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Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

How lovely. Thank you. ❤️

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Autumn wings, the wind. Somewhere there’s a tree, whose every leaf dreams of flight. — Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social Léon Spilliaert

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

In honor of small beauty, recognize where it exists. ~ Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A carving of light, a hewn moon, a heart suspended between two shores. ~ Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social David Hockney

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The Ascent of Beauty She climbed, each step a quiet drum. Antlers bleaching among spring wildflowers. —Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social Georgia O’Keeffe

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“He said, you Americans are so naive. He said, you think that evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots and climb up the stairs—it begins in the language. Look to the language.” -Joseph Brodsky, as recounted by Marie Howe themillions.com/2018/01/tk-t...

I studied with Joseph Brodsky the great Russian poet and how do I say this, he thought we were lazy American students. We had to memorize 500 lines a week and come in and write them out for him. He
said, you Americans are so naive. He said, you think that evil is going to come into your houses wearing
big black boots and climb up the stairs-it begins in the language. Look to the language. He said, in the Soviet Union, nothing is permitted and everything is important. In the United States, everything is permitted and nothing is important.

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Join great poet Jane Hirshfield Feb 21-23 at Upaya. ONSITE www.upaya.org/program/the-... ONLINE www.upaya.org/program/the-... WIth poet Jimmy Jimmy Santiago Baca, artist translators Ian Boyden and Kazi Tanahashi, and Roshi Joan.

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Upaya Zen Center @upaya.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We are so grateful to share the rare opportunity to learn with Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi through our ONLINE CALLIGRAPHY PROGRAM this weekend. Feb 14–16. Online (+ a few spaces have opened up to join us in person) Register HERE (FREE, by donation): www.upaya.org/program/call...

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Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#ManuscriptMonday Diss track edition. 2 folios of a Tibetan manuscript from Dunhuang (c. 900-950) known as the Tibetan Chan Compendium, that records philosophical & ritual traditions of Chan Buddhism transmitted in Tibet. #TibetanStudies 1/

2 folios of handwritten Tibetan from a Dunhuang manuscript (P. Tib 116) known as the Tibetan Chan Compendium.

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Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle—in the ‘what ought to be.’” —Osip Mandelstam

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Janet Rice @janetrice.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Deepseek on Tibet. Completely expected but deeply disturbing.

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Upaya Zen Center @upaya.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We are also thrilled to welcome visual artist, writer, translator, and curator Ian Boyden, to HAIKU AND POETRY MEETING THIS VERY WORLD: The Practice of Discovering and Writing. @ianboyden.bsky.social @joanhalifax.bsky.social Register here (online, FREE,+ by donation): www.upaya.org/program/the-...

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A monk asked joshu, “When great difficulties come upon us, how can they be avoided?” Joshu said, “Welcome.”

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Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

No, you think about it.😂 —David Lynch

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Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

How wondrous! Thank you for pairing it with such a mysterious photograph. Are those plover tracks??? This poem was written for a child named Sandbar Lord (沚君), who was killed in the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake. From my book A FOREST OF NAMES. Published by @weslpress.bsky.social...

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Bring me all of your dreams You dreamers, bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world ~ Langston Hughes Ian Boyden | Fog Remnant Stone @ianboyden.bsky.social Beautiful backstory: www.ianboyden.com/posts/nephol...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 08/01/2019

Was I carrying any object which could be dangerous to other passengers? I said yes. Startled, she asked: What? I told her: just my heart. -Agha Shahid Ali

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Autumn wings, the wind. Somewhere there’s a tree, whose every leaf dreams of flight. ~ Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social Léon Spilliaert

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Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Translations of Woeser are a different kind of treasure.

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འོད་ཟེར།唯色Woeser 💙💛🦋 @woeser.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

這首去年9月寫於拉薩的詩，感謝你的翻譯。我還保存著你動人的朗讀❤️ 沈淪於烈日的炙烤…  1、我們沈淪於烈日的炙烤幾近絕望但黎明那時因冷得發抖，又急切地盼著快點日出…萬事萬物皆有度但誰又能掙脫對過度的迷戀？在那座至尊之殿，有人死於受辱有人困於受辱，不得不浪跡城中而施暴者日漸消瘦，竟也同樣地身裹絳紅袈裟⋯當我遇上這種種驚駭於因果律的降臨如此遲緩，或另有深意？哦，眾生的出路憑靠什麼，才會殊途同歸？ 3、 ⋯ 連牆壁上都畫了眾生填湖蓋寺的場景還有一頭潔白的羊羔背土最多，出於感激，被人們說成了神力非凡而我，僅想飲一口湖水是何種味道人生太苦了，需要臆想的甘甜 ⋯

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Ian Boyden @ianboyden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Something stems from gratitude, people say it becomes some godly power, something singular and uncommon. — Woeser @woeser.bsky.social www.ianboyden.com/posts/in-the...

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In the scorched remains of a violent sun

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