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		<title>Chotrul Duchen: Celebrate the Miraculous!</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2010/02/28/chotrul-duchen-celebrate-the-miraculous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[10 Million Day]]></category>
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The Buddha is said to have displayed himself as both fire and water simultaneously, to have caused water to appear in a previously dry well, to have tamed a rampaging elephant with one touch.
On one auspicious occasion, challenged by six heretical teachers, the Buddha and his retinue camped at an appointed place, where for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ani Palchen: The Full Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we celebrated the 49th day since the passing of KPC nun Ani Thubten Palchen.  As we come to the end of the Losar period commemorating the season of the Buddha&#8217;s miracles, we take this opportunity to draw your attention once again to this auspicious story.  The full details as we know them follow: 
Jetsunma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2010/02/18/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!


February 14 began Losar, the Tibetan New Year, the Year of the Tiger. Look forward to a year with a heart, because this Losar falls on our Western Valentine&#8217;s Day!
So open your heart to the opportunity in front of you! Losar inaugurates a period of 15 days during which spiritual potency is considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ani Palchen: Dancing on Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2010/01/21/ani-palchen-dancing-on-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of years ago, a KPC student was chatting with Ani Palchen about ways to promote &#8220;Adopt-an-Acre.&#8221;  That was a campaign, now completed, for securing the land on which the Maryland stupas are situated.
Ani Palchen thought a moment, then just tossed off the cartoon below. (On scrap paper!)  If you remember the work of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam: Ani Thubten Palchen (1929-2010)</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2010/01/20/in-memoriam-ani-thubten-palchen-1929-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KT</dc:creator>
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As you may be aware, our beloved Ani Thubten Palchen passed from this life on Friday, January 8.  We will remember her spirited laughter in the Mani Jewel Giftstore at KPC, where she was frequently the first person to greet visitors to the temple.
Ani Palchen was a trailblazer, ordained as a Buddhist nun in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Eve at KPC</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2010/01/11/new-years-eve-at-kpc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tara.org/2010/01/11/new-years-eve-at-kpc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 31 was another dark and stormy night—this time with ice and freezing rain! But 29 people still braved the elements for the KPC New Year’s Eve Celebration.

The celebration started 11 years ago, as the sangha looked for a more meaningful way than the usual champagne-and-noisemaker party to celebrate the New Year.   Instead of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Together Now: Meditate and Pray Along with Jetsunma!</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2009/12/31/all-together-now-meditate-and-pray-along-with-jetsunma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KT</dc:creator>
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Simultaneously, the world prays together . . . once in a Blue Moon?  Well, &#8220;yes&#8221; to the Blue Moon part.  But not just once&#8211;let&#8217;s do it daily!

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo (not content with a 24 Hour Prayer Vigil in one location) is aiming for world prayer! She starts tonight, December 31, at 7 p.m.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macho Kindness</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2009/12/24/macho-kindness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story of Macho Kindness:  tough guys with tough machines and soft  hearts, who came to the aid of some helpless birds, the temple, and each other.
It was a dark and stormy night—all over the East Coast on Friday, December 18, 2009.


At KPC in Poolesville, MD, it was snowing up a storm when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Teaching:  The Dakini in the Sphere of Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2009/12/23/sunday-teaching-the-dakini-in-the-sphere-of-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tara.org/2009/12/23/sunday-teaching-the-dakini-in-the-sphere-of-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to the teaching broadcast from KPC on Sunday, December 20, 2009.  The teaching was originally given by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, KPC Spiritual Director, at the temple in Poolesville, on February 24, 1991.
 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3288895
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		<title>Snowshine</title>
		<link>http://www.tara.org/2009/12/23/snowshine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunshine on snow:  snowshine!  In the picture below, the sun illuminates the snowbound Dharma Wheel on the roof.  Those figures flanking the wheel  are deer.  This traditional image represents the Buddha&#8217;s first teaching, the first &#8220;Turning of the Wheel of Dharma,&#8221; in the Deer Park.



This view across the lawn had a whole different look the [...]]]></description>
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