April Bogle at the Huffington Post shares an amusing reflection on the possibility of a female Dalai Lama to succeed Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, who is currently 75 years old. Apparently His Holiness thinks it is quite possible, if the Tibetan people and culture would accept ...
The Ann Arbor Zen Buddhist Temple will celebrate Art Fair week with tours of the Temple gardens and presentations on Buddhism and art. On Friday, July 23rd, garden tours will again be available starting at 3:00 pm. Benjamin Brose, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University ...
Patheos.com, a religion and spirituality information website, is running a summer series on the Future of Religion. The series invites leading scholars and writers from a variety of religious traditions to talk about the future of religion, including trends, challenges, controversies and reforms.Last week, 14 contributing scholars and authors discussed ...
The idea of T’ai Chi generally conjures up images of old Chinese people exercising slowly, very slowly, in the park. However, T’ai Chi has a lot to offer people of all races and all ages. This Saturday from 5-6 p.m., everyone can try T’ai Chi and Chi Kung: Body, Mind, and ...
Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, local businesses, and Community organizations come together to support A2 Fiber, Ann Arbor's bid to win Google high speed fiber optic internet. The I "Like" A2Fiber campaign gives organizations, bloggers, and companies banners to put on their web site to show their support. ...
On the full moon of the fourth month in the year 544 B.C., Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was born. According to the Mahayana Buddhist lunar calendar, this May marked his 2,554th birthday. The Zen Buddhist Temple at 1214 Packard St. celebrated the birth of Buddha this past weekend. Each year, the ...
Photo by flickr user FerneMillenTenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama and Nobel laureate, expressed the essential need for harmony among the major faiths in an opinion editorial in the New York Times this week. He shared that growing up as a boy in Tibet, he believed that his Buddhist religion ...
One of my fondest memories is singing songs all night with friends along the banks of the Bagmati River in southern Nepal on Buddah Jayanti (Buddah’s birthday) and sending small clay oil lamps with whispered prayers down the river to join the holiest river Ganges. I can still see the ...
Buddha's Birthday in Seoul by flickr user Image Zen Several different faith communities are celebrating holidays this week, as noted by online magazine Read the Spirit.Buddhists around the world celebrate Buddha's birthday this month, with major festivals being held in South Korea and other East Asian countries. The Ann Arbor ...
This week's visit by the Itinerant Chorister to a house of worship involved no choir, but included a bit of chanting in traditional Buddhist style. The Zen Buddhist Temple at 1214 Packard St. in Ann Arbor teaches a pragmatic faith, which includes such things as saying that if you are ...
Photo by flickr user oooh.oooh Not long ago, AnnArbor.com profiled a group of women crossing traditional boundary lines and navigating interfaith friendships. Many in that group began by rallying around common interests - children, family, career, or hobbies - and eventually realized that perhaps they weren't so different after all. ...
There’s a birthday card with a yogi sitting cross-legged on the cover, a present before him. Inside the card he opens the gift and exclaims, “Nothing!” with a big smile on his face. I assume this refers to the Buddhist philosophy that nothing holds everything, that when we’re free from ...
There are a nearly limitless number of things to think about in former U.N. ambassador Sichan Siv’s memoir “Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America” (HarperCollins, 2008): a couple millennia of southeast Asian history, the basics of Buddhism, world politics throughout the ...
We hope you were one of the more than 250 people who attended Gelek Rimpoche’s White Tara longevity empowerment on Sunday, Feb. 28. It was a beautiful day for all, inside and out. Rimpoche was the March 7 speaker for our weekly Sunday morning programs and talked about “Compassion for Ourselves." ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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