Unpacking nationalism and gender in Theravada countries

In my search for people to help me with my research, it has been my lucky destiny to have come across one such influential person in my life. Hoh Foo Kong, a retired school teacher from Malaysia, intr

Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 1, October 2006. In which sense can we speak of a characteristically Sri Lankan Buddhist tradition? In answering

  To meet the man named Vello Väärtnõu is to encounter a personal force with a steady burn of passion and strong sense of mission and duty to his religious calling. In decades

Scientists and Buddhist scholars gathered from all over the world for Buddhism in the Austral-Asian region at the first annual International Conference “Buddhism & Australia”. The event took