Sen🍵
@senki91.bsky.social
🌸☸️ PhD researching Tanabe Hajime and Buddhism 🌸🍵 ཨོཾཏཱརེཏུཏྟཱརེཏུརེསྭཱཧཱ ། 🍵 he/they/dia - 28 🌸 EN/ID OK
Pandan kaya toast and barley drink
July 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Pandan kaya toast and barley drink
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Texas Blind Snake, aka Texas Thread Snake (Rena dulcis), SE Arizona. 🐍 These tiny, harmless snakes usually live underground eating termites & ants. A study of Eastern Screech Owls back in the late 1980s showed that the owls, which usually only bring dead prey to their chicks, brought these snakes--
July 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Texas Blind Snake, aka Texas Thread Snake (Rena dulcis), SE Arizona. 🐍 These tiny, harmless snakes usually live underground eating termites & ants. A study of Eastern Screech Owls back in the late 1980s showed that the owls, which usually only bring dead prey to their chicks, brought these snakes--
Some book purchases, one from last week and one from today
July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Some book purchases, one from last week and one from today
Chicken Rice at Wee Nam Kee GI
July 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Chicken Rice at Wee Nam Kee GI
Brunch of nasi sayur with teh tarik
July 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Brunch of nasi sayur with teh tarik
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#RealBuddhaQuotes On this Mother’s Day, we honor the boundless compassion, wisdom, and strength that uplifts all beings—just like the goddess Sarasvati and her nurturing love.
🌸 Know someone whose love feels just like this? Send it to them today.
#mothersday
🌸 Know someone whose love feels just like this? Send it to them today.
#mothersday
May 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
#RealBuddhaQuotes On this Mother’s Day, we honor the boundless compassion, wisdom, and strength that uplifts all beings—just like the goddess Sarasvati and her nurturing love.
🌸 Know someone whose love feels just like this? Send it to them today.
#mothersday
🌸 Know someone whose love feels just like this? Send it to them today.
#mothersday
Cherry Blossoms and Magnolias at High Park
May 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Cherry Blossoms and Magnolias at High Park
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Just days before Vesak, Sotheby's plan to auction off sacred relics of the Buddha—stolen in the colonial destruction of a stūpa, no less—to the highest bidder.
religionnews.com/2025/04/22/a...
religionnews.com/2025/04/22/a...
Auctioning the Buddha's relics is perpetuating colonial violence
(RNS) — For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and shouldn’t just be sold to the highest bidder.
religionnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just days before Vesak, Sotheby's plan to auction off sacred relics of the Buddha—stolen in the colonial destruction of a stūpa, no less—to the highest bidder.
religionnews.com/2025/04/22/a...
religionnews.com/2025/04/22/a...
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Thanks to a grant from Khyentse Foundation, BDRC has been working with the Fragile Palm Leaves (FPL) Foundation in Bangkok since 2016, to digitize their extensive collection of Buddhist manuscripts from SE Asia. Read the full story at khyentsefoundation.org/story/the-fr...
May 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thanks to a grant from Khyentse Foundation, BDRC has been working with the Fragile Palm Leaves (FPL) Foundation in Bangkok since 2016, to digitize their extensive collection of Buddhist manuscripts from SE Asia. Read the full story at khyentsefoundation.org/story/the-fr...
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I'm happy to announce that the complete retrospective of films by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden that I've curated will be showing in Vancouver: Compassionate Light: Stories of Tibet by Pema Tseden. May 16-19. At the VIFF Theatre @viffest.bsky.social
Details here: viff.org/series/pema-...
Details here: viff.org/series/pema-...
April 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm happy to announce that the complete retrospective of films by Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden that I've curated will be showing in Vancouver: Compassionate Light: Stories of Tibet by Pema Tseden. May 16-19. At the VIFF Theatre @viffest.bsky.social
Details here: viff.org/series/pema-...
Details here: viff.org/series/pema-...
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A new article from Vanderbilt assistant professor Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social on Buddhist preta or "hungry ghost" stories. I love this topic and her book!
"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
Accessible link
"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
Accessible link
Who Were the Hungry Ghosts, Really?
The evolving stories of pretas reveal much about Buddhist views of karma, cosmology, and grief.
tricycle.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A new article from Vanderbilt assistant professor Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social on Buddhist preta or "hungry ghost" stories. I love this topic and her book!
"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
Accessible link
"These stories are more than simple scare tactics to encourage ethical behavior."
Accessible link
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On the occasion of the second anniversary of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche having showed the aspect of passing away, Kopan Lama Gyupas and senior monks are offering Yamantaka self initiation in Rinpoche’s room.
April 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
On the occasion of the second anniversary of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche having showed the aspect of passing away, Kopan Lama Gyupas and senior monks are offering Yamantaka self initiation in Rinpoche’s room.
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On the occasion of the second anniversary of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche having showed the aspect of passing away, Kopan Lama Gyupas and senior monks offering Yamantaka self initiation in Rinpoche’s room. May all the heartfelt prayers be actualized.
April 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
On the occasion of the second anniversary of Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche having showed the aspect of passing away, Kopan Lama Gyupas and senior monks offering Yamantaka self initiation in Rinpoche’s room. May all the heartfelt prayers be actualized.
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NEW TRANSLATION: In Praise of Tārā
by Gendün Chöpel (1903–1951)
We are delighted to announce our first translation of a text by Gendün Chöpel, one of Tibet's most celebrated intellectuals and an accomplished philosopher, artist, historian, and poet.
www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...
by Gendün Chöpel (1903–1951)
We are delighted to announce our first translation of a text by Gendün Chöpel, one of Tibet's most celebrated intellectuals and an accomplished philosopher, artist, historian, and poet.
www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...
April 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
NEW TRANSLATION: In Praise of Tārā
by Gendün Chöpel (1903–1951)
We are delighted to announce our first translation of a text by Gendün Chöpel, one of Tibet's most celebrated intellectuals and an accomplished philosopher, artist, historian, and poet.
www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...
by Gendün Chöpel (1903–1951)
We are delighted to announce our first translation of a text by Gendün Chöpel, one of Tibet's most celebrated intellectuals and an accomplished philosopher, artist, historian, and poet.
www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...
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BDG news: Buddhist Heritage: Art Institute of Chicago Returns Stolen 12th-century Buddha Sculpture to Nepal
🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/4uhh3vra
#Buddhism #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistArt #Buddha #Nepal #Kathmandu #Chicago #AIC #Shakyamuni
🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/4uhh3vra
#Buddhism #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistArt #Buddha #Nepal #Kathmandu #Chicago #AIC #Shakyamuni
Buddhist Heritage: Art Institute of Chicago Returns Stolen 12th-century Buddha Sculpture to Nepal - Buddhistdoor Global
The Art Institute of Chicago has announced that it is returning a 12th-century sculpture of the Buddha to Nepal after learning that it was stolen.
tinyurl.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
BDG news: Buddhist Heritage: Art Institute of Chicago Returns Stolen 12th-century Buddha Sculpture to Nepal
🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/4uhh3vra
#Buddhism #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistArt #Buddha #Nepal #Kathmandu #Chicago #AIC #Shakyamuni
🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/4uhh3vra
#Buddhism #BuddhistHeritage #BuddhistArt #Buddha #Nepal #Kathmandu #Chicago #AIC #Shakyamuni
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They are refugees from Bhutan, living in central Pennsylvania
They are in the United States legally
ICE seized them for deportation anyway www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
They are in the United States legally
ICE seized them for deportation anyway www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
Six former Bhutanese refugees living in Pennsylvania — who have legal residency in the U.S. — were detained by ICE
Five former Bhutanese refugees from Dauphin County and one from nearby Cumberland County had been detained by ICE in the last few weeks.
www.inquirer.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
They are refugees from Bhutan, living in central Pennsylvania
They are in the United States legally
ICE seized them for deportation anyway www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
They are in the United States legally
ICE seized them for deportation anyway www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
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“philosophy departments should own up to what they’re actually teaching. If they refuse to engage with non-Western traditions, the most honest thing they could do is stop pretending and rebrand as “Departments of European and American Philosophy.” 👏👏👏
APA members Bryan Van Norden and Jay Garfield are among the philosophers whose work is discussed in this @bigthink.com article challenging the Western focus of academic philosophy.
Is philosophy too Western for its own good?
Whether we should tear down philosophy’s Berlin Wall and let East and West finally merge depends entirely on what we think philosophy is.
bigthink.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“philosophy departments should own up to what they’re actually teaching. If they refuse to engage with non-Western traditions, the most honest thing they could do is stop pretending and rebrand as “Departments of European and American Philosophy.” 👏👏👏
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The 14th day of the 1st month of the Tibetan lunar calendar (today) is traditionally used to celebrate the life and liberation of the great poet and yogin Milarepa.
Here is a manuscript illustration of his cremation & a photo of a memorial stupa at his cremation site in Chubar, southern Tibet.
Here is a manuscript illustration of his cremation & a photo of a memorial stupa at his cremation site in Chubar, southern Tibet.
March 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The 14th day of the 1st month of the Tibetan lunar calendar (today) is traditionally used to celebrate the life and liberation of the great poet and yogin Milarepa.
Here is a manuscript illustration of his cremation & a photo of a memorial stupa at his cremation site in Chubar, southern Tibet.
Here is a manuscript illustration of his cremation & a photo of a memorial stupa at his cremation site in Chubar, southern Tibet.