Sexual misconduct and abuse by clergy is a widespread problem, as news reports and newspaper headlines all-too-often remind us, and American Buddhist sanghas are just
India is the motherland of Buddhism and a great source of knowledge and wisdom. In August, I had the honor of teaching a series of
On experiencing buddhahood and reaching the ocean of…
For hundreds of years, Paris has been a major center for finance, fashion, science, and the arts. The city is home to a multitude of historical
At 4am, before even the first peep of sunrise, the sound of temple bells ripples through the silence that hangs over Luang Prabang, rousing the
Lately, it seems that as each month goes by, another study is released touting the almost miraculous benefits of mindfulness—another hospital has started offering mindfulness-based
Starting on 14 October, the community of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto will sit
Learning that home is a non-place we carry inside us
After two years of being unable to visit the Plum Village monastic community in southwest France for the Summer Opening Retreat, conditions were finally right
The first challenge I encountered during the first year of my monastic training as a postulant was overcoming the discomfort from the clothes we wore.
Venerable Nyanaponika in The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest, begins: “Unshakable deliverance of the mind is the highest goal in the Buddha’s doctrine. Here, deliverance
Many people have a romantic notion of what it must be like to be a Dharma heir. It reminds me of a Chan story about
