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Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures (十牛; Japanese: jūgyū, Chinese: shíniú) is a series of short poems and accompanying pictures used in the Zen tradition to illustrate the stages of a practitioner's progression towards the purification of the mind and enlightenment, [web 1] as well as his or her subsequent return into the world while acting out of wisdom.
Roopkund (locally known as Mystery Lake or Skeleton Lake) [1] is a high altitude glacial lake in the Uttarakhand state of India.It lies in the lap of Trishul massif.Located in the Himalayas, the area around the lake is uninhabited and is roughly at an altitude of 5,020 metres (16,470 ft), [1] surrounded by rock-strewn glaciers and snow-clad mountains.
Minnesota Zen Meditation Center (MZMC) was founded in 1972 by Dainin Katagiri Roshi (1928-1990), who was invited to come to Minnesota by a small but growing group of practitioners, many of whom had ties to the San Francisco Zen Center where Katagiri had served as a priest since 1965.
Bones recovered from the 1545 Mary Rose shipwreck reveal new insights about life for the crew in Tudor England as well as shed light on how work changes our bones. A Tudor warship sank nearly 500 ...
Mary Magdalene's alleged skull, displayed at the basilica of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, in Southern France. Mary Magdalene's bone, displayed at La Madeleine, Paris. The relics of Mary Magdalene are a set of human remains that purportedly belonged to the Christian saint Mary Magdalene, one of the female followers of Jesus Christ.
Dennis Paul Merzel was born on June 3, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised and schooled in Long Beach, California.His family was Jewish (his grandfather was a Rabbi), [1] but he was raised as an agnostic by his father and as an atheist by his mother. [2]
Lake Superior Zendo (LSV) is a Sōtō Zen Buddhist temple located in Marquette, Michigan. The zendo was founded in 1990 by Tesshin Paul Lehmberg, who received Dharma transmission from Rev. Shoken Winecoff of Ryumonji Zen Monastery. [ 1 ]
1992: Mary Farkas of the First Zen Institute of America dies; 1992: Caitriona Reed receives teaching authorization from Thich Nhat Hanh; 1992: George Bowman, Soeng Hyang, and Su Bong receive Dharma transmission from Seung Sahn; 1992: Shi Yan Ming arrives in the United States; 1993: Wu Bong, Wu Kwang, and Dae Gak receive Dharma transmission from ...