Monday, 11 December 2017

Zen - The Story of Dogen

Our copy of this video has gone walk about from our library so I'm posting the Youtube version here................


Tuesday, 5 September 2017

The Buddha in the Falklands

Gus Hales served with the 9th parachute squadron, the Royal Engineers in the Falklands. Following the trauma of war he became a Buddhist.

This is the story of him placing a Buddha statue on Mount Longdon scene of a bloody battle in which the Paras lost 23 men.

Sunday, 18 June 2017

Genius of the Ancient World, the Buddha

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy. To begin, she investigates the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha.

Friday, 26 May 2017

Monkey Mind

I am indebted to one of our Sangha members for sending me this beautifully succinct video of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche explaining how to meditate.



Monday, 15 May 2017

History of the Entire World

This is great for a bit of perspective on "Life, the Universe and Everything".