My friend and UWest colleage Jesse F. Tanner, a Unity minister-in-training and author of Progressive-Practical Christianity, returned to Unity.FM’s “World of Spirituality” show this past week. You can listen to the interview online here. This is part two of a two-part series; you can listen to the first interview here.
My friend and UWest colleage Dr. Amy Demyan just launched her new website, AmyKnowsBest.Com, yesterday. I was very pleased to have been able to contribute a short mindfulness meditation exercise to the “Mind|Body|Soul” section as part of its debut. I hope you’ll check out my post and the rest of what Amy and her writers are doing at her site.
Image via the Agence France-Presse.
This from the BBC:
The historic artefacts were buried in the 1930s during Mongolia’s Communist purge, when hundreds of monasteries were looted and destroyed.
The relics include statues, art work, manuscripts and personal belongings of a famous 19th Century Buddhist master.
The leader of the search team, Michael Eisenriegler, described it as an “adventure of a lifetime”.
A total of 64 crates of treasures were buried in the desert by a monk named Tudev, in an attempt to save them from the ransacking of the Mongolian and Soviet armies.
They belonged to Buddhist master Danzan Ravjaa and only Tudev knew where they were hidden. He passed on the secret to his grandson who dug up some of the boxes in the 1990s and opened a museum.
The current Austrian-Mongolian treasure hunt team found two more boxes. Mr Eisenriegler told the BBC World Service they were filled with “the most amazing Buddhist art objects”.
(Thanks to my mom, The Quilted Librarian, for the tip!)
Via the awesome Rod Meade Sperry at The Worst Horse:
And now for an important debate: Do we like this or “Lama Boy” better? (My vote is for “Lama Boy”.)
Over at Shambhala Sun Space, the awesome Rod Meade Sperry blogs about mentions of Buddhism in the archives of the goofball supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. Funny stuff.
