His Holiness the Dalai Lama has concluded his latest visit to the United States. I feel very fortunate to have seen him for two days during his visit to Long Beach. (More on that later.)
Please come back again soon, Your Holiness!
My latest “On the Buddhism Beat” post is now online over at Shambhala Sun Space. Please take a look, and remember: your comments are always welcome! Among this week’s news, I was especially interested in all the latest developments in Burma. Here’s just a taste:
In [an unsurprising] development, Burma’s ruling military junta this week rejected Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal of her latest house arrest sentence. The next day, Suu Kyi was escorted to surprise talks with the junta’s Relations Minister Aung Kyi at a guest house near her home. It was the first such dialogue in almost two years. The Associated Press reported that “details of the talks were not immediately known,” though the meeting came after Suu Kyi’s offer to help the country get international sanctions lifted. Suu Kyi then met a second time with the Relations Minister, and was allowed to meet with foreign ministers (from the U.S. and Australia).
In other “On the Buddhism Beat”-related news, I’m not sure I did a post about the last entry before this one. You can find it here.
Via Rev. Heng Sure at Dharma Forest:
Via Pundit Kitchen (via my friend Di):
CNN did a feature last week about how Buddhism and “the art of meditation… has found a growing number of unlikely followers behind prison bars.”
The work of our friend and past interviewee Kobutsu Malone is mentioned. Take a look.
