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A Buddhist nun who is a grandmother shared her personal meditation on healing the Israelis and Palestinians with me (she asked to remain anonymous). She wrote:
“These days I make up a little practice of seeing Tara manifest above the conflict in Gaza (I came up this after I felt desperate about how the bombings are [...]

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President Obama is known to be an avid reader, so just for fun,  if  I could recommend a few books, I’d suggest:

Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland (after all it was written for a king)
Sakya Pandita’s Treasury of Good Advice
Shantideva’s A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (and if that’s too long), the Eight Verses of Thought [...]

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Please join us for the next recitation of the The Sutra of Golden Light, which will happen Sunday, January 4, 2009. The readings can be done any time during the day on Sunday from any location around the globe.  More information on the specific chapters that we will be reading will be posted soon.
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In October, Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Losang Jampa was asked to share his thoughts on how to cope with the economic downturn. The following is a loose transcription of Rinpoche’s response.
With his characteristic good humor, Rinpoche explained how to practice tong len by making offerings by transforming our virtuous stock of karma into wealth and whatever is needed by [...]

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