This year’s Ashadha Purnima celebrations showed off NORBU, a new Buddhist AI developed by Malaysian Buddhist Lim Kooi Fong
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“Welcome to our Bardo”—Anam Thubten Rinpoche on the State of the World
Anam Thubten Rinpoche shares his thoughts about the world in 2024 and how changing our consciousness can transform society
Dr. Song Chong Lee’s Brave New World: The Mahayana Ethics of Cyberspace
In a working academic paper on Mahayana ethics, Dr. Song Chong Lee argues that the bodhisattva precepts opens up new possibilities for optimism about cyberspace
Eye on Southeast Asia: NORBU, Neural Omniscient Robotic-Being for Buddhist Understanding
NORBU, the first Buddhist chatbot, is being utilized by a longtime Dharma platform in a way that few in religious media thought possible just a few years ago
Technology of the Three Treasures: Laser Scanning Pakistan’s Buddhist Heritage
How the FARO Laser Scanner is helping specialists and researchers push the limits of digitally reconstructing and mapping ancient Buddhist sites
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had a way of telling us we could never have it better in this light, in your liver, the future became unusually gentle a machine deitya bronze mirrora moment of medicine and voices and teachings and sentience upon the trillions of piles of earth. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat […]
The Tech Question Concerns Us All
In a letter dated 6 January to Monsignor Paglia for this month’s 25th anniversary of the Pontifical Academy for Life (which was founded in 1994), Pope Francis noted: “Relying on results obtained from physics, genetics and neuroscience, as well as on increasingly powerful computing capabilities, profound interventions on living organisms are now possible . . . Even […]