American Buddhism

As a student of philosophy I was deeply enamored with discussions around semantics, or meaning...

Watch below as Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi addresses the UN on the climate crisis. According to...

Those who know me know that my first love in terms of Buddhism is philosophy....

A guest post by Pierce Salguero Lately, the topic of diversity in American Buddhism has...

Nearly every week I encounter the idea that Buddhism should somehow be kept 'pure' and...

Some time in the winter of 2017, Gary Gach reached out to a number of...

I am sometimes happily reminded that Buddhism in the West or the world isn't just...

A thirty-five page letter was issued yesterday by six of the closest attendants of Mipham...

An online petition asking for local Shambhala Buddhism centers to be split from the inner...

A person who claims to know the inner workings of the current Shambhala leadership, Sakyong...

Note: this is the first in a planned series on the topic of "Progressive Buddhism."...

A new report detailing widespread sexual abuse, criminal sexual assault, and community complicity in Shambhala...

With a steady stream of abuse allegations against senior leadership and well-known teachers, many Shambhala...

I watched End of the Tour (2015) last night, a movie about a writer, David Lipsky,...

Below is a mini-interview with Katie Loncke of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship who I had...

The Chronicle of Higher Education today reports on the many thousands of academics and academic...

(Updated: there are 1250 signatures as of 6pm Pacific Time; all four living former First...

That is a mouthful. Let me unpack it a bit. When I first became interested...

Zen teacher Barry Magid offered the following observation yesterday. It is a rich passage, a...

Last week Andrea Winn, creator of Project Sunshine, was interviewed on Canadian Broadcasting Radio on...

The Project Sunshine Phase 2, discussed recently here, is completing its fundraising campaign today and...

While yet another chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria has spurred both demand for...

Below is a mini-interview with Maia Duerr, author of the book, Work that Matters: Create a...

Even before the #metoo movement went viral last month, a bombshell - or at least...

The post, which was taken down after circulating for around 24 hours, caused anger, sadness,...

Setting their discussion in the context of traditional blessings to family and the three jewels...

A reddit user, "seshiro73" has created a Cheat sheet for Mahayana Buddhism focusing on Zen...

The Dalai Lama gave a talk today in India with students from the University of California...

The solution to all of this difficulty is education... Venerable Thubten Chodron, abbess of Sravasti...

The Dalai Lama's message was clear: you defend Buddhism by calling out abusive people, not...