My Two Articles on the 12 Links

My two articles on the 12 links (a.k.a., “Twelve Nidānas”, 十二因缘, etc.) have now been posted to Medium.com, so, I suppose, they're easier to find, and they won't disappear if the "New Mandala" website does:

• Returning to the Primary Source of the 12-Links (十二因缘) in Theravada Buddhism, or, “Discarding Dependent Origination”.
https://medium.com/p/711172ce7762

• Causality and Canonicity: a Sequel on the Misinterpretation of Buddhist “Dependent Arising” and/or/as/vs. “Interdependence”.
https://medium.com/p/46091f5da69

I have tried for years to get these translated into Chinese (and, no, I wasn't asking anyone to work for free) but the translators were terrified of the challenge.  So, these still remain in English only.

The Buddha Was Bald

I re-formatted and re-posted my old article, "The Buddha was Bald", because it keeps coming up in conversation:

https://medium.com/p/a25589c26ebe
"The Buddha was Bald… but is Everywhere Depicted with a Full Head of Hair."