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This week in Buddhism: Māgha Pūjā or Sangha Day

This week in Buddhism: Māgha Pūjā or Sangha Day

Coming up on the 12th February 2025 is Māgha Pūjā Day, or Sangha Day. Māgha Pūjā, often called Sangha Day, is a celebration of remarkable synchronicity and spiritual resonance. Imagine this: one thousand followers of the Buddha, along with 250 awakened disciples of...

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Happy Lunar New Year, 2025!

Happy Lunar New Year, 2025!

Dear friends,  Welcome to the Year of the Wood Snake, in 2025! January 29, 2025 is Lunar New Year, the first day of the first lunar month of the year. This day is celebrated by Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and many other cultures. Lunar New Year is an auspicious...

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Share Joy and Wisdom, with Our Buddhist Art

Share Joy and Wisdom, with Our Buddhist Art

Dear friends, Our team is lucky to have some amazing artists who created beautiful pieces of artwork for us, headlined by the multiple award-winning Colin Goh. We asked ourselves how we could further share our art collection in ways that can help all of us embody and...

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Land of Medicine Buddha: tour and interview

Land of Medicine Buddha: tour and interview

The Land of Medicine Buddha is a Buddhist retreat center close to Santa Cruz, CA. It consists of 108 acres of beautiful redwood trees, trails and sacred sites. It was founded by two Tibetan Buddhist teachers whom I admire: Lama Yeshe, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. I...

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This week in Buddhism: Āsāḷha Pūjā

This week in Buddhism: Āsāḷha Pūjā

Coming up on 20th July 2024 (Full moon day of July) is Āsāḷha Pūjā. Āsāḷha Pūjā is a major Buddhist commemoration day that pays homage to the Buddha, his first sermon on the four noble truths and the founding of the Buddha's first sangha. This first sermon is commonly...

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Starting Practice with Guided Meditation

Starting Practice with Guided Meditation

Friends, What really changed my life was not learning Buddhism, it was practicing Buddhism.  It started with mindfulness practice. My mind became calmer, my physical health improved, I became better at managing emotions, and most importantly, I finally learned to...

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Gratitude to the Dalai Lama for Buddhism For All

Gratitude to the Dalai Lama for Buddhism For All

Extracted from the Acknowledgement section of Buddhism For All: We are very grateful to and very touched by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama for giving his personal blessing to us and to this book.  More than anybody alive today, His Holiness is an inspiration who...

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Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day!

We would like to wish all fathers a Happy Father's Day! Buddha taught us to cherish and honor our parents. Possibly the most important thing the Buddha said about our parents is in AN 2.33.  He said even if we were to carry them on our shoulders for 100 years, we...

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