ross.ramos@... wrote: ... While some shrines may be blessed in this way (and certainly some shrine objects) in general malas, phurbas, bells and dorjes...
It appears that the space shuttle Columbia has broken up on reentry. It is possible that the main cabin may have survived. Please pray for their safety as...
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Tashi Delek, I would first like to thank all of you who responded to my email regarding consecration. I think that what I really have drawn from all this is...
Haven't posted here for some time, but a recent death in the family has made me curious about something. How do other Buddhists here respond to the ...
in reference to the tragic shuttle loss - In Lhasa, just before the chinese invaded Tibet, a comet streaked across the sky in the middle of the day. is was...
Oh, what a difficult weekend. It should have been joyful--Chinese New Year, Losar, Imbolc/Groundhog Day, my husband's birthday. Saturday's news cut like a...
\ ... I don't believe they died tragically, Lu. They died heroically, in the tradition of all great explorers. Like those who died in the crews of Magellan...
... Well, yeah, but I don't see "heroic" and "tragic" as being necessarily mutually exclusive categories. Can't there be tragic heroes? Aren't history &...
Just wanted to mention that one of the astronauts was also a woman born in India ... and India has definitely said it will not support the U.S. in a war...
"The Tragic King" is found par excellence in Greek literature, e.g. the tragedies like The Bacchae by Euripidies. Creon the king was warned by a sage early on...
Hello everyone, ... I have to register a "whoa, there Nelly!" to this conversation. I am very sorry for the deaths of these 7 and the suffering of all the...
Jen108@...
Feb 3, 2003 5:23 pm
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K wrote ... You're right -- it isn't the best time to give a little dharma talk! :-) Given that people are nervous enough about what to say at a time like...
Jen108@...
Feb 3, 2003 5:28 pm
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Hi,K First of all,I was sorry to hear of your loss.We all experience them and we can all sympathise. I think your question is a good one cos,as I've just...
Hi all, I've a question regarding the nature of holy beings & deities: I read recently that Milarepa went on to acheive full Buddhahood, while Gampopa elected...
http://www.simhas.org/news.html ~~Tsurphu Losar Celebrations Feb 2nd--- His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa concluded the ceremonies for Tsurphu Losar (February...
... When I think of Dubya these days, this Genesis song is merrily spinning round in my mind: Jesus he knows me, And he knows I'm right! I've been talking to...
M. Lampert
M.R.L@...
Feb 4, 2003 6:04 am
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... "A sign from whom?" that is not how omens work, if it should be an omen. if you see a monk, nun or Lama in your dreams it is considered to be a good omen....
... a bodhisattva or what? Guru Rinpoche is widely regard in Tibetan Buddhism as the second Buddha, or the tantric Buddha. He is afforded the same or higher ...
... emination, ... to ... I think some of what you write here A needs explaining. The term "second Buddha" is applied to Guru Rinpoche as the guru responsible...
... being more worthy than another. Hi Mick - Refering to the writing of Sogyal Rinpoche and Alexandra David Neal's account of what she witnessed in Tibet, as...
Please excuse me if I've betrayed my ignorance by suggesting that Vajradhara wasn't an incarnate being in the same sense as Guru Rinpoche. Was he actually...
... Vajradhara is the sambhogakaya form of Buddha Shakyamuni who was a supreme nirmanakaya (samyak sambuddha) - in other words he had the major and minor signs...
Vajradhara (Dorje Chang), as I understand it, is a kind of personification of the dharmakaya (with the Nyingma lineage, the same purpose is served by...
... On consideration, might it be that Kagyupas relate to the Karmapa(s) in something of a similar way as the Nyingmapas relate to GR? A sort of familial...
... How about this one from Zappa : You can't run a state by a book of religion, Not by a heap or a dab or a smidgeon, Of ancient rules, of ancient date, ...
