Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings

“The Monk Behind the Myth”

web_picoThis week on Interfaith Voices, the lead story is “The Monk Behind the Myth”–an “intimate portrait” of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Pico Iyer, longtime friend of His Holiness and author of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (now in paperback).  The segment is described this way:

The Dalai Lama is a complex figure- at once a Buddhist monk, the leader of the Tibetan community in exile and a spiritual celebrity.  He is also a man whose human side few people know. We talk with Pico Iyer, a friend of the Dalai Lama for over thirty years, about the man behind the image.

Listen to the show here.

Clark Strand, Tsultrim Allione, Brad Warner, and Others on Arkansas Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge”

Via MahaSangha News:  Buddhist teachers Clark Strand, Tsultrim Allione, Brad Warner, and others appeared on Arkansas Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” this week.  Give the show a listen here.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Washington, DC, Visit – October 2009

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Sogyal Rinpoche: “Happiness is Up to You”

Get Well Soon, Jikhan!

The news from Spain is that legendary singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen collapsed during a set and was taken to the hospital.  He appears to have been food poisoned.

Whatever the situation, we wish the Ladies’ Man a speedy recovery!

Mr. Cohen is a Zen practitioner and sometimes-monk who has lived off-and-on at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center in Mount Baldy, CA. His ordination name, Jikhan, means “silence.”

I have previously blogged about Mount Baldy in this post and this post.

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