Life is precarious, more so for those who live in a neoliberal world. Byung-Chul Han names this lifeworld “the achievement…
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Karmic historiography
Buddhism and deliberative democracy
October 8, 2025
Introduction: Deliberative democracy, West and East Democracies today face turbulent times. Populism, polarization, and entrenched inequality threaten their foundations, while authoritarianism continues to rise—democracy has declined for 18 consecutive years. In this…
October 8, 2025
Karmic historiography
For all intents and purposes (the ecology)
October 1, 2025
Technology looms large in the contemporary world, and powerful new tools to extract and generate texts using large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have had a major impact across a broad spectrum…
October 1, 2025
Karmic historiography
Risky play
September 24, 2025
The challenge “Interdependence” is often evoked as a Buddhist term, but it is also frequently misappropriated in terms of “relational realism” or interconnected webs of beings. Buddhist theories of interdependence or “codependent…
September 24, 2025
Karmic historiography
The karma of not caring
September 17, 2025
People who work with Buddhist texts and philosophies know that the Buddha said, “It is volition (cetanā) that I call kamma; for having willed (cetayitvā), one acts by body, speech, and mind.”…
September 17, 2025
Karmic historiography
Twin dangers: Assumed consensus and false consciousness
September 10, 2025
The idea of “karmic historiography” is new to me. Karma at minimum means that sentient beings are in some way benefited or burdened by the consequences of either their own previous actions…
September 10, 2025
Karmic historiography
Actualizing the Buddha ancestors: Buddhist historiography for the multiverse
September 3, 2025
To speak of “systemic” injustice is to acknowledge that large-scale practices and policies may generate inequitable outcomes regardless of the intentions of individuals. This is one rationale behind a structuralist approach to…
September 3, 2025
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