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I lived in Portland for a time and loved it. This made me laugh right out loud.

2012 was a year of opening doors. We launched the online Reading Room, the first immersive digital platform for exploring the Kangyur, making the Buddha’s words freely available to everyone around the world.

This just in: can confirm.

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

Sometimes it really feels like the end of days.

#RealBuddhaQuotes Each day is a chance to set our aspiration.
May today be guided by patience, effort, clarity, and freedom.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, our founding chair, shares his words of appreciation for 84000’s fifteenth year.
As we celebrate 15 years of translating the words of the Buddha, we are honored to present #CrystalVoices

Bizarre meditating monkey in front of The Skillet restaurant in Las Vegas, NM. Owner is apparently the artist. Food was exceptionally good.

Just saw the doc about them on Netflix. Hadn't realized how deep into the counter-culture they were.

In March 2009, Khyentse Foundation convened the historic Translating the Words of the Buddha Conference at Deer Park Institute, Bir. Attended by seven Rinpoches and more than fifty translators and scholars, the gathering was a turning point: at the time,

Lucky dog. That's the Pynchon one, right?

Toilet Paper USA?

Occasionally Crestone really serves up the phenomena. Taken a couple weeks ago over the chapel at Miyo Samten Ling, Alan Wallace's center for contemplative practice.

Wow, what venue?

I made the mistake of listening to a clip of Trump's address to the UN. I'm nearly 60 and can't recall any episode in American public life more abjectly stupid and embarrassing. To my friends around the world: we know, and we're doing what we can, but it will be neither easy nor quick.

"Win this war"...how about "accomplish its illegal invasion"?

On the editing screen:

"Beings who give rise to the resolve set on unexcelled and perfect awakening out of compassion and love for all beings are also rare."

Fifteen Years: Wisdom for a Changing World

The story began in 2009, when a historic conference in Bir, India—organized by Khyentse Foundation and hosted by Deer Park Institute—sparked the creation of a working group to preserve the Buddha’s words.

“Sister, what compels a bodhisattva to set out toward unexcelled and perfect awakening?”

“Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas don the armor geared toward awakening to deliver beings to nirvāṇa."

What, back in the day?! Or the Helios resurrection?

I'd never seen these. Brilliant.

"Remember -- The worst is yet to come. Very good for now..."

At the very apex of my pantheon.

YouTube video by I. Zurutuza The Fall - Who Makes The Nazis?

This has been running through my head of late.

A sword of truth to slice through the hysterical lies of the last few days.

" '...I shall praise abstention from killing living creatures, and I shall praise and take empathetic delight in others abstaining from killing living creatures.' "

"Subhūti, bodhisattva great beings think, ‘From the time when I first begin to set my mind on enlightenment until I am seated at the site of enlightenment, I shall indeed abstain from killing living creatures, and I shall encourage others to keep abstaining from killing living creatures...

There were two therapists in our quartet, so the assumption is they led us to the Padmasambhava Stupa so that we might encounter our shadow selves.

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The earliest surviving photographs of Japan were shot by Eliphalet Brown as part of the Perry Expedition in 1853/54.

Among many landscapes, Brown also took a few portraits, including this anonymous Buddhist priest at Shimoda – likely the earliest surviving photo of a Buddhist cleric.🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Japan

Occasionally, the tantras present images of startling beauty:

"The moment he begins [to recite], his tongue will become as soft as a lotus petal and his mouth will smell of blue water lilies."

YouTube video by Terrific Horror Flipper-Earthworm

I don't know who here would care, but hearing this on WPRB as a teen in Jersey changed my outlook on everything.

Frontman of S.F. punk band that influenced Nirvana dies at 66 Bruce “Loose” Calderwood helped shape the sound that influenced Nirvana, the Melvins and much of grunge.

Om Mani Padme Hung.