From the category archives:

Buddhism

Taoism or Daoism?

October 25, 2009

Wade-Giles or Pinyin? Singaporean Taoists are moving to provide all their literature (canonical texts, websites, etc.) in English as well as Mandarin, and the newest priest-training college also plans to be bilingual. This is no huge surprise in an ex-British colony, but I was surprised to see the breakdown according to the 2000 census cited [...]

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Are Buddhas lesser than gods?

October 12, 2009

I’ve decided to keep all my posts on religion and videogames for my gaming blog, but I’ll link to them and make any further comment I think is more appropriately placed here. I may be rather late to the party, but I’ve only just discovered “Buddha Mode” mods for gaming. Read all about it in [...]

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Wii game taps Tibetan Buddhist mythology

September 17, 2009

And I can understand why. I’d totally tap that. Cursed Mountain, due out in Australia some time this quarter but released in Europe on the 21st of August, takes place on the fictional Himalayan mountain “Chomolonzo”. Deep Silver Vienna (formally Rock Star Vienna) have set their horror story of Scottish mountaineer Eric Simmons’ search for [...]

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False Dalai Lama flees People’s Republic of Twitter

February 10, 2009

Twitter have suspended an account that purported to belong to the Dalai Lama, although there has been no report as to how they discovered it wasn’t genuine. In only a few days the account had attracted tens of thousands of subscribers, making it probably Twitter’s highest-profile suspension. I can only assume this anti-Dalai Lama will [...]

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