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July 2014

July 01, 2014

His Holiness the 17th Karmapa: The Tibetan Cause is “an Environmental Issue” [UPDATED]

The Telegraph has a new interview with His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who...

July 01, 2014

Ven. Bhikkhuni Santussika on The People’s Climate March

The latest issue of Helping Hands, the newsletter of Buddhist Global Relief, features a piece...

July 01, 2014

“Buddhist Economics: An Oxymoron?” with Dr. Donald K. Swearer

Not long ago, a user posted a video to YouTube of the great Buddhologist Donald...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

“History (or Her-story) of Women in Buddhism” with Ayya Tathaaloka

This via Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni's YouTube channel: In February of 2013 in Petaluma, Northern California,...

June 23, 2014

The Myanmar Muslims Genocide Awareness Convention 2014 [UPDATED]

As I mentioned in a past post, I was one of the speakers at this...

June 23, 2014

My Breakfast Featured on Academic Breakfast!

I'm pleased to share the news that my breakfast has been featured on Academic Breakfast,...

June 22, 2014

Anti-BBS Monk Attacked Twice and Hospitalized in Sri Lanka…Or Not [TWO UPDATES]

This from Al Jazeera English: A Buddhist leader and fierce critic of hardliners blamed for...

June 20, 2014

Nick Kristof’s Video Report on the Rohingya (and Other Burma Items)

Nick Kristof, who, as we previously mentioned, recently visited Burma and has devoted a lot...

June 20, 2014

Martine Batchelor Discusses Buddhist Ethics on The Middle Way Society Podcast

Buddhist teacher and author Martine Batchelor appeared on the most recent episode of The Middle Way Society...

June 12, 2014

George Takei to Be Keynote Speaker at Berkeley Jodo Shinshu Center’s “Being Gay, Being Buddhist” Seminar

Oh, my... This from Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly Online: Actor, activist, and humorous social media...

June 11, 2014

Min Zin’s New York Times Op-Ed “The People Vs. The Monks”

The New York Times continues its streak of good reporting and editorializing about the situation...

June 11, 2014

A Video Discussion of “McMindfulness” at Elephant Journal

Waylon Lewis offers yet one more fun conversation through Elephant Journal, this one with Sean Feit, a Buddhism and...

June 11, 2014

The Somaly Mam Scandal

As you may have heard, it has come to light, following reporting by Simon Marks...

June 10, 2014

ANNOUNCEMENT: I Will Be One of the Speakers at the Myanmar Muslims Genocide Convention 2014

I'm honored to share the news with you that I will be one of the...

June 05, 2014

Joanna Macy on “Staying Sane in a Suicidal Culture” for Truthout

Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, has a remarkable new interview with engaged Buddhist icon Joanna...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

NEWS: Ajahn Brahm’s Call for Gender Equality in Buddhism Blocked from the 2014 UN Day of Vesak [UPDATED TWICE]

This from the Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils (FABC): Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women is...

May 31, 2014

#PutSolarOnIt

This via Climate Reality: This June 21st, the longest day of the year, a coalition...

May 29, 2014

Watch Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry in Conversation at the 2014 Festival of Faiths

Oh, you're in for a treat... There's an amazing new book out entitled Distant Neighbors: The...

May 29, 2014

Kenan Malik’s New York Times Op-Ed “Myanmar’s Buddhist Bigots”

Last week, Kenan Malik wrote a blistering op-ed for the New York Times about how the...

May 29, 2014

Sri Lankan Monks Occupy Religious Ministry Building in Colombo

This via Al Jazeera English: Protesters led by Buddhist monks from the right-wing Ravana Balaya...

May 29, 2014

Watch the Entire 1st Annual Symposium for New Scholar-Practitioners in Buddhist Chaplaincy Online

Over at Dharma Cowgirl, Monica Sanford -- former student and current pal -- blogs...

May 21, 2014

David McMahan and Tricycle‘s Linda Heuman Talk Buddhism and Science on This Week’s Interfaith Voices Podcast

A big hat-tip to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review for this one: Buddhist scholar David McMahan and Tricycle contributing editor Linda...

May 20, 2014

“The Rise of Buddhist Feminism?”

A new piece by Hanna Hindstrom appeared in The Diplomat this week, telling the story...

May 17, 2014

My Video in Praise of California Bookstore Day

I'm a little late -- the actual event was on May 3rd -- but I've...

May 15, 2014

Watch the Full Video of UC-Berkeley’s “Buddhism, Mind, and Cognitive Science” Conference

UC-Berkeley recently hosted a conference on "Buddhism, Mind, and Cognitive Science," relevant to many conversations...

May 08, 2014

#BringBackOurGirls

There have been some trenchant critiques of this social media campaign -- hat-tip to the great...

May 08, 2014

UCLA Center for South Asian Studies Hosting “Buddhist Interventions in Myanmar: A Genealogy of ‘Political’ Monks” Colloquium on May 28th

UCLA's Center for South Asian Studies will be hosting an upcoming colloquium with Dr. Juliane...

May 05, 2014

Happy Birthday, Patheos!

I'm very pleased to join many blogging colleagues in wishing our site a very happy...

May 04, 2014

The Buddha’s Forgotten Nuns Now Available at Vimeo On Demand

While it's not exactly new news, it was news to me: several friends on social...

May 03, 2014

Religion News Service on “Buddhism’s Fundamentalist Streak”

The Religion News Service's reporters Anuradha Sharma and Vishal Arora have done a report on...

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