A few years ago, I was staying at the Haus Khas home in New Delhi of beloved friends, Prama and Ranji.
While there, I read their daily newspaper which offered 60 reasons why Indians can love India.
Despite the political/social/religious/environmental isses facing India, here are 80 reasons why Westerners love India.
In alphabetical order: …
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THE RELIGION OF SECULARISM Read More »
Namaste
Do visit India.
It is everything you thought it is and more. …
Visit India on an easy to secure 30 day online visaRead More »
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Dear Readers,
I received this email on a documentary in progress on the life of the first Western Buddhist monk, a rather wild Irishman, named U Dhammaloka (Dharma of the World). The Buddhist tradition has always attracted its fair share of Western and Asian eccentrics who ordained as monks and nuns. …
The Irish hobo (1856 – 1914) who became the first Buddhist monk from the WestRead More »
The Irish hobo (1856 – 1914) who became the first Buddhist monk from the West Read More »
Just because a man is called “Sir,”
it does not mean he is free from habits and clinging. (Sn.620)
King Suddhodhana and Queen Mahamaya of Sakya engaged in the preparation of the birth of their child due to be born in the land of Koliya, east of the Sakyan kingdom of north India. While en route with her entourage, guards and servants to Koliya (the small kingdom of the Queen’s birth), Queen Mahamaya suddenly went into labour and gave birth to a baby boy under a sal tree in full blossom in the park in Lumbini on the full moon of May of 563 BC. Born into the warrior caste, Gautama had the duty to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the future king as well as enforce the military, political and religious institutions of the nation state. …
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