Working toward collective liberation

Bridging the divide between "ethnic" and "Western" Buddhism

On the need for an alternative approach to countering extremism

A Buddhist nun in Australia takes the road less traveled to a meaningful monastic life

Sangeeta Bansal Ph.D, a researcher and writer, is also the founder of a non-profit called Mindside, which aims to make the benefits of mindfulness meditation available to all. Mindside offers an eight

Reflections on the turmoil and mayhem in London

Last Sunday, Karol Wojtyla, subsequently the previous head of the Catholic Church John Paul  II, was beatified by his successor, the present Pope Benedict XVI. Beatification is the necessary stage in

I'd like to focus here on a quite common phenomenon which arises among human interactions which in its most general sense could be referred to as tension. It is not the subject of tension itself and p

“The bowl may be overturned for a lay follower endowed with (any of) eight qualities: He/she strives for the monks' material loss, strives for the monks’ detriment, strives for the monks' non-residenc