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Drawing Closer to the Distant: Sonia Betancort on Philosophy and Jorge Luis Borges
Dr. Sonia Betancort shares her teaching style and her intellectual debt to Jorge Luis Borges in this new interview
Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Compassionate Silence Over Hollow Karmic Answers
Why “compassionate silence” is better than karma when answering the grief and pain of a natural disaster
Conoscenza: vincolata o emancipata dal costrutto identitario? Riflessioni epistemiche attraverso il prisma degli insegnamenti del buddhismo antico
Edizione originale in lingua inglese Traduzione italiana a cura di Costanza Ceccarelli© Āgama Research Group Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā. Buddhistdoor Global (BDG): Venerabile, potrebbe descriverci il tema e le idee generali esposti nel suo intervento al convegno? Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā (BD): Il mio intervento si occupa di esaminare come i concetti di esperienza e di costruzione condizionata […]
Have You Been There Before?
When my mother or grandfather (爷爷/爺爺) needed a break from cooking in the kitchen, my family would eat out at fast food restaurants when I was a child. McDonalds and Subway were popular options, and KFC was a favorite of my grandparents for many years. But there were times when we’d opt for a casual […]
The TLKY International Conference 2021 Interview Series – Prof. Jin Y. Park
Welcome to our series of conversations with participating speakers at this year’s Tung Lin Kok Yuen International Conference – Buddhist Canons: In Search of a Theoretical Foundation for a Wisdom-oriented Education (27–28 November 2021). In each blog post, I speak with keynote speakers and paper presenters about their subject at this conference. Register for this […]
The Collective Buddhist Studies Manifesto: New Challenges, New Voices
After the havoc of COVID-19 (which has not technically ended) and renewed self-reflection by many in the field of Buddhist Studies after 2020, there is a new mood in many scholarly communities that I am in contact with. There is a sense that Buddhist Studies needs rethinking and reforming if it is to make progress […]
If I Were a Philosopher
You know, a rose is not beautiful It is a clump of organic matter pulled from the dirtTransform it into a symbol.Attend to it. Make it beautiful I am not a philosopher. I am just a boy in love. You have my attention. But you knew that already. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included […]
First, We Must Go to the Edge
First, we must go to the edge of the worldA place that can not be found by traveling a straight line.For to look down over the edge requires more than eyesight. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. […]
A Mind Engaged
The world may not needmore poems but it certainlyneeds more parks where poemscan be written – the poem here withus, thirsty as the roots fed and a mind engaged again. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s […]