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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 ...>

Buddhist Women’s Conference


If you haven't heard already, there's still time to register for the upcoming Buddhist Women's Conference. Occuring March 11 and brought to you by the Buddhist Council of the Midwest, the conference features Dr. Rita Gross and a plethora of interesting workshops on everything from the Zen of Gender ...>

Raining on Their Parade


There's a controversy brewing over the annual parade in San Francisco's Chinatown. Home of the country's oldest Buddhist community, Chinatown's Chamber of Commerce is in the ironic position of barring a Buddhist group from participating in the parade. Falun Dafa, more popularly known as Falun Gong ...>

Dharma Delivered to Your Door


The Los Angeles Times carries an article today about Spiritual Circle Cinema, a sort of Deep-Movie-of-the-Month Club. When a newspaper reporter starts off by saying that a DVD helped a woman find her "inner Zen," one is often inclined to question the merits of the product being offered--does anyon ...>