Dang Zang » australia http://chagchen.org Enlightenment or bust Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:39:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche in Sydney next week-end http://chagchen.org/2009/05/11/traleg-kyabgon-rinpoche-in-syndey-next-week-end/ http://chagchen.org/2009/05/11/traleg-kyabgon-rinpoche-in-syndey-next-week-end/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 07:41:00 +0000 Alex http://alex-wilding.com/dangzang/2009/05/11/traleg-kyabgon-rinpoche-in-syndey-next-week-end/ For reasons not known to me, the E-Vam website still doesn’t carry even the briefest mention of the new centre in Sydney. So here is the contents of the flyer for the coming week-end.

“Mindfulness Living”

Weekend Course with Renowned Tibetan Buddhist Teacher and Author Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche.

16 & 17 MAY 2009 [...]]]> http://chagchen.org/2009/05/11/traleg-kyabgon-rinpoche-in-syndey-next-week-end/feed/ 2 Firing up the crowd http://chagchen.org/2009/03/13/firing-up-the-crowd/ http://chagchen.org/2009/03/13/firing-up-the-crowd/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:40:00 +0000 Alex http://alex-wilding.com/dangzang/2009/03/13/firing-up-the-crowd/ Revisiting March 10:

Loud chanting of battle cries, lots of cameras – when people have suffered, it’s hardly surprising that younger demonstrators can get carried away by the urge to somehow, anyhow do something!

]]> http://chagchen.org/2009/03/13/firing-up-the-crowd/feed/ 0 50th anniversary of the uprising http://chagchen.org/2009/03/11/50th-anniversary-of-the-uprising/ http://chagchen.org/2009/03/11/50th-anniversary-of-the-uprising/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:52:00 +0000 Alex http://alex-wilding.com/dangzang/2009/03/11/50th-anniversary-of-the-uprising/ Woke up before the 4:00 a.m. alarm to catch the bus down to Central Station for 5:00. The Sydney contingent was two full coaches plus a minibus. Dozing on the 4-hour trip to Canberra was slightly successful. Arrived late.

There were speeches outside Parliament House, a march to the Chinese Embassy, a touch [...]]]> http://chagchen.org/2009/03/11/50th-anniversary-of-the-uprising/feed/ 0 The real me? http://chagchen.org/2009/03/09/the-real-me/ http://chagchen.org/2009/03/09/the-real-me/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:49:00 +0000 Alex http://alex-wilding.com/dangzang/2009/03/09/the-real-me/ After serious discussion, as befits a Buddhist forum, on the Kagyu list at yahoo, concerning such matters as kangaroos, possums, drinking beer in singlets while talking about footie and wearing thongs (in the Australian sense of the term), not to mention the Australian meaning of Durex, Jamie (whom I suspect to be a whisky-swilling [...]]]> http://chagchen.org/2009/03/09/the-real-me/feed/ 3 Namkhai Norbu http://chagchen.org/2009/02/02/namkhai-norbu/ http://chagchen.org/2009/02/02/namkhai-norbu/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:56:00 +0000 Alex http://alex-wilding.com/dangzang/2009/02/02/namkhai-norbu/ The famous Chögyal Namkhai Norbu is in Australia, and started his tour with a week-end “transmission” in Sydney – I won’t go into details here, but if you are interested they have an effective web presence. I’ve had a few of his books for many years, but this was the first time I saw [...]]]> http://chagchen.org/2009/02/02/namkhai-norbu/feed/ 4 Flakes and charlatans revisited http://chagchen.org/2009/01/11/flakes-and-charlatans-revisited/ http://chagchen.org/2009/01/11/flakes-and-charlatans-revisited/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +0000 Alex http://alex-wilding.com/dangzang/2009/01/11/flakes-and-charlatans-revisited/ The other day I stumbled across something called “Tibetan Heart Yoga” being taught somewhere near here – in fact I think it was on one of the Google adverts here. “Whatever is that?”, I thought in blunter words. I’d never heard of it.

It turned out that this is the hybrid system launched by [...]]]> http://chagchen.org/2009/01/11/flakes-and-charlatans-revisited/feed/ 2