Entries from February 2008

February 29, 2008

Links of the Moment: A Philip Glass/Leonard Cohen collabro; A Zen Buddhist in a new musical

Here’s a cool little article about how “Philip Glass has replaced the void left by the death of beat poet — and acid-dropping Jew turned Tibetan Buddhist — Allen Ginsberg by forming a collaboration with Leonard Cohen.”
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And here’s a review from Variety of the new play Passing Strange, in which “the impressionable innocent at [...]

February 29, 2008

“I came to this world to help you out of suffering… Say baby, listen to me. Everyone’s my cute baby.”

The Dharma/hip-hop fusion continues — like it or not. Check out this story about “Mr. Happiness,” a 47-year-old Japanese Buddhist monk who raps, um, for the kids.

February 28, 2008

“His Karma is Huge” — Meet Mike Myers, “The Love Guru”

The site for the new Mike Myers movie that we’ve told you about, in which he plays a “Dharma teacher” is now up. Check it out here.

February 27, 2008

Body vows: Carol-Anne’s endless knot/skeleton key tattoo

Thanks to reader Carol-Anne who sends this shot of her gorgeous practice tattoo:

She writes:
“This tattoo is by Sunday Dawne-Marie of Lark Tattoo in Westbury, NY. Its the endless knot placed inside of a skeleton key. This is one of the eight auspicious symbols, the lines remind us that everything is inter-connected in [...]

February 25, 2008

Links of the Moment: The “Porno Buddhist”? / The Blogisattva Awards are in!

Yep. “Porno Buddhist” is what Brad Warner is calling his new blog. Keep an eye on it here. And read the Horse’s feature about Warner and his SuicideGirls column (and readers’ comments) here.
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And hey: the Blogisattva Awards are in. No, the Horse didn’t win nothin’, but s’ok.

February 25, 2008

“More than half of American Buddhists surveyed were white, and most Buddhists were converts.”

CNN is reporting the findings of a new American religion survey. You can see the article here.
One of the most interesting little bits: “The self-identified Buddhists — 0.7 percent of those surveyed — illustrate a core challenge to estimating religious affiliation: What does affiliation mean?”It’s unclear whether people who called themselves Buddhists did so because [...]

February 20, 2008

Salon.com on Ethan Nichtern, Noah Levine, and the “New Generation of American Buddhists”

This is what we’re talkin’ about. Read it here.

February 19, 2008

Get your read on! The 2008 Blogisattva Awards have been announced!

The 2008 Blogisattva Awards have been announced!
As stated on the site: “The Blogisattva Organization is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2008 Blogisattva Awards honoring English-language Buddhism blogging during calendar year 2007. This is the third annual iteration of the awards which are given wholly for merit, and not as a measure of blogs’ [...]

February 17, 2008

Dharma-Burger: “Achieve the feline state of Purr-vana.” (Eccch.)

We’ve posted a link to this item before, but since reader Benjamin H.’s write-up of it is so right-on, we figured it it was worth a new look.
“Hey There. I found this today and just thought what a wonderful dharma burger present! So part of my morning internet routine is to visit thehungersite.com and press [...]

February 17, 2008

Dharma-Burgers! Time to switch to suspenders?

Thanks to reader Roman G who sends these two new Dharma-Burgers, from the wide and fascinating world of…um…belts:
1) “I’m not sure if this is a good Dharma Burger (as in ‘Whoa, that’s cool!’ ;) or a bad Dharma Burger (as in ‘Whoa, that’s totally wrong.’ ;) In any case, here it is, a metal Buddha (Maitreya) belt [...]