How Zen can help us deconstruct ethnic constructs and notions of race, dismantling long-held ideas of self in America
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Light Up Peace: Vesak Day Celebration at Washington DC
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A Vesak commemoration to celebrate diversity, foster unity and understanding, and embrace unity, peace, and hope
Eye on Southeast Asia: Siri Gotami Buddhist Temple-USA Established in Indianapolis
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Siri Gotami Buddhist Temple-USA is named after its steward, Italian-born thilashin Gotami Yadanar and is the first women’s temple for Burmese Buddhism in the US
The Temples of Buddha’s Light: Master Hsing Yun’s Global Outreach
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The great international temples founded by Master Hsing Yun in his global mission to share the message of humanistic Buddhism
Is Buddhism Now a Canadian Religion?
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Part One of Durgesh Kasbekar’s analysis of the present situation of Buddhism in Canada
The TLKY International Conference 2021 Interview Series – Prof. Jin Y. Park
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Welcome to our series of conversations with participating speakers at this year’s Tung Lin Kok Yuen International Conference – Buddhist Canons: In Search of a Theoretical Foundation for a Wisdom-oriented Education (27–28 November 2021). In each blog post, I speak with keynote speakers and paper presenters about their subject at this conference. Register for this […]
Systemic Racism in the US: What White Buddhists Can Do, Part Two
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Practice compassion A well-known Buddhist text depicts a woman who is absolutely distraught by the loss of her only child. Following the advice of the Buddha, she goes from one house to another in the search of a family who has not experienced loss, only to realize that no such family exists. The lesson is […]
Book Review: “American JewBu”
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I first came across American JewBu at the beginning of 2020 and it was incredibly eye opening. Having practiced Buddhism in Europe for over a decade, somehow I went all that time without recognizing the incredible contribution that Jewish Americans have made to Buddhism as it is commonly practiced in the Western world. The book was published […]
A Buddhist Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Recently on the PBS News Hour, David Brooks called COVID-19 a national stress test for how well and long we can maintain our collective faith in institutions and each other. Indeed, the coronavirus has shaken the very foundations of society as we all know it. But to call it a stress test is, given what […]
Sunset Over Henderson Harbor
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She handed me the egg sprayed in blooded paint between the bones, slowly and meticulously, even perilously and the egg, in her fingers (if one could call them that) reminded me of the sun accused and oozing below a fluorescent indigo horizon sandblasted, with chocolate shadows on the cheeks of homes congregated on the rocky […]