a couple days worth

_content/av/beginning_tuong-phuong.md

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+---
+title: "The Beginning of the Beginning"
+authors:
+  - "Phuong T. Vuong"
+subcat: poetry
+reader: "Ada Limón"
+external_url: "https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2022/10/13/783-the-beginning-of-the-beginning"
+course: wider
+tags:
+  - migration
+  - past
+year: 2022
+month: oct
+series: slowdown
+number: 783
+minutes: 5
+---
+
+> Who decides where a river starts? ...

_content/av/invocation_kaneko-w-todd.md

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+---
+title: "Invocation"
+authors:
+  - "W. Todd Kaneko"
+subcat: poetry
+reader: "Ada Limón"
+external_url: "https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2021/10/12/521-invocation"
+course: places # solidly
+tags:
+  - poetry
+year: 2021
+month: oct
+series: slowdown
+number: 521
+minutes: 5
+---
+
+> Remember me, my father sings  
+to the forest...

_content/essays/chanting_pluralism.md

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+---
+title: "Chanting the Sutras"
+authors:
+  - "The Pluralism Project"
+external_url: "https://pluralism.org/chanting-the-sutras"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aY_D-1a1Tm_6O1PS9C-R4QbXA8hSq_CJ/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: form
+tags:
+  - meditation
+year: 2013
+publisher: "Harvard University"
+address: "Boston"
+pages: 2
+---
+
+Chanting is a form of meditation practiced by nearly all the Buddhist traditions.

_content/essays/dalai-lama_dhammika.md

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 year: 2011
 course: tibetan
 tags:
-  - buddhism
+  - form
 base_value: 0.2
 pages: 3
 ---

_content/essays/mandala_pluralism.md

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+---
+title: "Creating a Mandala"
+authors:
+  - "The Pluralism Project"
+external_url: "https://pluralism.org/creating-a-mandala"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aaGj_7sED68rIgxiHq3UUg9o6O01_BG5/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: form
+tags:
+  - tibetan
+year: 2013
+publisher: "Harvard University"
+address: "Boston"
+pages: 2
+---
+
+> The Tibetan term for mandala, kyinkor, means “center and surrounding environment.” The center with its surrounding geometric designs, its doors, its guardians, and its gods—all become charged with the order and the energy of the whole cosmos.

_courses/form.md

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 {% include content_blurb.html category="av" slug="tibetan-buddhism_breakfast-religion" blurb="A short introduction to Tibetan Buddhism" %}
 
+{% include content_blurb.html category="essays" slug="mandala_pluralism" blurb="You may have seen or heard about the sand mandalas before as they are a famous Tibetan Buddhist practice." %}
+
 {% include content_blurb.html category="av" slug="drepung-loseling-buddha" blurb="A Tibetan monk shows us his temple's primary Buddha image, explaining the symbolism behind its gestures." %}
 
 {% include content_blurb.html category="articles" slug="reexamination-of-female-inferiority_goodwin-allison" blurb="
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 #### Cintita Chapter 5: The History of the Sāsana
 
 {% include content_blurb.html category="av" slug="end-of-the-buddhist-utopia_sujato" %}
-- Bhante Sujato starts by asking why Buddhism died out in India, and what factors will lead to the end of our own (present day) "Buddhist Utopia"
+- Bhante Sujato asks why Buddhism died out in India, and what factors might lead to the end of our own (present day) "Buddhist Utopia"
 
 [CBT] Th.191
 {:.mb-0}
-- The Buddha gives his answer to what will cause the sāsana to survive or not.
+- The Buddha gives his answer to what will cause the sāsana to thrive or not.
 
 {% include content_blurb.html category="essays" slug="monasticism-and-western-adaption_karma-lekshe-tsomo" %}
 - Buddhist monasticism faces many challenges as it comes West, especially for nuns, but looking to history and our principles can help us navigate the future.
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 [CBT] Th.95 - Ratana Sutta
 {:.mb-0}
-- This sutta in praise of faith in the triple gem is often chanted in Theravāda countries as a magical blessing.
+- This sutta in praise of faith in the Triple Gem is often chanted in Theravāda countries as a (somewhat magical) blessing.
 
 #### Cintita Chapter 7: Negotiating the Dharma
 
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 {:.mb-0}
 - On how to use meditation as an antidote to greed, hatred, and restlessness.
 
+{% include content_blurb.html category="essays" slug="chanting_pluralism" %}
+- Chanting is a particularly common form of meditation for many (most?) Buddhists.
+
 [CBT] V.55–56
 {:.mb-0}
 - Does this admonishment to practice solitude contrast with the emphasis on the spiritual community we read earlier? How do you explain this tension?

_data/course_order.yml

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 - buddhism
-- function
 - form
+- function
 - ebts
 - philosophy
 - ethics