A response to violence, terrorism, and hatred

On religious freedom and secular liberty

On the need for an alternative approach to countering extremism

The Polish historian Isaac Deutscher offered a famous analogy for the creation of the Israeli nation: a Jewish man leaps from a burning building and lands on a Palestinian, crippling him (Deutscher 19

Editor's note: Ven. Dr. Beligalle Dhammajoti is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pali & Buddhist Studies, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.   The problems of the 21st century are at once differ

The historical sketch of Buddhism in South Asia includes a presence belonging in India, Afghanistan, present-day Pakistan and Bangladesh. At various times in the history of these countries, Buddhists

I got the upsetting news on July 7, 2013 at around 8.30 a.m. — Terror struck Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya: a series of blasts had left two monks injured.   The first thought in my mind

Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 1, October 2006. With the recent election of nine Bhikkhus to seats in Sri Lanka’s federal parliament, the issue

  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

  Original Chinese text: Elsa Lam Translation: Brenda Leung English Editing: Raymond Lam           Hence, there is no doubt t

 Original Chinese text: Jin Hui Translation: Belle Guo Xiao English editors: Cathy Ziengs and Raymond Lam On the evening of July 24th, we began our extraordinary tour to Turkey from Hong Kong

It is axiomatic that every religion accepts the existence of morality and immorality. But, when we come to the point of how to judge an action either as moral or immoral, each religion and philosopher

Introduction   Koan is a Chan case study that is to be intuitively contemplated to awaken Gnosis. It may be formatted in the forms of story, dialogue, question and statement. Gnosis is self-discover

Based in Hong Kong, Leung Man Tao is a respected commentator on a vast spectrum of social issues in China. After converting to Theravada Buddhism, he remarked: “Buddhism is not Chicken Soup for the So