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Buddhist generosity: Yokoji-Zen Mountain Center in California raises over $5000 to repair storm damage
I am sometimes happily reminded that Buddhism in the West or the world isn't just...
February 17, 2019
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A thirty-five page letter was issued yesterday by six of the closest attendants of Mipham...
February 08, 2019
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An online petition asking for local Shambhala Buddhism centers to be split from the inner...
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January 23, 2019
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A person who claims to know the inner workings of the current Shambhala leadership, Sakyong...
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Heroes of Progressive Buddhism: Sebene Selassie
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Shambhala Faces Most Damning Revelations to Date: Buddhist Project Sunshine Phase 3 Report
A new report detailing widespread sexual abuse, criminal sexual assault, and community complicity in Shambhala...
August 15, 2018
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August 06, 2018
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I watched End of the Tour (2015) last night, a movie about a writer, David Lipsky,...
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June 27, 2018
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship Turns 40
Below is a mini-interview with Katie Loncke of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship who I had...
June 20, 2018
Knowing Harm, We Must Oppose It
The Chronicle of Higher Education today reports on the many thousands of academics and academic...
June 18, 2018
Buddhist Statement Against Detaining Immigrant Children
(Updated: there are 1250 signatures as of 6pm Pacific Time; all four living former First...
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A Buddhist (re)Appropriation of Mindfulness Meditation
That is a mouthful. Let me unpack it a bit. When I first became interested...
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Is a Sea Change Coming to Western Buddhism?
Zen teacher Barry Magid offered the following observation yesterday. It is a rich passage, a...
May 30, 2018
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Last week Andrea Winn, creator of Project Sunshine, was interviewed on Canadian Broadcasting Radio on...
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April 30, 2018
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April 13, 2018
Cut Military Spending: Fund Human Needs, a Buddhist Solution to Syria?
While yet another chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria has spurred both demand for...
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Mindfulness and Career Attachments: An Exercise with Author Maia Duerr
Below is a mini-interview with Maia Duerr, author of the book, Work that Matters: Create a...
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The post, which was taken down after circulating for around 24 hours, caused anger, sadness,...
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A reddit user, "seshiro73" has created a Cheat sheet for Mahayana Buddhism focusing on Zen...
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The Dalai Lama gave a talk today in India with students from the University of California...
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The solution to all of this difficulty is education... Venerable Thubten Chodron, abbess of Sravasti...
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July 24, 2017
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As Buddhism continues to mature in the Western world, we are currently seeing an explosion of one...
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My earliest academic Buddhist teacher, Alan Sponberg, had the apt Dharma name Saramati, "one who gets...
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