by Barbara Lepani | Jul 13, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
Samuel Alexander, Entropia, 2019 When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found itself permanently isolated from the rest of the world. With no option but to build a...
by Barbara Lepani | Jul 9, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
Dan Smyer Yü (2015) Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics Religion and Society, Vol.60, Walter de Gruyer, Berlin Dan Smyer Yü is a Professor and Founding Director at the Centre for Trans-Himalayan Studies, Yunnan Minzu University, a...
by Barbara Lepani | Jul 7, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
Bhante Sujato This essay was presented by Bhante Sujato at a plenary session of the Sakyadhita 2019 conference in Leura, NSW. Global warming is an unprecedented threat to the survival of our civilization and culture, indeed our very lives. The aboriginal myth of...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 14, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
Samuel Alexander: Any of these three options outlined in this book will involve a transformation of such extreme magnitude that what emerges will no longer in any meaningful sense be this civilisation: the change will be the kind of extreme conceptual and existential...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 2, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
Today I attended my monthly gathering of dharma friends for a Riwo Sangchö practice. This is a smoke offering ceremony that acts as a physical metaphor for transforming all the negativities in the world, freeing them into the indivisible unity of space and wisdom. I...
by Barbara Lepani | Jun 1, 2019 | Commentary, Our Collective
TRAFFIC JAM ON EVEREST This photo is likely to become one of the most famous images of 2019. It perfectly encapsulates the zero-sum game of modern society. Known to the Tibetan People as Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the Universe, one of the Mountain Gods of...
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