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Palbu Tibet Shop
8/5/2007 - Last week, I visited the Palbu Tibet Shop in Amsterdam, a wonderful tiny store with Tibetan and Nepalese Arts and Crafts.Edit: Meanwhile, I have found a second Tibet shop there. Will go and have a look as soon as I'm back in Amsterdam.
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BBC's introduction to Buddhism
7/31/2007 - If you're looking for a real nice introduction to Buddhism, you may want to visit the Buddhism pages of the BBC. History, subdivisions, ethics, you name it, they are very well explained. Note that you will also find the Four Noble Truths audio files here!
Siyatha FM
7/15/2007 - Quite recently, I found a great, Sri Lankan, Buddhist radio station on the Internet, called Siyatha FM. Happy music, 24 hours a day for free! They plan to launch a TV station too! Read the story behind the station here.(They are still testing the network, so it may be offline every now and then)
The Digha Nikaya
7/7/2007 - This week, I bought myself the Digha Nikaya, the (34) long discourses of the Buddha, the first of the five books of the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the three pitakas of the Pali Canon. Will spend a part of the summer holidays on reading these classical Buddhist texts. Don't worry, there will be other forms of fun too! ;-)
The Malcolm Huxter Meditations
7/4/2007 - A few of the best guided meditation files I have ever listened to are those from the Australian clinical psychologist Malcolm Huxter. These are professional meditations and very pleasant to listen to. They help you to calm your body, to get rid of painful emotions and teach you mindfulness in many enjoyable forms. I've put them on my MP3-player, so now I can listen to them whenever I want. You can find and download the free files
here (scroll down a little bit). 
He Hua Temple
6/8/2007 - Today, I visited the Amsterdam Zeedijk to see the Kuan Yin Shrine of the He Hua temple, a Chinese Buddhist temple of the Pure Land school. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to see more of it, because the guided tours are only on saturdays. Kuan Yin, the "Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion" is venerated by East Asian Buddhists. Click here for a big picture. I have found two nice documentaries on the He Hua temple. You can watch them here:
The Four Domains of Mindfulness
5/17/2007 - The Buddha's teaching on The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, which is outlined in Sutta Satipatthana, is of great significance. According to the text, it is 'the direct path to the attainment of purity, for the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, for the end of pain and grief...for the realization of nibbana'. (Source: About.com)
The Four Seals of Dharma
4/8/2007 - If you live up to The Four Seals, you can call yourself a buddhist! "Accepting the Four Seals marks the difference between a buddhist and a non-buddhist", the Dalai Lama has said on the Six Paramitas DVD. So apparently these Four Seals must be very important and they are. They are also called: the four characteristics of Buddhism. Study and try to understand them and you will get a much better insight in what Buddhism is really about.
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