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Oct. 29th, 2007 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerI'm closing some tabs in Firefox, and I realize I never posted this bit about the Dali Lama and Buddhist lectures I went to on Wednesday.
So, I emerge from the deep end of Tibetan Buddhism... really, really tired. The ideas were interesting, especially about physical continuity and non-physical continuity, and quite a lot of it would not be terribly out of place in my cog sci class.
The night presentation was just a quick overview about the history of Tibetan Buddhism, mostly about the three greatest contributers: the one who brought Buddhism there, and the one that "re-awoke" the discipline. I forget which one, but tradition holds that one of the three greats - I think it's the re-awakener - is still "around" today as His Holiness.
Though, I wish I was able to see the Saturday lecture, for it was just about Compassion.
So, I emerge from the deep end of Tibetan Buddhism... really, really tired. The ideas were interesting, especially about physical continuity and non-physical continuity, and quite a lot of it would not be terribly out of place in my cog sci class.
The night presentation was just a quick overview about the history of Tibetan Buddhism, mostly about the three greatest contributers: the one who brought Buddhism there, and the one that "re-awoke" the discipline. I forget which one, but tradition holds that one of the three greats - I think it's the re-awakener - is still "around" today as His Holiness.
Though, I wish I was able to see the Saturday lecture, for it was just about Compassion.
