Last week in Myanmar, ethnic and religious clashes between majority-group Rakhine Buddhists and minority-group Rohingya Muslims left at least a…
Ethno-religious clashes in Myanmar
Buddhism
New review of Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman reviews Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution, highlighting the place Bellah gives…
Dalai Lama to give Templeton money to charity
Last week at BBC News, Robert Pigott reported that the Dalai Lama will give to charity the £1.1 million in Templeton prize money…
Buddhist manuscript to be released in book form
BBC News reported recently on the release of a collection of rare fifth-century Buddhist manuscripts, known together as the Lotus Sutra, in…
Panchen Lama in Hong Kong
On April 25th, 2012, Gyaltsen Norbu, the 11th Panchen Lama, delivered a speech for the first time outside of the…
Sacred space in Sri Lanka
BBC news reports the ordered removal of a mosque in the central town of Dambulla, Sri Lanka.
“On Being” Buddhistipalian with Rosanne Cash
January 5, 2012’s episode of “On Being with Krista Tippet” is a conversation with Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash,…
Axial axioms
The word “magisterial” in publishers’ blurbs usually means little more than “too long,” and indeed Religion in Human Evolution is…
Politics of Faith—The Role of Religion in Divided Societies
America Abroad, the award-winning documentary radio program, has released a new documentary, "The Politics of Faith---The Role of Religion in…
A blast from the past: lessons in eastern religion and philosophy
Fifty years ago, Alan Watts popularized ideas of eastern philosophy and religion. Open Culture shares a relic of the past.