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A Blog offered by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche
A Blog offered by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche

Category - Prison

Buddhist camp in back near trees with orange TIbetan door.
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Keystone Pipeline Dead

Buddhist camp in back near trees with maroon and saffron TIbetan door. On June 9. 2021 TransCanada (TC) Energy cancelled all their remaining plans for the Keystone XL pipeline. This came as good news to the native...

June 13, 2021
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Operation Lemonade

We held an “Open Mike” style meeting on Sunday with over 20 trying to participate. We used “Zoom” which you may be seeing or already using if you are working or taking classes at home.  We shared what we are doing and...

March 25, 2020
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Bhikkhuni Pannavati and others leaving the ordination ceremony.
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More Nun Ordination in Thailand

It is illegal for women to take full ordination as a Bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun) in Thailand due to a 1928 law. Monks who have tried to ordain women have been ejected from the Thai sangha and even imprisoned. There does...

January 13, 2019
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Get on the Bus

Every year, a group in Southern California sponsors a program that offers free transportation and support to enable poor children to visit their mothers in prison. Today buses of children will come to Chowchilla, the...

May 11, 2018
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Trip to Death Row

I was finally able to visit some of the Buddhist women on death row at the largest female correctional facility in the West. I have been trying to meet at least once a month with a group of regular inmates. Seven women...

April 18, 2018
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