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A Buddhist View on Caste and Equality
Teachings on equality from the Sutta Nipata
Uploaded 20 Apr 2020
<i>Buddhistdoor View</i>: Science and Buddhism—Alliance and Friendship, Not Ideological Uniformity
Building dialogues and connections with science
Uploaded 7 Oct 2016
The Sting of Suffering: The Scorpion and the Wasp
Heather Sanche on parenthood and dukkha
Uploaded 11 Sep 2015
<i>Buddhistdoor View</i>: Dharma and the Erotic
A good deal of contemporary Buddhist literature exists that confronts unhealthy and deluded ideas of romantic and sexual love. Today’s popular media and advertising certainly peddles a distorted
Uploaded 12 Jun 2015
Interview with a Practitioner: “My Wish is to Become Truly Buddhist by the Time I Die”
In the early 1990s, when my family first moved to England from India, we settled in the city of Birmingham. Birmingham grew to prominence during the Industrial Revolution, and became home to Jaguar ca
Uploaded 15 May 2015
Ladakh – The Beauty of Spaciousness
A photographic essay of the people and culture of Ladakh
Uploaded 13 Mar 2015
Celebrity Spotlight: The Lightning-fast Buddhist
In today’s action-packed cinema, it is almost de rigueur to see a computer-generated alien take over the world in a fierce battle between the human race and beings unknown. Our heroes have become men
Uploaded 19 Sep 2014
Beyond All Differences: Interview with Tina Turner and the Beyond Music Quartet
Moving “beyond” religious, cultural, and social differences, the Beyond project is an interfaith musical series created by four women: a “Baptist-Buddhist,” a Hindu, a Christian, and a Tibetan Buddhis
Uploaded 29 Aug 2014
The First Year Anniversary of Vello Vaartnou's Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia
  The end of 2012 marked an important milestone in academic Buddhism.  During the PNC conference held at Berkeley University on 7-9 December Venerable Vello Vaartnou, a Buddhist mo
Uploaded 7 Feb 2014
How Should a Criminal Be Treated? (A Buddhist Response)
Introduction   There are some satisfactory definitions of ‘crime’ and ‘criminal'. But the question of ‘what is a crime ?’ has baffled thinkers on ethics for centur
Uploaded 26 Apr 2013
Comparative Religion: A Buddhist perspective
Editor's note: This article was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 9, September 2008. In the West, comparative religious studies is a way of widening a person’s intelle
Uploaded 22 Apr 2013
The Buddhist Tradition of Sri Lanka: the Dhamma and the Sangha - a Historical Survey
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
Uploaded 17 Apr 2013
The Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia
  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
Uploaded 20 Mar 2013
Buddhist Ethics: Compassion for All
Dr. Lisa Kemmerer is a philosopher-activist dedicated to working against oppression, whether on behalf of the environment, nonhuman animals, or disempowered human beings. Her books include In Search o
Uploaded 21 Jan 2013
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