For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman writes on how to understand problems in the transmission of Buddhism to the West, drawing on, in particular, Charles Taylor’s work on secularism.
Posts Tagged ‘Buddhism’
August 16th, 2012
Buddhism and the practices of contemporary education
posted by Candice ScharfRecently, Matt Bieber interviewed Peter Hershock, author of Buddhism in the Public Sphere, for his blog The Wheat and Chaff.
June 20th, 2012
Ethno-religious clashes in Myanmar
posted by Candice ScharfLast week in Myanmar, ethnic and religious clashes between majority-group Rakhine Buddhists and minority-group Rohingya Muslims left at least a dozen dead and thousands displaced.
May 23rd, 2012
Dalai Lama to give Templeton money to charity
posted by David SloaneLast week at BBC News, Robert Pigott reported that the Dalai Lama will give to charity the £1.1 million in Templeton prize money that he was awarded earlier this month.
May 22nd, 2012
Buddhist manuscript to be released in book form
posted by David SloaneBBC News reported recently on the release of a collection of rare fifth-century Buddhist manuscripts, known together as the Lotus Sutra, in book form in India.
May 2nd, 2012
Panchen Lama in Hong Kong
posted by Wei ZhuOn April 25th, 2012, Gyaltsen Norbu, the 11th Panchen Lama, delivered a speech for the first time outside of the Chinese mainland.
April 26th, 2012
Sacred space in Sri Lanka
posted by Taline CoxBBC news reports the ordered removal of a mosque in the central town of Dambulla, Sri Lanka.
February 1st, 2012
“On Being” Buddhistipalian with Rosanne Cash
posted by Taline CoxJanuary 5, 2012’s episode of “On Being with Krista Tippet” is a conversation with Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, a singer-songwriter and author in her own right.
January 5th, 2012
Axial axioms
posted by Wendy Doniger
The word “magisterial” in publishers’ blurbs usually means little more than “too long,” and indeed Religion in Human Evolution is very long, but it is also magisterial in many of the ways that the Oxford English Dictionary suggests: “Of, relating to, designating, or befitting a master, teacher, or other person qualified to speak with authority; masterly, authoritative, commanding.” It is certainly all of those, a book full of the wisdom and erudition that comes only when someone quite brilliant has thought about a big subject for many years.
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