January 31, 2008
Video of the Moment: “Can I Say Something?”
Dig this “tribute to SFT Tendor and Team Everest for [their] recent FREE TIBET protest in Tibet”:
FREE TIBET! FREE BURMA! FREE ALL BEINGS!
Entries from January 2008
January 28, 2008
The newest Buddhist superhero / Meet artist and “Dharma Bum” Sylvain Bouthillette
We’ve told you about The Green Lama, and Marvel Comic’s recent re-telling of Spider-Man’s origin story with a young Zen monk as Peter Parker’s stand-in. And of course everyone knows about Lisa Simpson, the most famous cartoon Buddhist of them all.
There have of course been some bad seeds, like Lady Lotus, who used meditation to [...]
January 27, 2008
Celebrities talkin’ Dharma: “I kind of felt like the Dalai Lama’s girlfriend.”
Whether we like it or not, the more Buddhism gets well-known, the more the well-known will be talking about it. Here are some of the latest examples. Thankfully, the Embarrassment Factor is low. This time.
The “People” section of the Jan 28, 2008 “Mind & Body” issue of TIME includes a short Q&A with John Mellencamp, [...]
January 26, 2008
More ‘Rambo’ coverage: Does Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche appear in the film? / Meet Jake La Botz
Huh? Chogyam Trungpa in Rambo? Well, yes and no. Here’s the story.
Just over a year ago, I became aware of Jake La Botz, a very interesting cat. He’s a seriously talented songwriter and musician, and a fellow meditator and tattoo enthusiast as well. We corresponded a little, and I asked him to contribute a photo [...]
January 26, 2008
“So, these three Buddhists walk into a matinee of ‘Rambo’…”
It sounds like the set-up for a joke. But, as posted here a couple of days ago, two Dharma-friends and I had plans to skip out of work on Friday the 25th to catch an opening-day matinee of what Sylvester Stallone is saying will be the last installment of his Rambo film franchise. Well, we [...]
January 25, 2008
Separated at Re-birth? YOU decide.
Thanks to reader Jaime McLeod, who nominates this pairing for our ongoing “Separated at Re-birth?” matchings:
Not sure I see it, but maybe. Ikkyu sure does look like someone…
Thanks, Jaime!
January 25, 2008
Links of the Moment: Jan 25, 2008
* Thanks to Kin for sending this link to an interview with photog Steve McCurry, in which he “explains how he found his style, and discusses some images from his ongoing project on Buddhism.”
* Old Horse-friend Derek writes to ask, “i was wondering if you could throw up a link to my blog that i’ve [...]
January 22, 2008
Rambo: “Burma is Important!”
Dig this item about Rambo, the new movie about, duh, Rambo, and Sylvester Stallone’s mission for it. I’ve got a date to see it with Dharma-friends when it opens Friday, and we are all unashamed.
January 19, 2008
Dharma-Burger! The “Essence” of Buffy’s Willow
This is the “Essence of Willow” statuette/toy, depicting a meditating and levitating Willow, the Wiccan co-hort of none other than Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy’s conquered TV, film, comics, and now comic-book-store toys.
Okay: this isn’t Dharma, or even dharmic. It’s magic(k). But have you ever noticed how often the two are made to look like [...]
