Rev. Danny Fisher

Urgyen Jigme Rabsel Dawa, who has been officially recognized as the reincarnation of the great Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, will be enthroned at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 19th. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche sons include Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche, H.E. Mingyur Rinpoche, and our friend Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. For more on Urgyen Jigme Rabsel Dawa’s enthronement, check out Molly De Shong’s post on the event for Shambhala Sun Space.

Via William Harryman over at Integral Options Cafe: Our friend and past interviewee Joan Halifax Roshi is interviewed about her life and work, as well as her new book Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, for the Wild River Review.

This from Avaaz.org:

The people of Congo need our help. They are being terrorised – murder and rape are rife, hundreds of thousands have fled their homes caught between the brutal violence of both rebels and the Congolese army, without food or shelter.

No-one but Europe can deploy a well-equipped, neutral force in the next two weeks. There’s no military solution but a neutral force in the region to protect civilians, helping to reconstruct the UN peacekeeping presence and putting real diplomatic pressure on Congo and neighbouring countries will greatly boost our chances of stopping this humanitarian crisis and starting to build a lasting peace. Serious European engagement alongside UN and African officials is needed and lacking, and the people of Congo need it now – sign the petition below and spread the word:

To global and European leaders:

We urge you to address the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Congo by supporting the immediate deployment of a neutral European force to protect civilians from rape, murder and starvation and secure humanitarian access – United Nations peacekeepers are crying out for this help, and it would provide impetus for them to play a more effective and balanced role in Congo. UN, EU and African officials should step up political engagement to strengthen the peace processes, acting as honest brokers and guarding against partisanship and exploitation.

Sign the petition here.

The Journal of Religion and Film, a publication I am proud to have written for a handful of times in the past few years, has a new Wikipedia page. Check it out here.

I find the new page to be an especially useful conglomeration of information about the history, mission, and organization of the publication. It’s definitely one of the diamonds in the Wikipedia rough.

As I’ve mentioned before here at the blog, I have two reviews in the latest edition of the Journal of Religion and Film: