westward

Author: khemarato

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md

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 A BIG thank you to:
 
-- [Google](https://about.google/) for hosting [the file library](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RJi6bEXa25zizGdsm5evCycYuY6a2D8r)
+- [Google](https://about.google/) for hosting [our library of media files](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RJi6bEXa25zizGdsm5evCycYuY6a2D8r) and [web fonts](https://fonts.google.com/)
 - [GitHub](https://github.com/about/) for hosting the website and its source code, including their [Primer CSS](https://primer.style/) library
 - [FontAwesome](https://fontawesome.com/) and [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) for providing the images used throughout
 - [CloudFlare](https://www.cloudflare.com/) for securing the site

README.md

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 - academic degrees
 - professional certification
 - spiritual counseling
+- housing
 - etc
 
 The library's resources are provided as-is with no guarantees.

_content/articles/not-weird-or-foreign.md

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+---
+title: "It's not weird or foreign: the Ugandan monk bringing Buddhism to Africa"
+authors:
+  - "Samuel Okiror"
+  - "Eugénie Baccot"
+external_url: "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/07/ugandan-monk-bhante-buddharakkhita-buddism-buddhist-uganda-africa-mindfulness-meditation"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kX_0ldrg4IIORHBeBR5matQetD-s7rTn/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: west
+tags:
+  - african
+  - uganda
+year: 2020
+month: dec
+journal: "the Guardian"
+---
+
+A photo essay celebrating Bhante Buddharakkhita: Uganda's first Buddhist monk.

_content/av/a-gift_powers-richard.md

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+---
+title: "A Gift"
+authors:
+  - "Richard Powers"
+  - "Ezra Klein"
+subcat: podcast
+external_url: "https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-richard-powers.html"
+status: featured
+course: nature
+tags:
+  - intellect
+  - ideology
+  - scientific-materialism
+  - wider
+  - ambulit
+  - capitalism
+  - future
+year: 2021
+month: sep
+publisher: nyt
+minutes: 85
+---
+
+> even consciousness is shared, to a large degree, with a lot of other creatures, so death stops seeming like the enemy and starts seeming like one of the most ingenious kinds of design for keeping evolution circulating and keeping the experiment running and recombining.
+And to go from the terror [of death] into that sense that the experiment is sacred, not this one outcome of the experiment, is to immediately transform the way that you think even about very fundamental social, economic, and cultural things. 
+
+A passionate defense of the importance of Buddhist philosophy in charting a path out of the Anthropocene.

_content/booklets/mahaboowa-in-london.md

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+---
+title: "Ajaan Mahā Boowa in London"
+authors:
+  - boowa
+translator: panyavaddho
+editor: "M. R. Sermsri Kasemsri and Michael Shameklis and suchart"
+external_url: "https://forestdhamma.org/ebooks/english/pdf/Acariya_Maha_Boowa_in_London.pdf"
+source_url: "http://luangta.eu/site/books/book01_london.php"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kXAhhaoGSeUwMgsgy5fwB1ovqSpjhbPH/view?usp=drivesdk"
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LB53EpvpPwSC3TD7o_3ci3igvtNpj-Nb/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: west
+tags:
+  - british
+  - farang
+  - path
+year: 2012
+olid: OL2833136M
+publisher: "Forest Dhamma"
+pages: 161
+---
+
+> The Lord Buddha bestowed the *Sāsana* impartially to all human beings. [Buddhism] can become the wealth of people at each and every level depending on the interest they take in it.
+
+A dozen transcribed Dhamma talks delivered during Luangta Mahabua's June 1974 trip to London.