The Uposatha calendar for the recitation of the Pātimokkha from the beginning of Hemanta 2011 up and till the end of Hemanta in 2013.
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 The River of Lost Footsteps, by Thant Myint-U provides a political history of Burma from the earliest times, and brings it up until the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007. Read More: Thant Myint-U: The River of Lost Footsteps  Wishing you all a very happy Vesakha Poya Day with best wishes, Anandajoti Read More: Vesakha Greetings  The Journey of Xuanzang is a lavishly illustrated 12-part biography of the great Chinese traveler and translator Xuanzang, based on Records of the Western World and A Biography of the Tripitaka Master. Read More: The Journey of Xuanzang: An Introduction  Google Video have just sent a circular to their patrons announcing that the service is being removed and that videos would no longer be available for playback from April 29th. Read More: The End of Google Videos  Wikipedia is definitely one of the great resources on the Internet which makes things easier and better for everyone who can access it. However, there are some problems which seem to be built-in to it. Here are a couple I have faced recently. Read More: Problems with Wikipedia  Should others, monks, speak dispraise about me, or the Dhamma, or the Sangha, do not let there be any hatred, resentment, or dissatisfaction for you in your mind. Read More: The Buddha and Blasphemy The Uposatha calendar for the recitation of the Pātimokkha from the beginning of Hemanta 2010 up and till the end of Hemanta in 2012. According to Myanmar and Sri Lankan traditions. Read More: Uposatha Calendar 2011/2555  My name is Jade and I am eleven years old. Mum has asked me to write this for her birthday present. If I do not do what she says, she predicts that I will have terrible bad kamma in my later life and be dead meat. So it is better for me to do what she says. Read More: What I Know of the Dhamma by Jade (Age 11)  After some consideration I have decided to cut back on the posts I am publishing here, because the fact of the matter is that it takes up far too much of my time – and was, indeed, dominating my publishing efforts for the past few months. Read More: Scaling down the work on Dharma Records  Today is the 4th death anniversary of the Swiss monk and artist Ven. Sumedha who passed away in the Intensive Care Unit in Peradeniya Hospital, where he had spend the previous decade working with the critically and terminally ill. Read More: Remembering Ven. Sumedha  It normally astonishes people to find out nearly two people die every second around the clock, or 105 people every minute – on average, of course – and these statistics are now around 2 or 3 years out of date, so the figure must be higher by now. Read More: One Person’s Bones…  Now there are several advantages of a laptop, but it comes with a price, which is that there is little room on the monitor to work with, and its almost an equation that the more portable :: the less room. Read More: My Not-So-Square Monitor  Recently I attended a talk by Thich Nhat Hanh, and while looking for material to post here I came across his 10 Mindful Movements, which are very similar to the practices I have developed myself. Read More: Thich Nhat Hanh: Mindful Movements  Tomorrow I start posting the 12-part Silk Road series. I found this series about 2 years ago, and have watched it all the way through three times by now, and individual episodes at other times. Read More: Introduction to The Silk Road Series  For All Mankind is a documentary about the first moon-landings from 1969-1972. In that time 12 men set foot on the moon, and this film has nearly 80 minutes of footage from those trips, including much that was not released at the time. Read More: For All Mankind  After his retirement Swas Tan started summing up the Dhamma talks he was attending for his own better understanding, and producing a one page summary of the event going under the title of One Page Dhamma. Read More: One Page Dhamma Website  I doubt if there are many people around who haven’t seen the beautiful photographs of our universe taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope camera measures not only visible light, but also the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums.  Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) was commissioned to document the Russian empire, and he did so in an ingenious way and managed to get what are effectively colour photographs of his subjects by using a form of spectrum photography. Read More: Colour Spectrum Photography 1: Russia, in the early 20th Century After five years of investigation, the Justice Department has released its findings regarding the government lawyers who authorized waterboarding and other forms of torture during the interrogation of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere. Read More: Leonard Rubenstein and Stephen Xenakis: Doctors Without Morals |
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