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January 2015

January 07, 2015

The Dalai Lama, snubbed by Pope and world leaders, may speak at Glastonbury Festival in June

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, once hailed as a "multimedia phenomenon and ascetic Buddhist superstar" by...

October 2014

October 25, 2014

Buddhism and the Environment in China: PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

PBS takes us to China this week, where the increasing signs of environmental degradation are...

September 2014

September 13, 2014

Double Dalai Lama or none: Buddhist leader contemplates ending reincarnations

This week the Dalai Lama is grabbing international headlines and as usual, Stephen Colbert's commentary...

August 2014

August 17, 2014

Contentious Tibetan Buddhist deity worship discussed in London panel

In what may have been a first-of-its-kind event, representatives of the International Shugden Community joined...

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 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 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...

April 2014

April 13, 2014

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche speaks on Universal Responsibility at Harvard Divinity School

Earlier this month, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche gave a one-day seminar on the topic of Universal...

March 2014

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 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 10, 2014

Prof. Robert Thurman on Tibetan Buddhism & Michael Roach’s “cult” – Dateline NBC

Last fall I found out that someone at NBC was trying to get in touch...

February 2014

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...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

Tibetan Prayer Flags mark the “World’s Scariest Bridge”

BBC News reported today from the "World's Scariest Bridge", otherwise known as the Titlis Cliff...

November 2013

November 10, 2013

Moves to block China from the UN Human Rights Council

“All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights...

November 04, 2013

“AKONG a remarkable life” – an interview by Lisa Tully

Many of you may have heard about the recent and tragic death of the Tibetan...

May 2013

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...

February 2013

February 10, 2013

Tibet on Fire: a Resource for Activists and Educators

As those of you who read this blog know, I'm a strong supporter of Tibetan...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

In case you missed it: the full Mind and Life 2013

Below are the youtube recordings of this year's Mind and Life conference, "Mind, Brain and...

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...

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...

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 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 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 29, 2012

Tibetan Sky Burial (photos)

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

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...

July 2012

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 31, 2012

My Reincarnation the movie

I haven't yet seen this film, though it was screened in Bristol recently and seemed...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

PBS Religion and Ethics visits Montana

Lucky Severson and a PBS video crew recently made a visit to Ewam's Garden of...

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