by admin | Sep 30, 2011 | Paper of Conference
by John Stanley & David Loy It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing. Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe Looking again...
by admin | Sep 30, 2011 | Paper of Conference
The International Network of Engaged Buddhists will hold our bi-annual conference on ?The Future of Buddhism, from Personal Awakening to Global Transformation? at Buddhagaya, India, the place where the Buddha was fully enlightened 2,600 years ago. The future of...
by admin | Sep 30, 2011 | Paper of Conference
FUTURE of BUDDHISM: from Personal Awakening to Global Transformation Hans van Willenswaard More or less the same day that Sulak Sivaraksa delivered his acceptance speech to receive the Niwano Peace Prize in Kyoto, Japan, the UN General Assembly adopted a unique...
by admin | Sep 30, 2011 | Paper of Conference
Hozan Alan Senauke July 2011 Seeds of the future are planted in the present. The future is always arriving. In the dharma forest countless Buddhist traditions are alive today in Asia and the West, and I expect they will continue to evolve and flower long into the...
by admin | Sep 30, 2011 | Paper of Conference
Joan Halifax, PhD Upaya Institute and Zen Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.(1.) His Holiness the Dalai Lama I?m up late admitting patients to the inpatient hospice unit....
by admin | Sep 30, 2011 | Paper of Conference
Jonathan Watts Jodo Shu Research Institute, Tokyo This paper is an excerpt from the Introduction to The Vihara of Compassion: Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved, which will be published in late 2012 by Wisdom Publications (USA). It brings together 5 years...
