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October 2013

October 04, 2013

Five Buddhist Lessons in Light of the U.S. Government Shutdown

As everyone should know by now, the U.S. government officially shut down earlier this week....

October 02, 2013

S.N. Goenka (1924-2013)

As many of you probably know by now, S.N. Goenka, the preeminent lay teacher of Vipassanā...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Kyi Meet Again in Prague, Each Address Violence in Burma

Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly Online has more on this meeting of the two great engaged...

September 21, 2013

INTERVIEW: Adam Kō Shin Tebbe, Director of Zen in America

Adam Kō Shin Tebbe is the director, producer and cameraman of currently-in-production documentary film Zen...

September 18, 2013

The Editors of Tricycle Show Us the Way Following the Washington Navy Yard Shooting Rampage

The terrible shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, perpetrated by a disturbed young Buddhist...

September 16, 2013

Misogyny and Sexual Assault are Still Missing Links in Conversations about Sangha Scandals

Two conversations about sex scandals in American Buddhist sanghas took place recently: one during the 2013...

September 15, 2013

Jack Kornfield Demands Clean Power Now — Join Him!

Join Jack Kornfield in telling President Obama to reject the climate-destroying, Keystone XL tar sands...

September 14, 2013

“Buddhist Ministry and the Prison-Industrial Complex” — A New UWest Course I’m Co-Teaching with Jane Naomi Iwamura

This semester, as part of my fall course load at University of the West (where...

September 09, 2013

INTERVIEW: Douglas Penick, Author of Dreamers and Their Shadows

Douglas Penick is a 30 year practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, a former research associate at...

September 04, 2013

“Buddhism Has a Big Role to Play in the World Today, and I Am Impatient Because Buddhists Don’t Seem to Realize That…”

...So begins Japanese cultural anthropologist Noriyuki Ueda's amazing interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama,...

September 02, 2013

REVIEW: Daughters of Dolma: The Spiritual Journey of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Nepal

Last year, I interviewed Alex Co, team leader of the documentary film Daughters of Dolma:...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Has a Dream…

#DreamDay

August 13, 2013

Please Check Out My Interview with Sex Slavery Survivor and Activist Somaly Mam in the Fall 2013 Issue of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

She has been named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Glamour’s Woman of...

August 11, 2013

SPECIAL REPORT: The California Prison Hunger Strike Demands Our Attention

In case you've missed news coverage about it -- and you might have, as the media...

August 10, 2013

“A Visual Storybook of Buddhist Women”

The Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women, "an alliance of women (and men) committed to...

August 06, 2013

Wendy Davis, the War on Women, and Buddhist Embryology

Some weeks back, Texas Senator Wendy Davis did an incredibly brave thing by filibustering (for an...

August 05, 2013

My Special Report on the Myanmar Muslims Genocide Awareness Convention Gets Translated into Arabic

Some weeks back, I had the pleasure of attending the Myanmar Muslims Genocide Awareness Convention...

August 04, 2013

Thai Buddhists Say “Keep Buddhism Out of Same-Sex Marriage Debate”

Thailand's The Nation has exclusive interviews with noted LGBT activist Anjana Suvarnananda, as well as...

August 04, 2013

“The Threat Effect” at Dharma Cowgirl

My pal, former student, and fellow UWest employee Monica Sanford has a terrific new post...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Buddha On Strike

Neat...

July 30, 2013

Kunsang Dolma on “The 7 Worst Excuses for Ignoring Women’s Rights”

Kunsang Dolma, author of Wisdom Publications' new title A Hundred Thousand White Stones: An Ordinary...

July 29, 2013

A Call for Academic Papers on Buddhism and Social Justice…

This via Buddhist Studies at Leiden University... A NWO-funded Research Project Call for Papers A...

July 26, 2013

Check Out My New Interview with Michaela Haas at Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly Online

I've got a brand new interview with my buddy Dr. Michaela Haas over at Buddhadharma: The...

July 16, 2013

On the George Zimmerman Verdict

The police dispatcher that George Zimmerman spoke to on the night of February 26th, 2012,...

July 08, 2013

Your Practice is Not All about You

I've found myself thinking quite an awful lot lately about two articles that appeared recently...

July 07, 2013

Prayers and Practice for Bodh Gaya…

As many of you reading have probably heard by now, there has been a coordinated...

July 06, 2013

Rejecting Scientistic and Post-Religious Buddhism

Two thought-provoking posts appeared in the Buddhist blogosphere this week. First, my friend Shastri Ethan...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

One Earth Sangha Requests Teachings and Leadership on Climate Change from the Insight Meditation Community

As you may have heard, President Obama today unveiled his second-term plan to address climate...

June 24, 2013

INTERVIEW: Amy Hollingsworth, Author of Letters from the Closet: Ten Years of Correspondence That Changed My Life

Amy Hollingsworth is the author of the newly-released book Letters from the Closet: Ten Years of...

June 22, 2013

This is Time Magazine‘s Cover in Every Country in the World This Week…Except the United States

Sure, Time Magazine's cover isn't always the same in the U.S. as it is in...

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