The New Year Is Now
Sister Ocean
30 December 2016
The turning of the year is a natural time to pause and reflect on our lives, be it for the lunar or the Gregorian calendar.
Meditating with the Younger Sangha
Summer Adams
30 December 2016
The beginning of the holiday season and the end of the school year means there are kids at home all day. It means dealing with
Buddhistdoor View: Reflecting on 2016
Buddhistdoor Global
30 December 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
The Buddhism of Forks or Chopsticks
Malcolm Hunt
29 December 2016
Translating Pure Land Buddhism into an…
Nurturing the Roots of Chinese Buddhism in Africa
Ben Xing (Simon Manase Masauko)
29 December 2016
Humanistic Buddhism comes to Madagascar, Malawi…
Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Society: A Warm and Venerable Buddhist Presence in the Heart of Vancouver
Raymond Lam
29 December 2016
How to bring Chinese Buddhism and culture to…
“There Is Also Joy”—Mindfulness-based Dementia Care
Caitlin Dwyer
23 December 2016
Imagine a difficult situation that many of us experience: an aging parent is beginning to forget things, to have difficulty speaking, to struggle physically, and
Buddhistdoor View: Renewing the Joy of Encountering the Other This Festive Season
Buddhistdoor Global
23 December 2016
By now, many of us will have seen the familiar Christmas images in advertisements, on billboards, and behind the glass windows of shops. The scenes
How Wrong Views Lead to Errors in Judgment
Dr. Ernest Chi-Hin Ng
16 December 2016
Two major events shocked global financial markets in 2016: Britons voted “Yes” to leaving the European Union in the “Brexit” referendum and American voters elected
The Special Friendship of Vaclav Havel and the Dalai Lama, Born from the Emergence of Freedom in Post-Communist Czechoslovakia
Zuzi Griffiths Cernakova
9 December 2016
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
Being a Buddhist Parent during Christmas
Summer Adams
2 December 2016
When my eldest daughter, Amaya, was four she started attending an afternoon daycare center in town. It was during that same year when, one afternoon
Russia’s Golden Triangle of Buddhism
Lyudmila Klasanova
2 December 2016
Buddhism first came to Russia in the 17th century and became firmly established mainly in three Russian republics, Buryatia, Kalmykia, and Tuva, where it had