Success! Contacting the webcast team directly did the trick. Seems obvious in retrospect, but most good tips do, I suppose.Norwegian wrote:Try contacting your local gar, as well as the webcast team.
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- Wed Dec 25, 2013 9:56 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Kalachakra in Dzogchen Community
- Replies: 53
- Views: 16696
Re: Kalachakra in Dzogchen Community
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:59 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Kalachakra in Dzogchen Community
- Replies: 53
- Views: 16696
Re: Kalachakra in Dzogchen Community
I've recently joined the Dzogchen Community, in part because I want to participate in the upcoming Kalacakra retreat, but I haven't yet received a webcast password.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I could get one issued quickly?
Does anyone have any ideas of how I could get one issued quickly?
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 4:24 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Kalachakra in Dzogchen Community
- Replies: 53
- Views: 16696
Re: Kalachakra in Dzogchen Community
I'm bumping this because this webcast is coming up, and I'm having a difficult time finding concrete information about when each day's teaching will be coming on (need to get this dialed in as I'm traveling). Any ideas on what's going on here? thanks It looks like a schedule has just been posted he...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:38 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Does Dzogchen have Persian or Zoroastrian influences?
- Replies: 115
- Views: 21516
Re: Does Dzogchen have Persian or Zoroastrian influences?
Before 1400's Oddiyana or Orgyen was even further to the North-West from India. Long before 1400's it was the present day Georgia, i.e. Ge-orgyen. The name George thus means Guru of Orgyen . The myth or history of Saint George subduing, or slaughtering, the Dragon derives from the legend of Padmasa...
- Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:07 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Tibetan vs a Chinese sutra's 5 acts of immediate retribution
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6307
Re: Tibetan vs. Ven. Hsuan Hua's Acts of Immediate Retribut
Do you happen to know the Taishō number for it?Son of Buddha wrote: Ven Hsuan Hua was quoting from a sutra most people dont know about....its a very popular sutra in china....(very weird considering all the abotions that go on in china)
- Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:26 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
- Replies: 707
- Views: 135051
Re: Early Buddhism and Mahayana
So is it known when Mahayana began to develop as a separate tradition? What are the oldest Mahayana Sutras and are they based, as if often the case, on oral traditions or modes of practiced religiosity that precede their composition? If you're interested in the development of Mahāyāna over time, Pa...
- Sat Sep 14, 2013 1:04 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Manichaeism and Buddhism especially in China
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2971
Re: Manichaeism and Buddhism especially in China
Definitely the other way around. The first Pure Land sutras had already been translated into Chinese 50+ years before Mani was ever born. Hmm, that's very interesting. What's the proof of this? Nattier, in her article "The Indian Roots of Pure Land Buddhism: In sights from the Oldest Chinese V...
- Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:48 pm
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: How did Dogen present karma & rebirth?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7956
Re: How did Dogen present karma & rebirth?
Maybe it's just me, but this passage from the Sanji-Go looks pretty literal: What we call the three temporal periods are the three time periods in which we receive the retribution from our good and evil acts. These are, first, the retribution experienced in one’s present life; second, the retributio...
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:16 am
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Glenn Mullin
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3022
Re: Glenn Mullin
His website says: His two principal tantric gurus were the late great masters Kyabje Ling Dorjechang and Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang, who were best known as Yongdzin Che Chung, the two main gurus of the present Dalai Lama. The list of Glenn’s other teachers and initiation masters includes the Dalai La...
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:38 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: The Art of Meditation in Gandhara
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1975
Re: The Art of Meditation in Gandhara
I don't know about that image in particular, but a Google Image search on "Qizil cave painting" turned up quite a few images of figures seated in meditation (as did "Qizil mural").
- Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:53 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Introductory Books on Buddhism
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7720
Re: Introductory Books on Buddhism
My standard recommendations for general introductions to Buddhism are Rupert Gethin's The Foundations of Buddhism, and Peter Harvey's An Introduction to Buddhism.
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:41 am
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: More Trungpa talk
- Replies: 295
- Views: 64374
Re: More Trungpa talk
I read where one of his students said, "He did both more harm and more good than any ten men I know." I can't remember where I read it or who said it, but it made an impression on me. Rick Fields (author of *How the Swans Came to the Lake") wrote in a poem published after CTR's death...
- Sat Jun 08, 2013 3:37 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Buddha the author of Mahayana sutras?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 16746
Re: Buddha the author of Mahayana sutras?
The oldest carbon dated Buddhist scripture is the Lotus Sutra(the one found predates the oldest pali canon scrpture found) I would be interested to see the source for that. I'm not a manuscript scholar, but I am pretty sure that this claim is false. The earliest Lotus Sūṭra manuscript that I am awa...
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:43 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Dissertations and Essays Helpful to Studying the Early Mahay
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1936
Re: Dissertations and Essays Helpful to Studying the Early M
More Dissertations and Essays Helpful to Studying the Early Mahayana and the Arc of the Yogacara Drewes, David; Early Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism I: Recent Scholarship David, University of Manitoba, Religion Compass 3 (2009) (the above may be the same person?) Scholarship & Early Indian Mahāyāna B...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:29 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Tibetan commentaries on the MMK
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2474
Re: Tibetan commentaries on the MMK
Thank you! This is precisely what I am after.Tom wrote:A few more:
May I ask where you are finding these?
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:37 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Tibetan commentaries on the MMK
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2474
Tibetan commentaries on the MMK
Can anyone help me compile a list of Tibetan commentaries on Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā?
(I'm thinking primarily of texts composed in Tibetan, not translations from the Sanskrit.)
(I'm thinking primarily of texts composed in Tibetan, not translations from the Sanskrit.)
- Thu May 30, 2013 4:08 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: New Lalitavistara Sutra translation
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17120
Re: New Lalitavistara Sutra translation
The PDF of the Kāraṇḍavyūha is now available. Looks like they fixed whatever technical problem was holding it back.Will wrote:It is up now, but the PDF of Karandavyuha is still a no show; except for the title page.
- Fri May 24, 2013 5:08 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Copy of the traval account of Xuanzang?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2011
Re: Copy of the traval account of Xuanzang?
They have been published in print form by BDK/Numata, but they don't seem to be on the list of digital editions they have made available.
- Mon May 20, 2013 12:45 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: A question on Mahayana philosophical schools
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1667
Re: A question on Mahayana philosophical schools
I know that there are three (at least primary) philosophical traditions in Mahayana Buddhism: Madyamaka, Yogacara, and Tathagatagarbha. I know the general ideas behind each one, as well. But I do have a few questions. 1. How are these philosophical schools assimilated into the various practice scho...
- Mon May 20, 2013 11:20 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Buddhism and western philosophy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2723
Re: Buddhism and western philosophy
What western philosophies or philosophers come close to teaching things found within Buddhism? Are there any who actually do come close? I've found that Heraclitus actually teaches many ideas found within both Buddhism and Taoism. Plato sometimes seemed to get close, as well. Are there any others? ...