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June 2013

June 14, 2013

Buddhism has the Rope and the Snake, Christianity has Jesus and the Pug

Well, they're not exactly equivalent, but bear with me. Who... or what, do you see...

June 11, 2013

Wagner Dream: Buddhism from ancient India to Wales and England

Before the opera begins, a solitary figure in white robes walks purposefully out on to...

June 09, 2013

Grabbing hold of life

Watching this video I heard Māra creeping up in the form of voices of naysayers, and...

June 04, 2013

Buddhists for Same Sex Marriage!

(June 5 update: VICTORY! The Peers, as they're called, in the House of Lords voted in...

June 03, 2013

Toward a Buddhist policy on Immigration Reform

For the first time since 1964, the US immigration system could undergo a shift away...

June 01, 2013

Happiness, Kant, and Buddhism

One conception was common to all the philosophical schools: people are unhappy because they are the...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Buddhism, Islam, and a serious talk about fundamentalism

Last week's attack in Woolwich, London surprised and horrified me as much as anyone. It...

May 25, 2013

Happy Vesak – Photos from Bodh Gaya

May 21, 2013

Buddhism and Mental Illness

President Obama has declared May "Mental Health Awareness Month." At the announcement the President said...

May 18, 2013

An Opera and a Musical Revive interest in Buddhism

If you happened to be in Berkeley, CA between February 6 and March 10, you...

May 16, 2013

Shinnyo-en, esoteric Japanese Buddhism for laypeople, spreading around the world

Today I am happy to introduce you to a branch of Buddhism that you probably...

May 13, 2013

Jay Garfield: a Buddhist Philosopher speaks out (or howls) at fellow philosophers, academia, and perhaps the moon

Last week I came across an interview with one of the true mahātmās of the academic study...

May 10, 2013

Watch Live – HH the Dalai Lama at Maitripa College in Oregon

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is participating in a symposium with scientists and scholars entitled...

May 05, 2013

Buddhism: religion of the internet? Digitizing the word.

The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC), has a couple podcasts and articles this week on this...

May 01, 2013

A Nominee for most outlandish Buddha Statue… ever?

Courtesy China's Global Times (thanks to Tricycle's Emma Varvaloucas, who you can follow on twitter here)....

May 01, 2013

Harvard Divinity School Graduate Conference call for papers

From their site: The Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School (SRCP) announces the...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

Freedom House: Images of Repression and Freedom

This year I submitted the above photograph to Freedom House’s 2013 Photography and Art contest....

March 29, 2013

3 Struggling Buddhist Countries

Sri Lanka, Japan, and (often most of all) Bhutan often elicit images of peaceful monks...

March 25, 2013

The Ordination of Women in Buddhism, Old Facts & New Fables, a guest post from Eisel Mazard

One of the recurrent issues in my own writing is the misconception that "crazy theories"...

March 24, 2013

Buddhist Meditation and the Harlem Shake?

I'm about a month behind on this and I'm not sure I'll ever understand this...

March 19, 2013

Essential Advice for new Meditators: An interview with Leigh Brasington by Willoughby Britton

In this informative and wide reaching conversation of concentration meditation, Leigh Brasington (meditation teacher) and Willoughby Britton (Brown...

March 18, 2013

Jesus & Buddha: Practicing Across Traditions, a review

I sat down over the weekend to watch (for a second time), this short documentary,...

March 14, 2013

Maladjusted Buddhism – A Guest Post by Nathan Thompson

Today we have a guest post by Nathan Thompson of Dangerous Harvests. Nathan is one...

March 13, 2013

Buddhist hope for the new Pope

[Note, this story will be updated as possible in the coming days] Today it was...

March 11, 2013

Beyond Praise and Blame (at SecularBuddhism)

(My first post for Secular Buddhism is up. Have a look.) This week William Irvine,...

March 08, 2013

International Women’s Day: Around the World with Buddhist Women

By now I hope you know that today is International Women's Day. As with Mother's...

March 06, 2013

Life in America: wealth inequality and more

Many of you by now have seen this video: (click here to watch it with...

March 04, 2013

Buddhists, Books, and Technology

The Huffington Post has a good article out today on Buddhism and technology: Om Mani...

March 03, 2013

Quiet Up! A guest post by Robert M Ellis

I’ve just finished reading Susan Cain’s book Quiet, which is deservedly popular, personally engaging, and full of interesting...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Buddha’s Middle Way on Technology

On Monday I had a wonderful evening at an event bringing academia and the community...

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