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Tradition and Change Part II


I said I wanted to wait to answer my own questions in the last post, so, here's my two cents.  Get it?  Tradition and Change -- my two cents?  ...I hear crickets.  This is why I'm a monk and not an entertainer. Check the comments to the last post to see what I'm responding to. Thanks to everyon ...>

Tradition and Change


Well, it's Saturday night and I'm avoiding homework.  I did about 45 minutes of studying earlier in the evening, but it's Saturday night for goodness sake.  It's just wrong to do homework on a Saturday.  So, I flipped on the telly but there was nothing of interest.  I checked the Buddhist stat ...>

A Red Herring


Rev. Danny Fisher has bloged about National Coming Out day in the U.S. coming up on October 11th.  With the presidential election looming, this issue is important.  The radical right says they have to defend the institution of marriage from all those nefarious gay people, but the issue is really ...>

Oddities


I ride the subway here a lot.  Actually, sometimes it's above ground, so it's not entirely a subway, but...whatever.  Usually it's a quiet ride, but sometimes I meet some odd characters or see something that catches my eye. I once saw a woman with a shopping bag that said, "Ginsenocide."  Obviou ...>

Back to School


I've just finished my first two weeks of school and I'm enjoying it so far.  I'm the only American in my class--most of the students are Chinese and Mongolian, with one Japanese student.  There is also a Malaysian woman training to be a nun here. Right now she's in the postulancy period, which is ...>

A Little Vacation


Sorry for the delay in posting. For the most part, there hasn't been anything happening recently, though I went to Japan for a few days to switch my visa from a visitor's visa to the religion visa.  The religion visa allows me to renew without having to leave the country, which is both more conve ...>

The Orientalist and the Other


photo by Ko Sasaki for The New York Times A while ago the Tricycle Blog posted a link to this article in the New York Times on the decline of Buddhism in Japan.  I don't have time to summarize the article, but via Dharma Folk I discovered these thoughts on a blog called "the buddha is my dj." ...>

Free Palin’s Free Speech Rights?

  • Posted by Nacho
  • January 1, 1970

Just in case you needed a bit more confirmation that Gov. Palin has a bit of - OK, a large, deficit about our laws and the U.S. Constitution, Here's the .MP3 and the short transcript of her claim that her (and our) freedom of speech rights are at risk because the media critiques claims we make: D ...>

Activist Buddhism


Generally called "Engaged Buddhism," activist Buddhism is a ubiquitous feature of the Dharma in the  west, most notably among so-called "convert Buddhists." Not everyone wants to get in on the act, however, as some comments on my last post will attest.  I myself am not usually overtly involved i ...>

Moving


I'm in a rush, so this will be quick.  I was planning on moving to Boudha, so a Drikungpa friend introduced me to Lama Jorphel who has an empty monastery in the Boudha area. He built a new one in Balambu and all his monks have moved there, so a few Tibetan laypeople and some westerners studying at ...>

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