Dalits: A Community Excluded from the Common Good

By Sangita Bauddh The word dalit is an Indian Hindi word that represents a unique class of Indian society with few parallels in any other social system. Dalit means “depressed class,” which included scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and other backwards classes in British India but now includes only scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Caste is […]

All About Owls

This is a poem, as promised,all about owls. Hamlet wrote toOphelia, appealing to the same stars as owls do when they stripaway the tall grass, looking forthe present finality of vermin. This is a poem about owls. Neither theoretical or astronomical. It is about 1,000 million years ago,when the ancestors of the owls flewwithout a compass or North Pole-A […]

Bodhgaya International Theravada Bhikkhuni Ordination January 2019

Fully accepted, fully ordained. New bhikkhunis with their teachers, preceptors and their ordaining Dual Sangha upon the completion of two full days of bhikkhuni ordinations. Photo courtesy of Kanjana Suthikul By Ven. Tathaloka Theri  Sukha Sanghassa Samaggi—“Happy is the Harmony of the Sangha” [1] Buddhagaya, the site of the Buddha’s Great Awakening or Maha Bodhi, is […]