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Month: September, 2009

Academic frustrations, why I am disheartened, and where I should be going

I’m attending the big Japanese Buddhism at UC Berkley this weekend. That has been very interesting so far. I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Paul Groner and Dr. Steve Covell, who have both written on Tendai, and talk with them a bit (especially Steve). I also was able to see Ryuichi Abe speak at [...]

Buddhist Applications for iPhone

Some of us in my sangha have discussed having Buddhist applications for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). It would be convenient to have our daily service, and the various sutras that we use in it, available easily. Since none of us program in Objective C, it isn’t a project that has gotten very far. (I’m [...]