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What's Newest:  
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10-10-08 - Former Ganden Tripa Stays on 'Thukdam' for 18 Days - Thanks Cheryl

Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on Death and Rebirth
by Lama Ole Nydhal, Vajrayana Buddhist Lama - on BuddhaNet

filed in Death and Dying

10-09-08 - Notes on the results of the recent fire that threatened Tassajara

- filed in the Tass 08 Fire Dept

New York Times - States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal (and they're talking swing states) - Filed in the Election Fraud section.

10-04-08 - Peter Rudnick's urban farming featured in this article in the SF Chron.

Happy birthday Kelly, eldest son - 35! (he says it's the beginning of middle age)

10-03-08 - Some links to articles on lose your house lose your vote and other election fraud

10-02-08 - A light edit of a Shunryu Suzuki lecture dated July 8, 1965 - the first known recorded lecture. From there you can link to the unedited version and other of the earliest lectures. Thanks to Gordon Geist in Norway who has been doing these light edits for us for years.

  
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Make the check out to SFZC with a note it's for SSLP
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Thanks gassho metta - dc

cuke.com GOALS for 2008
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WHAT WAS NEW before that 
One of the best ways to check out this site
  [And before that - prior years] Also, try ABC Table of Contents

Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki

Books by David Chadwick

Books by other ZC related writers in bibliography


order them from SFZC Bookstore

Books by Dainin Katagiri -  compilations of his lectures

Cafe Press Cuke Basket
the outlet for tee shirts and stuff from cuke.com
 Buddhism & Nothings Shop and more
Read more about it on this site  or just go to the Cafe Press Cuke Basket
 

Get these patriotic engaged cuke Buddhist tee shirts and other items now with large logos or small logos from the Cuke Basket of Cafe Press. - They are too dangerous, destructive, incompetent, and devious to leave them with this power any longer. Also, they're an extremely bad example. Impeach em both now!
Maximum cuke profit - $3.


You are in the power of the divine munificent energy which bids you to fetch an envelope, place in it your generous donations of $1 or more and send to
David Chadwick, PO Box 2543, Sebastopol, CA 95473
for tax deduct and more info on all that

Check out John Tarrant's books & Zen (PZI) Donate to PZI

Lew Richmond released a new music CD in January, Songs of Lazarus. See more on Lew Richmond - interview, links.

featured in cuke music section

 

DVDs are now available of "A ZEN LIFE - D.T.  Suzuki," a 77-minute documentary about Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966). Read more about it and how to get the DVD in the new cuke Film Section

 

Beltane Flowers
 

 

 

Kyoto Art and Antiques  Tell 'em cuke sent you. - dc

 

Check out the 2008 calendar prints and tee shirts and more in the Cuke Basket, a print on demand store in Cafe Press. Cuke profit no more than $3 on any item, $1 on calendars. Buy one such as the Shunryu Suzuki New Year's card calendar print to the left and copy it cheaper at a copy shop (but on quality stock) and use it for a holiday gift for Buddhists, Orientophiles, calligraphers, bird-lovers, that special someone, etc. To see this card a little better, go to its page in the Cuke Basket and hit View Larger.

Click on this thumbnail to see the order form for the CD of Barbara Wenger's slide slow with 650  photos of Tassajara Alumni - or try the PDF file - in CukeSanghaNews

 

Need tech support? Try David Cohen, Tech God at Tech Light
who helps cuke.com out a lot. Thanks - DC

Check out Andy Ferguson's
South Mountain China tours         More on cuke on Andy
with it's fantastic videos of China and Chinese Zen

To see what was added to this site in earlier months and years, go to  What Was New:  1999, 2000-2001,  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, what's new this year

There's a lot of old material that's as good as new if you haven't read it. -DC
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