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Clarke Scott is a fully ordained Buddhist monk trained in the Tibetan tradition. A student of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Clarke has received personal instructions—direct one-to-one instructions—on Madhyamaka philosophy and meditation from His Holiness. Recently Clarke moved to Tasmania to pursue a Ph.D in Buddhist philosophy from the University of Tasmania.

Back in Australia

Well I’m back. For some of you this will be news, for others not. The change of plans is due to university processes. That is, in order to secure funding at the end of the year, I had to return home to do the required work.

I’m sorry for not blogging much while I was away but things were just too busy for doing anymore than uploading photos onto Facebook. However, I have good news by way of a youtube video of the trip. It is short and ends in what will be a day I will never forget.

I had a wonderful trip, made many new friends and got a lot of research done. Although not much writing. The Tibetan culture is a wonderful thing to experience first hand. Seeing ordinary people interacting within the context of compassion and Bodhichitta was fantastic. Even ordinary people, the man in the street so to speak, regard compassion as something to respect and cultivate. Of course this is a generalization but, in general it was true. We could learn a lot of this aspect of Tibetan culture.

I must apologize for the poor quality of the video. It looks great on my computer but not so great on YouTube for some reason.

If you can’t see the video in your email program or on this webpage go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERuSrATggk8

Anyway, its good to be home.

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