Addressing animal poaching and trafficking in South Africa

China's renaissance in ecological ethics

2017's special issue on the environment

Charting changing attitudes towards animal rights in a Buddhist nation

A superlative examination of a fierce philosophical debate

Bringing the Buddhist dancing heritage to life

Visiting the mountain-hewn Ajanta Caves of India

Vesak is approaching and I have been contemplating just what Vesak is. I wasn't born into a Buddhist family or a Buddhist culture, but I chose to become a Buddhist nun with great joy. Yet the celebrat

What does it really mean to practice metta?

Since the parasol tree was believed to be appealing to the phoenix, the Chinese people venerated it as an auspicious symbol. There are records dating as early as the Book of Odes. Zheng Xuanjian of th

One of the mysteries of Buddhist history is the 400-year absence of an anthropomorphic image of the Buddha.  Early scholars argued for a period of defacto aniconism, in which artisans decorated Buddhi

  Beginning in the mid-1980’s, American scholars John and Susan Huntington turned Buddhist art history on its head with claims that the first Buddha images were made shortly after the Buddha’s death,

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

One of the curiosities of history is the lack of evidence of any image of the Buddha for approximately 400 years after his death.  The early academic consensus favored a period of defacto aniconism, a