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As we head into Losar, the Tibetan celebration of the new year, may the wood-snake year bring love, peace, happiness, and an end to authoritarian regimes for everyone, everywhere. ཤིང་སྦྲུལ་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།

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My White Band? Average.

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Read this great story the other day… 1/2 www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

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I'm still digging through the newest Pew Religious Landscape Survey, but it seems clear enough that one of the biggest differences in Buddhists between the 2007 study and the 2023-24 study is that the newer sample included more Asian Americans.

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McGill with this, Calgary and York both cancelling a wide range of programs that include Languages, Religious Studies, and others, and tons of colleges just eradicating entire campuses and departments. It's dire up here, folks.

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Always fascinated by these and as interested in the framing as the data.

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IT’S HERE: Pew’s Religious Landscape Study- @pewresearch.org’s largest single survey! Examine Americans’ beliefs, practices, and political views at the national and state levels, and even in 34 major metropolitan areas. Full report: pewrsr.ch/3EXnfrS Interactive website: pewrsr.ch/3QBx2X0

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Visiting Part Time Faculty Position in Religious Studies (Buddhism) job with College of the Holy Cross | 37796365

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This is the content we all need 👇

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#ThangkaTuesday inspo: Tibetan equivalents of #Medieval goth manuscript lions. Some paintings of Buddhas & teachers have lions in the thrones, referencing the Buddha Shakyamuni (Lion of the Sakya Clan) #Buddhistart #Himalaya 📷: L: Detail, Drakpa Gyatso's throne R: Detail, Menlha's throne via HAR

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Normally this time of year the maple trees would be tapped and the sap running. I'm taking a sapping sabbatical this year, but last year I had a webcam setup in the sugar shack to watch the sap boil.

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#ManuscriptMonday nazi hunting edition. First 2 folios of The Conquest of Germany: a modern narrative in which the mythic Tibetan warrior hero Gesar of Ling travels to Germany (phyi gling 'jar) to fight Hitler's reich. It was written by the Eighth Khamtrul Rinpoche (1931-1980). 1/

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Amazing lecture today @Wesleyan by archaeologist Steven Sidebotham describing his finds of c. 1st century Buddhist & Hindu statues at the Egyptian port of Berenike. Amazing work that is still turning up new materials.

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Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Today (Feb. 24) 4pm EST Online Mondays at Beinecke: Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts with Roberta Dougherty, Özgen Felek, and Agnieszka Rec yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @bintalbalad.bsky.social

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Who knew Leon, like Gerry Fleck, has two left feet?

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Glossy black Tibetan manuscripts like this copy of the Diamond Sutra use a pigment that combines soot, yak-hide glue, and animal brains, from either yak, sheep or goat, kneaded together by hand 🐮🧠📜 #manuscriptmonday blogs.loc.gov/preservation...

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This is excellent, on the erasure of the name "Tibet."

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#ManuscriptMonday nazi hunting edition. First 2 folios of The Conquest of Germany: a modern narrative in which the mythic Tibetan warrior hero Gesar of Ling travels to Germany (phyi gling 'jar) to fight Hitler's reich. It was written by the Eighth Khamtrul Rinpoche (1931-1980). 1/

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Sad news. And this is depressing: “the difficulty of learning these languages had “a deterrent effect” on prospective students.” Who needs those funny languages to study religion anyway?

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Want to bring some Buddhist perspectives or Buddhist-inspired contemplative practices into the classroom? Join other higher education faculty and advanced grad students for this two-week summer institute in sunny Berkeley, CA! More info at www.mangalamresearch.org/summer-insti...

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From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . . The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.

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Fun morning at #CTDH25 on a panel of Wesleyan faculty-student collaborations using the relational database platform Nodegoat.net.

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I came to @bsky.app for the community; I stayed for @merriam-webster.com reposting @britannica.com's post about the prime number named after the demon of sloth. bsky.app/profile/brit...

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