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Eye on Southeast Asia: The Soul of Borobudur and the Mandala of Chakravartin, with Hendrick Tanuwidjaja
Hendrick Tanuwidjaja, mindfulness teacher, fitness coach, and Shingon lay priest discusses the ideal of the wheel-turning monarch in an Indonesian context
Eye on Southeast Asia: Secretary of State Dr. Khy Sovanaratna’s Great Hope for Cambodian Buddhist Diplomacy
Dr. Khy Sovanratana’s appointment as Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs in Hun Manet’s cabinet is promising for Cambodia’s Buddhist outreach
Eye on Southeast Asia: The First Inland Ocean Festival at Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
An interview with Douglas Woodring, founder and managing director of the Ocean Recovery Alliance, about a new festival to celebrate and protect the world’s largest lake
Eye on Southeast Asia: Novices in Love and Living
Very young men or boys joining the sangha without adequate preparation is resulting in real problems
Eye on Southeast Asia: Lunch at a Malaysian Temple’s Vegetarian Canteen
What a lunch at Dharma Realm Guan Yin Sagely Monastery’s canteen in Kuala Lumpur revealed about Malaysian Buddhism
Eye On Southeast Asia: The Present State of Malaysian Buddhism
Malaysian Buddhism enjoys considerable strengths but is in urgent need of intellectual vitality and dynamism
The Throne of Origins: The Pulsating Heart of Pre-Sectarian, 2000-year Buddhism
The “Throne of Origins,” ruins of one of the oldest Buddhist temples in the world, is alive and flourishing in Pakistan
In Review: “Xuanzang” and “Monks in Motion”
Here are some books I’m reviewing or have recently reviewed.
Buddhism in International Relations: Socially Engaged Buddhism at the UN
This series on Buddhism and international relations by Durgesh Kasbekar is a modified series from an essay “Buddhism in International Relations” by the same author. International relations and global politics are often absent from reflections about Buddhism in academia. This series aims to provide a small corrective and highlight how Buddhism affects and is affected by […]