The path to providing wisdom, healing division, and creating peace

Insights into the Pure Land path

The difficulty of naming the nameless

On truthfulness, the seventh of the ten perfections

Can falsehood be justified by compassionate intent?

How happiness is just a small part of the Buddhist path

Why should a Buddhist invest emotionally in any fictional character? We are attached enough to our own and others’ identities as it is. Yet a novelist is paid to double down on these fictions. L

A Brief History of the Formation of the Land of Bliss   According to the Infinite Life Sutra, in the era of Lokeshvararaja Tathagata, there was once a king who left his royal family and became

Editor's note: This article was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 10, December 2008.   Email:bdsaddhananda@yahoo.com ‘The earliest doctrinal elemen

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

Editor's note: This article was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 13, September 2009.Venerable A. P. Buddhadatta in his English to Pāli dictionary gives two Pāli words for &

One might naively assume that, in an Information Age where current events are accessible through not only conventional news outlets but also grassroots media sharing via the Internet, there would be m