soft launch nature tag + announcement

_drafts/2023-06-03-visakha.md → _posts/2023-06-03-visakha.md

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-Dear fellow students!
+Dear fellow students,
 
-Vesak is the annual Buddhist holiday in which we celebrate the life of the Buddha: his birth, enlightenment and final quenching.
-Lay Buddhists (and monastics alike) may take this day as an opportunity to recommit themselves to the ethical precepts, rekindle or extend their meditation practice, listen to or read some words of Dharma, or they may even visit their local, Buddhist temple.
+**Happy Vesak!**
 
-The holiday is typically celebrated these days on the full moon of May, but it seems that, this year, Thailand is even slower than usual, as we're only just celebrating Vesak today.
+Vesak is the annual, Buddhist holiday in which we celebrate the life of the Buddha: his birth, enlightenment and final quenching.
+Lay Buddhists (and monastics alike) may take this day as an opportunity to recommit themselves to the ethical precepts, rekindle or extend their meditation practice, listen to or read some words of Dharma, or maybe even visit their local, Buddhist temple.
 
-So, whether you're as slow as I am, or have celebrated Vesak already, I'd like to wish you a Happy Vesak and to offer you a new reading list on:
+The holiday is typically celebrated on the full moon of May, but it seems that, this year, Thailand is even slower than usual, as we're only just celebrating Vesak today.
+
+So, whether you're as slow as I am, or have celebrated Vesak already, I'd like to wish you a Happy Vesak and to offer you a new section of our library dedicated to:
 
 [**The Buddhist Attitude towards Nature**](https://buddhistuniversity.net/tags/nature)
 
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ In it you'll find a variety of essays, suttas, and talks to help you think throu
 
 So far this calendar year OBU has added over 200 other new items to [our other bibliographies](/tags) as well, and I'd like to share five of them here:
 
-Particularly charming to me was Trent Walker's thesis on the etherially beautiful Cambodian Dharma Song tradition which he's called ["Stirring and Stilling"](/content/av/stirring-stilling_walker-trent) after his translation of *samvega* and *pasada*. Not only does his website contain recordings of the traditional, Cambodian performances, but it even includes his own rendition of the songs in English!
+Particularly charming to me was Trent Walker's thesis on the ethereally beautiful Cambodian Dharma Song tradition which he's called ["Stirring and Stilling"](/content/av/stirring-stilling_walker-trent) after his translation of *samvega* and *pasada*. Not only does his website contain recordings of the traditional, Cambodian performances, but it even includes his own rendition of the songs in English!
 
 **Chanting**
 
@@ -39,6 +41,6 @@ To continue practice even into sleep itself, Ann Heirman has [this article on mo
 Indeed, even the worldly legal system may be thought of as codifying our collective aspirations, and it was with this in mind that I recently (actually) read [The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights](/content/booklets/udhr).
 We have a long way to go before its ambitions are realized, but it's moving to know that (at least on paper) the governments of the world were able to come together and agree, "wouldn't it be nice if..."
 
-Wishing you a bright future this Vesak night,  
+Wishing you such a bright future this Vesak night,  
 Khemarato Bhikkhu  
-Librarian @ OBU
+Chief Librarian @ OBU

_tags/nature.md

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 title: "Buddhism and Nature"
-status: unpublished
+status: published
 parents: [ethics, natural]
 illustration: https://illeakyw.sirv.com/Images/tags/Avalokiteshvara_Flower.jpg
 illustration_height: 2047