Dang Zang

To be a card-carrying Buddhist?

Alex W — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:54:13 +0000

My contribution to the discussion in the Guardian:

Books and more books

Alex W — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:47 +0000

At last the catalogue project that I began so long ago has reached a sort of completion. Improvement will always be possible, through more detail and ironing out mistakes. But at least I now know what I’ve got, and will avoid that embarrassing moment when you start reading a wonderful text that you ordered from [...]

Happiness is Overvalued

Alex W — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:50:06 +0000

Happiness is booming: its stock is riding high. In 2012 you will be able, for a mere thousand Australian dollars, to take part in a conference on “Happiness and its causes” in Sydney. Unless, that is, you happen to want to join the additional workshops, which take another 700 dollars or more out of [...]

Online study

Alex W — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:05:34 +0000

http://learning.tergar.org/

It looks as if it might be quite helpful, depending what stage you are at. Anybody have personal experience?

FPMT centre in Pisa

Alex W — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:32:15 +0000

I recently paid a bit more attention to the Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, which is in Pisa, only just over an hour and a half drive from here. It’s associated with the FPMT, which scores highly in my book. It’s in fact a really important study centre. The website is clearly very much [...]

Karmapa on the front page of the Guardian

Alex W — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:35:27 +0000

For a little while this morning, the front page of the online Guardian (read it or be ignorant!) included an article entitled “Indian police charge Karmapa lama after seizing foreign cash“.

Let’s ignore the common journalistic error of calling the Karmapa the “Karmapa lama”. Without, I note, even capitalising “lama” – so is it meant [...]

More about Yushu

Alex W — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:16:58 +0000

I was talking to someone about the place pictured in my last post, which caused me to dig out what I wrote about it shortly afterwards. I thought I might share it.

I was ready to explore, so left the guest-house with no more plan than to wander a little. The main street is [...]

A place that I still feel connected to outside Yushu

Alex W — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:33:50 +0000

Years ago I had an experience I treasure that led me to this building just outside Yushu (or Jyekundo). It houses a very large prayer wheel in front of a statue of Guru Rinpoche. Can anyone tell me more about it?