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November 2012

November 24, 2012

American Buddhism: Some Big Names in Crisis (UPDATED)

UPDATE via Buddhadharma online (11/24/12): "the Board of Directors of Rinzai-ji Zen Center in Los Angeles has...

November 23, 2012

Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar

Today H-Net posted a review of the book: Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest...

November 22, 2012

Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi meet in Burma

President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton were in Burma (Myanmar) recently. This marked the...

November 20, 2012

Finding Happiness, one photo at a time

There is an old zen story that I'll happily pass on (albeit perhaps in a...

November 17, 2012

Tibetan Buddhists aflame and protests, Gangnam Style

The news regarding Tibetan self-immolations speaks for itself: British Buddhist monk self-immolates at French monastery (Nov...

November 11, 2012

Buddhism in pop-culture? Namaste. Portlandia’s Meditation Crush.

The popular sitcom Portlandia has released a sneak-peek into next season, including this humorous clip showing characters...

November 11, 2012

Toward a (Good) Buddhist Fundamentalism

I thought about calling this post "Is Buddhist Fundamentalism like Christian Fundamentalism?" But after seeing...

November 05, 2012

Buddhists in the News and News for Buddhists

I'll try again at my semi-regular posts on news that has caught my eye recently....

November 02, 2012

A beautiful day in Bristol: time lapse photography

Be sure to change the quality to 1080 HD and expand to full screen for...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

The Three Marks of Existence : Dr David Webster

You can see this and more at And this has been floating around the...

October 29, 2012

An interview with Lama Surya Das: American Buddhist and Bestselling Author

This week we present an interview with Lama Surya Das (bio at bottom, though well...

October 28, 2012

New Petition to save the Mes Aynak Buddhas

In just over two months, a Chinese-owned mining company is scheduled to begin work in...

October 24, 2012

Nazi Tibetan Statue from Space a Fake and other things Buddhist and newsworthy

As is often the case, there has been too much going on of late in...

October 23, 2012

Is Tibetan Buddhism the most popular in America?

My friend Jeffrey Kotyk* of the Flower Ornament Depository 華嚴藏 blog has another interesting post worth reading this week,...

October 19, 2012

Buddhist Cult of Relics: Inspiration or a Sham?

It's hard to know just where to begin with the question of relics in Buddhism....

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 08, 2012

“A Buddhist Perspective on Occupy Wall Street” by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

I have not yet met the Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, but I very much hope to...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

Tibetan Sky Burial (photos)

See the (2014) updated version of this post here: Tibetan Sky Burial (photos) UPDATED: Propaganda...

September 28, 2012

Ethics and Emptiness

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

September 20, 2012

A Great Day for Burma

Follow Aung San Suu Kyi's address to Amnesty International live with Joshua Eaton at !/search/thelady (or that...

August 2012

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...

August 07, 2012

Bill Clinton Turns to Buddhism

For fans of the 1990s burger-and-fries loving, Southern-Baptist sounding former President of the US, some...

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 07, 2012

Why I’d Make a Good Atheist

As the title suggests, this is essentially a response to Marc Barnes' post on his...

July 06, 2012

Happy Birthday to H.H. the Dalai Lama

Today is the 77th Birthday of H.H. the Dalai Lama (or 78th if you count...

June 2012

June 24, 2012

Eccentric Buddhist Masters

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

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 20, 2012

A Buddhist Perspective on World News

For Sunday, the 20th of May, 2012. As before, a wrap-up of news in the...

May 16, 2012

Categories, Yoginis, and Gender

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

May 14, 2012

A Buddhist perspective on World News

Each Sunday here at American Buddhist Perspective, we'll try to round up a few of...

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