Buddhist discourses, articles, news, and speculations of interest to American Buddhists (inclusive of all traditions) with a particular emphasis on meditation, self-development, and nonharming.
Frontline: Culture of Compassion
(Flonnet.com) Buddhism, with its vision of eternal harmony of the world, shaped the culture of the Orient, particularly South-East Asia. SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA is one of humanity’s wisest teachers. He lived in the 6th...
"The Birth of Responsibility: right here, right now" with Alan Watts and Shambhala International's controversial guru Chögyam Trungpa (music by Fatboy Slim)
Gold plated amulets of Ven. Sivali, a monk in the Buddha's time renowned for his amazing good fortune (dhammapath.blogspot.com)
Ven. Sivali was praised by the Buddha as the most miraculous monk for manifesting fortune. Sivali is recollected by Thai...
(SubliminalSpooky) This is a trailer for DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller)'s new large scale multimedia performance work (now being performed): It is an acoustic portrait of the rapidly changing Antarctic continent. "Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica"...
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(Aljazeera/TamilVoice2009) Are Buddhist monks in the wrong for (apparently) promoting Sinhalese nationalism instead of universal compassion and impartiality (upekkha)? It all came to a head in Asia's longest-running civil war on the...