A Conversation with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo on the State of Buddhism in the US
Harsha Menon, MA, MFA
21 June 2018
Female monasticism and the Buddhadharma in the…
Compassion and Kalyana-mittata: The Engaged Buddhism of Sulak Sivaraksa
Craig C Lewis
6 June 2018
Laying the foundations of social transformation
Changing Mindsets: Tashi Zangmo and the Bhutan Nuns Foundation
Caitlin Dwyer
16 May 2018
Empowering female monastics in Bhutan
Dalai Lama Lauds Hindu Priest’s Gesture of Equality for Bearing Dalit Man into Temple
Craig C Lewis
24 April 2018
His Holiness praises kindness and…
“Hyphenated-American”
Rutdow Tanny Jiraprapasuke
28 December 2017
For the Buddhism in America column this month I have asked Harvard scholar and Buddhist practitioner Rutdow Tanny Jiraprapasuke to share in her own words some of
One Face of Liberation: Buddhist Feminism in Japan
Gereon Kopf
30 October 2017
The Zen-inspired activism of Hiratsuka Raichō
Breathing New Life into Myanmar’s Monastic Schools
Shuyin
19 May 2017
There is no gate or decorated signboard at Phaung Daw Oo Integrated Monastic Education School (PDO) in Mandalay, and its entrance obscured by advertising billboards,
Buddhistdoor View: Reflecting on 2016
Buddhistdoor Global
30 December 2016
What a year it’s been—brimming with economic and political upheavals that historians will be debating furiously for decades to come! Many joke (with a hint
Living Dr. Ambedkar’s Vision
Shuyin
18 November 2016
Each year in October, throngs of Dalits, members of India’s “untouchable” Scheduled Castes, across the subcontinent undergo a deeksha (initiation ceremony) to formally convert to Buddhism. These