The 12th Global Conference on Buddhism featured major guests like Mingyur Rinpoche, Ajahn Brahm, and Ayya Santini
death and dying
The Art of Living Amidst Long-term Illness: The Creativity of Writer and Artist Helen Law
Hong Kong-based artist and columnist Helen Law expresses creativity as a way of life during and after chronic illness
Elder Rong Ling’s final farewell
Reflecting on today’s funeral for a great Hong Kong Buddhist master
Ven. Chuan Deng and the Calling of Vulnerability
Speaking to one of Hong Kong’s prominent Buddhist carers of the dying and terminally ill
Nurturing Narratives
Not long after the death of my grandfather (爷爷/爺爺), my family resumed its familiar tradition. When both my grandparents were alive, my parents, my sister and me would be regularly treated to dinner at their home, where we’d enjoy the familial and communal experience of eating together and watching television. The stark difference now was […]
A Letter to Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay)
“We will meet at the source of each moment, and we will meet again in different forms of life.” Dear Thay, In deep gratitude for meeting Thay and the Plum Village Sangha. Thay, it has been some time since you passed away. Still, your memory remains more alive than ever. I still remember the morning […]
A chant, to wail, hospital ward
It is the year 3001, and humanity has almost reached the point of no return: only a select few humans—known as “The Feelers”—are able to experience emotions, and a governmental program has decreed that they be medicated to ensure they to adopt the detached, unfeeling dispositions of the younger generations… Syringe in hand, Doctor Albright […]