Transcultural Buddhism

     FROM MEDSCAPE  'A recently published meta-analysis suggested that the utilization of mind-body practices in people living with type...

  by Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian   "We are not who we were very long ago. A lot of new ideas have emerged from Buddhism and other tr...

  Why we wake up at 3am and end up dwelling on our worries instead of sleeping By Liv Clarke and Daniel Smith, Manchester Evening News  ...

Everyone is welcome to join the globally distributed on-line congregation at this 24 hour drop-in service from Manjushri Centre, Cumbria ...

ouroboros loop Following on from the previous article on the repeated failures to produce mind from machines (Artificial Intelligence ...

From Lankaweb  by Dr. Daya Hewapathirane '...The Buddha Dhamma is described as ehipassiko, inviting one to come and see for hims...

The Real You Following on from the article on Queen Madālasā’s advice to her young son on not identifying with his identity , Jan Wi...

Déjà vu   - (many times) 'The mind is nothing but a machine because very soon (if not next year then certainly within five years) c...

Sanskrit is such a beautiful language. Queen Madālasā sings to her young son, advising him not to get too entangled in the ro...

"If I were going there, I wouldn't start from here" Is there a spiritual path out of this particular neighborhood of Sam...

Here's an excellent article in Psychology Today   by Sharon Hewitt Rawlette     (hat tip Raschau   ) Points of especial interest to...

From Tricycle  'Enlightenment Rests on the Dream' by C. W. Huntington, Jr. ... From the Buddhist point of view, the dream...

'Two contradictory versions of reality can exist at the same time, quantum experiment shows Experiments suggest there is no such thin...

Here's a sequel to the post about the Hedonic treadmill .  It's a discussion of The Diderot Effect   from the BBC No matter ho...

By Olga Khazan in The Atlantic "...This was the first of two meditation sessions of the Kadampa Buddhism class I attended this week...

...and in addition to the philosophical threat to Buddhism covered in the earlier article... "Buddhist scholars attending the 1st Ma...

In a recent comment on the article on intentionality ,  a Buddhist from China states that 'Currently, Chinese Buddhism, traditiona...

From Journal of Glaucoma  "Reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is currently the only appro...

Buddhism in the People’s Republic is a special project by Buddhistdoor Global that turns an illuminating spotlight on the many faces, p...

From Vox  The boys’ coach lived in a Buddhist monastery for a decade and taught them to meditate in the cave. When the 12 Thai boys who’v...