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June 2021

June 22, 2021

For Pride Month: Our 2015 Interview with La Sarmiento on Intersections of Gender, Identity, and Buddhism

This year we mark Pride Month with a re-run of an article first published in...

June 07, 2019

Intersections between Buddhism, Health, and Diversity in an American City

A guest post by Pierce Salguero Lately, the topic of diversity in American Buddhism has...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

Anonymous redditor shares troubling experience in Shambhala Buddhism

A person who claims to know the inner workings of the current Shambhala leadership, Sakyong...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

Watching the Kavanaugh hearings from a Dharmic perspective: two Buddhist women speak

If you're like me, your social media feeds have been on fire with discussions and...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

Why can’t people just leave Shambhala Buddhism?

With a steady stream of abuse allegations against senior leadership and well-known teachers, many Shambhala...

August 06, 2018

David Foster Wallace, Irony, and American Buddhism today

I watched End of the Tour (2015) last night, a movie about a writer, David Lipsky,...

January 2017

January 05, 2017

Buddhist Gladness for a Trump Victory

The Bubble Like many inside the liberal bubble, I have had (and continue to have)...

October 2016

October 08, 2016

Defeating a Demagogue: Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert, and some Buddhist thought on Politics

Buddhist teacher Ethan Nichtern has an excellent article over at Lion's Roar, a handy "guide"...

September 2016

September 13, 2016

Buddhist Political Preferences (Reader poll, September reporting)

This month our numbers are up a bit, with 178 (self-selected, online, non-randomized) respondents answering questions about their...

September 04, 2016

Buddhist Politics: A Reader Survey (September)

It's time once again for our monthly survey of Buddhist political affiliations. It has been...

July 2016

July 23, 2016

July Buddhist Political Affiliations and the 2016 US Presidential Race (Reader Poll)

I am currently in China, living in a Chan Buddhist monastery, just wrapping up a...

July 15, 2016

Tibetan Buddhist nuns make history with Geshema Degrees (Doctorates in Buddhist Philosophy)

From the Tibetan Nuns Project: Seattle, WA: Twenty Tibetan Buddhist nuns have just made history,...

June 2016

June 03, 2016

Buddhist Political Preferences Poll Extended to June 5

With just over 200 responses thus far, this month's Buddhist Political Preferences online poll is...

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 09, 2016

In latest self-selected survey, Buddhists still love Bernie Sanders, favor Hillary Clinton even less than 3 months ago

Bernie Sanders still lags behind Hillary Clinton in pledged delegates (1415 to 1705 according to...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Buddhism, Politics, and the 2016 US Presidential Race (April/May Poll)

As April comes to a close and the leading candidates from both major parties widen...

April 11, 2016

Letting identity arise unimpeded: Buddhism confronting racism

A guest post by Lama Justin von Bujdoss (Repa Dorje Odzer) On April 22nd the...

April 04, 2016

Mindfulness and Self-Care: Why Should I Care?

A guest post by Edwin Ng with Ron Purser Editor's note: this is the second in a...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Mutuality at the Limits of Race – A Buddhist Perspective

A guest post by Doshin Nathan Woods “A Black Man is a person who must ride...

March 26, 2016

Buddhism, Politics, and the 2016 US Presidential Race

As I mentioned last month, a Pew Survey found that Buddhists in the US are...

March 15, 2016

Buddhism and Health: Illuminating the Spectrum of Therapies

A guest post by Pierce Salguero About two months ago, we began to notice a...

March 11, 2016

Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, and Justice: A Buddhist Perspective with Jan Willis

The Shantideva Meditation Center of New York City has announced that Professor Jan Willis will offer...

March 07, 2016

Princeton’s Robert Wright talks meditation, ethics, and awakening with Daniel Ingram

Readers here will recall Robert Wright from a series of lectures he gave two years...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Oakland destroyed in fire

News reports say that the fire was caused by candles (between 100 and 1000) lit...

February 17, 2016

Exploring a new Buddhist America

Earlier this month we set out a home-work assignment of sorts for those interested in...

February 05, 2016

Among the Sangha: An African American Buddhist in the Zendo

Today I am again honored to share another wonderful guest post in our ongoing series...

February 04, 2016

Crossing the Great Divides in U.S. Buddhism

Today I am again very honored to share a guest post in our ongoing series...

February 03, 2016

African American Buddhism – a manual for an Age of Enlightenment

Today I share another article from a developing series on expanding perspectives presented here starting last...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

[Watch] angel Kyodo williams talk race and Buddhism after Charleston on #MindfulMondays

Rev. angel Kyodo williams, who spoke last month with Bhikkhu Bodhi about mindfulness, responsibility, and social justice, has...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

Buddhist mindfulness, morality, and Protestant presumptions

In case you've been living under a rock, mindfulness is all the rage these days....

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