hauret: Death, Dying, and Buddhism ? A Pinterest Page Update

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Two months ago I proposed an educational social media project for the MDIV670 Spiritual Leadership course entitled ?Death, Dying, and Buddhism? as a Pinterest page.(http://dharmadialogue.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/death-dying-buddhism-a-pinterest-page/) The intent of the page is to provide easy access to information, quotes, and other resources for those interested in death and dying, primarily from a Buddhist perspective. Some of what I have learned in the process includes:

There seems to be much more emphasis on death and dying in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition than in the other Buddhist traditions. This may be due to the fact that I am much more familiar with the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, but I made an effort to seek out quotes and other resources from the many other traditions, and only had mild success.

I was too quick to come up with categories and needed to change the names of the ?boards? on my page on several occasions, or merge some of them together (as an ongoing project, this may continue to be the case). It has been challenging trying to keep the project limited to the Buddhist approach to death and dying. The Buddhist and non-Buddhist worlds have much to learn from each other ? of course, the relationship of each with death and the dying process is not exclusive. I have included both Buddhist and non-Buddhist resources, but, with some exceptions, my goal is to focus primarily on the Buddhist approaches. The board titles are currently as follows:

Buddhist Books on Death & Dying

Quotes by Buddhist teachers

Film & Other media on Death & Dying

Reflections on Death & Dying

Resources

Other Books on Death and Dying

Meditations, Mantras, & Music

The Bardos

Buddhist Psychology re: Death

Buddhist Art on Death and Dying

Buddhist Pilgrimage

I am pleased to report that without advertising this page beyond the Dharma Dialogue post, I have attracted 21 followers. Additionally, most of my ?original pins? (those that I personally sourced outside of Pinterest) have been repined by one or more of my followers, and many of those that I have discovered through Pinterest and repined have also been repined by my followers. When I Googled the words ?Death? ?Dying? and ?Buddhism? together, the search results in my Dhama Dialogue post being listed as #8, and my Pinterest page as #12. This is clearly indicative of the lack of material out there.

I invite anyone to offer suggestions to improve the site and hope that some of you will join Pinterest and ?Follow? me at Death, Dying, and Buddhism. For those not interested in Pinterest, I hope you will comment here to alert me to any websites, books, quotes, or other resources that address death and dying from a Buddhist perspective.