Nepal earthquake: ‘Million children left out of school’ By Hannah RichardsonBBC News education reporter 8 May 2015 Child-friendly spaces such as this one have been set up in 14 districts Nearly a million children in Nepal will not be able to return to school in the wake of last month’s earthquake unless urgent action is… Read More Send Relief for the Children of Nepal
It is precisely because impermanent, conditioned phenomena are unsatisfying that we are motivated to awaken. Seeing these characteristics clearly becomes the cause of and condition for liberation. Joseph Goldstein, “The End of Suffering” NO! this is simply not true for me. If everything was the same all the time, if nothing ever changed, I would… Read More Ruminations 1: Impermanent Things Make Me Happy
Time Magazine / Stefanie Glinski / Kathmandu May 5, 2015 Caleb SpearA mountain bike team member hands out tarpaulin in villages in need of relief after the Nepal earthquake of April 25, 2015 Now that’s what you call pedal power Nepal’s national mountain biking team was making practice runs last week in Chobar, when the… Read More Nepal’s Mountain Bikers Are Getting Aid to Isolated Quake-Hit Villages
The 8th Reasoning of the Chariot: A Deconstruction of the 7-fold Reasoning of the Chariot by Chandrakirti http://bit.ly/1JoYJro
I bought my ticket today to see Krishna Das in Halifax on Sunday July 19, 2015 at Saint Marys University campus, at the McNally Theatre. I’m going to the Sunday show because it includes the Heart of Devotion workshop with KD, and I love his teachings. He’s the one who said in one of his workshops:… Read More Workshop with Krishna Das
By Kate Higgins Updated about 6 hours ago PHOTO: A Japanese ALOS-2 satellite image of Nepal after the earthquake, overlaid on an image of the region taken in February. The red area indicates the peak displacement, while the red spots mark aftershocks. The epicentre is starred. (Supplied: UNSW) RELATED STORY: About 100 bodies found in Nepal trekking village MAP: Nepal… Read More Nepal earthquake: Satellite Mapping Points to More Aftershocks in Kathmandu
[Editor; Wow, this is bad.] http://www.tricycle.com/blog/unholy-alliance Thailand’s military government, which seized control of the country in a coup last May, has taken a special interest in Thai Buddhism and the moral authority its institutions command. After settling into power and naming itself the National Council for Peace and Order, the junta immediately set off on… Read More Thai Gov’t to Legislate State-controlled Buddhism, Targets Gay-Trans Monks
