March 11th, 2010 08:14pm
Sky
In the June, 2009, newsletter of The Dalai Lama Foundation, we announced that for a year the facilitators of Project Clear Light had been meeting with a group of 20 maximum-security inmates at the Mark Stiles Unit in Beaumont, Texas. They had been using Ethics for the New Millennium as a text, and the Study Guide as a starting point for their series of meetings.
The work begun by Terry Conrad, and by the inmates at the unit, resulted in a special study guide for inmates entitled Discovering Ethics: A Path to Virtue, which is available for download (PDF) and in printed (bound) form from Lulu.com.
The guide, like our other guides, is published under a Creative Commons license which allows modification, addition, duplication, and distribution for nonprofit purposes.
All of the guides are for use with Ethics for the New Millennium, which must be purchased separately. We urge you to purchase conveniently, you may be able to get the book today from a local bookseller. You can order copies online from Amazon.com or other online retailers.
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March 9th, 2010 04:48pm
Sky
For study circle coordinators who want to keep track of current activities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, there are several new ways to keep in touch.
First, you can track the Dalai Lama on Twitter and Facebook. This gives you a great way to get the most recent “news” on upcoming public talks, religious teachings and other activities of His Holiness. On Twitter, you can follow @DalaiLama and on Facebook, you can find the Dalai Lama “fan page” at facebook.com/DalaiLama. These are primarily places where you can find information, and not opportunities to chat or interact, though that may be expanded in the future.
To view online video, there are two sources. First, DalaiLama.com (the authoritative source for all things Dalai Lama) has a video and audio page where you can view recent videos. And The Dalai Lama Foundation has a video page that includes video from non-religious appearances, going back several years.
Studying Ethics for the New Millennium is great on its own, but you can make it more “present” by viewing video and discovering how His Holiness explains and expresses the thoughts and messages that are contained within the book.
June 27th, 2009 11:05am
emmanuel
TO: Terry Conrad and the Clear Light Prison Sangha in Texas
Dear Terry,
I am writing to congratulate and thank you once again for this excellent and most appropriate Ethics Study Guide that you have helped to develop for Prison Inmates. I have been going through the pages and I am so deeply moved by its clarity and depths. Surely, you have put in so much effort and energy in doing this, and on behalf of everyone in the great family and friends of His Holiness, I say thank you most sincerely.
You have indeed taken the lead and shown us the way. Our Prison system in Nigeria will be the greatest beneficiary of this Study Guide. I am wondering if you would have time to prepare and share with all of us, a 1-2 page summary of your experiences with the inmates as they begin work with this document. Your summary will be posted on the Study Circle blog, and hopefully on the Foundation’s Online Newsletter. This is an excellent example and we all have great lessons to learn from this.
Thank you so much and please extend my very warm regards to all the people involved with this work, and to all who will use it.
Sincerely,
Emmanuel
Engr. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba,
Study Circle Coordinator
The Dalai Lama Foundation
June 26th, 2009 01:55am
Donna
A new study circle is getting organized in Kobe, Japan, with its inaugural meeting set for June 26. As that day is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the group will be starting with Chapter 14 on Peace and Disarmament. They will then meet monthly to discuss the rest of the chapters in sequence. Their website is www.ray-light.net (Sorry, Japanese only!) Group organizer Tomoko Amon says their group is committed to the notion of a “sustainable world that is organized around the principles of wise compassion taught by all the world’s great traditions.” She says, “That is just our dream; I want to try to make it come true.”
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