Year: 2010
What happens if a religion insists that it is the only true religion? How is inter-religious harmony to be upheld…
To Be Truly All-Embracing He presented himself to be free, free even to eat anything, open in an all-embracing way. But…
Buddhist Views on Cat-Neutering 从佛教观点谈为猫绝育 The below email dialogue with a fellow reader is about the ethics of neutering cats to…
Oscar Wilde said that ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six…
The ushnisha refers to the protuberance on the crown of the Buddha. It is one of the 32 special physical…
Before we returned home, we spent a night at the district called the Tibetan Refugee Colony in Delhi. We had…
More than ten years ago, I visited Buddha Kasetra School (佛陀园地: http://www.buddhakasetra.org). Based at Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Buddha…
I used to take western medicine in general when I got sick, before I became vegan. After I became vegan,…
A dialogue below, set in the medieval times, from the latest ‘Robin Hood’ movie, that reminds me of more than…
Question: Why do some say it is not advisable for the pregnant to visit wakes? Answer: This is probably in…
Below is a passage I helped to translate to Chinese for Buddhist Library’s newsletter: Brightly shining, luminous is this mind,…
Do social networking sites make us more or less true and open? Do they make us more ready to connect…
In the movie ‘(Avatar): The Last Airbender’, one of the baddies shouts to his henchmen who capture him, ‘Do not…
Again, yet another random lesson from Taiji class: Getting the perfect move and pose is difficult at first but you…
Yet another random lesson from Taiji class: Taiji is ultimately about fluid movement; not rigid postures, even as we learn…
Another random lesson from Taiji class: To master Taiji faster, forget all your preconceptions… and even doubts, and accept the…
A random lesson from Taiji class: Never straighten or bend your arm totally in defense. When you give leeway to…
Question: According to Buddhism, there are five cosmic orders or processes (niyamas) which operate in the universe as follows: 1….
Question: While the three spheres (of self, other and connecting action) are interdependent of each other, how does emptiness come…
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