Transcultural Buddhism

Monotheistic intolerance From The Pacific Standard by Tom Jacobs "Love Religion, but Hate Intolerance? Try Buddhism   New res...

From  The Crusader 'When I was a junior in college, I left southern Minnesota and studied for a semester in Thailand. The study of...

Interfaith Meeting in Bodh Gaya From Vatican Radio    "Fifteen delegates from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue,...

  By Michelle Witte in Kazakhstan Tourism on 9 February 'ASTANA – Kazakhstan today is a mostly Muslim country, but the Silk Road t...

Meditation can help ward off Alzheimer’s disease by keeping the mind younger for longer From the Daily Express "Research appears to...

Does the mind need the brain in order to function?  Can there be such things as disembodied minds?  Can minds exist without matter? Accordin...

My cheat sheet says the answer is 42 Did you know that we are nothing but biological machines governed by physical processes which, a...

Ecrasez l'infâme! In recent weeks we have seen the Charlie Hebdo attacks , the kosher deli massacre , the Quran-inspired atrociti...

Vidyamala Burch From the BBC by Emma Tracey   "Vidyamala Burch is helping people in pain through the practice of "mindfu...

From The Telegraph   First hint of 'life after death' in biggest ever scientific study "Southampton University sci...

The basis of Buddhism is that we all suffer from delusions, and only by reducing, and eventually completely removing those delusions...

Time is what clocks measure Are there some things that science just can’t explain? When asked to explain time,  Einstein famously rema...

TOP DOWN REDUCTIONISM... ...ENDS UP BEING CIRCULAR! I came across this short New Scientist video illustrating some ideas...