The Pure View – Dharma News and Insights – has come about due to the vision and tenacity of Sherab Namgyal who despite tirelessly practising the Dharma has donated time to bring the wisdom of the Dharma to the internet.
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The Pure View Annual Report 2013
First – Crunchy numbers:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 76,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.
In 2013, there were 1,773 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 4,174 posts.
The busiest day of the year was June 30th with 2,448 views. The most popular post that day was Tendil Nyersel prayer flags available to order.
Attractions in 2013
These are the posts that got the most views on The Pure View in 2013.
- 1 The premise of Buddhism in simple English December 2012
- 2 Yoga philosophy, mental and spiritual functions, according to yoga teachers, for self realization April 2013
- 3 We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion… January 2013
- 4 Lama Ole gave the volunteers who stayed after the six day course a blessing with his gau April 2013
- 5 Crash course in Buddhist emptiness July 2012
The Pure View Annual Report 2012
First – Crunchy numbers:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The Pure View had 21,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 5 Film Festivals
In 2012, there were 1,468 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,854 posts.
The busiest day of the year was December 6th with 858 views. The most popular post that day was Achieving the dream state in 30 days – Part 2: Nighttime practice.
The World of Pure View
That’s 104 countries in all! Most visitors came from The United States. Denmark & Netherlands were not far behind.
Attractions in 2012
These are the posts that got the most views in 2012:
- 1 The premise of Buddhism in simple English December 2012
- 2 Photo report from Alan Wallace teaching the four applications of mindfulness July 2012
- 3 Achieving the dream state in 30 days – Part 2: Nighttime practice July 2012
- 4 Meditate That Cold Away: Scientific American November 2012
- 5 “Hannah” – The movie Trailer April 2012
Happy New Year to all Living Beings!
When The Pure View first came online, back in March 2012, it was the intention to bring the Dharma to the internet. Not only news about Buddhists, such sites already exits, but genuine Dharma news, and in a non-sectarian way. It is the philosophy of The Pure View that many practitioners can benefit from a broader understanding of the Dharma, that said the internet is not your teacher, and so The Pure View does not try to be one. From the beginning The Pure View had two types of content: Firstly featured articles that are exclusive to the blog and secondly the latest from the world of Buddhism on the net. Although featured articles – or “Pure Teachings” as they are called – are among the most read on the blog, The Pure View has quickly become a front page of Buddhism on the web and offers content in a way no other Buddhist website offers it and on top of that being independent from any Buddhist sect or organization.
As The Pure View got more and more popular, visitors numbers grew beyond all imagination. On Christmas day the number of visitors passed 20.000 and the daily visitor number in December 2012 was 277 in average, more than 90% are from the U.S. The visitor trend is indeed positive and so the success is expected to continue into 2013.
Lucid dreaming and Tibetan dream yoga are hot topics and so the article series on dream yoga was some of the most read content in 2012 and the 3 part series let the reader trough daytime as well as night time practice and how to dispel obstacles in dream yoga practice and the series is entirely based on Guru Rinpoche’s Natural Liberation.
Also karma is a much discussed subject in Buddhist circles and so The Pure View provided insights into its workings with 2 articles on karma. The first part explained what karma is not while the second part discussed karma and emptiness. Also a crash course in Buddhist emptiness made its way to The Pure View.
Buddhism being atheistic, the madhyamaka refusal of a creator god was covered in a June article and was later followed up with an explanation of the non-Buddhist view of god in advaida vedanta.
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In 2013 The Pure View will have even more featured content – Pure Teachings – and will continue to be the front page of Buddhism on the world wide web. Hence, The Pure View is currently looking for writers and photographers and those interested can contact Sherab Namgyal.