Rev. Danny Fisher

Me (right) and my dear friend Alisa Roadcup (left) of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions with Diana L. Eck (center) of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University during the 2008 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting at Chicago Hilton & Towers, Chicago, IL. Photo by Justin Whitaker.
I’ll have more on my experience at the 2008 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting soon. For now, I’d thought I’d share the above picture and encourage you to check out our friend Justin Whitaker’s posts on the event at his website American Buddhist Perspective. Stay tuned for more!

Via Andrea Miller at Shambhala Sun Space: A new video about Lotus Outreach, a humanitarian project led by the venerable Dzongsar Khyentse Jamyang Rinpoche. It’s embedded below.

Visit Lotus Outreach online here.

Avaaz.org is encouraging you to contact Lloyd’s of London’s insurers to tell them to stop underwriting Burma’s junta. DO THIS ACTION!

A couple of important headlines today:

Via Molly De Shong at Shambhala Sun Space: At his blog The Night Life, writer R.J. Eskrow posts the unabridged version of a recent interview he did with Jack Kornfield, Bernie Glassman, Wes Nisker, Anne Waldman and other “Buddhist luminaries” about the election for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.