Buddhism NewsTopix News on Buddhism continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. A Very BIG Buddha 5 Feb 2012 at 1:04pm pBuddha is big in China and in Hong Kong thats literally true. On Lantau Island sits the worlds largest outdoor seated Buddha statue./p Sunning of the Buddha at China monastery 4 Feb 2012 at 11:36pm pXIAHE, Gansu - A huge Thangka bearing the image of the Buddha was unrolled to kick off an important Tibetan Buddhist gathering Saturday at Labrang Monastery in northwest Chinas Gansu Province./p Movies with Buddhist Themes 3 Feb 2012 at 11:23pm pMany wonderful Buddhist movies have been made in recent years, both feature films and documentaries, and I listed some of them in a prior article, Buddhist Movies ./p A Case of Bad Karma on Kickstarter 3 Feb 2012 at 7:14pm pThe idea behind a Zen garden is that combing all of that sand into intricate patterns improves the practitioners concentration./p PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Close to Home, a Cosmic Setting for Her Songs 3 Feb 2012 at 2:59pm pIN the Himalayan art and artifacts that are the heart of the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea, some traditions go back thousands of years./p New issueSpring 2012 TricycleNow online, and heading to newsstands soon 3 Feb 2012 at 9:40am pWhy do we hold on to things we dont need? A guide to clearing clutter and forming new habits Founded in 1921 by D. T. Suzuki and others for the purpose of relaying the true spirit of Buddhism to the modern world./p The Clark Center for Japanese Art Culture to Show Buddhist Deities 3 Feb 2012 at 5:35am pHanford, California.- The Clark Center for Japanese Art amp; Culture is pleased to present Wrathful Deities and Compassionate Bodhisattvas: Aides of the Buddhist Faith on view at the center from February 4th through April 28th./p Buddha: Triumph Tragedy In The Life Of The Great Sage 3 Feb 2012 at 2:35am pHistorically speaking, we know very little for certain about the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the man who came to be known as the Buddha . Although no one today seriously questions his actual existence in ancient India, debates still rage over the dates of his life, with the year of his death now being set anywhere between 486 and 360 B.C. To be ... (more)/p Buddhist museum to rival all other museums worldwide 2 Feb 2012 at 11:30pm pThere is planned a museum that will rival all other museums worldwide by the type of content, the age of the content, how official the content will be and the fact that the museum will offer something no other museum ever has./p Buddhist Celebrations: Magha Puja Day 2 Feb 2012 at 7:26pm pCelebrated in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, Magha Puja is a Buddhist holiday that occurs each year on the evening of the full moon of the third month of the lunar calendar./p Lewis Richmond: Buddhism And Groundhog Day 2 Feb 2012 at 3:11pm pWhen I think of Groundhog Day in a Buddhist context, the first thing that comes to mind is this old Zen story: Zen teacher Ummon said to the assembled monks, I do not ask about 15 days ago, or 15 days hence./p Zen Meditation Question 1 Feb 2012 at 4:24pm pOne aspect of Zen meditation I could not yet understand is why there is no metta meditation./p Perfection of Meditation 31 Jan 2012 at 8:30pm pI hope to focus on dhyana paramita , the perfection of meditation, a bit this week./p Can Buddhism Help with Sex Addiction? 31 Jan 2012 at 3:16pm pIn the land of the strange but true, as a former Tibetan Buddhist nun I fell in love with and married a man who counsels sex addicts and who is a recovering sex addict himself./p Review: Enlighten yourself at Mandala: Sacred Circle in... 30 Jan 2012 at 9:18pm pAfter some two decades of visits from the Dalai Lama and exhibitions of Tibetan art in Atlanta, most of us are at least acquainted with the painted mandala as a representation of a complex, symmetrical building with a single enlightened being at its center./p