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Interview Exclusive: Buddha “Happy,” Watching Lots of TV


Scranton, PA. This reporter was granted a rare five minute interview with Shakyamuni Buddha today, April 1, when the Buddha unexpectedly turned up at the T.G.I. Friday's Restaurant off of Route 6. "Sure, why not, we can talk for a minute while my buddy's using the bathroom," he said, gesturing t ...>

Don’t Pray For Me


A new study, the most comprehensive and rigorous research into the alleged health benefits of prayer yet undertaken, concludes that prayer by strangers does not have a positive effect on the health of heart patients. In fact, there is statistically significant evidence that it may actually be harmf ...>

Turning the Light Inward


Next weekend, April 7-9, there will be a retreat for People of Color at the Zen Community of Oak Park, a Zen center in the White Plum lineage. The retreat is being led by Rev. Hilda Ryumon Gutierrez Baldoquin, editor of the recent anthology Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices ...>

The Opiate of the People


China's officially atheistic Communist ruling powers are getting into the religion racket. Concerned about growing tensions and disatisfaction with repressive one-party rule, Chinese leaders have hit upon Buddhism as a partial solution to their problems--both with pesky citizens who insist on havin ...>

Anatomy of a Buddhist Lynching


Buddhism's alleged an-iconism, much proclaimed during the Prophet Muhammad cartoon frenzy, took another hit last week, when a truly iconoclastic Buddhist Muslim in Thailand took a hammer to one of the country's most beloved shrines. Before twenty-seven-year-old Thanakorn Pakdeepol could completely d ...>

A Loaded Gun


"life is a loaded gunthat looks right at you with a yellow eye"--Billy CollinsThat's what Shakyamuni Buddha meant when he identified the three marks of existence as impermanence, suffering, and lack of self. Don't be fooled into thinking that life is all Sunday dinners and freshly-laundered sheets. ...>

A Historian’s Nirvana


It seems to me that one of the most unfortunate things about human beings is their inability to feel the living breath lying behind and supporting them in their everyday lives. History is by no means a mere succession of long-past events to be arbitrarily explained and interpeted by modern man. Li ...>

Better Off Dead


It's a bloody-minded day in the religious world, just a few short days after the celebration of the holiday of love. In Pakistan, Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, a Sunni Muslim imam, has called for the death of a Danish cartoonist who drew a picture of the prophet Muhammad--and it's slaughter for fun and ...>

In Session


Today was an important day for American Buddhism. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges granted full accreditation to the University of the West. Located in Rosemead, CA, the University of the West was started by the Taiwan-based Buddhist organization FoGuangShan, one of the largest and ...>

Ending Suffering


What does it mean to commit to ending suffering? What does one do when Buddhism isn't enough, when suffering and trauma occur on such a massive scale that monks can't help, Dharma can't help, when an entire Buddhist society can't provide the liberation from suffering that all its members need? For ...>

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