org)

The Buddha in meditation in Japanese temple near Vulture's Peak, Rajgir, India (_leonid)

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Embracing Our Enemies and Our Suffering

Father Bob and Uma Thurman

Two legendary Buddhist teachers shine a light on the lofty ideal of loving our enemies and bringing it down to Earth.

 

How can that be realistic, asks "On Being" host Krista Tippett, and what do we have to do inside ourselves to make it more possible?

 

In a conversation filled with laughter and friendship, Burmese Theravada insight meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg (Insight Meditation Society) and Tibetan Vajrayana teacher and translator Prof. Robert Thurman (Tibet House) share much.

Radio host Krista Tippett (onbeing.com)

The focus is on practical wisdom about how we relate to what makes us feel embattled from without as well as from within. More + AUDIO

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation teacher, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, co-author of Love Your Enemies, and the author of other books including Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation and Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.
 

Robert Thurman is professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and the president of the Tibet House U.S., co-author of Love Your Enemies, and author of other books including Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within and Inner Revolution.


Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit and Be a Whole Lot Happier

Love Your Enemies (BAM)

When people and circumstances upset us, how do we deal with them? Often, we feel victimized. We become hurt, angry, and defensive. We end up seeing others as enemies. And when things don't go our way, we become enemies to ourselves.

But what if we could move past this pain, anger, and defensiveness?

Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, this book introduces us to the four kinds of enemies we encounter in life:

1. the outer enemy, people, institutions, and situations that mean to harm us;
2. the inner enemy, anger, hatred, fear, and other destructive emotions;
3. the secret enemy, self-obsession that isolates us from others;
4. the super-secret enemy, deep-seated self-loathing that prevents us from finding inner freedom and true happiness.

In this practical guide, we learn not only how to identify our enemies, but more importantly, how to transform our relationship to them.

Love Your Enemies teaches us how to "break free from the mode of 'us versus them' thinking" "develop compassion, patience, and love," "accept what is beyond our control," "embrace loving-kindness, right speech, and other core concepts."

 

Throughout, authors Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman share stories and exercises for achieving finding peace within ourselves and with the world. Drawing from ancient spiritual wisdom and modern psychology, Love Your Enemies presents tools that are useful for all readers. More

Toward American Buddhism (Robert Thurman)

Wisdom Quarterly; Prof. Robert Thurman (bobthurman.com/tibethouse.us)

(SoundsTrue) Prof. Robert Thurmans is one of TIME's 25 Most Influential Americans

"When the Iron Bird Flies" (film)

ChariotVideos.com; BuddhaFest.org; Wisdom Quarterly

(Victress108) "Can these age old teachings help us find genuine happiness and save the planet as well?" This is a timely look at the impact Tibetan Buddhism is having on western society. It is a comprehensive exploration and collaboration between East and West. See film below.

   

The film's directors at work with final editing

An ancient Tibetan prophecy states that "When the iron bird flies, the Dharma will reach the West."
  
Western Theravada nun Ayya Khema explores this through meditation, particularly reviving the Buddha's teachings on fruitful "right concentration" through the absorptions (jhanas).
   
Western  Vajrayana allies have gone further to explore the arrival of the Dharma by going on KICKSTARTER and raising funds to make a pivotal feature film. About 480 backers pledged $32,000 taking the project over its goal.

• "Yogis of Tibet," When Buddhism Comes West
• VIDEO: Meditation now, Absorption soon

There have been other Westerners -- such as the French Tibetan Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard and the American Tibetan Buddhist monk, professor, and father of actress Uma Thurman, Robert Thurman -- who have worked closely with the current Dalai Lama to translate the teachings and make them more accessible to European and American audiences. 
 

Funding and making the movie from inspiration to realization

Tibetan Buddhism Arrives in the West

This is the first feature-length documentary to take a comprehensive look at the impact Tibetan Buddhism (a variety of Mahayana called Lamaism, Tantrayana, or Vajrayana) is having on Western culture. 

   

14th Dalai Lama (Reuters)

The film presents a vivid portrait of the world of Tibetan Buddhism as it is manifesting in the West -- from the personal experiences and insights of teachers and practitioners to the wide ranging dialogues taking place between the Buddha's Dharma and the worlds of science, psychology, and the arts.

   

The filmmakers began shooting in April of 2009. It was a huge undertaking that has come to its thrilling final phase of editing. They hope all Buddhists in the West will feel inspired to contribute, spread the word, or simply take time to learn about this important project. More
  

When the Iron Bird Flies