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- Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:36 pm
- Forum: Bön
- Topic: Siberia's resurgent shamanism
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9993
Re: Siberia's resurgent shamanism
Nechung oracle-image3 - 011.jpg Tashi delek T ! Many oracles are male but there are also female oracles. But i doubt if 90% would be female oracles. I enjoy your Bon sub-forum here, btw. It's a good place to explore and discuss shamanic elements in Buddhism. Maybe it varies regionally, but in Ladak...
- Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:01 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Very sad news: Letter to Sogyal Rinpoche / Abuse allegations
- Replies: 955
- Views: 216984
Re: Very sad news
The Dalai Lama has said, in response to this type of question posted by Western Dharma center leaders, that if a teacher is behaving wrongly, and is harming people, one must speak out. HHDL did exactly that with respect to his own teacher, the Regent, when he lived in Lhasa. He also said that if cr...
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:20 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Very sad news: Letter to Sogyal Rinpoche / Abuse allegations
- Replies: 955
- Views: 216984
Re: Very sad news
Could someone with some knowledge on the topic of Samaya (Malcolm?) please be so kind and say a few words to clear up the following? 1) We're harming Samaya by exposing our Guru after we've have been sexually or physically abused by him 2) We should therefore keep quiet and keep practicing 3) By ke...
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:21 pm
- Forum: Bön
- Topic: Siberia's resurgent shamanism
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9993
Re: Siberia's resurgent shamanism
Just in case you are interested Korean shamanism, considered to be a form of Siberian shamanism (although not necessarily the kind shown in the clip), is alive and well. As in most Siberian shamanism only women can be true shamans, but can have male assistants. Sometimes men dress as women during t...
- Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:06 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stupas in New Mexico
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4386
Re: Stupas in New Mexico
Will you be making it to Taos? The stupa of the great weathermaker Yeshe Dorje is there. Turns out there's one of those just outside Santa Fe, too. So Santa Fe has 2 stupas. http://www.stupa.org.nz/stupa/Rio_Grande2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="wi...
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Sugar, Fat, Diabetes
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7017
Re: Sugar, Fat, Diabetes
I don't think Americans consume as much fat as Tibetans traditionally have. If you ate McDonalds for every meal, I don't think you would eat as much fat. If the older Tibetans could think of a way to put fat on fat and call it a meal, they would. Butter on cheese? I feel like I've seen that before,...
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:28 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Sugar, Fat, Diabetes
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7017
Re: Sugar, Fat, Diabetes
Aside from the USA-Middle East policy and the blatant racism that pervades the USA unnoticed by most Americans,... another conspiracy hiding in plain sight is the food and pharmacutical industry misinformation about lifestyle treatment/causation for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity. &q...
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 7:23 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stupas in New Mexico
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4386
Re: Stupas in New Mexico
Yes. There's only one. It's in the south end of town, so you'll hit that part of town first, coming from Albuquerque.Johnny Dangerous wrote:Tenzin1 wrote:Santa Fe, on the east side of Airport Road. you can't miss it.
That's the same one as above?
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:46 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stupas in New Mexico
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4386
Re: Stupas in New Mexico
Santa Fe, on the east side of Airport Road. you can't miss it.
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:22 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: H.H. XIV Dalai Lama says he should be the Last Dalai Lama
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8695
Re: H.H. XIV Dalai Lama says he should be the Last Dalai Lam
I don't quite understand why His Holiness doesn't just make it clear ahead of time that he will take rebirth outside of China. Will the Chinese government recognize the successor found by the High Gelug Lamas in India? Probably not, but they would still appoint their own claimant Dalai Lama if His ...
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:53 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Women in Buddhism
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4752
Re: Women in Buddhism
Can anyone recommend any books or resources on this subject? I have read the book by Sandy Boucher and found it very interesting. Looking for more... Also any female teachers that have made an impression? I recommend Tenzin Palmo. She has a some books and a website. Also a great, great book is Lear...
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:06 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Shagai - Mongolian Shamanic Fortune Telling
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2963
Re: Shagai - Mongolian Shamanic Fortune Telling
Historically, and still, even now, they use sheep scapula. The Chinese also used them in ancient times. These are what are called "oracle bones" that are ground up and used in Chinese medicine, if the historians and archaeologists don't get to them first. In China they have prayers or ritu...
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:07 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: What languages do you know/study
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4547
Re: What languages do you know/study
Fluent in Russian, Spanish, Romanian. A bit rusty, but able to do research in French, German, Serbo-Croatian. Conversant in Norwegian. I studied 3 years of Mandarin, and am considering reviving that, in part to be able to read Buddhist texts in Chinese. I've also taught elementary university courses...
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:42 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: ultimate state/being not "absolute" ?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3865
Re: ultimate state/being not "absolute" ?
You're spot on. On the face of it, it seems absurd that the Buddha only taught there is impermanence, suffering, and the insubstantiality (anâtman) of the five grasping aggregates which constitute the world of samsara. Didn't the Buddha teach that there was also permanence? Didn't he say in his fin...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:34 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: What languages do you know/study
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4547
Re: What languages do you know/study
I had a dab of classical Tibetan, and spoken Tibetan. Mostly European languages: Russian, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, German (rusty on the last 3). Mandarin, but I always forget the script soon after I learn it. I'm not visual, I'm aural, and learn through my ears. Mandarin's good wi...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:56 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15909
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
I'm curious as to what the Pali Canon says with regard to the OP. This may be a matter of interpretation, there may not be a clear answer. This opens the door to interpretations by later commentators, and which then leads to the Dharma evolving into Vasubandhu-ism, and so on. Bhikku Bodhi says, in a...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:59 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Are there any enlightened people in the world today?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6960
Re: Are there any enlightened people in the world today?
There numbers do seem to be dwindling of late. It may seem so, if you're looking in the wrong places, or have the wrong expectation of what you're looking for. As the Karmapa said, "they're not going to look like me." Remember the Tibetan tale about the humble practitioner who runs into a...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:45 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15909
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
Could a Bodhisattva be reborn in hell to alleviate the suffering of others? According to Berzin, Serkong Rinpoche (one of Dalai Lama's senior tutors, now deceased) wished to do exactly this. But it is very difficult, and he failed to achieve it and was reborn as a human. (The deduction that he fail...
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:25 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15909
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
Could a Bodhisattva be reborn in hell to alleviate the suffering of others? The Dalai Lama discusses this in some of the material on the Berzin Archives. It says we should at least cultivate the desire to go to the hell realms in order to help others. That doesn't mean we actually have to go there,...
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:14 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15909
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
I did a search in the Berzin Archives for "Hell realms", and several texts turn up. Vasubandhu is cited as being one source among others for teachings on the hell realms, but the realms are described as very real. There are "eight hot realms and eight cold, joyless realms (hells), wit...