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October 2013

October 04, 2013
As everyone should know by now, the U.S. government officially shut down earlier this week....
October 02, 2013
As many of you probably know by now, S.N. Goenka, the preeminent lay teacher of Vipassanā...

September 2013

September 23, 2013
Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly Online has more on this meeting of the two great engaged...
September 21, 2013
Adam Kō Shin Tebbe is the director, producer and cameraman of currently-in-production documentary film Zen...
September 18, 2013
The terrible shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, perpetrated by a disturbed young Buddhist...
September 16, 2013
Two conversations about sex scandals in American Buddhist sanghas took place recently: one during the 2013...
September 15, 2013
Join Jack Kornfield in telling President Obama to reject the climate-destroying, Keystone XL tar sands...
September 14, 2013
This semester, as part of my fall course load at University of the West (where...
September 09, 2013
Douglas Penick is a 30 year practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, a former research associate at...
September 04, 2013
...So begins Japanese cultural anthropologist Noriyuki Ueda's amazing interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama,...
September 02, 2013
Last year, I interviewed Alex Co, team leader of the documentary film Daughters of Dolma:...

August 2013

August 28, 2013
#DreamDay
August 13, 2013
She has been named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Glamour’s Woman of...
August 11, 2013
In case you've missed news coverage about it -- and you might have, as the media...
August 10, 2013
The Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women, "an alliance of women (and men) committed to...
August 06, 2013
Some weeks back, Texas Senator Wendy Davis did an incredibly brave thing by filibustering (for an...
August 05, 2013
Some weeks back, I had the pleasure of attending the Myanmar Muslims Genocide Awareness Convention...
August 04, 2013
Thailand's The Nation has exclusive interviews with noted LGBT activist Anjana Suvarnananda, as well as...
August 04, 2013
My pal, former student, and fellow UWest employee Monica Sanford has a terrific new post...

July 2013

July 31, 2013
Neat...
July 30, 2013
Kunsang Dolma, author of Wisdom Publications' new title A Hundred Thousand White Stones: An Ordinary...
July 29, 2013
This via Buddhist Studies at Leiden University... A NWO-funded Research Project Call for Papers A...
July 26, 2013
I've got a brand new interview with my buddy Dr. Michaela Haas over at Buddhadharma: The...
July 16, 2013
The police dispatcher that George Zimmerman spoke to on the night of February 26th, 2012,...
July 08, 2013
I've found myself thinking quite an awful lot lately about two articles that appeared recently...
July 07, 2013
As many of you reading have probably heard by now, there has been a coordinated...
July 06, 2013
Two thought-provoking posts appeared in the Buddhist blogosphere this week. First, my friend Shastri Ethan...

June 2013

June 25, 2013
As you may have heard, President Obama today unveiled his second-term plan to address climate...
June 24, 2013
Amy Hollingsworth is the author of the newly-released book Letters from the Closet: Ten Years of...
June 22, 2013
Sure, Time Magazine's cover isn't always the same in the U.S. as it is in...
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