Buddhist meditation teacher and psychologist Tara Brach has become popular in her hometown of Washington, D.C., especially among high-powered urban professionals. As a new profile from The Washington Post told us this weekend, she’s a “Type-A go-getter” whose weekly meditation classes and dharma talks draw people from many religions and walks of life. Click here [...]
Based on his acclaimed semi-biographical/semi-fantasy manga series, here comes Osamu Tezuka’s “Buddha 2,” an anime film scheduled for a February 2014 release. Watch the high-energy trailer, which has English subtitles, here.
The July Shambhala Sun is coming soon, but in the meantime, our May magazine is still available and loaded with great reads. So we’ve shared longer excerpts of two of its features: Andrea Miller’s interview with Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman, and Pico Iyer’s meditation on Leonard Cohen. Click here to read “The Dude and [...]
We told you last year about Planting Seeds, a documentary produced by Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village community and the group at Peace is the Way films to teach children about mindfulness. The film uses animation, songs, stories and engaging activities that children, parents and teachers can use. The film is currently in post-production, and the [...]
Mark Sanford‘s name has, for better or worse, become quite well known. He’s the former governor of South Carolina, and is now a Republican House candidate making the rounds. But then there was his famous affair — and Sanford’s defiant statements of loyalty to his new flame. Surprisingly, he’s weathered the scandal quite well. Also [...]
Crowds gathered in Brooklyn on Saturday for MCA DAY, a celebration of the life of the late Beastie Boy and Tibet advocate Adam Yauch, who died of cancer a year ago. Here’s a video featuring some of the organizers and participants talking about Yauch’s influence, and showing off some of the MCA-inspired art that was [...]
It’s Star Wars Day (“May the Fourth” — get it?) — and to celebrate, we’re sharing an excerpt from Matthew Bortolin’s book, The Dharma of Star Wars. In the book, Bortolin, an ordainee of Thich Nhat Hanh, sorts through the films’ spiritual themes and applies Buddhist teachings to George Lucas’ epics. Bortolin writes in the [...]
The Phuket News tells us today about Saint Young Men, a Japanese manga tale which has now evolved into an animated film. As we’re told, the artist behind it “portrays Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, as two cool guys who share an apartment on their trip to Earth. The [...]
Richie Havens, the legendary folk singer and guitarist who opened Woodstock and continued as a respected musician throughout his life died yesterday of a heart attack at age 72. (The music-industry publication Billboard has an obituary for Havens, here.) Havens was a contemporary of Bob Dylan and others of the Greenwich Village folk scene who [...]
We’ve talked a bunch about Buddhist tattoos here on Shambhala SunSpace — who gets them, and why — in this case, recently covered on ANI News, to “highlight China’s clampdown on Tibet” — and plenty more. Here, our friend the pro-Tibet punk activist Heidi Minx explains Tibetan thangka (or, scroll painting) art, and why some [...]
Well, this is different — the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be performing in Portland, Oregon next month as part of the Dalai Lama Environmental Summit. Different, yes, but not entirely surprising, as the Peppers played at the 1996 and 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concerts. Lead singer Anthony Kiedis has also spoken about his interest in [...]
If you’ve read our publisher Jim Gimian’s editorial in our May magazine, you might have noticed something a little odd about it. (That Jim calls himself an “Achiever” in the very first sentence may well have tipped you off.) The editorial is loaded with references to The Big Lebowski, and it’s not just because Jim’s [...]
…by Allen Ginsberg! Today’s ShambhalaSun.com feature is the spiritual autobiography of the late poet, who died sixteen years ago today. To read it, just click the image above — or here.
What a good idea: SPIN magazine has created an in-depth list of the The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960′s. It’s quite smart, and in one fell swoop dismantles the idea (one that a surprising amount of people seem to subscribe to) that all music of that decade was made of samey-same flower-power kind [...]
What’s in a name? If you’d asked the citizens of Lemig, Vermont a week ago what makes Mayor Ronald Green qualified for the job of running their fair city, you’d have gotten a host of replies: He’s “trustworthy.” He’s of “old Lemig blood.” But ask them today, and there’s a distinct change in tone: “Ronald [...]
