Author: Shen Shián
I remember when I first visited a primary school built by Tzu Chi Foundation many years ago, the Buddhist volunteer…
I slipped and fell in the bathroom of the guestroom where we stayed in Dharamshala… and hit my back on…
Despite a domestic flight delay at Delhi airport towards Dharmashala, we accidentally but surely, karmically ‘bumped’ into His Holiness the…
I watched the 2010 version of ‘The Karate Kid’ on the plane to India. It’s better than I expected. (It’s…
In a taxi at Dharamshala, we told a cabbie that he was going the wrong way. If I heard him…
At a wedding lunch of a friend, two of us were served vegetarian food. We took a peek at the…
In ‘Valley of Flowers’, which might appear to be a Tibetan Buddhist movie at first, there is a scene of…
The last bowing session in the Pureland retreat lasted the shortest as there was the least fret, as there is…
Turning these defenseless animals into egg-producing machines with no consideration for their welfare whatsoever is a degradation of our own…
A Tit for a Tat (165) Tit: Clean up the room now! Tat: Why? Tit: Because it’s messy! Tat: But…
A wonderful one-liner from ‘The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift’: ‘When you drift, you’re in control and out of…
Just because the lie-detector says you’re telling the truth doesn’t make what you tell the truth because you might have…
Question: If I have committed observe the Five Precepts but repeatedly break one of them despite having practised repentance, can…
Question: Though it is wrong to kill animals for meat, isn’t it the karma of these animals to be killed?…
Someone attending an interfaith event on violence emailed to as about the Buddhist perspective of the subject. This was my…
From Wikipedia: ‘Thundereggs are rough spheres, most about the size of a baseball – though they can range from less…
While chatting with friends on the ‘Agree to Disagree: Conversations on Conversion’ project (http://conversion.buddhists.sg) much earlier, I suggested doing something…
I make a long list of stuff to bring to India, before I departed. Don’t forget the toothbrush, the torch…
There is some confusion recently as to whether Pureland is only in the mind. The below will clarify this, and…
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