http://buddhism.about.com/ Buddhism http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/07/04/tassajara-still-threatened-by-fire.htm Today's Monterey County (California) Herald features a story by Dennis Taylor on the effort to save Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, thought to be the oldest Buddhist monastery in the Western... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/07/04/tassajara-still-threatened-by-fire.htm 2008-07-04T10:14:27Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/07/03/compassionate-mind.htm Fires continue to creep toward Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, according to the San Francisco Zen Center web site. As explained in the three previous blog posts, TZMC is a Soto... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/07/03/compassionate-mind.htm 2008-07-03T10:53:04Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/07/02/tassajara-zen-center-wildfire-update.htm Tassajara Zen Mountain Center near Big Sur, California, remains in jeopardy from uncontrolled wildfire. A crew of monks remains at Tassajara to fight fires and save buildings. As of this... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/07/02/tassajara-zen-center-wildfire-update.htm 2008-07-02T13:35:04Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/07/01/firefighting-monks-of-tassajara.htm Latest word from California is that wildfire has not yet touched Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, although the threat is still very real. Tassajara is the oldest Japanese Soto Zen monastery in... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/07/01/firefighting-monks-of-tassajara.htm 2008-07-01T12:48:17Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/28/fire-threatens-tassajara-zen-mountain-center.htm Wildfires sweeping Big Sur have threatened Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, a mountain retreat affiliated with the San Francisco Zen Center. Garrett Therolf writes for the Los Angeles Times that the... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/28/fire-threatens-tassajara-zen-mountain-center.htm 2008-06-28T14:43:59Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/27/should-the-buddhas-destroyed-by-the-taliban-be-rebuilt.htm Beginning in March 2001, the Taliban destroyed two giant statues of the Buddha that had stood in central Afghanistan since the 7th century. The Taliban initially shot rifles and stinger... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/27/should-the-buddhas-destroyed-by-the-taliban-be-rebuilt.htm 2008-06-27T15:45:28Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/25/tibet-re-opens.htm After waves of violent demonstrations rocked Tibet in March 2008, the government of China closed Tibet to foreign visitors. Tibet re-opened this week, three days after the Olympic torch relay... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/25/tibet-re-opens.htm 2008-06-25T23:01:22Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/24/what-do-you-mean-by-god.htm A blogger named Razib, who posts on the science blog Gene Expressions, questions whether Buddhism is theistic or atheistic. Razib writes, One of the points that I run into all the... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/24/what-do-you-mean-by-god.htm 2008-06-24T17:58:15Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/23/where-are-the-monks-of-lhasa.htm Geoffrey York writes for the Toronto Globe and Mail that large numbers of monks appear to be missing from Lhasa, Tibet. The Olympic torch passed through Lhasa on Saturday amid... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/23/where-are-the-monks-of-lhasa.htm 2008-06-23T12:40:53Z http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/22/everyday-zen.htm Today my sangha had a one-day retreat in our little urban Zen center. Our meditative silence was accompanied by birdsong, traffic noise, cheers -- I'm guessing some guys were watching... http://buddhism.about.com/b/2008/06/22/everyday-zen.htm 2008-06-22T20:53:36Z