Buddhist Teachings & Meditations in the Land of the Thunder Dragon
Blog of people-places-things-in-around-alongside the film Journey With Robert Thurman In Bhutan: Buddhist Teachings and Meditations in the Land of the Thunder Dragon.
Io9′s recent article, “In Bhutan, friendly phalluses painted on houses scare off evil spirits,” has been making the rounds on all the social networks, causing me to reflect on all the friendly phalluses I encountered on our expedition. Fitting in nicely with the theme of our latest video outtakes post, orgasm and death, here are some of my favorite phalluses encountered while filming Journey with Robert Thurman in Bhutan. The …
Read More →One movie you should definitely see in this life is My Reincarnation, by Jennifer Fox, opening this weekend in New York and Los Angeles to rave reviews in the New York Times. (I saw it at the recent New Zealand Film Festival.) In the video above, from the Share Your Story feature on My Reincarnation’s website, Robert Thurman shares his understanding of reincarnation. …It’s not like a religious belief in …
Read More →One of the most striking physical features of Bhutan is its architecture. I was delighted to discover in Lisa Napoli’s wonderful book, Radio Shangri-La, that the University of Texas at El Paso was built to reflect the style of the kingdom’s unique structures, making a little Bhutan on the Border. Inspired by one of the first photo essays about Bhutan, “Castles in the Air,” from the April 1914 issue of …
Read More →Robert Thurman addresses Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park on Cool Revolution and the Age of Wisdom, analyzing the problems that fuel the frustration underlying the occupation and encouraging compassion for the banker-robbers who also need liberation from a system that makes them desperately unhappy. How nonviolence – cool revolution – is key, and how meditation on compassion can help bring this about. Bob explores Bhutan’s concept of Gross National …
Read More →Excerpt of Robert Thurman speaking at Tibet House on Oct 5, 2011 as part of a NY Open Center class on the Yoga of Daily Living in the House of Vimalakirti We don’t want to simplistically think that Wall Street is the den of all evil, but the abuse of wall street, and the deification of it, and making it the shrine to Mammon, that’s the problem. It operated reasonably …
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Videos from the Peace in the World Panel moderated by Robert Thurman at the Newark Peace Education Summit, held May 15, 2011. In this segment, Part 1 of 4, Robert Thurman introduces and moderates speakers Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and winner of the Right Livelihood Award from New Zealand, and Isobel Arthen, youth representative of PeaceJam Foundation. Part 2 features Nobel Laureate Shirin …
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Delighted to see these new works by Gonkar Gyatso in Tricycle’s online gallery exhibition of contemporary Himalayan art featuring his work. Gonkar Gyatso’s work first entered my consciousness at a group exhibition of contemporary Tibetan artists’ work at Tibet House US many years ago, and I have enthusiastically followed his work ever since. In person, the glossy and glittery stickers pull you in and flood your kawaii-receptors with pleasure. The …
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Here’s an amazing opportunity to follow the footsteps of the Buddha through sacred sites of India with Robert Thurman and Shantum Seth through Geographic Expeditions late January to early February 2012. By tracing the Buddha’s steps, partaking in daily meditations in the very places where Buddha’s own life’s journey unfolded, and enjoying daily talks by Shantum and Dr. Thurman to put our experiences in context, this may well be the …
Read More →Robert Thurman and Richard Freeman discuss the intro to what Freeman describes as the “handbook to Kundalini yoga,” Thurman’s translation of Tsong Khapa’s Brilliant Lamp of the Lamp of the Five Stages: Practical Instructions in the King of Tantras, The Glorious Esoteric Community. In this video, filmed during Buddha and the Yogi’s: The Vajra Body retreat at Menla Mountain Center, June 12, 2011, Robert Thurman, Richard Freeman and John Campbell …
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What a fantastic lineup of films and teachings for Tricycle’s BuddhaFest Online Film Festival: Mon, 6/6/2011 Fire Under the Snow Thurs, 6/9/2011 With One Voice Mon, 6/13/2011 Colors of Compassion Thurs, 6/16/2011 Cave in the Snow Mon, 6/20/2011 For the Benefit of All Beings Mon, 6/27/2011 Crazy Wisdom How does it work? You purchase a festival pass for $20 and then can access the streaming films plus related teachings and …
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