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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 ...>

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 ...>

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu


"Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder.Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth.Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate.Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that…"Martin Luther King, "Where do ...>

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