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