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January 2014

January 28, 2014

Buddhism and the Super Bowl: Op-Eds requested

The New York Times Magazine featured a story on Friday asking, Is It Immoral to...

January 22, 2014

Sexual Harassment in Buddhist Communities: a small victory

Yesterday Tanya over at Full Contact Enlightenment posted a great cartoon aimed at getting people in...

January 18, 2014

R.I.P. David Kalupahana, a giant in the field of Buddhist Philosophy

The Colombo Page, a Sri Lankan online newspaper, has reported that the great writer and...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

Buddhism: religion or philosophy?

This is the question again, raised by the renowned philosopher Michael McGhee for the UK's Guardian...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Journal of Buddhist Ethics turns 20

This week the Journal of Buddhist Ethics announced its 20th anniversary edition, available for the...

September 12, 2013

Three great Buddhist projects deserving your support

"The practice of giving is universally recognized as one of the most basic human virtues,...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

Buddhism and Violence on the BBC

On Monday the BBC radio show Beyond Belief debated the place of violence in Buddhism....

July 2013

July 15, 2013

I am Trayvon Martin, I am George Zimmerman

As fate would have it, I have been very busy lately, seemingly bombarded with duties,...

July 09, 2013

Thomas Merton: the Film

Anyone who knows me or has read this blog for long knows I am a...

July 07, 2013

On the bombing at Bodh Gaya, Buddhism’s holiest site

Though we still don't know who carried out the attacks or why, the basic details...

July 04, 2013

Understanding Buddhist Death

My friends and colleagues at the University of Bristol Department of Religion and Theology have launched...

July 03, 2013

A short message from Kermit the Frog and the Dalai Lama

That is all. If you'd like further reading, try: Kraft, Kenneth. Inner Peace, World Peace:...

June 2013

June 22, 2013

Buddhism’s Dalai Lama nods to Secular Ethics

While murder, bullying, exploitation and scandal regularly make news, when thousands of children receive their mother’s care...

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...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

Buddhists, Books, and Technology

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

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Blogging Buddhist Ethics

One of my new year's resolutions this year was to focus more clearly and fully...

January 22, 2013

Two Buddhisms, Authenticity, Abortion, and Universal Love

These are a few of the topics, essays, and projects you should know about this...

January 17, 2013

Is this the first ever Buddhist Social Media “Code of Conduct?”

The following was posted today on the Facebook page of the popular Bhutanese teacher and filmaker Dzongsar Khyentse...

December 2012

December 11, 2012

Global day of Solidarity for Tibet

Today, December 10, is Global Human Rights Day. Activists around the world are reaching out...

December 02, 2012

Religious Experience in Early Buddhism – a lecture by Richard Gombrich

The Oxford Center for Hindu Studies has a lecture by Richard Gombrich very much worth...

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 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 03, 2012

Zizek waxes on about Zionism, Sex, Gangnam Style, Justin Bieber, the Pope, and Buddhism

Žižek, what can I say? He's at it again. Last month Žižek was in Vermont, not...

October 2012

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 16, 2012

Michael Roach in the news again – the Princetonian

Yesterday's Daily Princetonian ran a story on Roach unlike most we've seen in the past...

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...

October 02, 2012

From scandal-like to just plain ugly

A post I wrote in August, American Buddhism: Unraveling a Scandal, drew some attention to an...

September 2012

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...

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