Daily Camera: "The Hill Flea showcases Boulder artists, nonprofits...Market runs every Sunday through Oct. 25."

Sounds True: "Tami Simon speaks with Reggie Ray, a teacher carrying on the lineage of the great Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a faculty member of Naropa University since its inception, and president and spiritual director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation based in Crestone, Colorado."

Via the Summer Writing Program blog:

"AOT #176: Anne Waldman Podcasts Manatee/Humanity"

Inside Higher Ed: "Adam Robinson is a graduate student in the creative writing program at the University of Baltimore. He is a poet, the guitarist for a MySpace-garagist ensemble called Sweatpants, and proprietor of a literary house called Publishing Genius Press...So far, PGP has released 19 digital chapbooks, two stapled pamphlets, and six perfect-bound books, most of them editions of poetry. This is all impressive enough for someone who is working full time, with another year to go in his MFA program; but it seems fair to say that you would not expect Variety, the trade journal of the American entertainment industry, to take notice of Adam Robinson’s work. But in fact this has happened."

Naropa's audio archives project gets a shout-out in "Embracing Web 2.0: Archives and the Newest Generation of Web Applications."

What's the top result when you search Google for "buddhist ecology"? This site that presents information on "Buddhism & Ecology."

Bomblog has an interview with Naropa's Lisa Birman about her newest book.

Via the East-West Philosophy at Naropa University blog:

"Professor David R. Loy is the author of Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy (Yale University Press, 1988), Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism (Humanities Press, 1996), A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack (State University of New York Press, 2002), and The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory (Wisdom Publications, 2003)...For many years, Prof. Loy taught philosophy and religion at Bunkyo University near Tokyo, Japan. In 2006 he took a position in the Theology Department at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to his academic work, David Loy is an authorized teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism...The text below is an edited transcript of a telephone conversation between Tom McFarlane and Professor Loy in July of 2004."

"Buddhism strengthens ties to church."

The Denver Post chats about the Boulder International Fringe Festival with its lead organizer, Naropa's own David Ortolano.

"FACT-SIMILE is a large-format (8.5 x 11) literary journal published twice annually around the solistices. As such, we are always looking for work that pushes the envelope of polite society and has little to no regard for the arbitrary margins of genre."

Via Danny Fisher:

"Nestled in Northeastern China, Mount Wutai has witnessed the building of Buddhist temples since the first century C.E. and it is home to some of China’s old existing wooden buildings. Some of which have stood since 900 C.E. ... In Spain, on Friday, June 26th, nearly two millennia of Buddhist history has convinced the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee to name Wutai as a World Heritage Site, given that it is home to 68 temples, 150 towers, 146,000 sculptures. But alas, it was not qualified to be a world natural landscape."

Via Matt Yglesias:

"In a recent debate leading up to the presidential elections here, the first question was not about terrorism, or violence, or even opium. It was about how candidates viewed a jagged line casually drawn on a map 115 years ago by British colonial rulers. For the West, this border separates Afghanistan from Pakistan, and it is a source of great frustration that neither country seems able or even willing to enforce it. But for many Pashtuns, the most powerful ethnic tribe here, the line runs through what they call 'Pashtunistan' and is no more legitimate than the border that once divided East and West Germany."