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July 2014

July 01, 2014
The Telegraph has a new interview with His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who...
July 01, 2014
The latest issue of Helping Hands, the newsletter of Buddhist Global Relief, features a piece...
July 01, 2014
Not long ago, a user posted a video to YouTube of the great Buddhologist Donald...

June 2014

June 30, 2014
This via Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni's YouTube channel: In February of 2013 in Petaluma, Northern California,...
June 23, 2014
As I mentioned in a past post, I was one of the speakers at this...
June 23, 2014
I'm pleased to share the news that my breakfast has been featured on Academic Breakfast,...
June 22, 2014
This from Al Jazeera English: A Buddhist leader and fierce critic of hardliners blamed for...
June 20, 2014
Nick Kristof, who, as we previously mentioned, recently visited Burma and has devoted a lot...
June 20, 2014
Buddhist teacher and author Martine Batchelor appeared on the most recent episode of The Middle Way Society...
June 12, 2014
Oh, my... This from Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly Online: Actor, activist, and humorous social media...
June 11, 2014
The New York Times continues its streak of good reporting and editorializing about the situation...
June 11, 2014
Waylon Lewis offers yet one more fun conversation through Elephant Journal, this one with Sean Feit, a Buddhism and...
June 11, 2014
As you may have heard, it has come to light, following reporting by Simon Marks...
June 10, 2014
I'm honored to share the news with you that I will be one of the...
June 05, 2014
Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, has a remarkable new interview with engaged Buddhist icon Joanna...

May 2014

May 31, 2014
This from the Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils (FABC): Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women is...
May 31, 2014
This via Climate Reality: This June 21st, the longest day of the year, a coalition...
May 29, 2014
Oh, you're in for a treat... There's an amazing new book out entitled Distant Neighbors: The...
May 29, 2014
Last week, Kenan Malik wrote a blistering op-ed for the New York Times about how the...
May 29, 2014
This via Al Jazeera English: Protesters led by Buddhist monks from the right-wing Ravana Balaya...
May 29, 2014
  Over at Dharma Cowgirl, Monica Sanford -- former student and current pal -- blogs...
May 21, 2014
A big hat-tip to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review for this one: Buddhist scholar David McMahan and Tricycle contributing editor Linda...
May 20, 2014
A new piece by Hanna Hindstrom appeared in The Diplomat this week, telling the story...
May 17, 2014
I'm a little late -- the actual event was on May 3rd -- but I've...
May 15, 2014
UC-Berkeley recently hosted a conference on "Buddhism, Mind, and Cognitive Science," relevant to many conversations...
May 08, 2014
There have been some trenchant critiques of this social media campaign -- hat-tip to the great...
May 08, 2014
UCLA's Center for South Asian Studies will be hosting an upcoming colloquium with Dr. Juliane...
May 05, 2014
I'm very pleased to join many blogging colleagues in wishing our site a very happy...
May 04, 2014
While it's not exactly new news, it was news to me: several friends on social...
May 03, 2014
The Religion News Service's reporters Anuradha Sharma and Vishal Arora have done a report on...
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