This column “Dharma Project of the Month,” which started in January 2016, was intended primarily to showcase the many efforts of Buddhists—both monastics and laypeople—to
It’s pouring with rain outside and my youngest daughter is in bed with a fever. I thought that we had escaped southern Brazil’s winter flu
Can the Dharma provide a framework of analysis for global conflicts? Can it provide a new paradigm for preventing war? During the time of the
Dasho Karma Ura is the president of the Centre for Bhutan Studies and Gross National Happiness (GNH) Research. This think tank is not merely a
Zen Master Seung Sahn was the 78th Patriarch of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism – a monk who devoted his whole life to propagating the
“You feeling better?” She wasn’t, but I most certainly could have said something better. Through her tears and sniffles the otherwise confident and self-assured ma’am
May the 8th was Brain Cancer Action Week in Australia. That day was a bittersweet one for eight-year-old Jeremiah Del Tufo, who passed away from brain cancer.
Observing impermanence in our daily lives can be quite difficult. Our friends and family can seem quite stable as we perform our daily jobs in
The fact that all conditioned things are impermanent forms a central tenet in all forms of Buddhism. It is difficult to listen to a dharma talk without
Change is the very nature of the phenomenal existence. But most of the times we are not ready to face it. It becomes extremely difficult
A disciple once asked the late Most Venerable Sheng Yi, “Will you be reborn in the Tusita Heaven* when you enter Ultimate Nirvana someday, like Master
In this essay I give a brief explanation of the concept of ‘saṅkhāra’, an important factor in the Buddhist theory of Causality, showing its role
