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July 2020

July 05, 2020

A Festival of Radical Awakening: Socially Engaged Buddhism Today

I am thrilled to be taking part in this online conference, taking place from July...

June 2019

June 07, 2019

Intersections between Buddhism, Health, and Diversity in an American City

A guest post by Pierce Salguero Lately, the topic of diversity in American Buddhism has...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

The ongoing importance of Engaging with Buddhism

Nearly every week I encounter the idea that Buddhism should somehow be kept 'pure' and...

March 2019

March 10, 2019

Spend a month in a Chinese Buddhist Monastery this summer – Woodenfish HBMLP in China

In 2009 I traveled to China to experience Chinese Buddhist monastic life and learn about the...

January 2019

January 17, 2019

A wrap-up of 2018 life adventures (a short version)

Those who follow this space might have noticed a steady decline in posts in 2018....

December 2018

December 12, 2018

On “feudalism” in Tibet and Chinese use of the scholarship of Melvyn Goldstein

Recently the term "feudalism" has crept into widespread discourse about Tibet. On this blog it...

November 2018

November 15, 2018

Netizen Nastiness: Can there Be Compassionate Social Media Use in the age of Trump?

Remember the internet of the late '90s and early 2000s? Before Facebook, before Twitter? Back...

November 15, 2018

Buddhist economics in action: Bhutan

Recently I have been turned on to ideas of "Buddhist economics" through a class I...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Resources for learning Pali : a key language for early Buddhism and the Theravadin Tradition

I am sometimes asked for resources or tools for studying Pali, the language of the...

September 19, 2018

The psychedelic drug debate: why Buddhist ethics matters

Last month I covered the revived discussion amongst Buddhists in North America about psychedelic drug...

September 05, 2018

Buddhist economics: further resources

As I mentioned in a recent post, I'll be starting (today) a semester-long position as...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

A Teaching Philosophy as Revolutionary Manifesto

Sixteen hours of travel and four hours of sleep left me particularly jet-lagged and head-achy...

July 2018

July 06, 2018

Zen Training 101: with the help of an art studio manual

Every year for the last three years I've joined the Woodenfish Humanistic Buddhist Monastic Life...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

Ethics of Shame (and Shamelessness): Buddhist and Western

My friend Carissa Véliz from the University of Oxford has a great review up today...

June 20, 2018

Knowing Harm, We Must Oppose It

The Chronicle of Higher Education today reports on the many thousands of academics and academic...

July 2017

July 11, 2017

Buddhism, Christianity, and an Emerging Superpower: An Interview with Michael Wood from “The Story of China”

This month I have the wonderful opportunity to share with you a review of The...

June 2017

June 16, 2017

An End of Academic Critique: Mindfulness and a Philosophy of Humility

Teetering on the edge of academia, I watch eagerly as each new hiring cycle rises...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

A Roundup of Critical Perspectives on Meditation

A guest post by Pierce Salguero I am not a scholar of Buddhist meditation. My...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

Buddhist Monastic Life in China (Photos)

In 2009 I traveled to China to experience Chinese Buddhist monastic life and learn about...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

The Nature of Reality: Buddhist Scholar Alan Wallace in dialogue with Physicist Sean Carroll

During my undergraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Montana, I took a 'capstone'...

February 16, 2017

In the Obituary of a Tibetan Buddhism scholar, some ominous words

The obituary for Elliot Sperling begins as most do, noting the peaks of the man's...

October 2016

October 07, 2016

King’s College London – Buddhist Studies Research Seminars

King’s College London Buddhist Studies Research Seminars (2016-17) Room VWB 3.01 at 5.00pm Theology and Religious...

October 02, 2016

Humans and Bonobos: Violence and a Thyroid Hormone

Following on something I mentioned in my last post, that the American people (all societies,...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

“Our Buddhist University and the Role of Intellectualism in our Studies” a Call for Papers

The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Universities (IABS), based in Bangkok, has issued a...

July 2016

July 04, 2016

“Health” in the Buddhism and Science Dialogue

Guest post by Kin Cheung In the current dialogue between Buddhist traditions and the sciences—an...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Zen Buddhist teacher Dogen: “The Greatest Philosopher You’ve Never Heard Of”

Writing for NPR today, Adam Frank introduces us to Eihei Dōgen. Dōgen was a thirteenth...

May 24, 2016

On Modern Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Social Ethics

There is much about mindfulness being published these days: studies, meta-studies, mega-studies, maha-megha-studies (bad Buddhist studies joke)....

May 17, 2016

Getting Buddhist Philosophy (and other non-Western thought) into the academy

Last Wednesday, Jay Garfield (who I wrote about in 2013) and Bryan Van Norden published...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

Your Summer in a Chinese Buddhist Monastery – Woodenfish HBMLP in China

In 2009 I traveled to China to experience Chinese Buddhist monastic life and learn about...

April 16, 2016

Buddhist Ethics has a good day: on Philosophy, East and West

Almost 3 years ago exactly, 3 AM Magazine interviewed Jay Garfield, one of the best-known...

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