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June 2021

June 22, 2021

For Pride Month: Our 2015 Interview with La Sarmiento on Intersections of Gender, Identity, and Buddhism

This year we mark Pride Month with a re-run of an article first published in...

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...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

In Hong Kong, the Bodhisattvas wear Crosses

As I've watched the Hong Kong protests from my home on peaceful Lamma Island over...

August 2019

August 01, 2019

Bhikkhu Bodhi addresses the Climate Crisis at the UN (Video)

Watch below as Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi addresses the UN on the climate crisis. According to...

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...

February 2019

February 08, 2019

Petition: Shambhala Buddhism Students seek to split from “authoritarian” structure

An online petition asking for local Shambhala Buddhism centers to be split from the inner...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

Watching the Kavanaugh hearings from a Dharmic perspective: two Buddhist women speak

If you're like me, your social media feeds have been on fire with discussions and...

September 11, 2018

#MeTooGuru group, survivors of abusive Buddhist teachers, would like to meet Dalai Lama in Europe (petition)

In the ongoing rounds of Buddhist #MeToo work, survivors and allies of abuse at the...

September 05, 2018

Buddhist economics: further resources

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

June 2018

June 27, 2018

The Buddhist Peace Fellowship Turns 40

Below is a mini-interview with Katie Loncke of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship who I had...

June 18, 2018

Buddhist Statement Against Detaining Immigrant Children

(Updated: there are 1250 signatures as of 6pm Pacific Time; all four living former First...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Buddhists and Social Justice: Escaping this world, or our delusions about it?

Earlier this week Rev James Ford, who I find myself admiring more and more as...

April 13, 2018

Cut Military Spending: Fund Human Needs, a Buddhist Solution to Syria?

While yet another chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria has spurred both demand for...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

Burn Out? Never: A guide to Compassionate, Mindful Activism

A guest post by Robertson Work Anyone who is awake today is aware of the...

February 15, 2018

“Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men”

That is the start of the recent Reuters investigative story, released late last week. Two...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Black Lives Matter rally and march, Seattle WA (Photos)

On Saturday, August 26, a Black Lives Matter rally and march was held in downtown...

August 15, 2017

The merit of pointing out abuse in Buddhism: Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

A common teaching in Tibetan Buddhism suggests that, "if a lama or rinpoche says something wrong,...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

The Dalai Lama Continues to Push Secular Ethics Over Buddhism

Last week the Tibetan spiritual leader offered talks to three groups of students at his...

April 2017

April 01, 2017

Daniel Clarkson Fisher offers a “People’s Buddhism” – and B.R. Ambedkar revival

In an excellent article at Political Animal Magazine, Daniel Clarkson Fisher calls for a renewed...

February 2017

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...

February 09, 2017

Buddhist Activism in an age of neo-fascism and “alternative facts”

I sit in a basement cafe in downtown Seattle. I worry a bit about finances...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

“Korematsu! We stand up for what is right!”

Fred Korematsu is an American hero worth celebrating. And California is doing just that today,...

January 21, 2017

Women’s March on Montana in Photos (UPDATED)

I have seen the future. And the future is WOMEN. Today, women and allies from...

January 20, 2017

The Arc of the Moral Universe, January 20, 2017

The local store is out of White Poster Board. Hmmm... I wonder where it all...

January 19, 2017

Buddhists in a Democracy: Be Political, But Not Partisan

This year's election and the impending inauguration of Donald Trump have drawn out some heated...

January 05, 2017

Buddhist Gladness for a Trump Victory

The Bubble Like many inside the liberal bubble, I have had (and continue to have)...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

Facing Election Results with Buddhist Practices of Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity

Well, we certainly do live in interesting times, don't we? One truth that has been...

November 06, 2016

Facing the Election with Buddhist Practices of Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity

The days are mercifully winding down toward November 8th, the day our nation picks the...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

60 Years of the Indian Buddhist Revival

A guest post by David Viradhamma Creighton On October 11, 1956 the leader of India’s “untouchable”...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

5 Lessons from the Nepal Earthquake for the Japan and Ecuador Disasters

A Year After the Earthquake, Nepal Is a Man-Made Disaster. This is the headline today...

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