Tracey R Rich: Only the very righteous go directly to Gan Eden.

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Lubavitcher Rebbe: The Garden of Eden was located northeast of the Land of Israel.

Wikipedia: The rabbis differentiate between Gan and Eden. Adam is said to have dwelt only in the Gan, whereas Eden is said never to be witnessed by any mortal eye.

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Melba Toast: I like the idea of the elderly being able to stay in their own homes. I would rather stay in my own home and live in dignity.

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Xinhua: Qingming Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday for people to pay tribute to the dead and worship ancestors, falls on Tuesday this year.

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David Spector: Grapes can reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease and fatty liver disease — and can even add five years to your life.

ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་

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Wikipedia: Budai (Chinese: 布袋; pinyin: Bùdài; Korean: 포대, romanized: Podae; Japanese: 布袋, romanized: Hotei; Vietnamese: Bố Đại) was a Chinese monk who is often identified with and venerated as Maitreya Buddha in Chan Buddhism. His figure appears throughout Chinese culture as a representation of both contentment and abundance.

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"It is said that rubbing the belly of the Laughing Buddha can grant you luck, happiness, and prosperity. Laughing Buddha is thought to provide more luck when placed in the south-east."

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Wikipedia: Budai is traditionally depicted as overweight and having a huge stomach (possibly a symbol of abundance or forgiveness) and many stories surrounding Budai involve his love of food and drink. Because of this, he is also referred to as the "Fat Buddha", especially in the Western world.

God Bless China,,,

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PHOENIX: A Llama going to School! 🦙🏫

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Clifford Fabro Rivera: You look like Superboy.

Phoenix: No. I'm Llamaboy. 🦙🦸🏽‍♂️

TENZIN TSETEN: The Chinese authorities are said to have abducted the Dalai Lama’s chosen boy and his family members. Their whereabouts still remain shrouded in secrecy.

Wikipedia: Jambhala is the God of Fortune and Wealth

Gautama Buddha: in the future any one of my students or student's students who invokes your power and pours water onto your head - bestow on them wealth, give them the two types of wealth, material wealth and spiritual wealth, more importantly spiritual wealth.

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I saw these Buddhist idols at work today.

This isn't the only store near me in which I've seen these pagan Buddhist idolatry.#Christianity #culture #worship #Bible #religious #FreeSpeech #idol #idolatry pic.twitter.com/RbWjB0piO0

— Jon Kragen KJV (@RealJonKragen01) May 24, 2021

YITZ GREENBERG: Rabbi Soloveitchik made the distinction: on social justice we have a universal language, but theology is a more intimate language. Liturgy conveys an affirmation that I'm in this system, so I would feel uncomfortable, for instance, in a Buddhist meditation.

RICHARD TIFFANY GERE: Tame Your Mind.

The Daleyon Khan Blama whose birth name is Lhamo Thondup landed in the Northeast on Sunday ahead of medical treatment for his knees and walked carefully to the entrance of a Hotel cheered on by fans

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CNN: A boy chosen as the Panchen Lama disappeared in 1995. China says he's now a college grad with a job and that neither he nor his family wished to be disturbed in their current normal lives.

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“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.” -Dalai Lama🕊🖖🌱

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VINCENT METTEN: Chinese authorities arbitrarily detained Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, a six-year-old boy recognised by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama — Tibetan Buddhism’s 2nd most important religious figure — and installed their own candidate instead.

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WIKIPEDIA: The selection process for the Newly Resurrected Dalai Lama (ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་ meaning "Guro of the Ocean" or "Rabbi of the Ocean") may prove controversial, as the officially Communist Chinese government has expressed unusual interest in picking him and claims it has the right to do so. The Dalai Lama is believed by Buddhists to be able to pick the body into which he is reincarnated. It shall be very, very difficult for High Lamas to actually find him. Once identified, the successful candidate and his family are translated to Tibet where their son will study the Buddhist scriptures in order to prepare for spiritual leadership. The Dalai Lama could also be Feminine.

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BROOKE SCHEDNECK: Tenzin Gyatso has stated is that if he dies outside of Tibet, his reincarnation would be located within the Diaspora.

Phoenix earned 4 out of 4 Points (100% or an A+) on his Buddhism Assignment (he was placed in an 8th grade class, upon moving, although he's only in 6th grade)

GENEXOLEV ASHTIANI: Even Christ hates His churches to be pimped out.

THE SIMPSONS

BEASTIE BOYS

ADAM NATHANIEL YAUCH PARK MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

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习近平: Tibetan Buddhism should be guided in adapting to [China's] socialist society and developed in the Chinese context.

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LAHAV HARKOV: Its king’s official title is Dragon King.

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"Nepal is the birthplace of Buddhism, not India."

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WIKIPEDIA: In slaughter offerings, the portion allocated to the deity was mainly the fat, the part which can most easily be burnt (fat is quite combustible);

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"Satellite imagery of the Chinese village of Pangda, built on the Bhutanese side of a disputed border with China."

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BRAHMA CHELLANEY: China’s construction of a village is just the latest example of how it is applying the South China Sea model to encroach on areas inside India, Bhutan and Nepal.

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“Both houses of Bhutan's parliament approved a bill on Thursday to legalize gay sex, making the tiny Himalayan kingdom the latest Asian nation to take steps towards easing restrictions on same-sex relationships.”

This is great news. Well done, Bhutan!https://t.co/DTsX9O5F9j

— Senthorun Raj ✨ (@senthorun) December 11, 2020

גַבִּי אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי: ‎I want to thank the Kingdom of Bhutan and praise the decision to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. The establishment of relations with the Kingdom of Bhutan will constitute a new stage in the deepening of Israel’s relations in Asia.

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བློ་བཟང་སེང་གེ་: When Tibet was occupied, Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders said, ‘Tibet is the palm which we must occupy, then we will go after the five fingers’. The first finger is Ladakh. The other four are Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

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Wayne Dupree: Meanwhile, China is pushing closer to the borders of Taiwan and, from what I hear, are thinking about making their way into Nepal and northern India.

Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera's Elephant Basket

WIKIPEDIA: In Sumatra, elephants have been associated with lightning. Likewise in Hinduism, they are linked with thunderstorms as Airavata, the father of all elephants, represents both lightning and rainbows.

ALLAN ANG: Chinese soldiers are the most discipline lot.5 stars

Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera's Himalayan Salt Lamp fashioned into an Elephant

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Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera's collection of Elephants sans the Elephant Basket and Himalayan Salt Lamp

AlHaTorah.org: Josephus also relates how, even in his own time, it was a custom for people to take their household idols when emigrating. Ibn Ezra says more explicitly (and more radically) that Rachel (and the other wives and children) had learned idolatrous worship from her father and had not yet totally forsaken it.

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"We visualize and recite that the vultures are an emanation of the wisdom deities and that the human body is an offering to them."

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Daily Rituals (updated): Thank Him, upon waking. Bathroom Duties, including Diabetic Meds. Internet (Secular and Christian News; Facebook Feed) with Coffee (2-3 cups). Morning Carpool. Breakfast (Lunch is skipped for Fasting purposes, so usually just two meals per day). Stay Hydrated. Maintain Order, such as rearrange altars and Household chores. Afternoon Siesta nap to rejuvenate Heart. Afternoon Carpool. In between meals, I'll extract Biblical Lessons from Online Studies or Interpersonal Encounters and journal them. Supper. Bathroom Duties, including Diabetic Meds. Retire to Bed with YouTube (lecture) or Vintage Film. Reflect on [His] Death upon sleeping. Repeat.

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BARBARA DEMICK: Some will call it dhulok, a word that roughly translates as the "collapse of time," or, hauntingly, "when the sky and earth changed places."

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Whether you pray in YHVH's Name, scan the Bible, or offer your body and saintly incense, all these purposeful acts will implant Salvation and roots of Righteousness on Earth as it is in Heavens.

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ERIC KURLANDER: Nazis believed that Tibet was the home of an ancient Indo-Aryan people who had fled the destruction of their Ur-Aryan civilisation (Atlantis or Thule) after a series of floods. Otto Rahn's theories linked Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism and Indo-Aryan mythology with the paganism, Luciferianism and witchcraft practised across Germany in the Middle Ages, at places such as Brocken in the Harz mountains, the site of the Walpurgis Night scene in Goethe's Faust. Otto Rahn speculated that the Grail lay at the centre of a medieval cult of Luciferians – literally, devil worshippers – who practised a pagan, Ur-Aryan religion drawn from Tibet and Northern India via Persia.

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Johannes Nugroho: all high lamas of Tibet must be approved by the Chinese government.

Gurmi Lama: Buddha and Jesus in Times Square, gouache on canvas.

"Store up almsgiving in your treasury and it will rescue you from all affliction" (Sirach 29:12).

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JACK KORNFIELD: That is to say, you can be a Christian or Jewish and use Buddhist practices.

"Buddhist Jesus" (AI Art Generator)

Caroline Anderson: Ask God to help Christians discern the biblical differences related to Buddhist terms and concepts so they can intelligently communicate the gospel (Prov. 2:2–3; 2 Tim. 2:7).

Thomas C. Fox: Buddhism does not affirm the existence of God. It has been described as an "atheistic" religion. Buddha was enlightened; Jesus was divine. That’s a big difference, isn’t it?

ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་: Jesus Christ also lived previous lives

"In Tibet, at the end of the Phowa, a blade of grass is put into this hole to demonstrate the successful results of the meditation."

Ken Chitwood: a secular, clinical approach is not enough.

🙏🏾 For the Healing of Monair Khan, father of Anthony and grandfather of Phoenix

ཏདྱ་ཐཱ། ཨོཾ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་མ་ཧཱ་བྷཻ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་རཱ་ཛ་ས་མུདྒ་ཏེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།

Transliteration: Tayata Om Bekanze Bekanze Maha Bekanze Radza Samudgate Soha

Wikipedia: The patient is to recite the long Medicine Buddha mantra 108 times over a glass of water. The water is now believed to be blessed by the power of the mantra and the blessing of the Medicine Buddha himself, and the patient is to drink the water. This practice is then repeated each day until the illness is cured.

Juan R. Francisco, "A Note on the Golden Image of Agusan" (1963): It seems likely that the image is a goddess of the Buddhist pantheon, in the Mahayana group. It is related to the concept of a female Boddhisattva, and at the same time the counterpart of the Hindu goddess (Sakti), as a Tara (or wife of a Buddhist god), which is a peculiar development of Buddhism in Southeast Asia.

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"Taken from the fascinating pre-War magazine El Renacimiento Filipino, this vintage photo shows Panglima Diki Diki, a small (dikidiki or rikiriki means 'little' in Tausug) but powerful military ruler from Jolo, Sulu."

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TAYLOR ECHOLLS: In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, followers will observe the death of a loved one by shaving their head.

STUART D. B. PICKEN: In Japanese Buddhism, the vows, which require strictness in life are taken on behalf of the deceased after death. "I take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sanga" is all they need say to become monks. Kaimyo is the term for the name a monk receives on ordination. The deceased is also given a posthumous name created by a priest.

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"I take refuge in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" is all they need say to become monks.