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	<title>American Buddhist Perspective</title>
	
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		<title>Buddhism and Mental Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has declared May &#8220;Mental Health Awareness Month.&#8221; At the announcement the President said (thanks to Adrian Warnock for posting this): “Today, tens of millions of Americans are living with the burden of a mental health problem. They shoulder conditions like depression and anxiety, post-traumatic stress and bipolar disorder — debilitating illnesses that can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Opera and a Musical Revive interest in Buddhism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 00:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you happened to be in Berkeley, CA between February 6 and March 10, you might have caught &#8220;The Fourth Messenger&#8221; a musical animated by the questions: What if the Buddha were a woman? What if she were alive today? The story, &#8220;loosely inspired by the life of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama,&#8221; follows a young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shinnyo-en, esoteric Japanese Buddhism for laypeople, spreading around the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am happy to introduce you to a branch of Buddhism that you probably have never heard of (I say that with confidence because before coming across them recently I had never heard or them): Shinnyo-en. This particular branch began in 1936 as a community within Shingon Buddhism, a lineage started in Japan by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay Garfield: a Buddhist Philosopher speaks out (or howls) at fellow philosophers, academia, and perhaps the moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 23:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I came across an interview with one of the true mahātmās of the academic study of Buddhism, Jay L. Garfield, a man who has cleared &#8211; and continues to clear &#8211; the way for what we can only hope is a great deal more work to come at the intersection of philosophy, East and West. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Live – HH the Dalai Lama at Maitripa College in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2013/05/watch-live-hh-the-dalai-lama-at-maitripa-college-in-oregon.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His Holiness the Dalai Lama is participating in a symposium with scientists and scholars entitled &#8220;Life and After Life&#8221; Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon, USA on May 10, 2013. Click play to watch (and discuss below -or above- in the comments). In a recent press release, Maitripa College confirmed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is Water: David Foster Wallace and Buddhism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The commencement address that David Foster Wallace gave in 2005 at Kenyon College has just been re-posted on youtube with a little visual help from filmmakers known as The Glossary. As the filmmakers state,  &#8221;the resulting speech didn&#8217;t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana based Non-profit offers Wilderness Meditation Expeditions in Wyoming</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2013/05/montana-based-non-profit-offers-wilderness-meditation-expeditions-in-wyoming.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Absaroka Institute,  a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting spiritual and ecological literacy, will offer two Wilderness Meditation Expeditions this year in the Absaroka (pronounced &#8216;absor-kee&#8217;) mountain range which runs through Wyoming and Montana. The expeditions will be in August and September of this year and will move through Wyoming’s remote and wild Absaroka Range within the Greater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Buddhism in Congress? This time it could be via Republican Mark Sanford.</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2013/05/more-buddhism-in-congress-this-time-it-could-be-via-republican-mark-sanford.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2013/05/more-buddhism-in-congress-this-time-it-could-be-via-republican-mark-sanford.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 12:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today a special election in South Carolina pits former Governor Mark Stanford, better known as the guy who lied about hiking the Appalachian trail so he could cheat on his wife with an Argentinian woman (whom he now plans to marry) against Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, better known to many as the sister-of-Steven-Colbert. As a recent ABC news headline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhism: religion of the internet? Digitizing the word.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC), has a couple podcasts and articles this week on this topic: Buddhism: made for the internet and Buddhism on the Move. The article surrounding the first begins: At the heart of Buddhism is a metaphor for interconnectedness: Indra’s net. The Vedic god’s net, which is supposed to hang over his palace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A recent Catholic take on Buddhism</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2013/05/a-recent-catholic-take-on-buddhism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/americanbuddhist/2013/05/a-recent-catholic-take-on-buddhism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Whitaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My news feed had an interesting title in it a week or so back, &#8220;In case you were wondering about Buddhism.&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;I am wondering about Buddhism&#8230;&#8221; So I clicked through to see what it was all about and found that it was a link from a fellow Patheos bloger,  Mark Shea (Catholic and Enjoying [...]]]></description>
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