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Rev. Danny Fisher
Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
Month: August, 2010
August 23, 2010
Myokei Caine-Barrett Writes about “Finding Refuge in Buddhism” for CNN
Check out this piece from Myokei Caine-Barrett for CNN. The editors tell us a little bit about her:
Buddhist Myokei Caine-Barrett is the first woman of African-Japanese descent, and the only Western woman, to be ordained as a priest in the Nichiren Order. She is the resident priest and guiding teacher for the Myoken-ji Temple, home of the Nichiren Buddhist Sangha of Texas. She talks about her journey to Buddhism in “The Black Pulpit,” a weekly series that explores faith in the black community.
Really do take a look. Good stuff.
August 22, 2010
A Gift of Dharma for 8.22.10
Today’s quote is another from my great spiritual friend Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, whom I first quoted and wrote a short biography for in this post. It’s something Rinpoche said to the students when we were both working on the Antioch College Buddhist Studies Program in Bodh Gaya, India. Many of them have put it on the Facebook profiles and such, which I find both charming and indicative of this little statement’s power. This is it:
Let go, let’s go, let’s go, let go.
August 21, 2010
The Wall Street Journal: “Obama’s Timidity on Tibet”
Check out Ellen Bork’s op-ed in The Wall Street Journal this week. Here’s a choice snippet from the opening:
Over the past few years, Beijing’s repressive policies have increasingly alienated Tibetans. One indication was the March 2008 uprising and riots across Tibet. Yet Beijing responded not by moderating its policies but by intensifying repression—launching a “patriotic education” campaign and targeting members of the educated elite, many of whom have long gotten along with, and even flourished within, the communist system. Among these are the writer Tragyal, long associated with the state publishing house, who awaits trial on charges of “splittism,” and Dorje Tashi, a businessman and hotel owner, who received a life sentence in June for allegedly collaborating with human-rights groups abroad.
Beijing has taken the same approach to criticism from abroad over its handling of Tibet, significantly raising the stakes by identifying Tibet as a “core interest.” Beijing has given notice that unless the world adopts a “correct understanding” of Tibet by spurning any view contrary to the Communist Party line, there will be consequences for bilateral relations and it will be difficult for China to cooperate on the global economic recovery or other issues.
Washington has bent under [this] pressure.
Read the rest here.
