Category: Photojournal
Photo: A Sri Lankan-styled Buddha image atop an office cubicle Settled but upright Silent but mindful Still but radiant
Above: [Stele with a Buddha & two Bodhisattvas, Eastern Wei (534–50 CE), Limestone, overall height 310 cm, Collection of the…
Who would not like to travel around the world? I would! When we have friends sharing their travel experiences and…
Leaving Kong Meng San monastery in the evening, I happened to turn around and saw a rainbow arching towards the…
The Middle Path is… not to sit on the fence, neutral, not to be ambivalent, uncertain, not to be apathetic,…
The bones from our bodies of our past lives would pile higher than the highest mountain. Why am I still…
The water gun shaped as a sentient being made me think… What do I load myself with? Just water (and…
Busy hands with multiplied actions. Busy with extended compassion. Calm palms with collected stillness. Calm with unified wisdom. (In each…
Maitreya* Bodhisattva, the loving one, contemplates how to guide beings with love… reminding us not to dread helping others, that…
Economy of shape Economy of lines Economy of face But still expression But still compassion But still gracefulness (Picture of…
Wrathful flames of Wisdom burning away raging passions, Acala is the Immovable Wisdom King. (不动明王) The fearsome Destroyer of Delusion.*…
The Cintamani*… fulfills any wish in concord with the Dharma, represents the boundless power of the Dharma, reminds us to…
The first picture… the Buddha at rest (with eyes closed?) The Awakened One… always in peaceful repose. The second picture……
Three Perspectives of a Fatherly Buddha Image From Chapter Three of the Lotus Sutra: I tell you, Shariputra, I am…
Skanda Bodhisattva faces the Buddha in the main shrine, because he guards the Buddha. Skanda Bodhisattva faces the last page…
Kindly Guanyin Homely Chenrezig Motherly Avalokiteshvara ‘My mother is Guanyin to me when she prays to Guanyin for me.’ –…
Eyes glaring. Fists clenched. Brows frowning. Muscles rippling. What are the Vajrakumaras ‘mad’ at? Not you, or me, or himself,…
In a bus… Where to? For what conventional reasons do you journey? So what when you get there? In a…
The first picture: favourite view at home: open shelves of stuff for opening the mind The second picture: favourite view…
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