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I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

New word for me: nychthemeron, "a full period of a night and a day". Did you know it?

I didn't know the details of this and now feel physically ill. This may be the lowest move I've ever seen in US politics.

“The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment.” ~Pope Leo~ #NoDeathPenalty

So, we're at the "gladiators in the Coliseum" stage of our decadent decline. I've never been so ashamed and sickened by this nation.

Well. The news has irritated me enough that I've started to fill out my ballot. With short, sharp stabbing motions.

Illuminated mountain storm yesterday.

"Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all." ~Pema Chodron~

Read. Study. Apply. To close our series on The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche reminds us that making a translation available is only part of the work. The texts need to be read, studied, and applied in practice if they are to bring direct benefit.

Are the Pali suttas included in the Kangyur? In this new #AsktheTranslator, Dr. David Fiordalis responds to a reader from Turkey asking how the Pali Nikāyas, Chinese Āgamas, and Tibetan Kangyur relate to one another.

I know the Kaliyuga teachings call this the "Age of Weapons", but this is beyond obscene.

“An astonishing feat.” That is how Asanga Vajra Rinpoche describes the completion of The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines in English. 84000.co/translation/...

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

#RealBuddhaQuotes No one is beyond the reach of light. 💚

My best friend from high school's band just released a killer cover of the Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime".

No band in the early scene matched the furious *menace* of Cleveland's Dead Boys. Off to his next incarnation goes guitarist Cheetah Chrome. Om Mani Padme Hung.

AH. For 84000 Senior Editor Dr. John Canti, the #OneWord for The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines is a single syllable: ah. You can now read the complete English translation freely in the 84000 Reading Room. 84000.co/translation/...

#RealBuddhaQuotes What if someone else’s happiness could become a reason for our own joy? Life feels lighter when we learn to celebrate one another. 💛

Wow. I was part of an org that presented her in DC in the 80's. No loving and merciful God would be taking these treasures from us now.

Fantastic article about a sutra recitation tradition in Amdo. 84000.co/post/scriptu...

One bright moment out of the catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border concerns this unusual stupa. It was created on the banks of the Trishuli River to enshrine relics of Kyabje Penor Rinpoche, and appears to have withstood the raging flood when everything else around it was wiped out.

Everything is just too stupid.

The cruelty and inhumanity of this is beyond description.

Sometimes what we need from the canon is not only an ideal to admire, but a story that makes room for our own ordinary struggles. In Virtue, Mischief, and Everything Between, 84000 research editor Dr. Annie Heckman writes about finding “her people” in the Buddhist canon

As someone who became an adult in the 80's, I know this is true. I struggle to find words to describe today's GOP, but today it's "the most ghastly obscenity".

PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that this phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.

oh hell yes

On this day that honors the Buddha's first teaching after his full awakening, 84000 has announced the publication in full of the first-ever translation of The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines. It was one of the great privileges of my life to have had a small role in that.

Celebrating Ven. Pema Chodron's 90th trip around the sun today, and wishing her a most happy rebirthday. This is her with the local Crestone crew after performing an ordination ceremony.

84000 kindly published an essay I wrote about the process of my work in general, and specifically about my encounter with the translation of The Transcendent State of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines. Read it here: 84000.co/post/after-t...

Aftab Pureval, the half-Tibetan/half-Indian mayor of Cincinnati, the place of my paternal ancestors, lands a Daily Show slot. I've been watching him with admiration for a while, and hope he's starting to aim higher.

We’ve all come across “form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” But in the long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, this pattern unfolds through form, feelings, perception, consciousness, the senses, sensory contact, and more. Have you ever wondered why the sūtras repeat this vast list again and again?

#RealBuddhaQuotes May the lion’s roar of emptiness gently loosen what we cling to. 🦁

What a time to be alive. Vote accordingly.

Good. I would have voted for her too, but I live in a different CO district. The guy who won here, Dwayne Romero, hopefully has what it takes to unseat Trump rubber-stamp Jeff Hurd.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social is what a politician should be.

Never in a million years will I call Tibet that.

In Memoriam: Robert Thurman We are saddened to learn of the passing of Robert A. F. Thurman, a pioneering scholar, translator, teacher, and lifelong advocate for the study and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism.