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Exploring Buddhism’s Tensions With Modernity: An Interview with Prof. David McMahan
Is the secularization of Buddhism missing the point?
Uploaded 28 Oct 2016
Who was Alexandra David-Neel? A Brief Story of a Buddhist Anarchist
The remarkable life of a fearless explorer
Uploaded 30 Sep 2016
Dharma Screenings: Buddhist Film and Pop Culture—Buddhist Traditions on the Silver Screen
Interview with Gaetano Maida of Buddhist Film Foundation
Uploaded 5 Jun 2015
Vanishing Virtues: The Spirituality of China's Ethnic Minorities
Interview with Mrs. Meiyin Lee on China's endangered cultures
Uploaded 15 Apr 2014
Ven. Hin Hung Interview: “Buddhism confronts an uncertain but exciting future”
Our conversation with Ven. Hin Hung on the future of Buddhism.
Uploaded 1 Apr 2014
Tam Po Shek Interview: Spiritual Living through Photography, Music, and Art
Looking as serene in person as he does on stage, Tam Po Shek (譚寶碩) welcomed us to his Chinese interior-style apartment garbed in an exquisite tangzhuang (唐裝). The traditional furniture and aesthetics
Uploaded 19 Feb 2014
Planting Seeds of Understanding
  Imagine … “a world where people are deeply grounded in a moral and ethical tradition, where humility and service are highly valued and where reason, science and tec
Uploaded 15 Oct 2012
What We’ve Gained and What We’ve Lost – Nothing and Everything: The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde (1942 – 1962)
   *   “What used to be done by Religion has to be done alone by Art.”   – Saburo Hasegawa, in a letter to Isamu Noguchi. January 12, 1951.   *   Zen and avant-garde is a curious
Uploaded 2 Apr 2012
Adaptation and Caution: A response to Oscar Tang’s “Spiritual Autarky”
The Buddha once decreed that the Dharma be spoken in one’s own language. The doctrine of skilful means (upāya) indicates that “language” does not literally mean one’s native tongue alone: the Dharma m
Uploaded 1 May 2010
The Making of Buddhist Modernism
David L. McMahan, 2008, Oxford University Press   David L. McMahan’s book The Making of Buddhist Modernism is a study of the new modes of discourse and practice within Buddhism for the past 150 year
Uploaded 1 Nov 2008
Cyberkaya: Buddhism’s Place in a Future of High-tech Cyberspace
Buddhism is a vast religious and philosophical organism that has breathed 2,600 years of history. It gave birth to the oldest religious institution in the world, the saṅgha. It irrup
Uploaded 1 Jul 2008
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