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August 2012

August 12, 2012
Get this: our friend and past interviewee Joshua Eaton will be teaching a class on "Buddhism...
August 05, 2012
We know what happens next. Or, rather, we know what doesn’t happen next: we won’t...

July 2012

July 23, 2012
One of many emerging stories of heroism from Colorado, this one via The White House:...
July 09, 2012
Over at my personal website, I've posted a few times about my friend and former...

June 2012

June 09, 2012
Every June the U.S. Campaign for Burma, an organization I support, asks its members to...

April 2012

April 28, 2012
After reading Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky, the book that inspired my...
April 27, 2012
Read all about it (and see quite a few pictures) at my official website. It's...

March 2012

March 24, 2012
Alex Co is an undergraduate at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom,...
March 17, 2012
Dr. Michaela Haas is an international reporter, lecturer and consultant. In addition, she is the...
March 09, 2012
Please check out my latest news post for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly Online. In it,...
March 06, 2012
Please check out my brand new interview with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi -- the well-known and...

February 2012

February 20, 2012
...So I'm not even going to try. Here he is:
February 19, 2012
Please come to the bone marrow drive at the Dharma Seal Temple in Rosemead, CA,...
February 18, 2012
My home institution, University of the West, will be hosting the great Ven. Karma Lekshe...
February 08, 2012
Joshua Eaton is the editor, writer, and translator who founded the visionary Dana Wiki (www.danawiki.org) -- an online...
February 03, 2012
This from the International Campaign for Tibet today: If you live in the United States,...
February 02, 2012
I can't say it better than the boilerplate provided by Planned Parenthood... I’m disappointed Susan G. Komen...

January 2012

January 28, 2012
Araia Tesfamariam is an independent film and TV producer who has worked with, among others,...
January 26, 2012
Over at my website, I just blogged about how last week I had a lot of...
January 21, 2012
A video appeared online last Wednesday that shows four U.S. Marines urinating on three corpses in...
January 16, 2012
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing'-oriented society to a 'person'-oriented society. When...
January 10, 2012
For those of us who care about social justice generally and human rights in countries...
January 02, 2012
The New York Times has a disquieting article today about a series of firebombings that...

December 2011

December 31, 2011
As you may have read, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the hugely controversial $662 billion National Defense...
December 30, 2011
Well, after one attempt at starting this new blog some time ago, I think we...
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