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  • Adele Tomlin

A Report on the Sacking of Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi by Shechen Monastery

Posted on January 26, 2025January 26, 2025by Teahouse

Adele Tomlin writes that the incident surrounding Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi deserves a balanced, just, and compassionate analysis taking into account a context of sexual repression and patriarchal trauma

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  • Raymond Lam

Augustine and Amoghavajra—Military Chaplaincy, Grand Strategy, and Buddhist Morality

Posted on January 22, 2025January 23, 2025by Teahouse

A response to Brian Daizen Victoria’s essay on Buddhist involvement in the military: Exploring the moral and strategic tensions in Church Father Saint Augustine and esoteric master Amoghavajra

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  • Adele Tomlin

Buddhist Teachings on Eating Slaughtered Animals

Posted on March 20, 2024March 20, 2024by Teahouse

Adele Tomlin debunks assumptions about meat consumption in Tibetan Buddhism, highlighting Vajrayana continuity with early Buddhist vegetarian ethics

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  • Raymond Lam

Dr. Song Chong Lee’s Brave New World: The Mahayana Ethics of Cyberspace

Posted on November 20, 2023November 21, 2023by Teahouse

In a working academic paper on Mahayana ethics, Dr. Song Chong Lee argues that the bodhisattva precepts opens up new possibilities for optimism about cyberspace

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  • Raymond Lam

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Compassionate Silence Over Hollow Karmic Answers

Posted on February 10, 2023February 10, 2023by Teahouse

Why “compassionate silence” is better than karma when answering the grief and pain of a natural disaster

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  • Vincent Lim

When is Generosity Not Genuine?

Posted on May 4, 2022May 4, 2022by Teahouse

When I grew up, I’d occasionally stay up late watching TV. About 10 minutes into a show, the screen with cut away to the first ad. I remember the images used in commercials produced by NGOs that were meant to solicit donations, which appealed to the sensibilities of audiences in the developed world. The typical […]

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  • Raymond Lam

The Collective Buddhist Studies Manifesto: New Challenges, New Voices

Posted on November 5, 2021November 6, 2021by Teahouse

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 […]

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  • George Cassidy Payne

Letter to an Editor

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020by Teahouse

I think I know why I like this piece so much. It’s what I strive for in everything I do. It disrupts everyone. From Generation Z to those still living from the Greatest Generation, this one has something to unnerve and destabilize everyone’s sense of moral justice. No quarter. Almost no social or political allegiance whatsoever. […]

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  • Jon Fujita

The Problem with Kindness

Posted on April 28, 2019April 29, 2019by Teahouse

There is a gulf between the secular and the religious parts of our lives. In sacred settings we talk about kindness as something valuable and orthodox. At the office, at home, in our neighborhood, in our relationships, and in our friendships, we challenge its value in daily life. I’ve found myself with this bifurcated attitude, […]

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  • Justin Whitaker

Tugging on Our Feelings about Climate Change?

Posted on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018by Teahouse

Like many people following the news today, I find myself deeply worried about climate change. Scientists are offering more and more dire warnings about what to expect in just 10 to 20 years. And we’re actually experiencing weather events that have never or only extremely rarely before occurred: the massive Typhoon Mangkhut that slammed into […]

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