Dharma and Politics
Anam Thubten Rinpoche
11 April 2024
Anam Thubten Rinpoche offers a Dharma teaching on practicing compassion and equanimity in an increasingly polarized world
Buddhistdoor View: Reawakening Awareness – Commemorating a Supreme Woman Arahant, Ven. Yasodhara (Bhaddakaccana Theri)
Buddhistdoor Global
6 April 2024
It is time that Yasodhara, the Buddha’s wife, is more widely recognized as a great enlightened one with an updated date of her passing
Becoming the Master of Your Own Life
Jungto Society
29 October 2023
Ven. Pomnyun Sunim gives a Dharma teaching on the Buddhist practice of self-reliance
The Joy of Renunciation – In Retreat and in Everyday Life
Sarah C. Beasley
25 June 2022
On the blessing of stepping back from our busy lives and turning toward our deeper values and ideals
Sādhanānanda Mahāsthabir Bana Bhāntē (1920–2012): A Torchbearer from Bangladesh
Sanjoy Barua Chowdhury
26 May 2022
Sādhanānanda Mahāsthabir, also known as Bana Bhāntē, was an influential Theravāda teacher whose name is still revered by thousands of his devotees and followers in
On Right Intention and Right Action
Prof. David Dale Holmes
16 February 2021
Eradicating the root of craving and the causes of suffering
Happiness
John Harvey Negru
30 December 2019
Renunciation as the first step in confronting our global…
A Wrestling Match with Vessantara
Vanessa Sasson
12 August 2019
Layers of meaning in the Vessantara Jataka
Tales of the Emerald Buddha: Simplicity and Splendor
Vanessa Sasson
18 June 2019
Perceptions and preconceptions of Buddhist…
The Daily Practice of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Nun: Keeping the Precepts and Etiquette
Ven. Chang-Hwa, Ph.D.
13 December 2017
Years ago, during a fundraising gala for the Chan Meditation Center, I met Master Sheng Yen’s first Western monastic disciple, Paul Kennedy, and we invited
The Buddhist Retirement Plan
Vanessa Sasson
29 September 2017
A financial adviser once told me that most people only really begin saving for retirement in their mid-forties. It would be better to start earlier,
Master Shandao’s Exegesis of the Sincere Mind, Part Four
Alan Kwan
27 January 2017
Last time, we explored how a Pure Land aspirant attains both “genuineness in self-benefiting” and “genuineness in benefiting others” through the dedication of real merits