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Japanese ink paintings – agriculture in the 19th century
A random link to some beautiful images – inspiration for watercolour Japanese agriculture in the early 19th century: https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/islandora/search?type=dismax&islandora_solr_search_navigation=0&f[0]=RELS_EXT_isMemberOfCollection_uri_ms:%22info\:fedora\/collection\:Ser1042%22
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Book: Dharma Rain
Kaza, Stephanie, and Kenneth Kraft, eds. Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism. Boston and London: Shambhala, 2000. An extensive collection of materials that the editors consider useful resources for the formulation and support of an environmentally oriented Buddhism. Contents are described as “classic Buddhist texts, modern commentaries, resources for ecologically oriented spiritual practice and guidelines…
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Text: Recitations in Pali
Below is embedded a text containing the recitations of Refuge, Homage to the Buddha, Five Precepts and Metta Sutta in Pali and English. Note this text is in “pecha” format; it is intended to be printed and cut out to make a stack of unbound leaves, as in ancient times. (With thanks to Mahindra Dhamma…
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Online Teachings: Venerable Dhammadipa on Kumarajiva’s Meditation Manual – 2021
Below are embedded recordings from an excellent series of lectures by Ven. Dhammadipa, starting from 3rd Feb 2021, organized by KJ Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies, Somaiya Vidyavihar University in Mumbai. These teachings are based on one of the three meditation manuals ascribed to Kumarajiva in Chinese catalogues: the Chanfa yaojie, which Ven. Dhammadipa has…
gone to the forest
Br. Ngawang Tenzin (Dr. Alex Anderson)