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Study Circles for Inmates

11 March, 2010 By Sky

In the June, 2009, newsletter of The Dalai Lama Foundation, we announced that for a year the facilitators of Project Clear Light had been meeting with a group of 20 maximum-security inmates at the Mark Stiles Unit in Beaumont, Texas. They had been using Ethics for the New Millennium as a text, and the Study Guide as a starting point for their series of meetings.

The work begun by Terry Conrad, and by the inmates at the unit, resulted in a special study guide for inmates entitled Discovering Ethics: A Path to Virtue, which is available for download (PDF) and in printed (bound) form from Lulu.com.

The guide, like our other guides, is published under a Creative Commons license which allows modification, addition, duplication, and distribution for nonprofit purposes.

All of the guides are for use with Ethics for the New Millennium, which must be purchased separately. We urge you to purchase conveniently, you may be able to get the book today from a local bookseller. You can order copies online from Amazon.com or other online retailers.

Resources:

The Study Circles page at The Dalai Lama Foundation
Project Clear Light
Order printed study guides (all formats)
Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba expresses our appreciation to Terry Conrad for the new study guide

Filed Under: Circles for inmates

Keeping track of the Dalai Lama

9 March, 2010 By Sky

For study circle coordinators who want to keep track of current activities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, there are several new ways to keep in touch.

First, you can track the Dalai Lama on Twitter and Facebook. This gives you a great way to get the most recent “news” on upcoming public talks, religious teachings and other activities of His Holiness. On Twitter, you can follow @DalaiLama and on Facebook, you can find the Dalai Lama “fan page” at facebook.com/DalaiLama. These are primarily places where you can find information, and not opportunities to chat or interact, though that may be expanded in the future.

To view online video, there are two sources. First, DalaiLama.com (the authoritative source for all things Dalai Lama) has a video and audio page where you can view recent videos. And The Dalai Lama Foundation has a video page that includes video from non-religious appearances, going back several years.

Studying Ethics for the New Millennium is great on its own, but you can make it more “present” by viewing video and discovering how His Holiness explains and expresses the thoughts and messages that are contained within the book.

[Photo courtesy of Sheldon Wolfe]

Filed Under: Media

Paris, France

6 March, 2009 By Sky

We have a new study circle forming in Paris (75007) coordinated by Irma Berry. We hope to have a French-language study guide coming out of this effort. Should be√Ç¬† fun. Please contact Irma by email if you’d like to join this group or help with the French translation (even if you’re not in Paris).

Filed Under: Start a circle, Welcome

Bogota, Columbia

14 February, 2009 By Sky

There are new study circles starting around the world all the time. Here’s one of the newest. We’ll try to keep you posted on the blog each time a new circle starts up.