Buddhist nationalism Archives - Buddhistdoor Global

Book Review: Hakuin’s Song of Zazen

Raymond Lam 14 March 2024

Zen teacher Yamada Mumon Rōshi’s series of essays on Hakuin’s poem receives a rich and faithful English translation

Buddhistdoor View: Potential Directions for Western Buddhism and Global Dharma

Buddhistdoor Global 7 October 2023

Buddhism in the West faces political and philosophical challenges, but this is an opportune time for intellectual and theological renewal

Anagarika Dharmapala: Buddhist Revivalist, Global Missionary, Sinhalese Nationalist

Dipen Barua 23 August 2023

Revivalist, the earliest engaged Buddhist, a nationalist in religious garb, a Buddhist modernist . . Dharmapala was all these and much more

Buddhistdoor View: Elon Musk, Social Media, and the Buddhist Right

Buddhistdoor Global 3 December 2022

Elon Musk’s cryptic bedside image with a vajra ritual implement invokes an overlapping relationship between Western right-wing movements and reactionary convert communities

Nationalism: Collective Selves and the Promise of Buddhaland

Brian Daizen Victoria 30 September 2022

Looking at how Buddhism has treated nationalism, from ancient empires to modern countries and contemporary movements

Does Buddhism Hold the Instincts for War?

Brian Daizen Victoria 18 May 2022

War and peace As Buddhists observe the latest manifestations of the pain and suffering of war—in Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere—many seek, as an expression of