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by Lucas Oliveira
Tue May 31, 2022 3:55 pm
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: Huong Dao Buddhist Temple Begins US$100 Million Expansion
Replies: 0
Views: 971

Huong Dao Buddhist Temple Begins US$100 Million Expansion

Huong Dao Buddhist Temple Begins US$100 Million Expansion Sunday, 15 May was an auspicious day for the members of Huong Dao, a Buddhist temple in Fort Worth, Texas. They laid the first stone of a 5.7-hectare expansion that is expected to cost US$100 million to complete. The new construction will in...
by Lucas Oliveira
Mon May 23, 2022 5:22 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Tibetan Nuns Project Launches Urgent Water Appeal for Dolma Ling Nunnery
Replies: 0
Views: 241

Tibetan Nuns Project Launches Urgent Water Appeal for Dolma Ling Nunnery

Tibetan Nuns Project Launches Urgent Water Appeal for Dolma Ling Nunnery The Tibetan Nuns Project, a US-registered charity based in Seattle and in the Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, India, has announced an appeal to fund the urgently need improvements to the water supply of the Buddhist nuns ...
by Lucas Oliveira
Wed May 18, 2022 5:03 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: US president Joe Biden, White House extend warm wishes to Buddhists with second annual Vesak celebration
Replies: 1
Views: 230

US president Joe Biden, White House extend warm wishes to Buddhists with second annual Vesak celebration

US president Joe Biden, White House extend warm wishes to Buddhists with second annual Vesak celebration On Monday, a second annual Vesak celebration was held at the White House honoring the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. The White House shared a statement from US president Joe Bide...
by Lucas Oliveira
Mon May 16, 2022 9:29 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office
Replies: 14
Views: 4335

Re: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office

just an update :spy: It's tomorrow! Public Hearing on UFOs at US Congress! Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. EST, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee, chaired by Congres...
by Lucas Oliveira
Sat May 14, 2022 9:25 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Dependant Co-Arising - sketch
Replies: 0
Views: 324

Dependant Co-Arising - sketch

Dependant Co-Arising - sketch

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Source: https://www.dhammacharts.org/twelveLinks/

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by Lucas Oliveira
Mon May 09, 2022 12:29 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Cambridge University uploaded a series of lectures to YT recently called "Who is the Buddha?"
Replies: 0
Views: 412

Cambridge University uploaded a series of lectures to YT recently called "Who is the Buddha?"

Cambridge University uploaded a series of lectures to YT recently called "Who is the Buddha?", by Chris Jones (Cambridge) and Naomi Appleton (University of Edinburgh) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0lWz8VAJSSutFDkcTMAuo5he4gn70-Z Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comment...
by Lucas Oliveira
Tue Apr 12, 2022 3:10 am
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: Agamas in Mahayana
Replies: 18
Views: 1643

Re: Agamas in Mahayana

Tibetan Buddhist canon Kangyur (Wylie: bka'-'gyur) or "Translated Words or Vacana", consists of works supposed to have been said by the Buddha himself. All texts presumably have a Sanskrit original, although in many cases the Tibetan text was translated from Chinese or other languages. Th...
by Lucas Oliveira
Tue Apr 05, 2022 3:01 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: First Buddhist Primary School Opens in Uganda
Replies: 10
Views: 1925

First Buddhist Primary School Opens in Uganda

First Buddhist Primary School Opens in Uganda The Uganda Buddhist Centre, led by the first Ugandan-born Buddhist monk Venerable Bhante Bhikku Ugandawe Buddharakkitha, has announced the official opening of the nation’s first Buddhist primary school. “[This will be a school] where people learn to tra...
by Lucas Oliveira
Mon Mar 21, 2022 1:59 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Section on Buddhism from a USA History Textbook (8th grade)
Replies: 15
Views: 858

Re: Section on Buddhism from a USA History Textbook (8th grade)

the source of the picture
I was the original poster of this on Reddit, i got it from a friend of mine who is a substitute teacher in South Florida.

https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/se ... e/23854/18
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by Lucas Oliveira
Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:50 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Section on Buddhism from a USA History Textbook (8th grade)
Replies: 15
Views: 858

Section on Buddhism from a USA History Textbook (8th grade)

Section on Buddhism from a USA History Textbook (8th grade) https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/te146o/section_on_buddhism_from_a_usa_history_textbook/ https://preview.redd.it/m0ivvcc2jdn81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7d823346e792220da6d3ade45bec0019085a1a22 :namaste:
by Lucas Oliveira
Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:21 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize
Replies: 32
Views: 14729

Re: Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize

Contest Winner Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Jeffrey Long, M.D. who placed fourth in the Contest

Near-Death Experience with Jeffrey Long


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by Lucas Oliveira
Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:01 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Maha Satipatthana Sutta - Dalai Lama
Replies: 0
Views: 2274

Maha Satipatthana Sutta - Dalai Lama

Maha Satipatthana Sutta - Dalai Lama Maha Satipatthana Sutta - Day 1 Day 1 of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's two day teaching on Maha Satipatthana Sutta for Theravada Sangha members from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand followed by a question and answer session online from his re...
by Lucas Oliveira
Fri Dec 17, 2021 4:36 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office
Replies: 14
Views: 4335

Re: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office

Truth is in here: $770B defense bill includes agency to investigate UFOs https://nypost.com/2021/12/15/770b-defense-bill-includes-agency-to-investigate-ufos/ Op-Ed: OK! It’s time to take UFOs seriously https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-16/ufos-pentagon-congress-government :spy: :alien: ...
by Lucas Oliveira
Wed Dec 15, 2021 7:57 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office
Replies: 14
Views: 4335

Re: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office

Congress Tells Pentagon and Intelligence Community: UFOs Are Serious Business! https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-serious-business/ Rubio, Gillibrand, Gallego Applaud Inclusion of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Amendment in National Defense Bill https://www.rubio.senate.gov...
by Lucas Oliveira
Wed Dec 15, 2021 7:52 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office
Replies: 14
Views: 4335

Re: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office

1/2) The U.S. Senate today voted 89-10 for final approval of S. 1605, the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This bill contains the Gillibrand-Rubio-Gallego UAP language, without change from the text discussed in my Dec. 7, 2021 analysis: https://twitter.com/ddeanjohnson/status/1471...
by Lucas Oliveira
Sun Dec 12, 2021 8:24 pm
Forum: Shrine Room
Topic: Ajanta Caves, Maharashtra, India
Replies: 1
Views: 3741

Ajanta Caves, Maharashtra, India

Ajanta Caves, Maharashtra, India The Buddhist Caves in Ajanta are approximately 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India.[1][note 1] The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures described as a...
by Lucas Oliveira
Thu Dec 02, 2021 7:11 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office
Replies: 14
Views: 4335

Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office

Rep. Tim Burchett Criticizes Pentagon's New UFO Office On December 1st, 2021, Rep. Tim Burchett spoke in front of the House about the upcoming Defence Department UFO Group and why it can't follow the Pentagon's previous attempts at investigating the UFO phenomenon and the lack of transparency to the...
by Lucas Oliveira
Thu Nov 25, 2021 12:54 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Nature of the body
Replies: 3
Views: 1966

Re: Nature of the body

"Form, monks, is not self. If form were the self, this form would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible [to say] with regard to form, 'Let this form be thus. Let this form not be thus.' But precisely because form is not self, form lends itself to dis-ease. And it is not possible [t...
by Lucas Oliveira
Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:13 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize
Replies: 32
Views: 14729

Re: Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize

Best Evidence for Afterlife - BICS ESSAY COMPETITION - $ 500,000 Prize

All 29 Essays Published Here!

https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/contest_winners3.php



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