Buddhology
A Terrible Act of Reason: When Did Self-Immolation Become the Paramount Form of Protest?
- Sunday, 20 May 2012 03:27
- James Verini
Suddenly, self-immolation is everywhere. Yesterday, in Oslo, a man set himself on fire outside the Anders Breivik trial. He follows at least forty Tibetans who have set themselves aflame to protest Chinese rule in the past year.
Buddhism expert wants science to rethink meditation claims
- Wednesday, 11 April 2012 02:13
- Catherine Armitage
SCIENTIFIC studies purporting to show the ancient Buddhist practice of meditation leads to permanent beneficial changes in the brain rest on shaky foundations, a world authority on Buddhism has warned.
Buddhism, Cosmology and Evolution
- Monday, 27 February 2012 17:58
- John Stanley & David Loy
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. - Charles Darwin
Can a religion survive being stripped of its superstitions?
- Friday, 10 February 2012 16:17
- Julian Baggini
A recurring criticism I've face in this series is that I talk about religion but focus almost exclusively on the Judaeo-Christian tradition. In some ways that's fair, but given my concerns are with the broader features of religious belief, not the minutiae of doctrinal differences, I'm pretty confident that all or at least most of my main points apply to the monotheistic religions at least, and many are also relevant to others.
The Real "Dark Age"
- Wednesday, 01 February 2012 19:49
- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
Himachal Pradesh, India -- Some say the dark age, age of vice - Kaliyuga (last of the four stages the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas described in the Indian scriptures), is here now, or at least coming soon. Some even fear that at the end of 2012 the world as we know it will end.
Bodhi Day: A Transgender Buddhist's Note of Gratitude
- Thursday, 08 December 2011 16:52
- Jack W. Cooper
December 8 is Bodhi Day which commemorates the Enlightenment of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. Though there are a variety of ways that one might choose to recognize this holiday, as there are many sects of Buddhism and a range of specific customs within each of them, I will speak for myself as one trans-identified Western practitioner of Vipassana meditation within the Theravada tradition of Buddhism.
