Anam Thubten Rinpoche shares his thoughts about the world in 2024 and how changing our consciousness can transform society
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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 […]