බෞද්ධාගම පිළිගත් ලෝකප්‍රකට චරිත..

[badcJamiga]

බෞද්ධාගම පිළිගත් ලෝකප්‍රකට චරිත..

Ricky Martin admires Buddhist philosophy

Singer Ricky Martin may be a Christian but when it comes to religion it is the Buddhist philosophy that he admires. However, the Livin La Vida Loca singer is not yet ready to convert and become a practicing Buddhist like Hollywood hunk Richard Gere, for he also feels that it also ‘limits’ a person in certain aspects.
“I really like the Buddhist philosophy but that doesn’t mean that I am of the religion. If I subscribe to Buddhism, I can’t be of anything else. They limit to you in many aspects, and I am not going to follow those rules,” TMZ.com quoted him, as saying.
Martin also believes that every person has the right to decide what makes them happy, and insists that he is not the person who would ever look down upon one religion.
“I believe that everybody has the right to decide what makes him/her happy. I am not one to say what is better and which is worse in terms of faith,” Martin said.
“According to the teachings of Buddhism, the worst thing than you can do to your karma is to say to someone else that their faith is bad,” the Puerto Rican singer added.

http://ibnlive.in.com

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[badcJamiga]

Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist

Humanitarian and actor, Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia. The second of five children, his father, Homer, was an insurance salesman, and his mother was Doris.

American actor Richard Gere (whose real name is Richard Tiffany Gere), winner of Emmy Awards and Golden Globes, has another identity in the world of spiritualism, far apart from the rest of the worldly life and fame. He is a Buddhist.

Gere, who was raised by Methodist parents, began his search for the beauty of tranquility in 1978 when he was traveling in Nepal with a Brazilian painter named Sylvia Martins. Since then, he became an active supporter of his holiness the Dalai Lama who leads religious officials of the ‘Gelug’ branch of Tibetan Buddhism.
Tibetan Buddhism is composed of four principal schools, namely, ‘ the Nyingma (ancient) School’, ‘ the Sakya School ’, ‘ the Kagyu (Oral Tradition) School’, ‘ the Gelug (Tradition of Virtue, sometimes known as the 'Yellow Hat') School’. Tsongkhapa is the pioneer of this last born ‘Gelug’ Tibetan Buddhism school.

After spending around 20 years studying with Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu and Kadam (Oral Instruction) teachers, the concept of ‘Gelug’ came into being through the insight of Tsongkhapa in the early fifteenth century.

Gere scores high marks for sincerity of practice of Buddhism and meditates daily. According to Gere, it helps him set his motivation for the day. Gere thinks meditation may be the path to overcoming his narcissism. Therefore, Buddhism has become the opiate of choice for the U.S. actor.

Gere sets aside at least three-quarters of an hour a day for his ritual, rising at 4:30 a.m. if necessary because, he says, this introspective interval ensures him "a relaxed, stress-free life," adding that "Almost all forms of meditation are a form of looking at the mind. At the start you are almost amazed how much noise is going on there. You have no idea how much monkey stuff is going on, how cluttered it is. You look at that and you're acknowledging what the mind is, you're taming it, and when you have done that you have learned the power of concentration."

Richard Gere is a passionate human rights worker in Tibet. He is a creator of The Gere Foundation. The Gere Foundation, being a small grant giving organization, awards grants to groups that are dedicated to the cultural preservation of Tibet and the Tibetan people. The foundation is also dedicated to provide HIV/AIDS care, to fund research and its treatment, and to those organizations addressing human rights violations throughout the world.

Gere is also a co-founder of the Tibet House which was founded with a vision to share Tibet's practical systems of spiritual mind sciences and philosophy, its arts of human development, intercultural dialogues, nonviolence, and peacemaking, with the world by means of innovative programs in co-operation with educational and cultural institutions.

Gere is acting as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the International Campaign for Tibet. The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) is a private non-profit advocacy group dedicated to promote democratic freedom and human rights for Tibetans, and to protect the Tibetan culture and environment.
Richard Gere has promoted some publications on Buddhism including ‘The World of Tibetan Buddhism

’, (His Holiness the Dalai Lama, was the author). He contributed some texts for the book, ‘We are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples ’.

He has also worked in a documentary with an award-winning filmmaker David Grubin. In the documentary ‘Buddha

’, Richard Gere narrated the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially pertinent to our own bewildering times of violent change, agitation and spiritual confusedness. It features the work of some of the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia have depicted the Buddha’s life and principles in art that is adorned in beauty and complexity.

Read more: http://www.japanese-buddhism.com
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[badcJamiga]

Is jackie chan a buddhist?

Born: 7-Apr-1954
Birthplace: Hong Kong

Gender: Male
Religion: Buddhist
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: China
Executive summary: Martial arts star, does his own stunts
Jackie Chan is a martial arts film star, often billed as an action star who always does his own stunts. In the past, Chan performed most of the non-routine stunts in his films, and he still plans, tests, choreographs, and performs the elaborate, jaw-dropping "wow" fights and jumps that make his films visually spectacular. But Chan is in his 50s now and one cannot expect him to continue climbing clock towers, kickfighting atop speeding trains, or shimmying up light poles: in his recent films, he relies more on his comic acting abilities, stunt men, and cinematic special effects.
Chan's parents were staff workers at the French embassy in Hong Kong; his father was a cook, his mother a maid. He was mostly raised at a boarding school, where academics and performing were both stressed, along with rigorous physical training. With young Chan's athletic and dramatic skills, he was a minor child actor in Hong Kong movies in the 1960s, and he worked as a stuntman and extra on Bruce Lee's 1973 kung fu classic Enter the Dragon. Throughout the 70s, Chan worked as an actor and stuntman on innumerable Hong Kong films. He had been in at least 50 films before his star-making role in 1978's Drunken Master, with comedy that comes through even in subtitles, and fight scenes that are astonishing.
With Drunken Master, Chan found the movie persona that worked perfectly for him. His characters are usually slackers or wisecrackers, maybe not too bright, but willing to work hard. Chan has said his characters are generally -- and intentionally -- the opposite of Lee's stalwart, morally upright, unbeatable heroes. Chan wants viewers to feel that his character does not want to fight, not because he is philosophically opposed to violence but because he is afraid he will get pummeled.
In the 1980s Chan attempted to export his stardom to America, but his American films (The Big Brawl and The Protector) were duds. Back in Hong Kong, Chan continued making eye-candy: any of his Police Story films are better than Arnold Schwarzenegger's best, and the motorcycle-train-helicopter chase sequence at the end of Police Story III: Supercop is amazing to watch -- and even more amazing when one recalls that Chan and co-star Michelle Khan did their own stunts. Armour of God: Operation Condor puts an Asian spin on Indiana Jones, and Twin DragonsProject A II, Thunderbolt, Fearless Hyena, and Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin. is perhaps his funniest film. Other essentials include

Father: Charles Chan (restaurant cook, b. 1915, d. 2008)
Mother: Lee-Lee Chan (domestic worker, d. 2002)
Wife: Feng-Jiao Lin (actress, b. 30-Jun-1953, m. 1983, one son)
Son: Jason Chan (b. 3-Dec-1982)
Mistress: Elaine Ng (actress and former Miss Asia, one daughter)
Daughter: Etta Ng Chok Lam (b. 19-Nov-1999)

High School: Chinese Opera Research Institute (1971)

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Endorsement of Hanesbrands Hanes underwear
Endorsement of Pepsi 2006
Endorsement of Kaspersky Lab anti-virus software (2009-)
Chinese Ancestry

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Steve Jobs - a successful Buddhist Businessman

Read on a website:" How can you say that you are Buddhist when you are so good at spawning desire and attachment in this world? "

Steve Jobs' Apple company could be said to have a very Zen-like attitude toward design with it's pure lines and minimalist approach to user-experience. This might not be by accident. Jobs is in fact a follower of the Buddha.
It all began, as far as we know, in 1974 when Jobs, then 21, asked for a sabbatical from his employer, Atari, in order to go to India.
After a month visiting gurus, looking for answers, he came back, not really satisfied with what he had found. For some reasons, he decided that Thomas Edison had done more for mankind than a lot of Gurus and other philosophers.

Read more: http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/steve-jobs-buddhist-celebrities.html#ixzz1Supb1ax6



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[roshancs05]

Good post bro

 

[ask89]

සිංහලෙන් දාපන්කෝ

 

[accessuser]

සිංහලෙන් දාපන්කෝ

 

[badcJamiga]

සිංහලෙන් දාපන්කෝ

මේ වගේ තව ගොඩක් තියෙනවා සහෝ.. බලමු වෙලාව තිබ්බොත් ට්‍රයි එකක් දෙන්නම්..

 

[badcJamiga]

Good post bro

tnx machan

 

[ruwanwellarocker]

nice work.

 

[MorningAfterDark]

Amathaka karana Epa RICKY MARTIN Kolu karayek

 

[SK143]

ela ela....

 

[Mozilla]

ammata siri sirada ban?

 

[badcJamiga]

Amathaka karana Epa RICKY MARTIN Kolu karayek

eka methanta galapanna epa sahodaraya...

 

[badcJamiga]

ammata siri sirada ban?

ඔව් මචන්... බුරුතු පිටින් අපේ බෞද්ධයෝ අන්‍යාගම් වැලදගන්නා මේ වගේ යුගයක මේ ගැන කතා කරන්නම ඕන..
නැත්නම් අපේ ළමයින්ට මලක් පහනක් පුජ කරන්න පන්සලක් නැති වෙයි..
මම අනිත් ආගම් හෙලා දකිනවා නෙමෙයි...

 

[cj4ever]

methanatath fake karayek pemina atha eveni p dial vena qute kota reply karanna epa
ethakota un form venava

 

[badcJamiga]

methanatath fake karayek pemina atha eveni p dial vena qute kota reply karanna epa
ethakota un form venava

kawuruhari oka kiyanakam mama hitiye machan.. tnx... api apita puluwan widihata ape agama.. ape rata wenuwen satan wadinna ona....
thuwakku aran yuda bimata yanna wasanawa notibba api meka awasthawak karaganna ona...

 

[tas]

MENNA THAWA KENEK


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

 

[cj4ever]

kawuruhari oka kiyanakam mama hitiye machan.. tnx... api apita puluwan widihata ape agama.. ape rata wenuwen satan wadinna ona....
thuwakku aran yuda bimata yanna wasanawa notibba api meka awasthawak karaganna ona...

අනිවා මචෝ

 

[tas]

1. Tiger Woods

 

[badcJamiga]

MENNA THAWA KENEK


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

tnks machan.. eyawath add kala...
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