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One Team, Three Causes: Feeding Hong Kong on Reducing Waste, Helping the Poor, and Mitigating Climate Change

Posted on July 15, 2023July 16, 2023by Teahouse

Feeding Hong Kong is changing the city’s relationship with food waste, and helping the environment and the city’s disadvantaged at the same time

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The British Council supports marginalised youth to re-skill and re-connect through the arts

Posted on November 4, 2022November 4, 2022by Teahouse

The British Council’s ‘Re-stART’ programme has provided access and opportunities for marginalised young people in Hong Kong to re-skill in arts practice and re-connect to the community through the arts

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  • Raymond Lam

Women Leading: Sakyadhita Spain

Posted on February 27, 2022February 25, 2022by Teahouse

The day when “women in Buddhism” is no longer a separate category of discussion, is perhaps the day when the tradition has reached true gender equality. That day is a long way off, and so we are left with using this skilful means (upaya) to highlight the progress and difficulties of women in the Buddhist […]

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A Laywoman’s Calling: A Vocation in Teaching and Livestreaming

Posted on January 7, 2022January 7, 2022by Teahouse

Part One of Gotami’s journey I believe that now, more than ever, we need to talk about the Dharma, and to spread a message of hope for all the people who are suffering during this pandemic. The idea of talking about Dharma, however, came about by chance. By May 2020, I had started writing about […]

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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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  • Nina Muller

Book Review: “Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out”

Posted on September 28, 2020September 28, 2020by Teahouse

Feature image art from: https://www.taracousineau.com Ruth King teaches mindfulness meditation at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and at the Insight Meditation Society. She is also the founder of Mindful Race Institute, LLC, and a celebrated author. Although I have never met her, to me King is one of those Dharma teachers who seems to truly embody the […]

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  • George Cassidy Payne

After the Tear Gas

Posted on September 17, 2020September 16, 2020by Teahouse

and joyful taunts of revolution, the fallof every infant sparrowis evolving as a eulogyin my heart, producing a vision of peace throughjustice, still conversant withthe knowledge of Babylon. Oh, how I know these sonsand daughters of Babylon, their language and history,on both sides, they came from sailors and farmers and weavers. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. […]

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  • Nina Muller

A Social Duty

Posted on August 17, 2020April 26, 2021by Teahouse

Header image from https://www.rferl.org/a/mural-masks-coronavirus-inspires-global-graffiti/30527353.html It has often been said that these days, young people have no respect for the elderly. To be honest, up until very recently, I wasn’t so sure what people meant by this. I tried to imagine how elderly people were treated in previous generations, while around me I observed my peers helping […]

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