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My relatively old article ( "The Opposite of Buddhism" ) ended up posted on another blog as a series of installments (this break...

I provided an interview to the Hong Kong publication of the Tung Lin Kok Yuen foundation (東蓮覺苑). http://newlotus.buddhistdoor.com/en/new...

Pause to consider just how much is wrong with this picture. This isn't a poster that was created to promote a temple, nor yoga class...

If it were impossible to teach languages in the classroom, it would be unethical for universities to charge money (and offer degrees) for s...

(It occupies more than one box.) I struggled for many years without owning my own copy of the Pali Canon, and I'm now giving away th...

MacBeth vs. MacDuff. One of the recurrent issues in my own writing is the misconception that "crazy theories" come from the fr...

The t-shirt is actually for a rock band, not the religion… [Question:] Do you have any recommendations for translations of the Sutta Pit...

Suppose someone formed their opinion of Buddhism based solely on the articles on this blog (a scenario only slightly stranger than meetin...

Charles Johnson, 2010 ( OSU Library ) As I've said some disparaging things about Schopenhauer lately, *¹ *² I'll open this art...

Although I'm glad that anyone read the article at all, I think that my former point was missed about looking at the (imperfect) map o...