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...talk about it,” said Shiping Zheng, an associate professor of comparative politics at the University of Vermont. “The Chinese government has time on its side. They don’t see any benefits but a lot of risks by welcoming back the Dalai Lama...
...spent the summer after her first year of college studying and meditating at a monastery through a Fo Guang Shan program. “I like that Buddhism is not completely in contradiction with modern science,” says Myhrum, who camped out to get a Dalai Lama ticket. She remembers enjoying the solid educational grounding that came from the scientific backgrounds and postsecondary degrees that many of the monks and nuns had. “People raised in scientific, rationalistic circumstances tend to be uncomfortable when religious engagement presses them to consent to viewpoints that will disagree with...
...Buddhists who were not originally Unitarian or some other religious affiliation, the practice of Buddhism can be quite different. Meghan C. Howard ’04 is one such example. Drawn to Buddhism by a Zen text, her parents were Zen Buddhist until she was four, when a Tibetan lama visited Rochester, N.Y. “They were so moved,” Howard says, that they became Tibetan Buddhist and helped set up the local dharma center, which they now run. Howard laughs as she recounts the long hours she spent at the dharma center as a child, saying...
...website of the Sakya Institute. The practice taught at the Institute is “based on the classic gradual approach, beginning with mind-training and concluding with advanced Vajrayana deity practice.” The institute offers classes studying various Buddhist texts, as well as meditation. The Venerable Lama Migmar, who is also Harvard’s Buddhist Chaplain, founded the Manjushri Temple in 1996, which is based on the teachings that seek to “integrate Buddhism into our daily routine.” Some of the classes have requirements or require permission to attend?...
...Dzogchen Center holds weekly sittings every Monday night at 7:30 p.m. just a hop, skip and a jump from Harvard Square. The Dzogchen tradition hails from Tibet but, according to Lama Surya Das (via the Center’s website), “was a secret teaching in the East, almost unknown even to Tibetans.” It is focused “not on oriental Buddha, not on historical Buddha, not one of stone, not male or female, but the Buddha nature within each of us, true and wise, loving and compassionate.” Some Tibetan...