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June 2014

June 13, 2014

Happy Saga Dawa Duchen – Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest day

Saga Dawa is the fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar, this year falling between...

June 09, 2014

The Shugden Cult, Dalai Lama Protests, Race, and Genocide

Last month, when the Dalai Lama was in Oslo on the 25th anniversary of his...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

That all-too-human urge to understand the heart of things

As I discussed in a recent post at the Indian Philosophy Blog, there is quite...

May 19, 2014

More Nazi Buddha space junk

Last month Nicholas Kristof provided a timely test of our religious literacy. It started out: Noah...

May 14, 2014

New Kadampa / Shugden followers protest Dalai Lama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Last week the Dalai Lama made a three-day visit to Oslo, Norway, where he received...

May 09, 2014

‘Best Article’: Buddhist Ethics and End-of-Life Care – available for free download

I am often asked "why study Buddhist ethics?" Sometimes people are simply curious, others actively...

May 08, 2014

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni and Thailand’s “secret” Buddhist Nuns

Danny Fisher has already shared this short documentary looking inside Thailand's only all-female monastery but I...

May 06, 2014

Happy 5th Birthday, Patheos! #Patheos5Yrs

Happy Fifth Anniversary, Patheos. To Kristi and Deborah, and Jamie and Leo and Cathie, and...

May 04, 2014

Dalai Lama Awakening, a Q&A with Director Khashyar Darvich

Last night I attended a cozy screening of "Dalai Lama Awakening", an extended director's cut...

May 03, 2014

Buddhism and Modern Psychology : week five, looking at meditation

Following the trend from the last couple weeks, I'm once again behind on notes (in...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Buddhism and Modern Psychology : week four – “What is the *you*, anyway?”

I have slipped a bit further behind this week, I'm afraid, and with some upcoming...

April 11, 2014

Coursera’s Buddhism and Modern Psychology : week three

I'm a bit later than usual posting on week 3 (week 4 lectures have just...

April 08, 2014

Tibet’s Self-Immolation Protests Reach Shocking New Levels, a film by Journeyman Pictures

This recently posted video gives a rare and direct look inside the Tibetan community in...

April 07, 2014

Harry Dean Stanton on Buddhism, Predestination, Not-self, Einstein, Jung, and Zen

I found this today and thought it was interesting. Nothing too profound. Nothing too new....

April 03, 2014

Buddhism is a Religion: a guest post by Dr. David Brazier, Dharmavidya

Editor's note: It is a great honour to introduce this essay by Dharmavidya, Dr. David...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Stephen Batchelor and Ven Brahmali debate in Melbourne 2014 – Pick your winner

You can now watch this debate between the famous "Secular Buddhist" Stephen Batchelor and Ajahn...

March 24, 2014

Encountering the 16th Karmapa and living Buddhism in the West today [UPDATED with contributors]

Shang Shung Publications, an Italian publisher founded around the teachings of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and...

March 24, 2014

Mary Midgely, a Philosopher you should know

She studied philosophy at Oxford and rubbed shoulders with greats like Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth...

March 17, 2014

Buddhism without Superstition: with Owen Flanagan, Julian Baggini, and Tim Lott

"Is it possible to take an ancient comprehensive philosophy like Buddhism, subtract the hocus pocus,...

March 10, 2014

The Future of Tibet, a re-post in honor of Tibetan Uprising Day

The Tibetan Center in Kingston, New York, held a discussion last year of the six...

March 02, 2014

Translating Meditation in Popular American Media

* A guest-post by C. Pierce Salguero. TIME magazine’s 2 Feb 2014 cover (above, left) announces the arrival...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Thailand’s protests: An Op-Ed by Dr. Dion Peoples

I've been 'aware' of Thailand since I was an intelligence-analyst in the US Air Force,...

February 17, 2014

Wolves in Yellowstone: why “Trophic Cascade” should become a household term

This is an amazing story of the interweavings of interdependence in one of the most...

February 14, 2014

Buddhism in 200 words: Updating the AP Style Book on Buddhism

Speaking again of twitter, a colleague there, @samtenchuwo, just alerted me to the AP Style Book,...

February 12, 2014

Tibetan Sky Burial (photos) UPDATED: Propaganda vs Scholarship

In 2012 I found and shared some images of a then-recent Tibetan Sky Burial (original...

February 06, 2014

Sh*t the Buddha Says

If any of you are fans of Buddhism, particularly Zen, and Shit My Dad Says, you...

February 04, 2014

Three job opportunities for the Mindful Activist

Three great opportunities are out there right now for the right person who happens to...

February 02, 2014

How I see things as a Buddhist Seahawks fan, by Michael McGrady

The following is how I see, in 500 words or less, things as a Buddhist...

February 01, 2014

The BEST Super Bowl commercial won’t actually be on during the game

Growing up surrounded by "Indian Country" though remaining largely ignorant of issues facing Indian Americans...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

The Future or Death of Religion: an Interfaith Discussion

February 25, 1pm PST. Mark your calendars. I will be speaking with three amazing representatives...

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