The Most Intimate
Sister Ocean
7 April 2017
There is a Zen phrase that says, “Not knowing is the most intimate.” I first heard it quoted in a yoga class many years ago.
The Way of the Bodhisattvas
Anam Thubten Rinpoche
31 March 2017
It is important to ask questions of ourselves, such as is it enough to only practice meditation or sadhana on the cushion? Are we becoming self-indulging Dharma
Kisa Gotami Meets Beyoncé
Vanessa Sasson
17 March 2017
Kisa Gotami’s ghost has long haunted me. It has probably haunted many of us in the field of Buddhist Studies. She is the face of
Taxing the Robots and Other Externalities
Dr. Ernest Chi-Hin Ng
17 March 2017
Technological developments have contributed enormously to the improvement of human living conditions, replacing physical labor with machines and expanding mental capacity with computer automation. Nevertheless,
Book Review: Approaching Buddhism—An Introduction to the Buddhist Tradition from the Pure Land Perspective
Raymond Lam
3 March 2017
It is a cliché to say that publishing an introductory textbook to a vast and philosophical subject like Buddhism is much harder than some writers
Baby Steps on the Path of Purity
Prof. David Dale Holmes
17 February 2017
I visited Venerable Nyanaponika Thera at the Forest Hermitage, in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in the mid-1980s, when Bhikkhu Bodhi was still staying there with him,
A Student Death
Vanessa Sasson
13 January 2017
One of my students killed himself this year. He was 20 years old. A friend of his came by my office to tell me the
Buddhistdoor View: Reflecting on 2016
Buddhistdoor Global
30 December 2016
What a year it’s been—brimming with economic and political upheavals that historians will be debating furiously for decades to come! Many joke (with a hint
An Afternoon with Ajahn Sujato: Personal Courage and Restoring the Sangha’s Moral Purpose
Raymond Lam
9 December 2016
The tall and robust teacher of Ajahn Chah’s forest tradition speaks with a typically blokeish Aussie accent, however the words of wisdom and compassion he
The US Election and the Vajjians
Vanessa Sasson
2 December 2016
I know I am not alone in feeling overwhelmed by the results of the presidential election in the United States. The whole world, it seems,
The View from the Top
Sister Ocean
2 December 2016
From the top of a mountain we can see far and wide. We can see the land and the sky. Standing at the meeting point
Buddhistdoor View: How to Be Happily Unhappy
Buddhistdoor Global
25 November 2016
The History Boys (2006), a masterful film adaptation of playwright Alan Bennett’s drama of the same name, has a thoughtful and melancholy ending. The film deploys