27th Sem Pringpuangkeo Public Lecture, Saturday 13 February 2021 COME ON, LET’S COMMON
East – West perspectives on Earth Trusteeship.Hans and Wallapa van Willenswaard – Right Livelihood College Bangkok “Professor Sem is involved in both the birth of children and the birth of a new society” – This is how Prof. Sem Pringpuangkaew, former Minister of...
Buddhist Heritage of Gandhara, Pakistan
Prof. Dr. M. Ashraf Khan Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan ashrafarchaelogist@hotmail.com Pakistan is an important region in South Asia since ancient time. It served as a pivotal point of Buddhism from centuries that’s...
STATEMENT OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE INTERFAITH RAINFOREST INITIATIVE
STATEMENT OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE INTERFAITH RAINFOREST INITIATIVE (This statement is addressed to leaders in government and business, to leaders and followers of our spiritual and religious traditions, and to the wider human family) 21 JUNE 2017 The Earth’s...
Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
Phra Paisal Visalo Nobel Peace Center, Oslo 19 June 2017 Without nature, human being is nothing. Our existence is possible because of air, water, food and other requisites provided by nature. Not only survival, our well-being also depends on the generosity of nature....
World Future Council World Future Forum 2017
The Bregenz Declaration - A Call to our Collective Consciousness 2 April 2017 We, the World Future Council commit to take action for systems change. If you, like us, believe this time of breakdown is and can be a time of breakthrough; if you are willing to commit...
Govt Bans U Wirathu from Preaching Sermons
Burma’s infamous nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu was banned from delivering sermons across the country for one year, starting from March 10, due to his religious hate speeches. The decision was made at a special meeting of the country’s 47 senior Buddhist monks...
What a Buddhist Monk Taught Xi Jinping
ZHENGDING, China — In 1982, two men arrived in this dusty provincial town. One was Shi Youming, a Buddhist monk who was taking up a post in the ruins of one of Zhengding’s legendary temples. The other was Xi Jinping, the 29-year-old son of a top Communist Party...
What Should we do to fight these problems while maintaining our inner peace
"There are problems involving with children, women, violence, people's suffering and injustice which are clearly visible and should be solved. What should we do to fight these problems while maintaining our inner peace, this is a big challenge." - Dhammananda Bhikkuni...
THE SONG OF SIDDHARTHA
As seen and imagined by Aspi Mistry COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this broad Earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed Perfection....
A Zen Master’s Advice On Coping With Trump
For HuffPost’s #LoveTakesAction series, we’re telling stories of how people are standing up to hate and supporting those most threatened. What will you stand up for? Tell us with #LoveTakesAction. What can Zen Buddhism teach us about the art of effective activism in...
The Best Advice ever from the Dalai Lama about Trump.
A lot of people were puzzled when Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Blogs on what to do are circulating the internet like crazy. Who’s better than the Dalai Lama to give advice during this distressing period? I attended the Dalai Lama’s birthday celebration in...
United struggle of indigenous peoples will establish their right of self-determination, BIPF press conference told
KF Report, 6 August 2015: Despite all the obstacles, indigenous peoples in the country are continuing with their struggle, in association with the democratic, liberal and progressive political and citizen forces of the country to establish their rights. Following the...
POLITICS IN THE BAY OF BENGAL: CURBING VIOLENCE; ENHANCING HARMONY
Categories: Articles By October 15, 2014 Paper presented at the conference on Buddhist-Muslim Tensions in the Bay of Bengal, organized by the Center for Asian Research, Arizona State University, USA, 8 and 9 October 2014. In this paper I shall attempt to analyze the...
Spearheading Buddhist knowledge and education in Sri Lanka
Spearheading Buddhist knowledge and education in Sri Lanka WEDNESDAY, 08 OCTOBER 2014 01:26 Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies (PGIPBS) Ven. Professor Kotapitiye Rahula Thera, Director of Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist StudiesUniversity...
Confessions of a Buddhist Environmental Activist
Reflections on 22 May 2014 Coup
I suggested that we become interested in PLAYBOY magazine (seehttps://www.facebook.com/ sulak.sivaraksa/posts/ 10152186019152798) because I felt that now is the time to rely on humor more than sorrow, anger or hatred. It’s not good to be attached to any...
2014 Coup: Old Wine in a New Bottle?
At first sight, the most recent coup d’état on 22 May 2014 seemed to have learned admirably well from the failures of the previous coup in 2006. But what have and what haven’t the military leaders learned from the 2006 coup? Here are some observations. 1. The...
