New Look of the 1,000 Stars Web

The website of the Foundation has been completely renovated with the help of Apple's iWeb program. Please come and have a look.

สานศิลป์สู่ศานติ พุทธศิลป์และวัฒนธรรมทิเบตเพื่อสันติภาพ

ร่วมสนทนาแลกเปลี่ยนประสบการณ์กับผู้ชื่นชมวัฒนธรรมและศิลปะทิเบต ร่วมอภิปรายการนำพุทธศิลป์ทิเบตเพื่อสรรค์สร้างสันติภาพ พร้อมทั้งชมภาพยนตร์เรื่อง Himalaya ซึ่งนำเสนอมุมมองชีวิตชนเผ่าเร่ร่อนทิเบต และความงดงามของดินแดนหลังเืืทือกเขาหิมาลัย

ผู้จัด มูลนิธิพันดาราและศูนย์จริยธรรมทางวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี คณะอักษรศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย วันเวลา วันเสาร์ที่ 29 กันยายน 2550 เวลา 9.30-16.00 น.
สถานที่ ห้อง 707 อาคารบรมราชกุมารี จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย
สำรองที่นั่ง อารีรัตน์ ศิริคูณ โทร 081 648 1195 Email: areeratana@cpbequity.co.th ฐานิตา โทร 089 208 7611 หรืออีเมล์ ดร. กฤษดาวรรณ หงศ์ลดารมภ์ที่ hkesang@yahoo.com

Seminar on "Tibetan Buddhist Arts and Culture for World Peace" will be held on September 29, 2007 at Room 707, Boromrajakumari Building, Chulalongkorn University. The talks will be in Thai.They will be followed by the screening of the movie Himalaya. Contact Areerat Sirikhoon at 081 648 1195 Email: areeratana@cpbequity.co.th; or Krisadawan Hongladarom at hkesang@yahoo.com for more detail.

Presentation file by Dr. Sorrayut

Dr. Sorrayut "Asia" Ratanapojanart's presentation file during the Happiness Conference can be downloaded here.

A. Vichit's Presentation File

Here is Aj. Vichit Punyahotra's presentation file and the Happiness conference.

"Why Good Things Happen to Good People?"

Soraj Hongladarom discusses a new book on "Why Good Things Happen to Good People?" by Stephen Post and Jill Neimark during the Happiness Conference. Please click here for the presentation file.

The Happiness Conference

The Happiness Conference concluded with a happy note last Sunday. For photos and words from the conference please go to Kris's blog at http://krisadawan.blogspot.com/

TARA GREAT STUPA FOR PEACE AND HARMONY

Press Release

TARA GREAT STUPA FOR PEACE AND HARMONY



The Thousand Stars Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in Thailand to promote peace and harmony through mutual dialogs among the various Buddhist traditions of the world, is building the “Tara Great Stupa for Peace and Harmony” on a 68-rai plot of land in Hua Hin, Prachuab Khiri Khan.
To be born as a human being is a very rare event. Thus it is fitting that humans should use their bodies in the way most beneficial to oneself and others. A stupa houses objects that remind everyone of the Buddha and his teachings, and since it lasts for lifetimes, building a stupa thus incur a vast amount of merit since it functions as a focus point of energies and activities related to the teachings of the Buddha and will remain so for centuries.
The Buddha has shown various benefits of building a stupa. These include happiness, prosperity, and joy. Seeing and worshiping the stupa and thus becoming faithful in the Triple Gems, the minds of the faithful will enter the stream of Dharma, eventually leading to Liberation from the cycle of birth and rebirth.
The construction of the Great Stupa comes at a very opportune time, as this year in one in which His Majesty the King, the Great Dharmajara, will turn 80 years old. It is thus fitting that Thai people join hands to build the Great Stupa, which will engender immense benefit both to the land and to the people and all sentience beings.
Those who are interested in donating for the construction of the Stupa, or to learn more about the project, please call Krisadawan Hongladarom at 08-1343-1586, or write her at hkesang@yahoo.com.

“Whoever sees, hears, remembers, or touches the Stupa will receive all the joys of the Buddhas and all the blessings.”

The Buddha

“May the unwholesome deeds of countless Maras be transformed! May evil in the world disappear! May peace happen in the world no matter where it is! May there be a seeing that all phenomena and all things are but vast nature of Emptiness! May the Dharma stay permanent and pervade everywhere in the universe! May the Three Paths flourish without fail!
May the two kinds of merit be of benefit to self and others!”

His Eminence Kuntdrol Mangyal Lhasray Rinpoche