Buddha Da was published in 2003 and was the first novel by Scottish Author Anne Donovan. It was shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize and the
Sangeeta Bansal Ph.D, a researcher and writer, is also the founder of a non-profit called Mindside, which aims to make the benefits of mindfulness meditation
If the goal of Buddhism is nirvana, or at least to live a life based on Buddhist principles, how does the creation or consumption of
A friend once castigated me for supporting institutional religion. Hers was a critique based on an interpretation of European Enlightenment values and a secular suspicion
One of the most vibrant and exciting events contemporary Buddhism offers is its film festivals, which usually take place annually and have for years driven
Batchelor’s 2010 work is an autobiographical work composed of two parts which recounted his Buddhist experience as a monk and a layman. In this work,
“Facing my imminent death, I vow with all beings to go with the natural process at peace with whatever comes. When someone close to me
The Buddha once decreed that the Dharma be spoken in one’s own language. The doctrine of skilful means (up?ya) indicates that “language” does not literally mean
Problems with bivalent logic The father of classical logic in the Western tradition, Aristotle, had already noticed that in order to save the law of excluded
“Beautiful, soft, open – but not always interesting.” This is how California-based filmmaker Heather Kessinger describes current trends in American Buddhist filmmaking, which has unwittingly
