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October 2012

October 12, 2012

Despite Buddhist Beliefs: The world is becoming more peaceful

Buddhism has always held that all phenomena are transitory, including both the teaching of Buddhism as...

October 05, 2012

Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, celebrity Buddhists, and you

Every day for nearly a week now there has been a new "news" story about...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Ethics and Emptiness

Today is the last day of a small conference going on at Central Michigan University...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

A Careful Walk through the Spirituality Minefield

Or, a review of David Webster’s “Dispirited: How contemporary spirituality makes us stupid, selfish, and...

August 15, 2012

Buddhism or Buddhisms? The Hegemony of Postmodern Rhetoric

My studies of Buddhism have always been with a philosophical bent. My first academic conference...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Imposing (and Uncovering) Models on Buddhism

I am often asked "why 'impose' Western models of thought on Buddhism?" as if discussing...

July 09, 2012

Buddhism in the News

For Monday, July 9, 2012. I'm catching up on a few missed weeks here, just...

July 04, 2012

The ‘Busy’ Trap

Something seems to have happened in the last five years. Or is it ten? The...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls…

We wouldn't be having this debate. There are many difficulties in adopting and sticking to...

June 24, 2012

Eccentric Buddhist Masters

A recent discussion in the academic listserv H-Buddhism has me thinking again about David McMahon's...

June 10, 2012

A Thailand Teaser

My time here in Thailand is winding down. I'm in Sukhothai now, one of the...

May 2012

May 27, 2012

A Buddhist Perspective on World News

For Sunday, the 27th of May, 2012 Yesterday the Japan Times reported that monks there...

May 23, 2012

Teaching Ethics in Montana

Below is an announcement from the Mansfield Ethics and Public Affairs Program at The University...

May 16, 2012

Categories, Yoginis, and Gender

Yesterday, Bristol University's Department of Theology and Religious Studies seminar hosted Dr. Sondra Hausner, who...

May 09, 2012

Studies in Buddhist ethics 6 – the 21st century

The 21st Century This is part six of a series of posts based on a...

April 2012

April 15, 2012

In Search of the Original Buddhism

An old but good post (from about a year ago) has received a couple recent...

April 09, 2012

Charles Prebish on Tricycle and AAR’s Member Spotlight

A friend of mine and an outstanding scholar, Chuck Prebish, was featured in AAR's Member...

April 07, 2012

10 More Buddhist Women You Should Know

Last week, Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell, Vice President of the San Francisco Zen Center, posted a list...

April 05, 2012

Does studying Ethics make you more Moral?

A good friend of mine brought this study and commentary to my attention today: On...

April 04, 2012

Studies in Buddhist ethics 4 – Ongoing Debates

Contemporary Work and Debates [this is part four of a series of posts based on...

April 03, 2012

New Links: Dispirited and 100 reasons NOT to go to Grad School

Have a look at the new "Reading Recommendations" links on the right. I've recently added...

March 2012

March 22, 2012

Studies in Buddhist Ethics

As I mentioned recently, I gave a talk last month at the Oxford Center for...

March 20, 2012

Education and Perseverance

I remember a poster in one of my middle school teacher's classrooms that read "Your attitude,...

March 06, 2012

Three Great Buddhist Podcasts

I think I'm nearing the final stretch of an incredibly busy month or so, at...

February 2012

February 04, 2012

Free Will, the logic of Karma, and Buddhist Ethics

Slowly but surely, analytic philosophers are becoming interested in Buddhist thought. At the same time,...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

Happy Korematsu Day – and a nod to Kant

California marks its second Fred Korematsu Day today, January 30, 2012. This Jan. 30, the...

January 26, 2012

Loving Stillness

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less...

January 20, 2012

Digital Dharma on Kickstarter

UPDATE, 3:30am EST Jan 22: With just over 8 hours to go, the goal of...

January 17, 2012

SOLITUDE is out of fashion

So begins a recent article in the NY Times called "The Rise of Groupthink" by...

January 07, 2012

Tibetan Buddhism: Two more immolations, two more museums

"As long as they aren't waging war, the rest of the world just ignores what's...

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