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Real Conservatives

Posted in Sangha, tagged , , , , , , on October 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Western Buddhists often talk about reforming conservative Asian Buddhism. But who’s the real conservative? In my opinion, all this talk of “reform” and “adaptation” is really reactionary Western conservatism in disguise…

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Metta for Your Job Interview

Posted in Meditation, tagged , , , , , , , on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »

As I find myself swimming from interview to interview, I figured others might be interested in this little piece of advice I got a couple weeks ago. My phone rang as I was driving over to a job interview across town, and it was my friend R on the line. He told me, “You’ve got [...]

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Raise the roof!

Posted in Art, Media, Sutra, tagged , , , on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Buddhism is filled with a wonderful lyricism stretching all the way back from it’s oral tradition to it’s more modern expressions. The following are just some modes of expression I found interesting in these last few months. Disclaimer: this is in no way meant to be complete or representative.

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Dharma Tourism in SF

Posted in Community, Media, tagged , , , , on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

First thing in my mailbox this morning was an email from my father about the New York Time’s article In Buddha’s Path on the Streets of San Francisco. The article begins with the oldest Buddhist temple, Tien Hau Temple, and moves its way through the Buddhist Church of San Francisco down to modern institutions which are [...]

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Faces of American Buddhism

Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Community, Media on October 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »

The racially homogenous staff of Shambhala Sun.
In the past I’ve harped about Buddhist publications, and I’ve mostly opined about Tricycle because it has a popular blog. (The blog makes it an easy target.) In all honesty, I don’t hate Tricycle (or its blog) or Shambhala Sun or Buddhadharma. I think these are great magazines, but they [...]

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Buddhist Hybrid English

Posted in Community, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I came across the murky but fascinating idea on Wikipedia, and it goes a little something like this: just as we got Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit when Classical Sanskrit was affected by Prakrit vocabulary and grammar, and we got Buddhist Hybrid Chinese when Classical Chinese was affected by the former, the language of English Buddhist Literature [...]

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