Buddhist Global Relief: Overcoming Adversity, One Step at a Time
Naushin Ahmed
26 September 2014
“I am so happy to be working in my home village. Here, I can be a role model and will help the children and families
Buddhistdoor View: The Purpose of Learning
Buddhistdoor Global
26 September 2014
Since leaving her post as Kyrgyzstan’s interim president in 2011, Roza Otunbayeva has devoted herself to philanthropic services for her country. One of these is
Buddhistdoor View: Prisons and Buddhists
Buddhistdoor Global
12 September 2014
Lewis Lancaster and his longtime friend Danny Tam are the dynamic duo of Buddhist prison visitation. In an interview with this website in 2013, the
Buddhistdoor View: Fiction and Buddhism
Buddhistdoor Global
29 August 2014
Why should a Buddhist invest emotionally in any fictional character? We are attached enough to our own and others’ identities as it is. Yet a
Buddhistdoor View: Palestine and Israel
Buddhistdoor Global
15 August 2014
The Polish historian Isaac Deutscher offered a famous analogy for the creation of the Israeli nation: a Jewish man leaps from a burning building and
Buddhistdoor View: Heritage Conservation
Buddhistdoor Global
1 August 2014
The Buddhist site of Mes Aynak in Afghanistan is doomed in its current state. It is one of the most important heritage sites of Central
Buddhistdoor View: A Tightrope between Conservation and Education
Buddhistdoor Global
18 July 2014
Come September 2014, the Chinese government will allow tour groups to visit only selected caves at the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang in northwest China, a rich repository of
Banning Ajahn Brahm’s speech on nuns was a spectacular own-goal
Raymond Lam
30 May 2014
All religious traditions claim to exert moral and spiritual authority. Most of the great world faiths also like to believe they are aligned with the
Waste and Contentment: What Landfills Teach Us
Mei Ling Fok
29 May 2014
The scene opens with what looks like the largest and dirtiest rubbish dump on the face of the earth. It is huge, with rubbish piled
The Buddha Image: Branding, Commercialization, Denigration?
Raymond Lam
19 May 2014
There is a lounge bistro bar in downtown Brisbane called Jade Buddha. I was studying theology at university when I first went there. We were
Reducing plastic pollution in the place of Buddha’s Enlightenment
Lillian Sum
9 May 2014
Lillian Sum is the founding director of Sacred Earth Trust and is based in India. I first arrived in Bodhgaya in 2006. My first feelings
“When a fly falls into a cup of tea”: ahimsa and life-preserving actions
Tinley Fynn
19 March 2014
It’s been several years since I read Heinrich Harrer’s classic, Seven Years in Tibet (1953). Amidst Harrer’s dramatic journey through Tibet’s soaring mountain peaks, harrowing political landscape,