Thoughts on the first Carmelite-Buddhist interfaith dialogue

A milestone for female monasticism in Britain

There are many statements in Buddhist literature that make pleasure sound like something we should totally avoid. It might take some careful reading to recognize that the threat isn’t pleasure itself,

Rarely does a story about another person contain so much heart. After reading Dipa Ma, you feel you have actually met her - and you will never forget her.    – Paul Ha

The practice of mindful meditation can provide a great host of benefits to anyone that actively pursues it, especially in a modern world full of enhanced stresses and defilements that so often remove

Editor's note: This article was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 10, December 2008.   01. Introduction The term ‘environment’ includes

Jewel: Joyful Heart through Precious Tibetan Mantras, 2011. Dechen Shak-Dagsay/Van Dyk Music World Music/Tibet Distributed in Europe by SILENZIO MUSIC AG Badstrasse131 / D-91349 Egloffstein (Germany

Undoubtedly this is an enormous topic, and acknowledging how it has been vastly covered in various philosophies of both the West and the East I will attempt to neither summarize its historical treatme

Introduction   Mariusz Popieluch wrote a second unveiling article on the philosophy of life pertaining to ‘Authority and Guidance’. His philosophical thought resonates with what I have been presen

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift? Why not buy them a contemporary, gripping retelling of the Buddha’s life? To date, the late Osamu Tezuka’s (Astro Boy) monumental graphic novel series Buddha re

To the question why anybody in life does anything at all, the answer, undoubtedly, is to satisfy his or her mental and physical need/s. This mental or physical need/s that satisfies him/her might be e

Problems with bivalent logic   The father of classical logic in the Western tradition, Aristotle, had already noticed that in order to save the law of excluded middle i.e. A or not A one is for

Many of you may wonder why Shakyamuni called himself the “Buddha” after his enlightenment