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Buddhism Researcher Suggests Modern Psychology Has A Neoliberalism Problem

In A Nutshell Mindfulness has been stripped of its spiritual roots and repackaged as a corporate stress-management tool that ...
The New Yorker

What Meditation Can Do for Us, and What It Can’t | The New Yorker

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

Richard Gere and wife solve family issues with Buddhism

Richard Gere and his wife Alejandra Silva solve family problems by drawing on Buddhism because it brings peace and calmness.
Cal Alumni Association

Rethinking Buddhism

Buddhism, venerable and ancient world religion, has lately found itself in the thick of a cutting-edge dialogue with modern science. This dialogue has included the Mind & Life conferences, where the ...
The Independent

Why do we think of Buddhism as peaceful?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Who Gets Buddhism 'Right'? Reflections of a Postcolonial 'Western Buddhist' Convert

In a recent article by Jarni Blakkarly, he generously featured my thoughts on the ethical role of faith, our capacity to relate to others with trust or "good faith," in supporting Buddhist practice.
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Buddhism at the Beginning: The Life of the Enlightened One

Buddhism began around 2,500 years ago. Its founder was a person known to history as Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born into a noble family in the kingdom of Kapilavastu, close to what is now the ...
PBS

Comments on Tensions in American Buddhism

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly invited several scholars to comment on the divisions and direction of Buddhism in America today: Carl Bielefeldt is professor of religious studies and co-director of the ...
Nippon

Edo-Period Buddhism as Part of the Apparatus of Shogunal Control

Buddhism in Japan today is made up of many different sects or schools, each with its own set of teachings, normally drawing on traditions and doctrines associated with a particular set of sutras. Most ...
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‘The idea that Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism began in late 1800s’: Writer-historian Douglas Ober

I have been studying the social dynamics of ancient Buddhism for decades now. This religion has irrevocably shaped the shared history and social structures of this subcontinent in ways we haven’t yet ...
The New Indian Express

Why Buddhism faded in the land of its birth

Hinduism’s focus on joy and God contrasted with Buddhism’s austere practices and lack of a personal deity. Additionally, Buddhism’s monastic demands disrupted societal structures, making it ...