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by Finnjames
Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:08 pm
Forum: Language
Topic: What languages do you know/study
Replies: 14
Views: 4520

Re: What languages do you know/study

English is my mother tongue. We speak Finnish at home. Better at understanding than speaking German and French. Fair knowledge of Papua New Guinea Tokpisin. As for "Buddhist languages": a year of Chinese at university almost did me in. learning Pali is a perpetual summer project. Someday I...
by Finnjames
Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:55 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Anybody know what Chua Dieu Quang is?
Replies: 19
Views: 6733

Re: Anybody know what Chua Dieu Quang is?

Not sure I agree with the previous poster. It looks like a Buddhist temple to me, and the few words of Vietnamese I know suggest that too. Still, this might clear up something that has long been a mystery to me: the shopkeeper of my local Vietnamese market has both Confucius and Buddha on her shop a...
by Finnjames
Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:46 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: Universities which provide good education on dharma topics
Replies: 24
Views: 7089

Re: Universities which provide good education on dharma topics

If you are in the US, you might want to look into the University of California at Santa Barbara. They have an excellent Linguistics Department and also a very strong Buddhist Studies program.
by Finnjames
Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:44 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: HUGE tumors in rats fed GMO's
Replies: 13
Views: 3418

Re: HUGE tumors in rats fed GMO's

As all pet rat owners know, it's a sad fact about laboratory and pet rat strains that their genetic makeup predisposes the females to tumor growth. (The rats in the Natural News link photos all seem to be female, and their tumors are more or less average size, not unusually large.) Added to that, li...
by Finnjames
Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:16 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Can someone definitively explain to me the differences...?
Replies: 9
Views: 5033

Re: Can someone definitively explain to me the differences...?

Those are good questions to satisfy your intellectual curiosity. But as a daily practice you may just want to continue using the form of meditation you have been taught. Be honest with your teacher about what you are experiencing there, and s/he will offer suggestions for how to move on if that is a...

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