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Wildlife on the Brink
Addressing animal poaching and trafficking in South Africa
Uploaded 31 Mar 2017
Form and Content: Integrating Dharma and Yoga
Exploring conscious awareness and living in the present
Uploaded 30 Oct 2015
Zen and the Art of Tea Drinking—an Exhibition at the Freer
There is a painting in the Freer Gallery of Art’s current exhibition, Zen, Tea, and Chinese Art in Medieval Japan, that beautifully symbolizes the remarkable cultural exchange and synthesis that
Uploaded 18 Feb 2015
Emperor Wu of Liang, the August Thearch Bodhisattva
The common narrative of Chinese dynastic history is a story of the “sons of heaven” (tianzi 天子): great men (and one woman, Wu Zetian) who enforced the Mandate of Heaven until they lost it and were ove
Uploaded 12 Mar 2014
Buddhist Perspective on Ecological Crisis and Individual Social Responsibility
 Editor's note: This article was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 10, December 2008.   Prologue The term ecology dates back to 19th century, introd
Uploaded 26 Apr 2013
Controversies on the Origin of the Theravada Abhidhamma-pitaka
From the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 6, December 2007
Uploaded 19 Apr 2013
The Dhamma Theory: Philosophical Cornerstone of the Abhidhamma
Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 6, December 2007.  Although the Dhamma[1] Theory is an Abhidhammic innovation, the antecedent trends that led to
Uploaded 19 Apr 2013
Language and Reality
Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 6, December 2007.IntroductionAccording to Abhidhamma, if one does not apprehend the true nature of language , th
Uploaded 19 Apr 2013
Discernment of the Treasure of Abhidhamma
Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 6, December 2007. Introduction The intricate, abstract, highly technical  data and information of mātikā̄s (doct
Uploaded 19 Apr 2013
A Buddhist Perspective on Ecological Crisis and Individual Social Responsibility
Editor's note: This article was previously published in the 10th issue of the now retired Bodhi Journal in December 2008. It has been republished with some minor formatting changes. Abbreviations A –
Uploaded 7 Feb 2013
The Problem with Buddhism
Having sampled religious life across Asia, a Westerner is compelled to seek compromise This provocatively titled book seems intended to ride the coattails of the recent fad for memoirs and books on at
Uploaded 9 May 2011
Reflections on the Nature of the Conscious Moment
Undoubtedly this is an enormous topic, and acknowledging how it has been vastly covered in various philosophies of both the West and the East I will attempt to neither summarize its historical treatme
Uploaded 28 Feb 2011
The Purpose of Life according to the Scriptures
Introduction   On the January 15, 2011, I was invited to participate as one of the panel speakers in an Interfaith Forum themed ‘The Purpose of Life according to the Scriptures’ at the Lecture Hall
Uploaded 28 Feb 2011
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