


Breathing New Life into Myanmar’s Monastic Schools
There is no gate or decorated signboard at Phaung Daw Oo Integrated Monastic Education School (PDO) in Mandalay, and its entrance obscured by advertising billboards,

A Path to Peace: The Engaged Buddhism of Venerable Tajay Bongsa
During the Education and Buddhist Ministry Conference at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) in April 2015, Professor Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures,

Salvation Centre Cambodia — Fighting HIV/AIDS with the Buddha’s Army
Staring blankly into space, Pat Sorm sits on the steps of her house, hugging a photo of her son who died just a week earlier.

The Trump Presidency and Lessons I Refuse to Learn
As I try to adjust to living in a world dominated by Donald Trump’s presidency and the growing realities of right-wing governments in various parts

Buddhistdoor View: Engaged Buddhism, Donald Trump, and the Way of Compassion
The Trump era is here. The past few weeks have seen the most controversial man to ever sit in the White House send the world

Buddhistdoor View: Reflecting on 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

Exploring Engaged Buddhism with Professor Christopher Queen
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

The Special Friendship of Vaclav Havel and the Dalai Lama, Born from the Emergence of Freedom in Post-Communist Czechoslovakia
In November 1989, as an 11-year-old, I watched a puzzling scene unfold on our black-and-white TV: huge crowds of people had gathered in central Prague