Friday, 22 November 2013

Militant Buddhist extremists threaten to destroy the Western way of life

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Militant Buddhist Extremist "WASHINGTON—In a 45-minute video posted on Tibetan websites Thursday, Tsuglag Rinpoche, leader of ...
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Friday, 4 October 2013

Gruesome Tantric Visualizations Transform and Purify Negativities

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Vajrayogini with chopper and blood offering Have you ever wondered what those skullcups, severed heads and other body parts that you ...
Thursday, 3 October 2013

Buddhism and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

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In Aeon Magazine, Matt Bieber describes how he treated his OCD by using the calming and benevolent rituals of Buddhism to replace the...
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Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Process and Emptiness: Whitehead and Buddhism.

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Process and Emptiness: A Comparison of Whitehead’s Process Philosophy and Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy   by Thomas J. McFarlane "...
Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Buddhist jihad? The Navy Yard and Kenya Mall shootings, Pakistan church massacre and Boko Haram attack.

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Aaron Alexis The past week has seen four tragic massacres: The Navy Yard shooting ;  the Kenya Mall torture, murder and mutilation , t...
Monday, 23 September 2013

Apoha and the creation of meaning by exclusion of contraries, by Maciej Zieba

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Exclusion and negation: Stencil 'form and ground'  are interchangeable and  convey the same information The M...
Saturday, 21 September 2013

The Buddhists are coming!

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From Pantheos by Paul Louis Metzger  "...Many Buddhists as well as Evangelicals may be surprised that an Evangelical like myse...

How Does Steve Jobs Movie Handle Apple Founder's Buddhism?

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From  Charisma news "Jobs is a biographical movie based on the life of technological icon and founder of Apple Computers Steve Jobs....
Friday, 20 September 2013

National Prestige and Soft Power Politics in Buddha's Birthplace

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By Ilaria Maria Sala in The Wall Street Journal "The plain of Terai, a poor agricultural land crossed by holy rivers, straddles the...
Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Jihadists plotting more attacks on Buddhists

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Attacks planned on Tibetan Buddhists in India By Gaurav Bisht, Hindustan Times       "Alarmed by revelations of Indian Mujahede...

Modern Buddhist Art: Bodhisattva Guanyin Emerald Jade Carving

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From China Daily   "An unfinished statue of Guanyin (a Bodhisattva with 1,000 hands and 1,000 eyes in Buddhism) by famous Taiwan sc...
Monday, 16 September 2013

Existential Fears of Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Myanmar fueled by Organization of Islamic Cooperation

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By Shenali D Waduge at Lankaweb   "A specter is haunting Sri Lanka. The specter of the country being overrun by Muslims. That somet...

No such thing as Tibetan Buddhism?

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From Buddhism beyond the nation state by Richard Payne   "...Reflecting on the problematic organizational hierarchy of contempora...
Sunday, 15 September 2013

Faces of the Buddha by Sandhya Regmi

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Sandhya Regmi explains her fascination with painting faces of the Buddha in this article at Republica   "Despite being a Hindu t...

Pali, the sacred language of early Buddhism, is being revived in India

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Pali Texts From The Times of India by Mihir Bhanage Students help revive ancient Pali language "Slowly but steadily Pali, the Bud...
Friday, 13 September 2013

Delhi gang rape: Is Buddhism Opposed to Self-Defense?

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Delhi Rapists By M. Sophia Newman in Religious Dispatches "Twenty years after the murder of Mia Zapata inspired a self-d...

Staten Island's Congregation Om Shalom blends Judaism with yoga, meditation, Buddhism and Hinduism

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From  SILive By Maura Grunlund/Staten Island Advance   "STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Sam Steinberg, newly ordained as Rabbi Samtosha and ...
Thursday, 12 September 2013

Buddhism may improve relations between the two Koreas

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From the Global Post    Buddhist exchanges pick up pace with easing of inter-Korean tensions   SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Yonhap) -- Exchanges betw...
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