Rev. Danny Fisher
Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
Month: December, 2010
December 30, 2010
Dr. Janet Gyatso on Christmas for Her as a Someone Who Practices a Mix of Judaism and Buddhism
This via Shambhala Sun‘s Facebook page: Mark Oppenheimer (whom I’ve blogged about on two occasions recently) wrote a piece for The New York Times this week about Christmas for religious minorities. The great Dr. Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, is among those he spoke to for the piece. I appreciated her comments:
I grew up Jewish, and my own practice is a mix of Judaism and Buddhism and being a critical intellectual and not identifying with the practice of any of it, per se. But Buddhism teaches one to be as generous and open-minded as possible. Any remaining feelings of being excluded from Christmas as a kid have simply vanished for me as an adult. One just takes pleasure from it all.
December 30, 2010
Check Out the Clear View Blog!
Hozan Alan Senauke — the mighty founder of the Clear View Project, co-founder of Think Sangha, vice-abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, and former executive director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship — has joined the Buddhoblogosphere! Check out the Clear View Blog at http://clearviewblog.org!
December 29, 2010
The New York Times Obituary for E. Gene Smith
The New York Times remembers E. Gene Smith with a significant obituary for the man who “amassed the largest collection of Tibetan books outside Tibet, saving the works from destruction by the Chinese and making them available to scholars worldwide.”
More messages and remembrances continue to appear online at Remembering Gene Smith, by the way — including one from our friend and former Naropa University professor Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. Make sure you stop by and take a look at http://www.egenesmith.org.
