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Serving Humanity in Transition: Chinese Buddhism and Spiritual Care in the United States
Guoying Stacy Zhang
8 September 2021
Loving-kindness, compassion, vicarious joy, and equanimity: the path to collective transformation
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Beginner’s Mind: Looking for the East in the West and Finding Myself Instead
Mukund Nair
16 August 2021
An exploration of Buddhist thought and practice
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Dharma Realm Buddhist University in California Resumes In-person Classes with Largest Student Cohort
Craig C Lewis
16 August 2021
26 new students enrolled for three academic courses
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Book Review: Lama Shenpen Hookham’s Keeping the Dalai Lama Waiting & Other Stories
Nina Müller
5 August 2021
Entering the life and teachings of one of the West’s great translators of Tibetan Buddhism
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Being or Doing? Or Both? Or Neither?
Ratnadevi
23 July 2021
A meditation from the vegetable patch
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84000 Founds Assistant Professorship in Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto
Craig C Lewis
21 July 2021
Strengthening the reach and relevance of Buddhist studies…
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Beginner’s Mind: Lump on a Log
Justyn Friedler
15 July 2021
Reflections on environment, interconnection, and equanimity
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No Poverty: The Sustainable Development Goals and Buddhism
Hozan Alan Senauke
14 July 2021
Interdependence and the path toward social equality
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Bulgaria’s Sofia University to Launch Master’s Program in Buddhist Studies
Lyudmila Klasanova
30 June 2021
Graduate program to begin from the 2021/22 academic…
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When the Buddha Came to Ultima Thule: Call for Papers for the Sixth International Conference Buddhism and Nordland
Craig C Lewis
25 June 2021
Conference to be held in Sweden, 19–20 November…
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Book Review: Norman Fischer’s When You Greet Me I Bow
Nina Müller
7 June 2021
Fischer’s humble and hodgepodge approach to Buddhism reflects his deep practice and American culture