Rev. Danny Fisher

This courtesy of my mom: Over at Slate, you can read an excerpt from Jon Katz’s new book Izzy & Lenore: Two Dogs, An Unexpected Journey, and Me, about his border collie Izzy–a hospice volunteer.

Via Dreaming Of Danzan Ravjaa: Tibetologist Glenn Mullin has posted a video on YouTube of a tour he led this past July to Khamariin Khiid Monastery in the Dornogovi Province of Mongolia. See below.

In looking online for more information about Harvard Divinity School professors Janet Gyatso and Cheryl Giles (who I’ll be presenting an interview with next month), I discovered that videos of the guest lectures for their course “Buddhist Arts of Ministry and Leadership” are available online at the HDS website. Check them out:

This via Phil Ryan over at the Tricycle Editors’ Blog: the Agence France-Presse is reporting that George W. Bush called His Holiness the Dalai Lama today to inquire after his health. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said:

President Bush called the Dalai Lama this morning to express his concern over the Dalai Lama’s health. The president’s call reflects the great esteem he and the American people hold for the Dalai Lama, who is a revered religious figure in Tibetan Buddhism, a Nobel laureate and a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal, and an important cultural figure and human rights advocate.

Here’s the pertinent Burma news for today:

One year ago today, the Saffron Revolution escalated considerably, in part because of the contributions of Burma’s pink-robed nuns. I’ve noticed that when the demonstrations last year are discussed in the media, the blogosphere, and elsewhere, we often say “the monks,” when the fact is that a significant number of nuns were actively involved as well. Today, we do well to remember that. Perhaps this picture (via Rule of Lords), taken one year ago, will help…