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February 2018

February 11, 2018

Dalai Lama affirms, Prayers Alone are not Enough, we Need Action

His Holiness the Dalai Lama turned to twitter on Friday to restate a message which...

February 06, 2018

Join the Buddhists Supporting the Rohingya of Burma

It can be difficult to keep up on the news coming out of Burma (Myanmar)....

January 2018

January 29, 2018

Was the Buddha a Philosopher? (Video)

Very few people are trained in both (Western) philosophy and Buddhist studies these days. Those...

December 2017

December 04, 2017

The Buddha on Prayer and other Secular Buddhist talks

I rarely follow podcasts, series, or youtube channels, but I have become fairly hooked on...

November 2017

November 15, 2017

A Storm is Coming: Tibetan Buddhism in the West

Even before the #metoo movement went viral last month, a bombshell - or at least...

November 04, 2017

Similes for Buddhist Ethics: the traffic-light by Ven. Ajahn Brahm

In teaching and understanding Ethics in the West, it might be an apt generalization to...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

In Wake of #MeToo, a Tibetan Buddhist lama Offers a Teacher-Student “Sex Contract”

The post, which was taken down after circulating for around 24 hours, caused anger, sadness,...

October 15, 2017

Mindfulness, Mindlessness, and the Marketplace

In a spirited and thoughtful defense of secular mindfulness, Susan Kaiser Greenland has offered up several...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

The Dalai Lama on Secular Ethics and the Toppling of “Rotten” Buddhist Institutions

The Dalai Lama gave a talk today in India with students from the University of California...

September 06, 2017

A Tibetan Buddhist Nun discusses Sexual Abuse and Tantra

The solution to all of this difficulty is education... Venerable Thubten Chodron, abbess of Sravasti...

August 2017

August 16, 2017

Dismantling Buddhist Patriarchy and Denial From the Inside

The Dalai Lama's message was clear: you defend Buddhism by calling out abusive people, not...

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,...

August 08, 2017

Dalai Lama Speaks Out on Buddhist Teacher Misconduct

In the video below, from his teachings in Ladakh on August 1, 2017 the Dalai Lama...

August 07, 2017

Abusive Tibetan Buddhists: Continuing the Conversation

Tibetan Buddhism will always have a special place in my heart. As I embarked on...

July 2017

July 24, 2017

Buddhism, Patriarchy, Abuse, and Violence: We Need to Talk

What may surprise some Western Buddhists is that many of the same beliefs and structures...

July 19, 2017

On the Death of a Teacher: A Buddhist Teaching

The early Buddhists texts contain a treasure trove of teachings. I have not read them...

June 2017

June 13, 2017

Re-Fleshing Mindfulness with Buddhism, Dr. Miles Neale

My earliest academic Buddhist teacher, Alan Sponberg, had the apt Dharma name Saramati, "one who gets...

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...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

A history of Buddhist Social Engagement

Not long ago, a friend and colleague of mine posted a query in a Buddhist...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

On Kant, Contempt, and our Buddhist path(s) forward

Karen Stohr, associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and senior research scholar at Georgetown’s...

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 07, 2017

Buddhist Ethics Today – or can we all be a little more enlightened?

Seth Zuiho Segall has a lengthy and thoughtful piece in the latest Tricycle Magazine, titled,...

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...

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”...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

The Dalai Lama’s Doctor – Buddhist advice on Forgiveness

Barry Kerzin is an extraordinary person. A medical doctor, a philosopher, and a Tibetan Buddhist...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

On Modern Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Social Ethics

There is much about mindfulness being published these days: studies, meta-studies, mega-studies, maha-megha-studies (bad Buddhist studies joke)....

May 18, 2016

On Some Criticisms of Modern Mindfulness

A guest post by Doug Smith (originally posted at the Secular Buddhist Association here). Editor's...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

“The Story of God” – A Buddhist Perspective on Evil

In this week's episode of "The Story of God" (airing May 1), Morgan Freeman explores...

April 24, 2016

Buddha’s advice on wilderness and living in the present moment in nature

“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what...

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