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	<title>Columbia Zen Buddhist Priory</title>
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	<description>Zen Buddhism in Columbia, South Carolina</description>
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		<title>Lay Ordination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lay ordination is offered to congregation who have declared their wish to deepen their commitment to training by taking refuge in the Precepts, thus formally becoming Buddhists. This is a moving and helpful ceremony, and all are encouraged to attend.
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		<link>http://columbiazen.org/blog/2007/03/25/lay-ordination/</link>
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		<title>September 10: Festival of Bhaisajyaguru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bhaisajyaguru is the Buddha of Healing, who offers compassionate teaching and blessing to all. His Medicine of the Dharma, found through meditation and training, cures the three poisons of greed, hate and delusion. He is usually associated with the blue-hued gem lapis lazuli (vaiduryd) shot through with flecks of gold, symbolizing the tiny points of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://columbiazen.org/blog/2006/09/10/september-10festival-of-bhaisajyaguru-tathagata/</link>
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		<title>August 14: Festival of Kshtigtarbha Bodhisattva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 14: Festival of Kshtigtarbha Bodhisattva
The gentle Bodhisattva Kshtigarbha appears in the form of a kindly priest holding a monastic traveling staff and the wish-fulfilling gem or pearl. He is looked upon as helping all those in the six worlds who are in dire, disadvantaged, or vulnerable circumstances, and as such has come to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://columbiazen.org/blog/2005/08/14/festival-of-kshtigtarbha-bodhisattva/</link>
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