Posted in Media, tagged Asian Meter, Shambhala Sun on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The title says it all. With more bylines and more of these going to Asians, Shambhala Sun retakes its mantle from Buddhadharma. (Yes, I realize that both are publications of the Shambhala Sun Foundation, with many of the same writers and editors.)
But keep in mind that this measure of inclusiveness is still far below the actual proportion [...]
Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Community, tagged American Buddhism, Asian American, Asian Meter, Language, Pew Forum, statistics, Tricycle on April 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There are about 1.5 million Asian American Buddhists in the United States. Or at least, that’s my estimate. My confidence interval is pretty big, but I feel certain enough to start tossing this number around from now on. This figure keeps the data and assumptions of the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, but adjusts them to address [...]
Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Media, tagged anthology, Asian American, Asian Meter, Beneath a Single Moon, Lawson Fusao Inada, poetry, Shambhala, Wisdom Publications on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 7:15am in Cambridge, Massachusetts and I’m sitting in the Peet’s Coffee off Brattle Square waiting for some friends to roll out of bed and come grab some breakfast with me. In the meantime, I thought I’d throw up a post about a semi-recent collection of poetry by Wisdom Publications: The Wisdom Anthology of North American [...]
Posted in Holidays, tagged Pohela Boishakh, religion, Songkran, Thingyan on April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(Inspired by a previous post by kudos.)
This is probably a question that few care to ask, but I thought I’d slop together some information for anyone who was interested in knowing more about this holiday. I usually refer to it as Songkran/Thingyan, but this term (as I understand) is most often used to just denote [...]
Posted in Holidays, tagged Songkran, Thingyan, water festival on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I can barely believe that I wrote our first Dharma Folk post one year ago today. We had no idea what we were going to do with this blog. We had a lot of thoughts and things to say about Buddhism and the Buddhist community. We figured we might as well start a blog and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Many suttas begin with the usual, “I have heard that on one ocassion, the Buddha was at…” They also recount a definitive answer and teaching posed by a situation. The Buddha tells Ananda that noble friendship is the whole of the holy life; he tells Vakkali that “he who sees me sees the dhamma.” ….all [...]
Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Community, Media, tagged djbuddha, Hawaii, Pew Forum, statistics, Tricycle on April 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Tricycle printed a letter to the editor from Scott Mitchell that criticized their ”Buddhism by the Numbers” piece in the Fall 2008 issue. If you can’t read his whole complaint, it’s also available on his blog. There are four specific issues, but in this post, I’m addressing one in particular:
The exclusion of the Hawaiian population is troublesome for a [...]
Posted in Community, tagged human trafficking, karma, morality, prostitution, sex worker on April 1, 2009 | 18 Comments »
A few months ago I blogged about sex work and Buddhism, as it was related to some issues that had bubbled up in Cambodia at the time. I unsuccessfully tried to pull together some thoughts on the subject. I am very interested in discussing issues related to sex work because they are all at once [...]
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