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The Mp3 recording from Wednesday 25th March 09 when Venerbale Sayadaw U Jotika stopped off in Bangkok to give a (much too rare) public talk, hosted by his publisher DMG Books is posted below (English only segments)
Sayadaw will be back in Bangkok at the end of June ‘09. If you enter your email in the [...]

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[Summary: Buddhism in movies. A short look at the film Atonement - as a tale of Karma]
Favourite delusion
Escaping into fantasy seems to be a particularly ubiquitous pleasure of human beings. Books are perhaps the most refined form of this art, but films and movies are the most engrossing. They are one of the most palatable [...]

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  [Summary: A look at the story-telling tradition that came from the Ariyan culture, as it developed into modern day tv/movie scripting. Blogged in advance of Richard Rubachers upcoming talk on Hollywood and the Buddha, at the WBU on Sun 2nd March]
‘Campfire’ Ariyans
The Ariyans were a nomadic race that scholars believe to have developed on [...]

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